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Random House Modern Library's "100 Greatest Novels of the 20th Century"

This list has been put together by the editors of Random House’s Modern Library, and represents the best 100 novels of the 20th century.

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

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1. Ulysses (Vintage International)
by James Joyce
  
2. The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  
3. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Signet Classics)
by James Joyce
  
4. Lolita
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. Grapes of Wrath, The (20th Century Classics)
by John Steinbeck
  
11. Under the Volcano: A Novel (Perennial Classics)
by Malcolm Lowry
  
12. The Way of All Flesh (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
by Samuel Butler
  
13. 1984 (Signet Classics)
by George Orwell
  
14. I, Claudius : From the Autobiography of Tiberius Claudius, Born 10 B.C., Murdered and Deified A.D. 54 (Vintage International)
by Robert Graves
  
15. 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
by Ralph Ellison
  
20. Native Son
by Richard Wright
  
21. Henderson the Rain King (Penguin Classics)
by Saul Bellow
  
22. Appointment in Samarra (Vintage Open Market)
by John O'Hara
  
23. U.S.A.: The 42nd Parallel / 1919 / The Big Money (Library of America)
by John Dos Passos
  
24. Winesburg, Ohio (Bantam Classic)
by SHERWOOD ANDERSON
  
25. A Passage to India
by E. M. Forster
  
26. The Wings of the Dove (Everymans Library, 230)
by Henry James
  
27. The Ambassadors (Penguin Classics)
by Henry James
  
28. Tender Is the Night
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  
29. Studs Lonigan (Penguin Classics)
by James T. Farrell
  
30. The Good Soldier: A Tale of Passion (Oxford World's Classics)
by Ford Madox Ford
  
31. Animal Farm
by George Orwell
  
32. The Golden Bowl (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
by Henry James
  
33. Sister Carrie (Signet Classics (Paperback))
by Theodore Dreiser
  
34. A Handful of Dust
by Evelyn Waugh
  
35. As I Lay Dying (Vintage International)
by William Faulkner
  
36. All the King's Men
by Robert Penn Warren
  
37. The Bridge of San Luis Rey (Perennial Classics)
by Thornton Wilder
  
38. Howards End (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics,)
by E. M. Forster
  
39. Go Tell It on the Mountain
by James Baldwin
  
40. The Heart of the Matter (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)
by Graham Greene
  
41. Lord of the Flies
by William Golding
  
42. Deliverance
by James Dickey
  
43.
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 A Dance to the Music of Time (series)
by Anthony Powell
  
44. Point Counter Point (British Literature)
by Aldous Huxley
  
45. Sun Also Rises
by Ernest Hemingway
  
46. The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale (Oxford World's Classics)
by Joseph Conrad
  
47. Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard (Penguin Classics)
by Joseph Conrad
  
48. The Rainbow (Modern Library Classics)
by D.H. Lawrence
  
49. Women in Love (Modern Library Classics)  
50. Tropic of Cancer
by Henry Miller
  
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