Madison Public Library 100 Best Novels (Readers' Choice)

Add to my lists | Print this list

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.

Pages: 1 2

  1. 51.
    The Sheltering Sky (P.S.)
    by Paul Bowles

    Drag me to re-order


  2. 52.
    The Sound and the Fury
    by William Faulkner

    Drag me to re-order


  3. 53.
    The Book of Ruth (Oprah's Book Club)
    by Jane Hamilton

    Drag me to re-order


  4. 54.
    A Farewell to Arms
    by Ernest Hemingway

    Drag me to re-order


  5. 55.
    For Whom the Bell Tolls
    by Ernest Hemingway

    Drag me to re-order


  6. 56.
    From Here to Eternity
    by James Jones

    Drag me to re-order


  7. 57.

  8. 58.
    Sometimes a Great Notion
    by Ken Kesey

    Drag me to re-order


  9. 59.
    Animal Dreams
    by Barbara Kingsolver

    Drag me to re-order


  10. 60.
    Being There
    by Jerzy N. Kosinski

    Drag me to re-order


  11. 61.
    The Left Hand of Darkness
    by Ursula K. Le Guin

    Drag me to re-order


  12. 62.
    Martha Quest: A Novel (Perennial Classics)
    by Doris Lessing

    Drag me to re-order


  13. 63.
    The Four-Gated City (The Children of Violence, Book 5)
    by Doris Lessing

    Drag me to re-order


  14. 64.
    The Call of the Wild (Scribner Classics)
    by Jack London

    Drag me to re-order


  15. 65.
    ?
    All the Pretty Horses
    by Cormac McCarthy

    Drag me to re-order


  16. 66.
    Lonesome Dove: A Novel (Simon & Schuster Classics)
    by Larry McMurtry

    Drag me to re-order


  17. 67.
    Hawaii: A Novel
    by James A. Michener

    Drag me to re-order


  18. 68.
    Tropic of Cancer
    by Henry Miller

    Drag me to re-order


  19. 69.
    Interview with the Vampire
    by Anne Rice

    Drag me to re-order


  20. 70.
    The Jungle (Modern Library Classics)
    by Upton Sinclair

    Drag me to re-order


  21. 71.
    Angle of Repose
    by Wallace Stegner

    Drag me to re-order


  22. 72.
    Rabbit, Run
    by John Updike

    Drag me to re-order


  23. 73.
    Trinity
    by Leon Uris

    Drag me to re-order


  24. 74.
    Breakfast of Champions
    by Kurt Vonnegut

    Drag me to re-order


  25. 75.
    The Temple of My Familiar
    by Alice Walker

    Drag me to re-order


  26. 76.
    Go Tell It on the Mountain
    by James Baldwin

    Drag me to re-order


  27. 77.
    Fahrenheit 451
    by Ray Bradbury

    Drag me to re-order


  28. 78.
    The Good Earth (Enriched Classics)
    by Pearl S. Buck

    Drag me to re-order


  29. 79.
    Ender's Game
    by Orson Scott Card

    Drag me to re-order


  30. 80.
    2001: A Space Odyssey
    by Arthur C. Clarke

    Drag me to re-order


  31. 81.
    Heart of Darkness (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Joseph Conrad

    Drag me to re-order


  32. 82.
    Fifth Business (Penguin Classics)
    by Robertson Davies

    Drag me to re-order


  33. 83.
    Ragtime
    by E. L. Doctorow

    Drag me to re-order


  34. 84.
    The Maltese Falcon
    by Dashiell Hammett

    Drag me to re-order


  35. 85.
    Stones from the River
    by Ursula Hegi

    Drag me to re-order


  36. 86.
    Ironweed
    by William J. Kennedy

    Drag me to re-order


  37. 87.
    The Stand (Modern Classics)
    by Stephen King

    Drag me to re-order


  38. 88.
    Sons and Lovers (Modern Library Classics)
    by D.H. Lawrence

    Drag me to re-order


  39. 89.
    The Spy Who Came in From the Cold

    Drag me to re-order


  40. 91.
    ?
    Of Human Bondage
    by W. Somerset Maugham

    Drag me to re-order


  41. 92.
    The Enigma of Arrival: A Novel
    by V.S. Naipaul

    Drag me to re-order


  42. 93.
    The Shell Seekers
    by Rosamunde Pilcher

    Drag me to re-order


  43. 94.
    The Bell Jar (P.S.)
    by Sylvia Plath

    Drag me to re-order


  44. 95.
    Housekeeping: A Novel
    by Marilynne Robinson

    Drag me to re-order


  45. 96.
    My Life As a Man (Vintage International)
    by Philip Roth

    Drag me to re-order


  46. 97.
    A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (P.S.)
    by Betty Smith

    Drag me to re-order


  47. 98.
    Sophie's Choice
    by William Styron

    Drag me to re-order


  48. 100.
    Bastard out of Carolina (Contemporary Fiction, Plume)
    by Dorothy Allison

    Drag me to re-order


Pages: 1 2

This is a community list. You can contribute, edit, or help maintain it by adding it to your lists.
Created by eatdrinktravel wind + water = bliss on May 29, 2006.
 

Comments