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MomsMyJob's "Madison Public Library 100 Best Novels"

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Readers’ Choice

When the Modern Library Board published its list of the 100 greatest English-language novels of the century in 1998, there was much debate in the media about the titles on the list and who selected them. Madison Public Library took that debate to heart and set up its own vote. The novels had to have been English language novels published in the 20th century. Here’s what Madison readers chose.

  1. 1.
    To Kill a Mockingbird
    by Harper Lee
  2. 2.
    The Catcher in the Rye
    by J. D. Salinger
  3. 3.
    Nineteen Eighty-Four (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by George Orwell
  4. 4.
    The Color Purple: Tenth Anniversary Editon
    by Alice Walker
  5. 5.
    The Great Gatsby (Modern Classics (Penguin))
    by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  6. 6.
    On the Road (Penguin Classics)
    by Jack Kerouac
  7. 7.
    Beloved
    by Toni Morrison
  8. 8.
    The Grapes of Wrath
    by John Steinbeck
  9. 9.
    Gone with the Wind
    by Margaret Mitchell
  10. 10.
    Brave New World
    by Aldous Huxley
  11. 11.
    Animal Farm
    by George Orwell
  12. 12.
    Charlotte's Web (Trophy Newbery)
    by E. B. White
  13. 13.
    Invisible Man (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Ralph Ellison
  14. 14.
    Catch-22: A Novel (Simon & Schuster Classics)
    by Joseph Heller
  15. 15.
    One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Penguin Classics)
    by Ken Kesey
  16. 16.
    Ulysses (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by James Joyce
  17. 17.
    East of Eden
    by John Steinbeck
  18. 18.
    Slaughterhouse-Five: A Duty-Dance with Death
    by Kurt Vonnegut
  19. 19.
    Song of Solomon
    by Toni Morrison
  20. 20.
    Lord of The Flies
    by William Golding
  21. 21.
    Gravity's Rainbow
    by Thomas Pynchon
  22. 22.
    The Hobbit: or There and Back Again
    by J.R.R. Tolkien
  23. 23.
    MY ANTONIA (VIRAGO MODERN CLASSICS)
    by A.S. BYATT (INTRODUCTION) WILLA CATHER
  24. 24.
  25. 25.
    The Joy Luck Club
    by Amy Tan
  26. 26.
    A Clockwork Orange (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Anthony Burgess
  27. 27.
    The Old Man and the Sea
    by Ernest Hemingway
  28. 28.
    The Sun Also Rises
    by Ernest Hemingway
  29. 29.
    Their Eyes Were Watching God
    by Zora Neale Hurston
  30. 30.
    The Bean Trees
    by Barbara Kingsolver
  31. 31.
    Tropic of Capricorn (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)
    by Henry Miller
  32. 32.
    Lolita (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Vladimir Nabokov
  33. 33.
    All the King's Men
    by Robert Penn Warren
  34. 34.
    To the Lighthouse (Vintage Classics)
    by Virginia Woolf
  35. 35.
    The Handmaid's Tale
    by Margaret Atwood
  36. 36.
    Deliverance
    by James Dickey
  37. 37.
    Howards End (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
    by E. M. Forster
  38. 38.
    The Forsyte Saga (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by John Galsworthy
  39. 39.
    Dune
    by Frank Herbert
  40. 40.
  41. 41.
    A Separate Peace
    by John Knowles
  42. 42.
    The Fountainhead
    by Ayn Rand
  43. 43.
    Atlas Shrugged (Centennial Edition)
    by Ayn Rand
  44. 44.
    Midnight's Children
    by Salman Rushdie
  45. 45.
    Of Mice and Men. John Steinbeck (Read Red)
    by John Steinbeck
  46. 46.
    The Lord of the Rings: 50th Anniversary, One Vol. Edition
    by J.R.R. Tolkien
  47. 47.
    Brideshead Revisited
    by Evelyn Waugh
  48. 48.
    The Age of Innocence (Modern Library Classics)
    by Edith Wharton
  49. 49.
    Native Son (Perennial Classics)
    by Richard A. Wright
  50. 50.
    Things Fall Apart (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Chinua Achebe
  51. 51.
    The Sheltering Sky
    by Paul Bowles
  52. 52.
    The Sound and the Fury: The Corrected Text
    by William Faulkner
  53. 53.
    The Book of Ruth
    by Jane Hamilton
  54. 54.
    A Farewell To Arms
    by Ernest Hemingway
  55. 55.
    For Whom the Bell Tolls
    by Ernest Hemingway
  56. 56.
    From Here to Eternity
    by James Jones
  57. 57.
  58. 58.
    Sometimes a Great Notion (Penguin Classics)
    by Ken Kesey
  59. 59.
    Animal Dreams
    by Barbara Kingsolver
  60. 60.
    Being There (Black Swan S.)
    by Jerzy Kosinski
  61. 61.
    The Left Hand of Darkness
    by Ursula K.Le Guin
  62. 62.
    Martha Quest: A Novel (Perennial Classics)
    by Doris Lessing
  63. 63.
    The Four-Gated City (Children of Violence)
    by Doris Lessing
  64. 64.
    The Call of the Wild (Aladdin Classics)
    by Jack London
  65. 65.
    All the Pretty Horses (UK edition)
    by Cormac Mccarthy
  66. 66.
    Lonesome Dove : A Novel
    by Larry McMurtry
  67. 67.
    Hawaii
    by James A. Michener
  68. 68.
    Tropic of Cancer (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)
    by Henry Miller
  69. 69.
    Interview with the Vampire (Vampire Chronicles)
    by Anne Rice
  70. 70.
    The Jungle (Modern Library Classics)
    by Upton Sinclair
  71. 71.
    Angle of Repose (Modern Library)
    by Wallace Stegner
  72. 72.
    Rabbit, Run
    by John Updike
  73. 73.
    Trinity
    by Leon Uris
  74. 74.
    Breakfast of Champions
    by Kurt Vonnegut
  75. 75.
    The Temple of My Familiar
    by Alice Walker
  76. 76.
    Go Tell It on the Mountain (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by James Baldwin
  77. 77.
    Fahrenheit 451
    by Ray Bradbury
  78. 78.
    The Good Earth (Enriched Classics)
    by Pearl S. Buck
  79. 79.
    Ender's Game (The Ender Saga)
    by Orson S. Card
  80. 80.
    2001: A Space Odyssey
    by Arthur C. Clarke
  81. 81.
    Heart of Darkness and The Congo Diary (Penguin Classics)
    by Joseph Conrad
  82. 82.
    Fifth Business
    by Robertson Davies
  83. 83.
    Ragtime
    by E.L. Doctorow
  84. 84.
    The Maltese Falcon
    by Dashiell Hammett
  85. 85.
    Stones from the River
    by Ursula Hegi
  86. 86.
    Ironweed
    by William Kennedy
  87. 87.
    The Stand
    by Stephen King
  88. 88.
    Sons and Lovers (Penguin Classics)
    by D. H. Lawrence
  89. 89.
    The Spy Who Came in From the Cold
    by John le Carre
  90. 90.
    Babbitt (Modern Library Classics)
    by Sinclair Lewis
  91. 91.
    Of Human Bondage (Modern Library Classics)
    by W. Somerset Maugham
  92. 92.
    The Enigma of Arrival
    by V.S. Naipaul
  93. 93.
    Shell Seekers
    by Rosamunde Pilcher
  94. 94.
    The Bell Jar
    by Sylvia Plath
  95. 95.
    Housekeeping
    by Marilynne Robinson
  96. 96.
    My Life As a Man (Vintage International)
    by Philip Roth
  97. 97.
    A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Perennial Classics)
    by Betty Smith
  98. 98.
    Sophie's Choice (Vintage Classics)
    by William Styron
  99. 99.
    Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
    by Anne Tyler
  100. 100.
    Bastard Out of Carolina
    by Dorothy Allison
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