The Editorial Board of Modern Library's "New York Times Best 100 Novels"

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This list of 100 novels was drawn up by the editorial board of Modern Library. Where possible, book titles have been linked to either the original New York Times review or a later article about the book.

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  1. 1.
    ULYSSES by James Joyce
    by James Joyce
  2. 2.
    The Great Gatsby
    by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  3. 3.
    A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
    by James Joyce
  4. 4.
    Lolita, 50th Anniversary Edition
    by Vladimir Nabokov
  5. 5.
    Brave New World
    by Aldous Huxley
  6. 6.
    The Sound and the Fury: The Corrected Text
    by William Faulkner
  7. 7.
    Catch-22
    by Joseph Heller
  8. 8.
    Darkness at Noon
    by Arthur Koestler
  9. 9.
    Sons and Lovers (Vintage Classics)
    by D. H. Lawrence
  10. 10.
    The Grapes of Wrath
    by John Steinbeck
  11. 11.
    Under the Volcano: A Novel (P.S.)
    by Malcolm Lowry
  12. 12.
    ?
    THE WAY OF ALL FLESH BY SAMUEL BUTLER
    by SAMUEL BUTLER
  13. 13.
    Nineteen Eighty-Four
    by George Orwell
  14. 14.
    I, Claudius
    by Robert Graves
  15. 15.
    ?
  16. 16.
    An American Tragedy (Signet Classics)
    by Theodore Dreiser
  17. 17.
    The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (Oprah's Book Club)
    by Carson McCullers
  18. 18.
    Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel
    by Kurt Vonnegut
  19. 19.
    Invisible Man
    by Ralph Ellison
  20. 20.
    Native Son (Perennial Classics)
    by Richard Wright
  21. 21.
    Henderson the Rain King
    by Saul Bellow
  22. 22.
    Appointment in Samarra (Vintage Open Market)
    by John O'Hara
  23. 23.
    ?
    U.S.A.: The 42nd Parallel, Nineteen Nineteen, The Big Money
    by John Dos Passos
  24. 24.
    Winesburg, Ohio
    by Sherwood Anderson
  26. 26.
    The Ambassadors (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Henry James
  27. 27.
    The Wings of the Dove (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Henry James
  28. 28.
    Tender Is the Night
    by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  30. 30.
    The Good Soldiers
    by David Finkel
  31. 31.
    Animal Farm
    by George Orwell
  32. 32.
    The Golden Bowl (Penguin Classics)
    by Henry James
  33. 33.
    Sister Carrie
    by Theodore Dreiser
  34. 34.
    A Handful of Dust
    by Robert J. Pajer
  35. 35.
    As I Lay Dying (Modern Library)
    by William Faulkner
  36. 36.
    All The King's Men
    by Robert Penn Warren
  37. 37.
    The Bridge of San Luis Rey (Perennial Classics)
    by Thornton Wilder
  38. 38.
    Howards End
    by E. M. Forster
  39. 39.
    Go Tell It on the Mountain
    by James Baldwin
  40. 40.
    The Heart of the Matter: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
    by Graham Greene
  41. 41.
    Lord of the Flies
    by William Golding
  42. 42.
    Deliverance
    by James Dickey
  43. 43.
    ?
    A Dance to the Music of Time (series)
    by Anthony Powell
  44. 44.
    Point Counter Point (British Literature)
    by Aldous Huxley
  45. 45.
    The Sun Also Rises
    by Ernest Hemingway
  46. 46.
    The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Joseph Conrad
  47. 47.
    Nostromo (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Joseph Conrad
  48. 48.
    The Rainbow
    by D.H. Lawrence
  49. 49.
    ?
    Lawrence, D.H.-Women In Love

  50. 50.
    Tropic of Cancer
    by Henry Miller

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