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The Modern Library 100 Best (Reader's List)

The readers’ poll for the best novels published in the English language since 1900 opened on July 20, 1998 and closed on October 20, 1998, with 217,520 votes cast.

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1. Atlas Shrugged
by Ayn Rand
  
2.
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 The Fountainhead
by Ayn Rand
  
3. Battlefield Earth: A Saga of the Year 3000
by L. Ron Hubbard
  
4.
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 The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien  
5.
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 To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee  
6. 1984: Centennial Edition
by George Orwell
  
7. Anthem
by Ayn Rand
  
8. We the Living
by Ayn Rand
  
9.
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 MISSION EARTH
by L. Ron Hubbard
  
10.
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 FEAR
by L. Ron Hubbard
  
11. Ulysses
by James Joyce
  
12.
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 Catch-22 (1961)
by Joseph Heller
  
13.
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 THE GREAT GATSBY by F. Scott Fitzgerald  
14. Dune, 40th Anniversary Edition (Dune Chronicles, Book 1)
by Frank Herbert
  
15.
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 The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
by Robert Heinlein
  
16. Stranger in a Strange Land
by Robert A. Heinlein
  
17.
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 Shute, Nevil-A Town Like Alice  
18.
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 Brave New World by Aldous Huxley  
19.
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 The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger  
20. Animal Farm
by George Orwell
  
21.
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 GRAVITY'S RAINBOW by Thomas Pynchon  
22. The Grapes of Wrath (Penguin Classics)
by John Steinbeck
  
23.
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 Slaughterhouse-Five
by Kurt Vonnegut
  
24.
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 Gone With The Wind by Margaret Mitchell  
25.
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 Lord of the Flies
by William Golding
  
26.
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 Shane
by Jack Schaefer
  
27.
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 Trustee from the Toolroom by Nevil Shute  
28.
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 A Prayer for Owen Meany
by John Irving
  
29.
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 The Stand
by Stephen King
  
30.
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 The French Lieutenant´s Woman
by John Fowles
  
31. Beloved
by Toni Morrison
  
32.
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 The Worm Ouroboros by E.R. Eddison  
33.
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 The Sound and the Fury
by William Faulkner
  
34.
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 Lolita
by Vladimir Nabokov
  
35.
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 Moonheart by Charles de Lint  
36. Absalom, Absalom!: The Corrected Text (Modern Library)
by William Faulkner
  
37.
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 Of Human Bondage
by W. Somerset Maugham
  
38.
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 WISE BLOOD by Flannery O'Connor  
39.
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 Under the Volcano
by Malcolm Lowry
  
40.
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 Fifth Business
by Robertson Davies
  
41.
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 Someplace to Be Flying  
42.
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 On the Road
by Jack Kerouac
  
43.
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 Heart of Darkness
by Joseph Conrad
  
44.
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 Yarrow: An Autumn Tale  
45.
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 At the Mountains of Madness (1931)
by H.P. Lovecraft
  
46.
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 One lonely night
by Mickey Spillane
  
47.
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 Memory and Dream by Charles de Lint  
48.
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 To the Lighthouse
by Virginia Woolf
  
49. The Moviegoer
by Walker Percy
  
50.
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 Trader  
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