Lists of Bests: southernbohemian's "Random House Modern Library's "100 Best Books of the 20th Century: Fiction" - Most Read" http://www.listsofbests.com/list/29137 I was interested in seeing in what order people who are trying to complete the Modern Library's list read the books on it. I surveyed which books people who had read 50% or more had finished and then put them in order of popularity from most to least read. Ties are listed in the order they appeared on the Modern Library's list. I was kind of surprised by the outcome (I had figured Finnegan's Wake would be the least popular, but it actually is the Dance to the Music of Time series, which may be easier to read but consists of 12 novels). Wed, 02 Dec 2009 20:14:18 GMT en-us 0 50 100 50 0 Lolita http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/39275 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/39275"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0739322060.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Vladimir Nabokov</div> The Grapes of Wrath (Centennial Edition) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3555 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3555"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0142000663.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Steinbeck</div> Nineteen Eighty-four (Penguin Modern Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/499994 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/499994"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/014118776X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by George Orwell</div> Sun Also Rises (Scribner Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/74862 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/74862"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0684830515.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ernest Hemingway</div> The Catcher in the Rye http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7091 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7091"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0316769177.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by J.D. Salinger</div> The Great Gatsby http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21233 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21233"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0743273567.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by F. Scott Fitzgerald</div> Brave New World http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1283 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1283"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060929871.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Aldous Huxley</div> Catch-22 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/189075 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/189075"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000BJV3E2.01-A19L3IEUO4I4SR._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joseph Heller</div> The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2337777 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2337777"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0618084746.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Carson McCullers</div> Animal Farm: Centennial Edition http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/968557 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/968557"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0452284244.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by George Orwell</div> Lord of the Flies (50th Anniversary Edition) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11617 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11617"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0399529209.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Golding</div> A Clockwork Orange (Penguin Modern Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/64541 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/64541"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141182601.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Anthony Burgess</div> Heart of Darkness (Hesperus Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/33081 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/33081"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/184391008X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joseph Conrad</div> Slaughterhouse-Five http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/961898 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/961898"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0385333846.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V44910329_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Kurt Vonnegut</div> Winesburg, Ohio (Oxford World's Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/47114 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/47114"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0192839772.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sherwood Anderson</div> Howard's End (Penguin Modern Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/206601 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/206601"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141183357.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by E.M. Forster</div> On the Road (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/961415 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/961415"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140283293.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jack Kerouac</div> The Call of the Wild (Aladdin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19931 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19931"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0689856741.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jack London</div> A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3716 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3716"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0142437344.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James Joyce</div> The Sound and the Fury http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18742 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18742"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679732241.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Faulkner</div> The Age of Innocence (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (B&N Classics Trade Paper) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1132067 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1132067"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/159308143X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Edith Wharton</div> A Farewell To Arms http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19234 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19234"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0684801469.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V65553112_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ernest Hemingway</div> A Room with a View http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2473140 <div id="position">23</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2473140"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1406924032.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V44277143_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster</div> Lord Jim http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2475150 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2475150"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1551111721.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joseph Conrad</div> Ragtime: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2730766 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2730766"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0812978188.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by E.L. Doctorow</div> Sophie's Choice http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2485363 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2485363"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0099483521.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Styron</div> Sons and Lovers (Modern Library Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/64940 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/64940"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375753737.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by D.H. Lawrence</div> To the Lighthouse http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/619574 <div id="position">28</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Virginia Woolf</div> A Passage to India (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/163250 <div id="position">29</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/163250"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/014144116X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by E.M. Forster</div> As I Lay Dying: The Corrected Text (Modern Library) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/8918 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/8918"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375504524.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Faulkner</div> The Bridge of San Luis Rey (Perennial Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/281070 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/281070"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060088877.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Thornton Wilder</div> Portnoy's Complaint http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2644306 <div id="position">32</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2644306"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0099399016.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Philip Roth</div> Brideshead Revisited http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7169 <div id="position">33</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7169"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0316926345.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Evelyn Waugh</div> Wide Sargasso Sea (Essential.penguin) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/62965 <div id="position">34</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/62965"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140274219.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jean Rhys</div> Henderson the Rain King (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2811 <div id="position">35</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2811"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140189424.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Saul Bellow</div> A Handful of Dust (Penguin Modern Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/369970 <div id="position">36</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/369970"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141187468.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Evelyn Waugh</div> The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2491582 <div id="position">37</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2491582"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1857152743.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V44184663_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Muriel Spark</div> Ironweed http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2399965 <div id="position">38</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2399965"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0743263065.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Kennedy</div> Tender Is the Night (Penguin Modern Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2336216 <div id="position">39</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2336216"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141183594.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by F.Scott Fitzgerald</div> Deliverance (Bloomsbury Film Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2598706 <div id="position">40</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2598706"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0747540888.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James Dickey</div> The Day of the Locust (Signet Classic) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13897 <div id="position">41</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13897"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0451523482.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Nathanael West</div> Scoop (Penguin Modern Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2171200 <div id="position">42</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2171200"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141187492.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Evelyn Waugh</div> Darkness at Noon http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/15679 <div id="position">43</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> 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">44</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18686"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/067972477X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robert Graves</div> Sister Carrie (Norton Critical Editions) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/64575 <div id="position">45</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/64575"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0393960420.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Theodore Dreiser</div> The Heart of the Matter http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2336535 <div id="position">46</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2336535"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0099478420.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Graham Greene</div> Women in Love (Dover Thrift Editions) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1079405 <div id="position">47</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1079405"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0486424588.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by D. H. Lawrence</div> Pale Fire (Penguin Modern Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/312554 <div id="position">48</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/312554"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141185260.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Vladimir Nabokov</div> The Maltese Falcon http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2422555 <div id="position">49</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2422555"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0752865331.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Dashiell Hammett</div> Native Son (Perennial Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/57190 <div id="position">50</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/57190"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/006083756X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Richard A. Wright</div>