The 100 best English-language novels of the century, as chosen by the editorial board of the Modern Library

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Ulysses by James Joyce
Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man by James Joyce
Lolita by Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
Catch-22 by Joseph L. Heller
Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler
Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence
Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Under the Volcano by Malcolm C. Lowry
1984 by George Orwell
I, Claudius : From the Autobiography of Tiberius Claudius, Born 10 B.C., Murdered and Deified A.D.by Robert Graves
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
Slaughterhouse Five or the Children's Crusade : A Duty Dance With Death by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Invisible Man by Ralph Waldo Ellison
Native Son by Richard Wright
Henderson the Rain King by Saul Bellow
Appointment in Samarra by John O'Hara
U.S.A. : The 42nd Parallel, 1919, the Big Money
Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson
Passage to India by E. M. Forster
Wings of the Dove by Henry James
The Ambassadors by Henry James
Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Good Soldier : A Tale of Passion by Ford Maddox Ford
Animal Farm : A Fairy Story by George Orwell
Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser
Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren
Howards End by E. M. Forster
Go Tell It on the Mountain by James A. Baldwin
Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
Lord of the Flies by William Gerald Golding
Deliverance by James Dickey
A Dance to the Music of Time : First Movement by Anthony Powell
Point Counter Point by Aldous Huxley
Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
Nostromo by Joseph Conrad
Rainbow by D. H. Lawrence
Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence
Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer
Portnoy's Complaint by Phillip Roth
Pale Fire by Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov
Light in August by William Faulkner
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
Zuleika Dobson by Max Beerbohm
The Moviegoer by Walker Percy
Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather
Wapshot Chronicle by John Cheever
Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Main Street by Sinclair Lewis
House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
Alexandria Quartet : Justine/Balthazar/Mountolive/Clea/Boxed Set by Lawrence Durrell
High Wind in Jamaica by Richard Hughes
A House for Mr. Biswas by V. S. Naipaul
The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
Kim by Rudyard Kipling
Room With a View by E. M. Forster
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow
Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
Bend in the River by V. S. Naipaul
The Death of the Heart by Elizabeth Bowen
Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad
Ragtime by E. L. Doctorow
The Old Wives' Tale by Arnold Bennett
Call of the Wild by Jack London
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
Tobacco Road by Erskine Caldwell
Ironweed : A Novel by William J. Kennedy
The Magus by John Fowles
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
Sophie's Choice by William Styron
Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles
Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Mjames Malla Cain
Ginger Man by J. P. Donleavy
Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington

 

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