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. 51.
    The Naked and the Dead (Flamingo Modern Classics)
    by Norman Mailer

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  2. 52.
    Portnoy's Complaint
    by Philip Roth

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  3. 53.
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    Pale Fire
    by Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov

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  4. 54.
    Light in August
    by William Faulkner

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  5. 55.
    On the Road (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)
    by Jack Kerouac

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  6. 56.
    The Maltese Falcon
    by Dashiell Hammett

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  7. 57.
    Parade's End
    by Ford Madox Ford

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  8. 58.
    The Age of Innocence (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Edith Wharton

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  9. 59.
    Zuleika Dobson
    by Max Beerbohm

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  10. 60.
    The Moviegoer
    by Walker Percy

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  11. 61.
    Death Comes for the Archbishop
    by Willa Cather

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  12. 62.
    From Here to Eternity
    by James Jones

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  13. 63.
    The Wapshot Chronicles
    by John Cheever

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  14. 64.
    The Catcher in the Rye

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  15. 65.
    A Clockwork Orange (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Anthony Burgess

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  16. 66.
    Of Human Bondage (Signet Classics)
    by W. Somerset Maugham

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  17. 67.
    Heart of Darkness
    by Joseph Conrad

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  18. 68.
    Main Street (Modern Library)
    by Sinclair Lewis

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  19. 69.
    The House of Mirth
    by Edith Wharton

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  20. 70.
    The Alexandria Quartet
    by Lawrence Durrell

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  21. 71.
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    A High Wind in Jamaica
    by Richard Hughes

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  22. 72.
    A House for Mr.Biswas
    by V.S. Naipaul

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  23. 73.
    The Day of the Locust
    by Nathanael West

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  24. 74.
    A Farewell To Arms
    by Ernest Hemingway

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  25. 75.
    Scoop (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Evelyn Waugh

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  26. 77.
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    Finnegans Wake
    by James Joyce

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  27. 78.
    Kim
    by Rudyard Kipling

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  28. 79.
    A Room With a View
    by E. M. Forster

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  29. 80.
    Brideshead Revisited
    by Evelyn Waugh

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  30. 81.
    The Adventures of Augie March (Penguin Classics)
    by Saul Bellow

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  31. 82.
    Angle of Repose
    by Wallace Stegner

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  32. 83.
    A Bend in the River
    by V.S. Naipaul

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  33. 84.
    The Death of the Heart
    by Elizabeth Bowen

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  34. 85.
    Lord Jim (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Joseph Conrad

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  35. 86.
    Ragtime
    by E.L. DOCTOROW

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  36. 87.
    The Old Wives' Tale
    by Arnold Bennett

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  37. 88.
    The Call of the Wild (Aladdin Classics)
    by Jack London

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  38. 89.
    Loving
    by Henry Green

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  39. 90.
    Midnight's Children
    by Salman Rushdie

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  40. 91.
    Tobacco Road
    by Erskine Caldwell

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  41. 92.
    Ironweed
    by William Kennedy

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  42. 93.
    The Magus
    by John Fowles

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  43. 94.
    Wide Sargasso Sea (Essential.penguin)
    by Jean Rhys

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  44. 95.
    Under the Net
    by Iris Murdoch

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  45. 96.
    Sophie's Choice
    by William Styron

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  46. 97.
    The Sheltering Sky
    by Paul Bowles

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  47. 98.
    The Postman Always Rings Twice (Crime Masterworks)
    by James M. Cain

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  48. 99.
    The Ginger Man
    by J.P. Donleavy

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  49. 100.
    The Magnificent Ambersons
    by Booth Tarkington

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