| 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 |