southernbohemian's "Random House Modern Library's "100 Best Books of the 20th Century: Fiction" - Most Read"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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Lolita
by Vladimir Nabokov
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The Grapes of Wrath (Centennial Edition)
by John Steinbeck
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Nineteen Eighty-four (Penguin Modern Classics)
by George Orwell
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Sun Also Rises (Scribner Classics)
by Ernest Hemingway
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The Catcher in the Rye
by J.D. Salinger
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The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Brave New World
by Aldous Huxley
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Catch-22
by Joseph Heller
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The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
by Carson McCullers
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Animal Farm: Centennial Edition
by George Orwell
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Lord of the Flies (50th Anniversary Edition)
by William Golding
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A Clockwork Orange (Penguin Modern Classics)
by Anthony Burgess
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Heart of Darkness (Hesperus Classics)
by Joseph Conrad
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Slaughterhouse-Five
by Kurt Vonnegut
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Winesburg, Ohio (Oxford World's Classics)
by Sherwood Anderson
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Howard's End (Penguin Modern Classics)
by E.M. Forster
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On the Road (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)
by Jack Kerouac
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The Call of the Wild (Aladdin Classics)
by Jack London
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Penguin Classics)
by James Joyce
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The Sound and the Fury
by William Faulkner
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The Age of Innocence (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (B&N Classics Trade Paper)
by Edith Wharton
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A Farewell To Arms
by Ernest Hemingway
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A Room with a View
by E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster
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Lord Jim
by Joseph Conrad
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Ragtime: A Novel
by E.L. Doctorow
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Sophie's Choice
by William Styron
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Sons and Lovers (Modern Library Classics)
by D.H. Lawrence
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To the Lighthouse
by Virginia Woolf
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A Passage to India (Penguin Classics)
by E.M. Forster
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As I Lay Dying: The Corrected Text (Modern Library)
by William Faulkner
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The Bridge of San Luis Rey (Perennial Classics)
by Thornton Wilder
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Portnoy's Complaint
by Philip Roth
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Brideshead Revisited
by Evelyn Waugh
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Wide Sargasso Sea (Essential.penguin)
by Jean Rhys
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Henderson the Rain King (Penguin Classics)
by Saul Bellow
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A Handful of Dust (Penguin Modern Classics)
by Evelyn Waugh
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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics)
by Muriel Spark
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Ironweed
by William Kennedy
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Tender Is the Night (Penguin Modern Classics)
by F.Scott Fitzgerald
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Deliverance (Bloomsbury Film Classics)
by James Dickey
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The Day of the Locust (Signet Classic)
by Nathanael West
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Scoop (Penguin Modern Classics)
by Evelyn Waugh
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Darkness at Noon
by Arthur Koestler
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I, Claudius : From the Autobiography of Tiberius Claudius, Born 10 B.C., Murdered and Deified A.D. 54 (Vintage International)
by Robert Graves
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Sister Carrie (Norton Critical Editions)
by Theodore Dreiser
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The Heart of the Matter
by Graham Greene
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Women in Love (Dover Thrift Editions)
by D. H. Lawrence
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Pale Fire (Penguin Modern Classics)
by Vladimir Nabokov
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The Maltese Falcon
by Dashiell Hammett
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Native Son (Perennial Classics)
by Richard A. Wright
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