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Modern Library 100 Best Novels

The editors of The Modern Library were privileged to have the assistance of a distinguished Board made up of celebrated authors, historians, critics, and publishing luminaries. In 1998 and 1999, members of the Modern Library Board participated in the “100 Best” project, voting on the 100 Best Novels and 100 Best Non-fiction works, respectively.

#1

Ulysses

1920 • 800 Readers • 656 pages 3.8

#2

The Great Gatsby

1920 • 4,073 Readers • 180 pages 3.7

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#3

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

198 • 526 Readers • 280 pages 3.6

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#4

Lolita

1954 • 1,896 Readers • 331 pages 3.9

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#5

Brave New World

1900 • 3,611 Readers • 332 pages 3.9

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#6

The Sound and the Fury

1929 • 533 Readers • 274 pages 3.7

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#7

Catch-22

#1 of 2 in Catch-22

1961 • 1,934 Readers • 466 pages 4

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#8

Darkness at Noon

1940 • 126 Readers • 272 pages 4.1

#9

Sons and Lovers

1913 • 104 Readers • 493 pages 3.8

#10

The Grapes of Wrath

1939 • 1,509 Readers • 496 pages 3.8

#11

Under the Volcano

1947 • 115 Readers • 363 pages 3.8

#12

The Way of All Flesh

1903 • 31 Readers • 450 pages 4.3

#13

1984

1949 • 6,950 Readers • 328 pages 4.2

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#14

I, Claudius

#1 of 2 in Claudius

1934 • 249 Readers • 432 pages 4.1

#15

To the Lighthouse

1925 • 724 Readers • 326 pages 3.8

#16

An American Tragedy

#140 of 35 in LOA

1900 • 113 Readers • 502 pages 3.8

#17

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

1940 • 293 Readers • 368 pages 3.8

#18

Slaughterhouse 5

2 Critical Insights

1968 • 2,909 Readers • 292 pages 4.1

#19

Invisible Man

1952 • 645 Readers • 610 pages 3.8

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#20

Native Son

1940 • 261 Readers • 624 pages 4

#21

Henderson the Rain King

1959 • 43 Readers • 354 pages 3.8

#22

Appointment in Samarra

1934 • 64 Readers 3.7

#23

U.S.A.: The 42nd Parallel / 1919 / The Big Money

6 The U.S.A. Trilogy

1930 • 24 Readers • 1,288 pages 3.8

#24

Winesburg, Ohio

1919 • 109 Readers • 257 pages 4.1

#25

A Passage to India

1901 • 224 Readers • 376 pages 3.5

#26

The Wings of the Dove

1902 • 53 Readers • 508 pages 4

#27

The Ambassadors

1903 • 39 Readers • 384 pages 3.7

#28

Tender is the Night

1933 • 320 Readers • 336 pages 3.6

#29

Studs Lonigan Trilogy: Young Lonigan/The Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan/Judgment Day

#1 of 1 in Studs Lonigan

1935 • 14 Readers • 486 pages 5

#30

The Good Soldier

1915 • 126 Readers • 222 pages 3.3

#31

Animal Farm

1945 • 4,883 Readers • 122 pages 4

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#32

The Golden Bowl

1904 • 39 Readers • 632 pages 3.5

#33

Sister Carrie

72 Readers 3.6

#34

A Handful of Dust

1934 • 77 Readers • 240 pages 3.9

#35

As I Lay Dying

1930 • 518 Readers • 231 pages 3.6

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#36

All the King's Men

1946 • 174 Readers • 660 pages 4

#37

The Bridge of San Luis Rey

1927 • 90 Readers 3.8

#38

Howards End

1910 • 99 Readers • 352 pages 3.5

#39

Go Tell It on the Mountain

1953 • 302 Readers • 184 pages 4

#40

The Heart of the Matter

1948 • 77 Readers • 272 pages 3.8

#41

Lord of the Flies

1954 • 3,235 Readers • 208 pages 3.6

#42

Deliverance

1970 • 82 Readers • 240 pages 4.1

#43

A Question of Upbringing

#1 of 12 in A Dance to the Music of Time

1951 • 60 Readers • 244 pages 4

#44

Point Counter Point

1928 • 50 Readers • 452 pages 4.2

#45

The Sun Also Rises

1926 • 826 Readers • 264 pages 3.6

#46

The Secret Agent

1895 • 96 Readers • 354 pages 3.3

#47

Conrad: Nostromo

4 Landmarks of World Literature

1900 • 57 Readers • 124 pages 3.2

#48

The Rainbow

69 Readers 3.4

#49

Women in Love

#2 of 1 in Brangwen Family

1920 • 78 Readers • 596 pages 3.6

#50

Tropic of Cancer

#1 of 3 in Tropic

1934 • 232 Readers • 318 pages 3.3

#51

The Naked and the Dead

1948 • 93 Readers • 738 pages 4

#52

Portnoy's Complaint

1969 • 153 Readers • 296 pages 3.4

#53

Pale Fire

1945 • 455 Readers • 282 pages 4.3

#54

Light In August

1932 • 166 Readers • 480 pages 3.9

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#55

On the Road

32 Duluoz Legend

1955 • 931 Readers • 254 pages 3.3

#56

The Maltese Falcon

1929 • 310 Readers • 165 pages 3.8

#57

Parade's End

#1-4 of 4 in Parade's End

1928 • 41 Readers • 845 pages 3.7

#58

The Age of Innocence

1920 • 376 Readers • 370 pages 4

#59

Zuleika Dobson

1911 • 28 Readers • 252 pages 3.5

#60

The Moviegoer

1961 • 128 Readers • 242 pages 3.3

#61

Death Comes for the Archbishop

1927 • 103 Readers • 306 pages 4.2

#62

From Here to Eternity

#1 of 3 in The World War II Trilogy

1951 • 56 Readers • 821 pages 4.8

#63

The Wapshot Chronicle

1957 • 17 Readers • 352 pages 3.8

#64

The Catcher in the Rye

200 • 3,426 Readers • 288 pages 3.6

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#65

A Clockwork Orange

1962 • 1,724 Readers • 72 pages 3.9

#66

Of Human Bondage

1915 • 183 Readers • 618 pages 4.2

#67

Heart of Darkness

1899 • 1,176 Readers • 132 pages 3.3

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#68

Main Street / Babbitt

1992 • 62 Readers • 898 pages 3.8

#69

The House of Mirth

1905 • 225 Readers • 435 pages 3.8

#70

The Alexandria Quartet (The Alexandria Quartet #1-4)

#1 of 2 in Alexandria Quartet

1960 • 33 Readers • 884 pages 3.7

#71

A High Wind in Jamaica

1929 • 49 Readers • 192 pages 3.3

#72

A House for Mr Biswas

1961 • 87 Readers • 590 pages 3.8

#73

The Day of the Locust

1939 • 77 Readers • 118 pages 3.5

#74

A Farewell To Arms

199 • 686 Readers • 352 pages 3.7

#75

Scoop

1938 • 67 Readers • 284 pages 3.7

#76

The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie

1961 • 170 Readers • 164 pages 3.6

#77

Finnegans Wake

1928 • 186 Readers • 628 pages 4

#78

Kim

1901 • 104 Readers • 312 pages 3.3

#79

A Room With a View

1908 • 372 Readers 3.6

#80

Brideshead Revisited

1930 • 344 Readers • 351 pages 3.8

#81

The Adventures of Augie March

1953 • 85 Readers • 386 pages 3.9

#82

Angle of Repose

1971 • 115 Readers • 482 pages 4.3

#83

A Bend in the River

1979 • 60 Readers • 326 pages 3.7

#84

The Death of the Heart

1938 • 61 Readers • 418 pages 3.7

#85

Lord Jim

1899 • 90 Readers • 400 pages 3.6

#86

Ragtime

1975 • 132 Readers • 369 pages 3.9

#87

The Old Wives' Tale

#5 of 5 in The Five Towns

1908 • 20 Readers • 615 pages 4.5

#88

The Call of the Wild

1903 • 693 Readers • 142 pages 3.6

#89

Loving

1945 • 23 Readers • 224 pages 4.5

#90

Midnight's Children

1981 • 543 Readers • 640 pages 4

#91

Tobacco Road

1932 • 24 Readers • 192 pages 3.8

#92

Ironweed

#3 of 6 in The Albany Cycle

1983 • 53 Readers • 260 pages 3.7

#93

The Magus

1965 • 231 Readers 3.8

#94

Wide Sargasso Sea

1966 • 332 Readers • 189 pages 3.4

#95

Under the net

1954 • 49 Readers • 252 pages 3.6

#96

Sophie's Choice

1979 • 174 Readers • 632 pages 3.6

#98

The Postman Always Rings Twice

1934 • 143 Readers • 128 pages 3.7

#99

The Ginger Man

1955 • 24 Readers • 347 pages 3.3

#100

The Magnificent Ambersons

#2 of 3 in The Growth Trilogy

1918 • 48 Readers • 278 pages 3.9