The Modern Library's 100 Best Novels

1. Ulysses (1922)
2. The Great Gatsby (1925)
3. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916)
4. Lolita (1955)
5. Brave New World (1932)
6. The Sound and the Fury (1929)
7. Catch-22 (1961)
8. Darkness at Noon (1940)
9. Sons and Lovers (1913)
10. The Grapes of Wrath (1939)
11. Under the Volcano (1947)
12. The Way of All Flesh (1903)
13. Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949)
14. I, Claudius (1934)
15. To the Lighthouse (1927)
16. An American Tragedy (1925)
17. The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1940)
18. Slaughterhouse-Five (1969)
19. Invisible Man (1952)
20. Native Son (1940)
21. Henderson the Rain King (1959)
22. Appointment in Samarra (1934)
23. U.S.A. (1930-1936)
24. Winesburg, Ohio (1919)
25. A Passage to India (1924)
26. The Wings of the Dove (1902)
27. The Ambassadors (1903)
28. Tender Is the Night (1934)
29. The Studs Lonigan Trilogy (1932-1935)
30. The Good Soldier (1915)
31. Animal Farm (1945)
32. The Golden Bowl (1904)
33. Sister Carrie (1900)
34. A Handful of Dust (1934)
35. As I Lay Dying (1930)
36. All the King's Men (1946)
37. The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1927)
38. Howards End (1910)
39. Go Tell It on the Mountain (1953)
40. The Heart of the Matter (1948)
41. Lord of the Flies (1954)
42. Deliverance (1970)
43. A Dance to the Music of Time (1951-1975)
44. Point Counter Point (1928)
45. The Sun Also Rises (1926)
46. The Secret Agent (1907)
47. Nostromo (1904)
48. The Rainbow (1915)
49. Women in Love (1920)
50. Tropic of Cancer (1934)
51. The Naked and the Dead (1948)
52. Portnoy's Complaint (1969)
53. Pale Fire (1962)
54. Light in August (1932)
55. On the Road (1957)
56. The Maltese Falcon (1930)
57. Parade's End (1924-1928)
58. The Age of Innocence (1920)
59. Zuleika Dobson (1911)
60. The Moviegoer (1961)
61. Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927)
62. From Here to Eternity (1951)
63. The Wapshot Chronicle (1957)
64. The Catcher in the Rye (1951)
65. A Clockwork Orange (1962)
66. Of Human Bondage (1915)
67. Heart of Darkness (1902)
68. Main Street (1920)
69. The House of Mirth (1905)
70. The Alexandria Quartet (1957-1960)
71. A High Wind in Jamaica (1929)
72. A House for Mr Biswas (1961)
73. The Day of the Locust (1939)
74. A Farewell to Arms (1929)
75. Scoop (1938)
76. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1962)
77. Finnegans Wake (1939)
78. Kim (1901)
79. A Room with a View (1908)
80. Brideshead Revisited (1945)
81. The Adventures of Augie March (1953)
82. Angle of Repose (1971)
83. A Bend in the River (1979)
84. The Death of the Heart (1938)
85. Lord Jim (1900)
86. Ragtime (1975)
87. The Old Wives' Tale (1908)
88. The Call of the Wild (1903)
89. Loving (1945)
90. Midnight's Children (1980)
91. Tobacco Road (1932)
92. Ironweed (1983)
93. The Magus (1965)
94. Wide Sargasso Sea (1966)
95. Under the Net (1954)
96. Sophie's Choice (1979)
97. The Sheltering Sky (1949)
98. The Postman Always Rings Twice (1934)
99. The Ginger Man (1955)
100. The Magnificent Ambersons (1918)