Modern
Library Readers Top 100 Novels of the Century(32/100
so far)
1. ATLAS SHRUGGED by Ayn Rand
2. THE FOUNTAINHEAD by Ayn Rand
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4. THE LORD OF THE RINGS by J.R.R. Tolkien
5. TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD by Harper Lee
6. 1984 by George Orwell
7. ANTHEM by Ayn Rand
8. WE THE LIVING by Ayn Rand
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11. ULYSSES by James Joyce
12. CATCH-22 by Joseph Heller
13. THE GREAT GATSBY by F. Scott Fitzgerald
14. DUNE by Frank Herbert
15. THE MOON IS A HARSH MISTRESS by Robert Heinlein
16. STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND by Robert Heinlein
17. A TOWN LIKE ALICE by Nevil Shute
18. BRAVE NEW WORLD by Aldous Huxley
19. ANIMAL FARM by George Orwell
20. THE CATCHER IN THE RYE by J.D. Salinger
21. GRAVITY'S RAINBOW by Thomas Pynchon
22. THE GRAPES OF WRATH by John Steinbeck
23. SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE by Kurt Vonnegut
24. GONE WITH THE WIND by Margaret Mitchell
25. LORD OF THE FLIES by William Golding
26. SHANE by Jack Schaefer
27. TRUSTEE FROM THE TOOLROOM by Nevil Shute
28. A PRAYER FOR OWEN MEANY by John Irving
29. THE STAND by Stephen King
30. THE FRENCH LIEUTENANT'S WOMAN by John Fowles
31. BELOVED by Toni Morrison
32. THE WORM OUROBOROS by E.R. Eddison
33. THE SOUND AND THE FURY by William Faulkner
34. LOLITA by Vladimir Nabokov
35. THE CATCHER IN THE RYE by J.D. Salinger
36. MOONHEART by Charles de Lint
37. ABSALOM, ABSALOM! by William Faulkner
38. OF HUMAN BONDAGE by W. Somerset Maugham
39. WISE BLOOD by Flannery O'Connor
40. UNDER THE VOLCANO by Malcolm Lowry
41. FIFTH BUSINESS by Robertson Davies
42. SOMEPLACE TO BE FLYING by Charles de Lint
43. ON THE ROAD by Jack Kerouac
44. HEART OF DARKNESS by Joseph Conrad
45. YARROW by Charles de Lint
46. AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS by H.P. Lovecraft
47. ONE LONELY NIGHT by Mickey Spillane
48. MEMORY AND DREAM by Charles de Lint
49. TO THE LIGHTHOUSE by Virginia Woolf
50. THE MOVIEGOER by Walker Percy
51. TRADER by Charles de Lint
52. THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY by Douglas Adams
53. THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER by Carson McCullers
54. THE HANDMAID'S TALE by Margaret Atwood
55. BLOOD MERIDIAN by Cormac McCarthy
56. A CLOCKWORK ORANGE by Anthony Burgess
57. ON THE BEACH by Nevil Shute
58. A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN by James Joyce
59. GREENMANTLE by Charles de Lint
60. ENDER'S GAME by Orson Scott Card
61. THE LITTLE COUNTRY by Charles de Lint
62. THE RECOGNITIONS by William Gaddis
63. STARSHIP TROOPERS by Robert Heinlein
64. THE SUN ALSO RISES by Ernest Hemingway
65. THE WORLD ACCORDING TO GARP by John Irving
66. SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES by Ray Bradbury
67. THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE by Shirley Jackson
68. AS I LAY DYING by William Faulkner
69. TROPIC OF CANCER by Henry Miller
70. INVISIBLE MAN by Ralph Ellison
71. THE WOOD WIFE by Terri Windling
72. THE MAGUS by John Fowles
73. THE DOOR INTO SUMMER by Robert Heinlein
74. ZEN AND THE ART OF MOTORCYCLE MAINTENANCE by Robert Pirsig
75. I, CLAUDIUS by Robert Graves
76. THE CALL OF THE WILD by Jack London
77. AT SWIM-TWO-BIRDS by Flann O'Brien
78. FARENHEIT 451 by Ray Bradbury
79. ARROWSMITH by Sinclair Lewis
80. WATERSHIP DOWN by Richard Adams
81. NAKED LUNCH by William S. Burroughs
82. THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER by Tom Clancy
83. GUILTY PLEASURES by Laurell K. Hamilton
84. THE PUPPET MASTERS by Robert Heinlein
85. IT by Stephen King
86. V. by Thomas Pynchon
87. DOUBLE STAR by Robert Heinlein
88. CITIZEN OF THE GALAXY by Robert Heinlein
89. BRIDESHEAD REVISITED by Evelyn Waugh
90. LIGHT IN AUGUST by William Faulkner
91. ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST by Ken Kesey
92. A FAREWELL TO ARMS by Ernest Hemingway
93. THE SHELTERING SKY by Paul Bowles
94. SOMETIMES A GREAT NOTION by Ken Kesey
95. MY ANTONIA by Willa Cather
96. MULENGRO by Charles de Lint
97. SUTTREE by Cormac McCarthy
98. MYTHAGO WOOD by Robert Holdstock
99. ILLUSIONS by Richard Bach
100. THE CUNNING MAN by Robertson Davies
