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Modern Library's "100 Greatest Novels"

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.

(found at: http://www.randomhouse.com/modernlibrary/100best.html)

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