southernbohemian's "Random House Modern Library's "100 Best Books of the 20th Century: Fiction" - Most Read"

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I was interested in seeing in what order people who are trying to complete the Modern Library’s list read the books on it. I surveyed which books people who had read 50% or more had finished and then put them in order of popularity from most to least read. Ties are listed in the order they appeared on the Modern Library’s list. I was kind of surprised by the outcome (I had figured Finnegan’s Wake would be the least popular, but it actually is the Dance to the Music of Time series, which may be easier to read but consists of 12 novels).

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  1. 1.
    Lolita
    by Vladimir Nabokov

  2. 2.
    The Grapes of Wrath (Centennial Edition)
    by John Steinbeck

  3. 3.
    Nineteen Eighty-Four (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by George Orwell

  4. 4.
    The Sun Also Rises (Scribner Classics)
    by Ernest Hemingway

  5. 5.
    The Catcher in the Rye
    by J. D. Salinger

  6. 6.
    The Great Gatsby
    by F. Scott Fitzgerald

  7. 7.
    Brave New World
    by Aldous Huxley

  8. 8.
    Catch-22
    by Joseph Heller

  9. 9.
    The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
    by Carson McCullers

  10. 10.
    Animal Farm: Centennial Edition
    by George Orwell

  11. 11.
    Lord of the Flies (50th Anniversary Edition)
    by William Golding

  12. 12.
    A Clockwork Orange (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Anthony Burgess

  13. 13.
    Heart of Darkness (Hesperus Classics)
    by Joseph Conrad

  14. 14.
    Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel
    by Kurt Vonnegut

  15. 15.
    Winesburg, Ohio (Worlds Classics)
    by Sherwood Anderson

  16. 16.
    Howard's End (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by E.M. Forster

  17. 17.
    On the Road (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)
    by Jack Kerouac

  18. 18.
    The Call of the Wild (Aladdin Classics)
    by Jack London

  19. 19.

  20. 20.
    The Sound and the Fury: The Corrected Text
    by William Faulkner

  21. 21.
    The Age of Innocence (Barnes & Noble Classics)
    by Edith Wharton

  22. 22.
    A Farewell To Arms
    by Ernest Hemingway

  23. 23.
    A Room with a View
    by E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster

  24. 24.
    Lord Jim
    by Joseph Conrad

  25. 25.
    Ragtime: A Novel
    by E.L. Doctorow

  26. 26.
    Sophie's Choice
    by William Styron

  27. 27.
    Sons and Lovers (Modern Library Classics)
    by D.H. Lawrence

  28. 28.
    To the Lighthouse
    by Virginia Woolf

  29. 29.
    A Passage to India (Penguin Classics)
    by E. M. Forster

  30. 30.
    As I Lay Dying (Modern Library)
    by William Faulkner

  31. 31.
    The Bridge of San Luis Rey (Perennial Classics)
    by Thornton Wilder

  32. 32.
    Portnoy's Complaint
    by Philip Roth

  33. 33.
    Brideshead Revisited
    by Evelyn Waugh

  34. 34.
    Wide Sargasso Sea (Essential Penguin)
    by Jean Rhys

  35. 35.

  36. 36.
    A Handful of Dust (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Evelyn Waugh

  37. 38.
    Ironweed
    by William Kennedy

  38. 39.
    Tender Is the Night (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by F.Scott Fitzgerald

  39. 40.
    Deliverance (Bloomsbury Film Classics)
    by James Dickey

  40. 41.
    The Day of the Locust (Signet Classic)
    by Nathanael West

  41. 42.
    Scoop (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Evelyn Waugh

  42. 43.
    Darkness at Noon
    by Arthur Koestler

  43. 45.
    Sister Carrie (Norton Critical Editions)
    by Theodore Dreiser

  44. 46.
    The Heart of the Matter
    by Graham Greene

  45. 47.
    Women in Love (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by D. H. Lawrence

  46. 48.
    Pale Fire (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Vladimir Nabokov

  47. 49.
    The Maltese Falcon
    by Dashiell Hammett

  48. 50.
    Native Son (Perennial Classics)
    by Richard A. Wright

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Created by southernbohemian on Mar 23, 2007.
 

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