Modern Library's "100 Greatest Novels"

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The readers’ poll for the best novels published in the English language since 1900 opened on July 20, 1998 and closed on October 20, 1998, with 217,520 votes cast.

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  1. 1.
    Ulysses
    by James Joyce
  2. 2.
    The Great Gatsby
    by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  3. 3.
    A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
    by James Joyce
  4. 4.
    Lolita (Everyman's Library Classics)
    by Vladimir Nabokov
  5. 5.
    Brave New World
    by Aldous Huxley
  6. 6.
    The Sound and the Fury: The Corrected Text
    by William Faulkner
  7. 7.
    Catch-22
    by Joseph Heller
  8. 8.
    Darkness at Noon
    by Arthur Koestler
  9. 9.
    Sons and Lovers (Modern Library Classics)
    by D.H. Lawrence
  10. 10.
    The Grapes of Wrath (Centennial Edition)
    by John Steinbeck
  11. 11.
    Under the Volcano: A Novel (Perennial Classics)
    by Malcolm Lowry
  12. 12.
    The Way of All Flesh
    by Samuel Butler
  13. 13.
    Nineteen Eighty-Four (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by George Orwell
  14. 14.
    I, Claudius
    by Robert Graves
  15. 15.
    To the Lighthouse
    by Virginia Woolf
  16. 16.
    An American Tragedy (Signet Classics)
    by Theodore Dreiser
  17. 17.
    The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
    by Carson McCullers
  18. 18.
    Slaughterhouse-Five
    by Kurt Vonnegut
  19. 19.
    Invisible Man: A Novel
    by Ralph Ellison
  20. 20.
    Native Son (Perennial Classics)
    by Richard A. Wright
  21. 21.
  22. 22.
    Appointment in Samarra: A Novel
    by John O'Hara
  23. 23.
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    U.S.A (U.S.A. trilogy)
    by John Dos Passos
  24. 24.
    Winesburg, Ohio (Worlds Classics)
    by Sherwood Anderson
  25. 25.
    A Passage to India (Penguin Classics)
    by E. M. Forster
  26. 26.
    The Wings of the Dove (Modern Library Classics)
    by Henry James
  27. 27.
    The Ambassadors (1903)
    by Henry, James
  28. 28.
    Tender Is the Night (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by F.Scott Fitzgerald
  29. 29.
    James T Farrell: Studs Lonigan a Trilogy (Library of America)
    by James T. Farrell
  30. 30.
    The Good Soldier
    by Ford Madox Ford
  31. 31.
    Animal Farm
    by George Orwell
  32. 32.
    The Golden Bowl (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Henry James
  33. 33.
    Sister Carrie (Norton Critical Editions)
    by Theodore Dreiser
  34. 34.
    A Handful of Dust (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Evelyn Waugh
  35. 35.
    As I Lay Dying (Modern Library)
    by William Faulkner
  36. 36.
    All the King's Men
    by Robert Penn Warren
  37. 37.
    Bridge of San Luis Rey
    by Thornton Wilder
  38. 38.
    Howards End (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by E. M. Forster
  39. 39.
    Go Tell It on the Mountain
    by James Baldwin
  40. 40.
    The Heart of the Matter
    by Graham Greene
  41. 41.
    Lord of the Flies (50th Anniversary Edition)
    by William Golding
  42. 42.
    Deliverance (Bloomsbury Film Classics)
    by James Dickey
  43. 43.
    Dance to the Music of Time
    by Powell
  44. 44.
    Point Counter Point
    by Aldous Huxley
  45. 45.
    The Sun Also Rises
    by Ernest Hemingway
  46. 46.
    The Secret Agent (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Joseph Conrad
  47. 47.
    Conrad: Nostromo (Landmarks of World Literature)
    by Ian Watt
  49. 49.
    Women in Love (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by D.H. Lawrence
  50. 50.
    Tropic of Cancer (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)
    by Henry Miller

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LilyLane

List complete May 16, 2007 — 6 years ago

Sorry to everyone whose completed percentages went down! :)

May 16, 06:48PM | 1 comment | Reply to this



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