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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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1. Lolita
by Vladimir Nabokov
 
2. The Grapes of Wrath (Centennial Edition)
by John Steinbeck
 
3. Nineteen Eighty-four (Penguin Modern Classics)
by George Orwell
 
4. Sun Also Rises (Scribner Classics)
by Ernest Hemingway
 
5. The Catcher in the Rye
by J.D. Salinger
 
6. The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
 
7. Brave New World
by Aldous Huxley
 
8. Catch-22
by Joseph Heller
 
9. The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
by Carson McCullers
 
10. Animal Farm: Centennial Edition
by George Orwell
 
11. Lord of the Flies (50th Anniversary Edition)
by William Golding
 
12. A Clockwork Orange (Penguin Modern Classics)
by Anthony Burgess
 
13. Heart of Darkness (Hesperus Classics)
by Joseph Conrad
 
14. Slaughterhouse-Five
by Kurt Vonnegut
 
15. Winesburg, Ohio (Oxford World's Classics)
by Sherwood Anderson
 
16. Howard's End (Penguin Modern Classics)
by E.M. Forster
 
17. On the Road (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)
by Jack Kerouac
 
18. The Call of the Wild (Aladdin Classics)
by Jack London
 
19. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Penguin Classics)
by James Joyce
 
20. The Sound and the Fury
by William Faulkner
 
21. The Age of Innocence (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (B&N Classics Trade Paper)
by Edith Wharton
 
22. A Farewell To Arms
by Ernest Hemingway
 
23. A Room with a View
by E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster
 
24. Lord Jim
by Joseph Conrad
 
25. Ragtime: A Novel
by E.L. Doctorow
 
26. Sophie's Choice
by William Styron
 
27. Sons and Lovers (Modern Library Classics)
by D.H. Lawrence
 
28.
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To the Lighthouse
by Virginia Woolf
 
29. A Passage to India (Penguin Classics)
by E.M. Forster
 
30. As I Lay Dying: The Corrected Text (Modern Library)
by William Faulkner
 
31. The Bridge of San Luis Rey (Perennial Classics)
by Thornton Wilder
 
32. Portnoy's Complaint
by Philip Roth
 
33. Brideshead Revisited
by Evelyn Waugh
 
34. Wide Sargasso Sea (Essential.penguin)
by Jean Rhys
 
35. Henderson the Rain King (Penguin Classics)
by Saul Bellow
 
36. A Handful of Dust (Penguin Modern Classics)
by Evelyn Waugh
 
37. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics)
by Muriel Spark
 
38. Ironweed
by William Kennedy
 
39. Tender Is the Night (Penguin Modern Classics)
by F.Scott Fitzgerald
 
40. Deliverance (Bloomsbury Film Classics)
by James Dickey
 
41. The Day of the Locust (Signet Classic)
by Nathanael West
 
42. Scoop (Penguin Modern Classics)
by Evelyn Waugh
 
43. Darkness at Noon
by Arthur Koestler
 
44. I, Claudius : From the Autobiography of Tiberius Claudius, Born 10 B.C., Murdered and Deified A.D. 54 (Vintage International)
by Robert Graves
 
45. Sister Carrie (Norton Critical Editions)
by Theodore Dreiser
 
46. The Heart of the Matter
by Graham Greene
 
47. Women in Love (Dover Thrift Editions)
by D. H. Lawrence
 
48. Pale Fire (Penguin Modern Classics)
by Vladimir Nabokov
 
49. The Maltese Falcon
by Dashiell Hammett
 
50. Native Son (Perennial Classics)
by Richard A. Wright
 
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Created by southernbohemian on Mar 23, 2007.