Modern Library 100 Best: 1900-2000 |
The Boards List |
The Readers List |
1. |
ULYSSES
by James Joyce |
1. |
ATLAS
SHRUGGED by Ayn Rand |
2. |
THE
GREAT GATSBY by F. Scott Fitzgerald |
2. |
THE
FOUNTAINHEAD by Ayn Rand |
3. |
A
PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN by James Joyce |
3. |
BATTLEFIELD
EARTH by L. Ron Hubbard |
4. |
LOLITA
by Vladimir Nabokov |
4. |
THE
LORD OF THE RINGS by J.R.R. Tolkien |
5. |
BRAVE
NEW WORLD by Aldous Huxley |
5. |
TO
KILL A MOCKINGBIRD by Harper Lee |
6. |
THE
SOUND AND THE FURY by William Faulkner |
6. |
1984
by George Orwell |
7. |
CATCH-22
by Joseph Heller |
7. |
ANTHEM
by Ayn Rand |
8. |
DARKNESS
AT NOON by Arthur Koestler |
8. |
WE
THE LIVING by Ayn Rand |
9. |
SONS
AND LOVERS by D.H. Lawrence |
9. |
MISSION
EARTH by L. Ron Hubbard |
10. |
THE
GRAPES OF WRATH by John Steinbeck |
10. |
FEAR
by L. Ron Hubbard |
11. |
UNDER
THE VOLCANO by Malcolm Lowry |
11. |
ULYSSES
by James Joyce |
12. |
THE
WAY OF ALL FLESH by Samuel Butler |
12. |
CATCH-22
by Joseph Heller |
13. |
1984
by George Orwell |
13. |
THE
GREAT GATSBY by F. Scott Fitzgerald |
14. |
I,
CLAUDIUS by Robert Graves |
14. |
DUNE
by Frank Herbert |
15. |
TO
THE LIGHTHOUSE by Virginia Woolf |
15. |
THE
MOON IS A HARSH MISTRESS by Robert Heinlein |
16. |
AN
AMERICAN TRAGEDY by Theodore Dreiser |
16. |
STRANGER
IN A STRANGE LAND by Robert Heinlein |
17. |
THE
HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER by Carson McCullers |
17. |
A
TOWN LIKE ALICE by Nevil Shute |
18. |
SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE
by Kurt Vonnegut |
18. |
BRAVE
NEW WORLD by Aldous Huxley |
19. |
INVISIBLE
MAN by Ralph Ellison |
19. |
THE
CATCHER IN THE RYE by J.D. Salinger |
20. |
NATIVE
SON by Richard Wright |
20. |
ANIMAL
FARM by George Orwell |
21. |
HENDERSON
THE RAIN KING by Saul Bellow |
21. |
GRAVITY'S
RAINBOW by Thomas Pynchon |
22. |
APPOINTMENT
IN SAMARRA by John O'Hara |
22. |
THE
GRAPES OF WRATH by John Steinbeck |
23. |
U.S.A.
(trilogy) by John Dos Passos |
23. |
SLAUGHTERHOUSE
FIVE by Kurt Vonnegut |
24. |
WINESBURG,
OHIO by Sherwood Anderson |
24. |
GONE
WITH THE WIND by Margaret Mitchell |
25. |
A
PASSAGE TO INDIA by E.M. Forster |
25. |
LORD
OF THE FLIES by William Golding |
26. |
THE
WINGS OF THE DOVE by Henry James |
26. |
SHANE
by Jack Schaefer |
27. |
THE
AMBASSADORS by Henry James |
27. |
TRUSTEE
FROM THE TOOLROOM by Nevil Shute |
28. |
TENDER
IS THE NIGHT by F. Scott Fitzgerald |
28. |
A
PRAYER FOR OWEN MEANY by John Irving |
29. |
THE
STUDS LONIGAN TRILOGY by James T. Farrell |
29. |
THE
STAND by Stephen King |
30. |
THE
GOOD SOLDIER by Ford Madox Ford |
30. |
THE
FRENCH LIEUTENANT'S WOMAN by John Fowles |
31. |
ANIMAL
FARM by George Orwell |
31. |
BELOVED
by Toni Morrison |
32. |
THE
GOLDEN BOWL by Henry James |
32. |
THE
WORM OUROBOROS by E.R. Eddison |
33. |
SISTER
CARRIE by Theodore Dreiser |
33. |
THE
SOUND AND THE FURY by William Faulkner |
34. |
A
HANDFUL OF DUST by Evelyn Waugh |
34. |
LOLITA
by Vladimir Nabokov |
35. |
AS
I LAY DYING by William Faulkner |
35. |
MOONHEART
by Charles de Lint |
36. |
ALL
THE KING'S MEN by Robert Penn Warren |
36. |
ABSALOM,
ABSALOM! by William Faulkner |
37. |
THE
BRIDGE OF SAN LUIS REY by Thornton Wilder |
37. |
OF
HUMAN BONDAGE by W. Somerset Maugham |
38. |
HOWARDS
END by E.M. Forster |
38. |
WISE
BLOOD by Flannery O'Connor |
39. |
GO
TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN by James Baldwin |
39. |
UNDER
THE VOLCANO by Malcolm Lowry |
40. |
THE
HEART OF THE MATTER by Graham Greene |
40. |
FIFTH
BUSINESS by Robertson Davies |
41. |
LORD
OF THE FLIES by William Golding |
41. |
SOMEPLACE
TO BE FLYING by Charles de Lint |
42. |
DELIVERANCE
by James Dickey |
42. |
ON
THE ROAD by Jack Kerouac |
43. |
A
DANCE TO THE MUSIC OF TIME (series) by Anthony Powell |
43. |
HEART
OF DARKNESS by Joseph Conrad |
44. |
POINT
COUNTER POINT by Aldous Huxley |
44. |
YARROW
by Charles de Lint |
45. |
THE
SUN ALSO RISES by Ernest Hemingway |
45. |
AT
THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS by H.P. Lovecraft |
46. |
THE
SECRET AGENT by Joseph Conrad |
46. |
ONE
LONELY NIGHT by Mickey Spillane |
47. |
NOSTROMO
by Joseph Conrad |
47. |
MEMORY
AND DREAM by Charles de Lint |
48. |
THE
RAINBOW by D.H. Lawrence |
48. |
TO
THE LIGHTHOUSE by Virginia Woolf |
49. |
WOMEN
IN LOVE by D.H. Lawrence |
49. |
THE
MOVIEGOER by Walker Percy |
50. |
TROPIC
OF CANCER by Henry Miller |
50. |
TRADER
by Charles de Lint |
51. |
THE
NAKED AND THE DEAD by Norman Mailer |
51. |
THE
HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY by Douglas Adams |
52. |
PORTNOY'S
COMPLAINT by Philip Roth |
52. |
THE
HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER by Carson McCullers |
53. |
PALE
FIRE by Vladimir Nabokov |
53. |
THE
HANDMAID'S TALE by Margaret Atwood |
54. |
LIGHT
IN AUGUST by William Faulkner |
54. |
BLOOD
MERIDIAN by Cormac McCarthy |
55. |
ON
THE ROAD by Jack Kerouac |
55. |
A
CLOCKWORK ORANGE by Anthony Burgess |
56. |
THE
MALTESE FALCON by Dashiell Hammett |
56. |
ON
THE BEACH by Nevil Shute |
57. |
PARADE'S
END by Ford Madox Ford |
57. |
A
PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN by James Joyce |
58. |
THE
AGE OF INNOCENCE by Edith Wharton |
58. |
GREENMANTLE
by Charles de Lint |
59. |
ZULEIKA
DOBSON by Max Beerbohm |
59. |
ENDER'S
GAME by Orson Scott Card |
60. |
THE
MOVIEGOER by Walker Percy |
60. |
THE
LITTLE COUNTRY by Charles de Lint |
61. |
DEATH
COMES FOR THE ARCHBISHOP by Willa Cather |
61. |
THE
RECOGNITIONS by William Gaddis |
62. |
FROM
HERE TO ETERNITY by James Jones |
62. |
STARSHIP
TROOPERS by Robert Heinlein |
63. |
THE
WAPSHOT CHRONICLES by John Cheever |
63. |
THE
SUN ALSO RISES by Ernest Hemingway |
64. |
THE
CATCHER IN THE RYE by J.D. Salinger |
64. |
THE
WORLD ACCORDING TO GARP by John Irving |
65. |
A
CLOCKWORK ORANGE by Anthony Burgess |
65. |
SOMETHING
WICKED THIS WAY COMES by Ray Bradbury |
66. |
OF
HUMAN BONDAGE by W. Somerset Maugham |
66. |
THE
HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE by Shirley Jackson |
67. |
HEART
OF DARKNESS by Joseph Conrad |
67. |
AS
I LAY DYING by William Faulkner |
68. |
MAIN
STREET by Sinclair Lewis |
68. |
TROPIC
OF CANCER by Henry Miller |
69. |
THE
HOUSE OF MIRTH by Edith Wharton |
69. |
INVISIBLE
MAN by Ralph Ellison |
70. |
THE
ALEXANDRIA QUARTET by Lawrence Durell |
70. |
THE
WOOD WIFE by Terri Windling |
71. |
A
HIGH WIND IN JAMAICA by Richard Hughes |
71. |
THE
MAGUS by John Fowles |
72. |
A
HOUSE FOR MR BISWAS by V.S. Naipaul |
72. |
THE
DOOR INTO SUMMER by Robert Heinlein |
73. |
THE
DAY OF THE LOCUST by Nathanael West |
73. |
ZEN
AND THE ART OF MOTORCYCLE MAINTENANCE by Robert Pirsig |
74. |
A
FAREWELL TO ARMS by Ernest Hemingway |
74. |
I,
CLAUDIUS by Robert Graves |
75. |
SCOOP
by Evelyn Waugh |
75. |
THE
CALL OF THE WILD by Jack London |
76. |
THE
PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE by Muriel Spark |
76. |
AT
SWIM-TWO-BIRDS by Flann O'Brien |
77. |
FINNEGANS
WAKE by James Joyce |
77. |
FARENHEIT
451 by Ray Bradbury |
78. |
KIM
by Rudyard Kipling |
78. |
ARROWSMITH
by Sinclair Lewis |
79. |
A
ROOM WITH A VIEW by E.M. Forster |
79. |
WATERSHIP
DOWN by Richard Adams |
80. |
BRIDESHEAD
REVISITED by Evelyn Waugh |
80. |
NAKED
LUNCH by William S. Burroughs |
81. |
THE
ADVENTURES OF AUGIE MARCH by Saul Bellow |
81. |
THE
HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER by Tom Clancy |
82. |
ANGLE
OF REPOSE by Wallace Stegner |
82. |
GUILTY
PLEASURES by Laurell K. Hamilton |
83. |
A
BEND IN THE RIVER by V.S. Naipaul |
83. |
THE
PUPPET MASTERS by Robert Heinlein |
84. |
THE
DEATH OF THE HEART by Elizabeth Bowen |
84. |
IT
by Stephen King |
85. |
LORD
JIM by Joseph Conrad |
85. |
V.
by Thomas Pynchon |
86. |
RAGTIME
by E.L. Doctorow |
86. |
DOUBLE
STAR by Robert Heinlein |
87. |
THE
OLD WIVES' TALE by Arnold Bennett |
87. |
CITIZEN
OF THE GALAXY by Robert Heinlein |
88. |
THE
CALL OF THE WILD by Jack London |
88. |
BRIDESHEAD
REVISITED by Evelyn Waugh |
89. |
LOVING
by Henry Green |
89. |
LIGHT
IN AUGUST by William Faulkner |
90. |
MIDNIGHT'S
CHILDREN by Salman Rushdie |
90. |
ONE
FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST by Ken Kesey |
91. |
TOBACCO
ROAD by Erskine Caldwell |
91. |
A
FAREWELL TO ARMS by Ernest Hemingway |
92. |
IRONWEED
by William Kennedy |
92. |
THE
SHELTERING SKY by Paul Bowles |
93. |
THE
MAGUS by John Fowles |
93. |
SOMETIMES
A GREAT NOTION by Ken Kesey |
94. |
WIDE
SARGASSO SEA by Jean Rhys |
94. |
MY
ANTONIA by Willa Cather |
95. |
UNDER
THE NET by Iris Murdoch |
95. |
MULENGRO
by Charles de Lint |
96. |
SOPHIE'S
CHOICE by William Styron |
96. |
SUTTREE
by Cormac McCarthy |
97. |
THE
SHELTERING SKY by Paul Bowles |
97. |
MYTHAGO
WOOD by Robert Holdstock |
98. |
THE
POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE by James M. Cain |
98. |
ILLUSIONS
by Richard Bach |
99. |
THE
GINGER MAN by J.P. Donleavy |
99. |
THE
CUNNING MAN by Robertson Davies |
100. |
THE
MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS by Booth Tarkington |
100. |
THE
SATANIC VERSES by Salman Rushdie |