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100 Best Novels (Random House's Modern Library-board picks)

The goal of the "100 Best" project was to get people talking about great books. We succeeded beyond our wildest imaginings — more than 400,000 avid readers rushed online to cast votes for their favorite books and the students of the Radcliffe Publishing Course quickly responded with rival list of 100 Best Novels. —Random House.com

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1. Ulysses
by James Joyce
  
2. The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  
3. James Joyce a Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man
by James Joyce
  
4. Lolita (Penguin Modern 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 (Landmarks of World Literature)
by D. H. Lawrence
  
10. The Grapes of Wrath (Penguin Modern Classics)
by John Steinbeck
  
11. Under the Volcano: A Novel (Perennial Classics)
by Malcolm Lowry
  
12. The Way of All Flesh
by Samuel Butler
  
13. 1984 (Planeta Cero)
by George Orwell
  
14. I, Claudius & Claudius the God
by Robert Graves
  
15.
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 To the Lighthouse
by Virginia Woolf
  
16.
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 AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY
by Theodore Dreiser
  
17. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter  
18. Slaughterhouse-five;: Or, The children's crusade, a duty-dance with death
by Kurt Vonnegut
  
19. Invisible Man: A Novel
by Ralph Ellison
  
20. Native Son
by Richard Wright
  
21. Henderson the Rain King (Penguin Classics)
by Saul Bellow
  
22. APPOINTMENT IN SAMARRA BUTTERFIELD 8 HOPE OF HEAVEN
by John O'Hara
  
23.
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 USA
by John Dos Passos
  
24. Winesburg, Ohio
by Sherwood Anderson
  
25. A Passage to India (Penguin Modern Classics)
by E.M. Forster
  
26. Wings of the Dove (Classic Literature with Classical Music)
by Henry James
  
27. The Ambassadors (1903)
by Henry, James
  
28. Tender Is the Night
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  
29. Studs Lonigan - Trilogy (Young Lonigan, Young Manhood, Judgment Day)
by James T. Farrell
  
30. The Good Soldier Svejk and His Fortunes in the World War (Penguin Modern Classics)
by Jaroslav Hasek
  
31. Animal Farm: Centennial Edition
by George Orwell
  
32. The Golden Bowl (Penguin Modern Classics)
by Henry James
  
33. Sister Carrie  
34. A Handful of Dust (Penguin Modern Classics)
by Evelyn Waugh
  
35. As I Lay Dying
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 (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (Barnes & Noble Classics)
by E.M. Forster
  
39. Go Tell It on the Mountain (Penguin Modern Classics)
by James Baldwin
  
40. Lord of the Flies : (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century) (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)
by William Golding
  
41.
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 THE HEART OF THE MATTER
by Graham Greene
  
42. Deliverance (Bloomsbury Film Classics)
by James Dickey
  
43.
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 A Dance to the Music of Time: 3 Books in One Volume: A Question of Upbrininging, A Buyer's Market, The Acceptance World
by Anthony Powell
  
44.
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 Point Counter Point (The Modern Library Edition)
by Aldous Huxley
  
45. Sun Also Rises (Scribner Classics)
by Ernest Hemingway
  
46.
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 THE SECRET AGENT
by Joseph Conrad
  
47. Nostromo
by Joseph Conrad
  
48.
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 The Rainbow
by D.H. Lawrence
  
49. Women in Love
by D.H. Lawrence
  
50. Tropic of Cancer (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)
by Henry Miller
  
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