Lists of Bests: Random House Modern Library's "100 Best Books of the 20th Century: Fiction (Board's List)" http://www.listsofbests.com/list/17 This list has been put together by the editors of Random House's Modern Library, and represents the best 100 novels of the 20th century. Fri, 01 Jun 2012 07:48:36 GMT en-us 0 50 100 50 0 Ulysses http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18652 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18652"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51iEK3J3hNL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James Joyce</div> The Great Gatsby http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21233 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21233"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41eiFf1x23L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by F. Scott Fitzgerald</div> A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Signet Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/485539 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/485539"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0451530152.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James Joyce</div> Lolita, 50th Anniversary Edition http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18659 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18659"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41gMT3BaWiL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Vladimir Nabokov</div> Brave New World http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1283 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1283"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41JP2Y4awLL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Aldous Huxley</div> The Sound and the Fury: The Corrected Text http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18742 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18742"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51--Odn0keL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Faulkner</div> Catch-22 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19372 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19372"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51eW-wH1K-L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joseph Heller</div> Darkness at Noon http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/15679 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/15679"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0553265954.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Arthur Koestler</div> Sons and Lovers (Modern Library Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/64940 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/64940"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41mNkKgj8PL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by D.H. Lawrence</div> The Grapes of Wrath (20th Century Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2788 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2788"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41KQ6R5GZBL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Steinbeck</div> Under the Volcano: A Novel (Perennial Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1431 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1431"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060955228.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Malcolm Lowry</div> The Way of All Flesh (Everyman's Library (Cloth)) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/64941 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/64941"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0679417184.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Samuel Butler</div> 1984 (Signet Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13902 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13902"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/31bMi9gBjXL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by George Orwell</div> I, Claudius From the Autobiography of Tiberius Claudius Born 10 B.C. Murdered and Deified A.D. 54 (Vintage International) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18686 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18686"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/517efjnUZRL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robert Graves</div> To the Lighthouse http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4172 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4172"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51l-vSYoj0L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Virginia Woolf</div> An American Tragedy (Signet Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13947 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13947"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41puFdb7pCL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Theodore Dreiser</div> The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/15692 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/15692"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/717Q9PYC5HL._SL75_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Carson McCullers</div> Slaughterhouse-Five http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/12379 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/12379"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/4120yizU-2L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Kurt Vonnegut</div> Invisible Man http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18757 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18757"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41BPEBYp8FL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ralph Ellison</div> Native Son http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1168 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1168"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41JWCZZ215L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Richard Wright</div> Henderson the Rain King (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2811 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2811"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/512SwP%2BHT2L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Saul Bellow</div> Appointment in Samarra (Vintage Open Market) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/64942 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/64942"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0394711920.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John O'Hara</div> U.S.A.: The 42nd Parallel / 1919 / The Big Money (Library of America) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/33684 <div id="position">23</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/33684"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41e%2BnYwr41L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Dos Passos</div> Winesburg, Ohio http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2606364 <div id="position">24</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sherwood Anderson</div> A Passage to India http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/64943 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/64943"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0736629521.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by E. M. Forster</div> The Wings of the Dove (Everymans Library, 230) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/64944 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/64944"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0679455124.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Henry James</div> The Ambassadors (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/53047 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/53047"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51p8boPLVNL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Henry James</div> Tender Is the Night http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19354 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19354"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41SH9rkMO4L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by F. Scott Fitzgerald</div> Studs Lonigan (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/23703 <div id="position">29</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/23703"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41NUgdJ9S7L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James T. Farrell</div> The Good Soldier: A Tale of Passion (Oxford World's Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/64945 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/64945"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/019283620X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ford Madox Ford</div> Animal Farm http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13919 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13919"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51w-rPGvWcL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by George Orwell</div> The Golden Bowl (Everyman's Library Classics & Contemporary Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/64946 <div id="position">32</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/64946"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51xkENpie-L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Henry James</div> Sister Carrie (Signet Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13943 <div id="position">33</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13943"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/510B9T4JBHL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Theodore Dreiser</div> A Handful of Dust http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7161 <div id="position">34</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7161"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0316926051.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Evelyn Waugh</div> As I Lay Dying: The Corrected Text http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18743 <div id="position">35</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18743"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51kYh38zHWL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Faulkner</div> All the King's Men http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3949 <div id="position">36</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3949"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51xtZwzHNBL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robert Penn Warren</div> The Bridge of San Luis Rey (Perennial Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/64947 <div id="position">37</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/64947"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060929863.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Thornton Wilder</div> Howards End (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3455 <div id="position">38</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3455"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41Q29r6KuXL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by E. M. Forster</div> Go Tell It on the Mountain http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/12548 <div id="position">39</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/12548"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0440330076.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James Baldwin</div> The Heart of the Matter (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3012 <div id="position">40</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3012"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0140283323.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Graham Greene</div> Lord of the Flies http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11596 <div id="position">41</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11596"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/512xcMfoVjL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Golding</div> Deliverance http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10061 <div id="position">42</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10061"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51yFZtBNz2L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James Dickey</div> A Dance to the Music of Time (series) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/619674 <div id="position">43</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Anthony Powell</div> Point Counter Point (British Literature) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/64949 <div id="position">44</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/64949"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/414qFArV72L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Aldous Huxley</div> The Sun Also Rises http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19227 <div id="position">45</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19227"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51YECFM808L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ernest Hemingway</div> The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale (Oxford World's Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4282 <div id="position">46</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4282"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0192834770.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joseph Conrad</div> Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2813021 <div id="position">47</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2813021"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/21HN4FN8vsL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joseph Conrad</div> The Rainbow (Modern Library Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9398 <div id="position">48</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9398"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51PqvLdaP3L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by D.H. Lawrence</div> Women in Love (Modern Library Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9334 <div id="position">49</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9334"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375754881.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1113578239_.gif" /></a></div> Tropic of Cancer http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24058 <div id="position">50</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24058"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/513zeH8Li3L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Henry Miller</div>