The Modern Library Reading List (by the Board)

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As http://www.randomhouse.com/modernlibrary/100best.html states:

"Since the "100 Best" story first broke in The New York Times on Monday, July 20, 1998, all kinds of opinions about the list – and theories about the Modern Library’s purpose in concocting such a contest of sorts – emerged.

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…"

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    Winesburg, Ohio (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Sherwood Anderson

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    Ulysses (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by James Joyce

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    The Great Gatsby
    by F. Scott Fitzgerald

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    Lolita
    by Vladimir Nabakov

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    Brave New World
    by Aldous Huxley

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    The Sound and the Fury
    by William Faulkner

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    Catch-22
    by Joseph Heller

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    Darkness at Noon
    by Arthur Koestler

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    Sons and Lovers (Penguin Classics)
    by D.H. Lawrence

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    The Grapes of Wrath (Penguin Classics)
    by John Steinbeck

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    Lowry, Malcolm-Under The Volcano

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    Nineteen Eighty Four
    by George Orwell

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    I, Claudius: Classic Collection
    by Robert Graves

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    To The Lighthouse
    by Virginia Woolf

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    Dreiser American Tragedy (Library of America)
    by Theodore Dreiser

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    The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
    by Carson McCullers

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    Slaughterhouse-Five
    by Kurt Vonnegut

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    Invisible Man
    by Ralph Ellison

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    Native Son
    by Richard Wright

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    Henderson the Rain King [HENDERSON THE RAIN KING]
    by Saul(Author) Bellow

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    APPOINTMENT IN SAMARRA
    by John O'Hara

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    U. S. A. (Trilogy)

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    A Passage to India

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    The Wings of the Dove
    by Henry James

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    The Ambassadors (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Henry James

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    The Studs Lonigan Trilogy
    by James T. Farrell

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    Animal Farm
    by George Orwell

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    The Golden Bowl (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Henry James

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    Sister Carrie
    by Theodore Dreiser

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    A Handful of Dust (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
    by Evelyn Waugh

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    As I Lay Dying
    by William Faulkner

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    Bridge of San Luis Rey: A Novel
    by Thornton Wilder

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    all the King's Men
    by Robert Penn Warren

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    Go Tell It on the Mountain
    by James Baldwin

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    Lord of the Flies
    by William Golding

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    Deliverance
    by James Dickey

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    Point Counter Point
    by Aldous Huxley

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    The Sun Also Rises
    by Ernest Hemingway

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    THE SECRET AGENT
    by Joseph Conrad

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    Nostromo (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Joseph Conrad

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    The Rainbow
    by D.H. Lawrence

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    Women In Love (Vintage Classics)
    by D.H. Lawrence

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    Tropic of Cancer

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