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        The Modern Library 100 Best Novels (Editorial Board Picks)
    (As of: 20-Jul-1998)

    The Modern Library was founded in 1917 to publish the world's best English language books. After incorporating in 1925, The Modern Library started Random House as a subsidiary to publish "at random" other books that interested the publishers. The rest is history. In the 1990s, the Modern Library began a project to identify the "100 Best" books published in the English language since 1900. Shown below are the 100 Best Novels as picked by the Modern Library Editorial Board.

    Source: The Modern Library Editorial Board

       
      Rank   Book
      1
    Ulysses
    by James Joyce
     
      2
    The Great Gatsby
    by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Kathleen Parkinson (Contributor)
     
      3
    A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man
    by James Joyce, Seamus Deane, Seamus Deane (Editor)
     
      4
    Lolita
    by Vladimir Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov
     
      5
    Brave New World
    by Aldous Huxley
     
      6
    The Sound and the Fury
    by William Faulkner
     
      7
    Catch-22
    by Joseph Heller, Random House
     
      8
    Darkness at Noon
    by Arthur Koestler
     
      9
    Sons and Lovers
    by D. H. Lawrence
     
      10
    The Grapes of Wrath
    by John Steinbeck, Robert J. Demott
     
      11
    Under the Volcano
    by Malcolm Lowry
     
      12
    The Way of All Flesh
    by Samuel Butler
     
      13
    1984
    by George Orwell, Erich (AFT) Fromm
     
      14
    I, Claudius
    by Robert Graves
     
      15
    To the Lighthouse
    by Virginia Woolf
     
      16
    An American Tragedy
    by Theodore Dreiser
     
      17
    The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
    by Carson McCullers
     
      18
    Slaughterhouse-five
    by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
     
      19
    Invisible Man
    by Ralph Ellison
     
      20
    Native Son
    by Wright
     
      21
    Henderson the Rain King
    by Saul Bellow
     
      22
    Appointment in Samarra
    by John O'Hara
     
      23
    U.S.A.
    by John DOS Passos, Daniel Aaron (Editor), Townsend Ludington (Editor)
     
      24
    Winesburg, Ohio
    by Sherwood Anderson
     
      25
    A Passage to India
    by E. M. Forster
     
      26
    The Wings of the Dove
    by Henry James, Grey Gowrie (Introduction by)
     
      27
    The Ambassadors
    by Henry James, Christopher Butler, Christopher Butler (Editor)
     
      28
    Tender Is the Night
    by F. Scott Fitzgerald
     
      29
    Studs Lonigan
    by James T. Farrell, Ann Douglas (Introduction by)
     
      30
    The Good Soldier
    by Ford Madox Ford, Thomas C. Moser, Thomas C. Moser (Editor)
     
      31
    Animal Farm
    by George Orwell
     
      32
    The Golden Bowl
    by Henry James, Copyright Paperback Collection (Library of Congress)
     
      33
    Sister Carrie
    by Theodore Dreiser, Richard Lingeman (Introduction by)
     
      34
    A Handful of Dust
    by Evelyn Waugh
     
      35
    As I Lay Dying
    by William Faulkner
     
      36
    All the King's Men
    by Robert Penn Warren
     
      37
    The Bridge of San Luis Rey
    by Thornton Wilder
     
      38
    Howards End
    by E. M. Forster, David Lodge (Introduction by), David A. A. Lodge, David A. A. Lodge (Introduction by)
     
      39
    Go Tell It on the Mountain
    by James Baldwin
     
      40
    Heart of the Matter
    by Graham Greene
     
      41
    Lord of the Flies
    by William Golding, E. L. Epstein (Contributor)
     
      42  
    Deliverance
    by James Dickey
     
      43  
    Dance to the Music of Time
    by Anthony Powell
     
      44  
    Point Counter Point
    by Aldous Huxley
     
      45  
    The Sun Also Rises
    by Ernest Hemingway
     
      46  
    The Secret Agent
    by Joseph Conrad
     
      47  
    Nostromo
    by Joseph Conrad
     
      48  
    The Rainbow
    by D. H. Lawrence
     
      49  
    Women in Love
    by D. H. Lawrence
     
      50  
    Tropic of Cancer
    by Henry Miller
     
      51  
    The Naked and the Dead
    by Norman Mailer
     
      52  
    Portnoy's Complaint
    by Philip Roth
     
      53  
    Pale Fire
    by Vladimir Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov
     
      54  
    Light in August
    by William Faulkner
     
      55  
    On the Road
    by Jack Kerouac
     
      56  
    The Maltese Falcon
    by Dashiell Hammett
     
      57  
    Parade's End
    by Ford Madox Ford
     
      58  
    The Age of Innocence
    by Edith Wharton
     
      59  
    Zuleika Dobson
    by Max Beerbohm
     
      60  
    The Moviegoer
    by Walker Percy
     
      61  
    Death Comes for the Archbishop
    by Willa Cather
     
      62  
    From Here to Eternity
    by James Jones
     
      63  
    The Wapshot Chronicle
    by John Cheever
     
      64  
    Catcher in the Rye
    by J. D. Salinger
     
      65  
    A Clockwork Orange
    by Anthony Burgess
     
      66  
    Of Human Bondage
    by W. Somerset Maugham, Gore Vidal (Introduction by)
     
      67  
    Heart of Darkness
    by Joseph Conrad
     
      68  
    Main Street
    by Sinclair Lewis
     
      69  
    The House of Mirth
    by Edith Wharton
     
      70  
    The Alexandria Quartet
    by Lawrence Durrell
     
      71  
    A High Wind in Jamaica
    by Richard Hughes
     
      72  
    A House for Mr. Biswas
    by V.S. Naipaul
     
      73  
    The Day of the Locust
    by Nathanael West
     
      74  
    A Farewell to Arms
    by Ernest Hemingway
     
      75  
    Scoop
    by Evelyn Waugh
     
      76  
    The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
    by Muriel Spark
     
      77  
    Finnegans Wake
    by James Joyce
     
      78  
    Kim
    by Rudyard Kipling
     
      79  
    A Room With a View
    by E. M. Forster
     
      80  
    Brideshead Revisited
    by Evelyn Waugh, Frank Kermode, Frank Kermode (Contributor)
     
      81  
    The Adventures of Augie March
    by Saul Bellow
     
      82  
    Angle of Repose
    by Wallace Stegner, Jackson J. Benson (Introduction by)
     
      83  
    Bend in the River
    by V.S. Naipaul
     
      84  
    The Death of the Heart
    by Elizabeth Bowen
     
      85  
    Lord Jim
    by Joseph Conrad, Linda Dryden, Linda Dryden (Introduction by)
     
      86  
    Ragtime
    by E.L. Doctorow
     
      87  
    The Old Wives' Tale
    by Arnold Bennett
     
      88  
    The Call of the Wild
    by Jack London
     
      89  
    Living
    by Henry Green
     
      90  
    Midnight's Children
    by Salman Rushdie
     
      91  
    Tobacco Road
    by Erskine Caldwell, Lewis Nordan (Foreword by)
     
      92  
    Ironweed
    by William Kennedy
     
      93  
    The Magus
    by John Fowles
     
      94  
    Wide Sargasso Sea
    by Jean Rhys, Charlotte Bronte
     
      95  
    Under the Net
    by Iris Murdoch
     
      96  
    Sophie's Choice
    by William Styron
     
      97  
    The Sheltering Sky
    by Paul Bowles
     
      98  
    The Postman Always Rings Twice
    by James M. Cain
     
      99  
    The Ginger Man
    by James Patrick Donleavy
     
      100  
    The Magnificent Ambersons
    by Booth Tarkington
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