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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.

Ulysses
The Great Gatsby
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Lolita
Brave New World
The Sound and the Fury
Catch-22
Darkness at Noon
Sons and Lovers
The Grapes of Wrath
Under the Volcano
The Way of All Flesh
1984
I, Claudius
To the Lighthouse
An American Tragedy
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
Slaughterhouse 5
Invisible Man
Native Son
Henderson the Rain King
Appointment in Samarra
U.S.A.: The 42nd Parallel / 1919 / The Big Money
Winesburg, Ohio
A Passage to India
The Wings of the Dove
The Ambassadors
Tender is the Night
Studs Lonigan Trilogy: Young Lonigan/The Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan/Judgment Day
The Good Soldier
Animal Farm
The Golden Bowl
Sister Carrie
A Handful of Dust
As I Lay Dying
All the King's Men
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
Howards End
Go Tell It on the Mountain
The Heart of the Matter
Lord of the Flies
Deliverance
A Question of Upbringing
Point Counter Point
The Sun Also Rises
The Secret Agent
Conrad: Nostromo
The Rainbow
Women in Love
Tropic of Cancer
The Naked and the Dead
Portnoy's Complaint
Pale Fire
Light In August
On the Road
The Maltese Falcon
Parade's End
The Age of Innocence
Zuleika Dobson
The Moviegoer
Death Comes for the Archbishop
From Here to Eternity
The Wapshot Chronicle
The Catcher in the Rye
A Clockwork Orange
Of Human Bondage
Heart of Darkness
Main Street / Babbitt
The House of Mirth
The Alexandria Quartet (The Alexandria Quartet #1-4)
A High Wind in Jamaica
A House for Mr Biswas
The Day of the Locust
A Farewell To Arms
Scoop
The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie
Finnegans Wake
Kim
A Room With a View
Brideshead Revisited
The Adventures of Augie March
Angle of Repose
A Bend in the River
The Death of the Heart
Lord Jim
Ragtime
The Old Wives' Tale
The Call of the Wild
Loving
Midnight's Children
Tobacco Road
Ironweed
The Magus
Wide Sargasso Sea
Under the net
Sophie's Choice
The Sheltering Sky / Let It Come Down / The Spider's House
The Postman Always Rings Twice
The Ginger Man
The Magnificent Ambersons