Lists of Bests: The Modern Library 100 Best (Reader's List) http://www.listsofbests.com/list/58111 The readers' poll for the best novels published in the English language since 1900 opened on July 20, 1998 and closed on October 20, 1998, with 217,520 votes cast. Wed, 11 Nov 2009 11:09:25 GMT en-us 0 50 100 50 0 Atlas Shrugged http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/14003 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/14003"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0452011876.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ayn Rand</div> The Fountainhead http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1501378 <div id="position">2</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ayn Rand</div> Battlefield Earth: A Saga of the Year 3000 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/795694 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/795694"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1592120539.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by L. Ron Hubbard</div> The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2568952 <div id="position">4</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2151592 <div id="position">5</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> 1984: Centennial Edition http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/23814 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/23814"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0452284236.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by George Orwell</div> Anthem http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/51451 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/51451"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0452281253.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ayn Rand</div> We the Living http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13618 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13618"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0451187849.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ayn Rand</div> MISSION EARTH http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/795722 <div id="position">9</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by L. Ron Hubbard</div> FEAR http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/795728 <div id="position">10</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by L. Ron Hubbard</div> Ulysses http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/970318 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/970318"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1404336877.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James Joyce</div> Catch-22 (1961) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/619545 <div id="position">12</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joseph Heller</div> THE GREAT GATSBY by F. Scott Fitzgerald http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/619511 <div id="position">13</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> Dune, 40th Anniversary Edition (Dune Chronicles, Book 1) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/962380 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/962380"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0441013597.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1122692856_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Frank Herbert</div> The Moon is a Harsh Mistress http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4533061 <div id="position">15</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robert Heinlein</div> Stranger in a Strange Land http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/194544 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/194544"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0441788386.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1124236743_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robert A. Heinlein</div> Shute, Nevil-A Town Like Alice http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3540612 <div id="position">17</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> Brave New World by Aldous Huxley http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2151612 <div id="position">18</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2151487 <div id="position">19</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> Animal Farm http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2737902 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2737902"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1595404295.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by George Orwell</div> GRAVITY'S RAINBOW by Thomas Pynchon http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/795759 <div id="position">21</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> The Grapes of Wrath (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/466410 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/466410"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0143039431.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Steinbeck</div> Slaughterhouse-Five http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2151692 <div id="position">23</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Kurt Vonnegut</div> Gone With The Wind by Margaret Mitchell http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2611196 <div id="position">24</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> Lord of the Flies http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2151700 <div id="position">25</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Golding</div> Shane http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4533062 <div id="position">26</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jack Schaefer</div> Trustee from the Toolroom by Nevil Shute http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4533063 <div id="position">27</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> A Prayer for Owen Meany http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1657988 <div id="position">28</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Irving</div> The Stand http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/795764 <div id="position">29</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Stephen King</div> The French Lieutenant´s Woman http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2545105 <div id="position">30</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Fowles</div> Beloved http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/28911 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/28911"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1400033411.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Toni Morrison</div> The Worm Ouroboros by E.R. Eddison http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4533066 <div id="position">32</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> The Sound and the Fury http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1221459 <div id="position">33</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Faulkner</div> Lolita http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/330645 <div id="position">34</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Vladimir Nabokov</div> Moonheart by Charles de Lint http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4533067 <div id="position">35</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> Absalom, Absalom!: The Corrected Text (Modern Library) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18572 <div id="position">36</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18572"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679600728.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056464843_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Faulkner</div> Of Human Bondage http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1434878 <div id="position">37</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by W. Somerset Maugham</div> WISE BLOOD by Flannery O'Connor http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/795780 <div id="position">38</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> Under the Volcano http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/619561 <div id="position">39</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Malcolm Lowry</div> Fifth Business http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/795781 <div id="position">40</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robertson Davies</div> Someplace to Be Flying http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4388669 <div id="position">41</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> On the Road http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1145435 <div id="position">42</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jack Kerouac</div> Heart of Darkness http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1512602 <div id="position">43</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joseph Conrad</div> Yarrow: An Autumn Tale http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4388327 <div id="position">44</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> At the Mountains of Madness (1931) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2770978 <div id="position">45</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by H.P. Lovecraft</div> One lonely night http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3862567 <div id="position">46</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mickey Spillane</div> Memory and Dream by Charles de Lint http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2575354 <div id="position">47</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> To the Lighthouse http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/619574 <div id="position">48</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Virginia Woolf</div> The Moviegoer http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9043 <div id="position">49</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9043"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375701966.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Walker Percy</div> Trader http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2119746 <div id="position">50</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div>