Random House/The Modern Library Top 100 Novels
Here are the top 100 English language novels of the 20th century according to Random House / The Modern Library. It's a screwed-up list, without a doubt. But a list nonetheless.
- Ulysses by James Joyce
- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
- Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
- Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
- The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
- Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
- Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler
- Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence
- The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
- Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry
- The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler
- 1984 by George Orwell
- I, Claudius by Robert Graves
- To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
- An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
- The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
- Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
- Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
- Native Son by Richard Wright
- Henderson the Rain King by Saul Bellow
- Appointment in Samarra by John O' Hara
- U.S.A. (trilogy) by John Dos Passos
- Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson
- A Passage to India by E. M. Forster
- The Wings of the Dove by Henry James
- The Ambassadors by Henry James
- Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- The Studs Lonigan Trilogy by James T. Farrell
- The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford
- Animal Farm by George Orwell
- The Golden Bowl by Henry James
- Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser
- A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh
- As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
- All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren
- The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder
- Howards End by E. M. Forster
- Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
- The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
- Lord of the Flies by William Golding
- Deliverance by James Dickey
- A Dance to the Music of Time (series) by Anthony Powell
- Point Counter Point by Aldous Huxley
- The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
- The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad
- Nostromo by Joseph Conrad
- The Rainbow by D. H. Lawrence
- Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence
- Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
- The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer
- Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth
- Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
- Light in August by William Faulkner
- On the Road by Jack Kerouac
- The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
- Parade's End by Ford Madox Ford
- The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
- Zuleika Dobson by Max Beerbohm
- The Moviegoer by Walker Percy
- Death Comes to the Archbishop by Willa Cather
- From Here to Eternity by James Jones
- The Wapshot Chronicles by John Cheever
- The 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
- The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
- The Alexandria Quartet by Lawrence Durrell
- A High Wind in Jamaica by Richard Hughes
- A House for Ms. Biswas by V. S. Naipaul
- The Day of the Locust by Nathaniel West
- A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
- Scoop by Evelyn Waugh
- The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
- Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
- Kim by Rudyard Kipling
- A Room With a View by E. M. Forster
- Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
- The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow
- Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
- A 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
- The Call of the Wild by Jack London
- Loving by Henry Green
- Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
- Tobacco Road by Erskine Caldwell
- Ironweed by William Kennedy
- The Magus by John Fowles
- Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
- Under the Net by Iris Murdoch
- Sophie's Choice by William Styron
- The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles
- The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain
- The Ginger Man by J. P. Donleavy
- The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington