The Modern Library's 100 Best Novels: The Board's List

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The Modern Library's 100 Best Novels: The Board's List
1
I, Claudius
by Robert Graves
9,220 members
168 reviews
4.2
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The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
72,607 members
1,176 reviews
3.8
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3
The Grapes of Wrath
by John Steinbeck
34,502 members
478 reviews
4.1
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4
The Magnificent Ambersons
by Booth Tarkington
1,643 members
50 reviews
3.8
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5
The House of Mirth
by Edith Wharton
9,751 members
204 reviews
4
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6
Angle of Repose
by Wallace Stegner
5,487 members
183 reviews
½ 4.3
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7
A Passage to India
by E. M. Forster
12,519 members
142 reviews
3.8
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8
The Maltese Falcon
by Dashiell Hammett
9,197 members
280 reviews
3.9
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9
The Postman Always Rings Twice
by James M. Cain
3,487 members
133 reviews
½ 3.7
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10
Tobacco Road
by Erskine Caldwell
1,545 members
50 reviews
½ 3.4
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11
The Age of Innocence
by Edith Wharton
13,987 members
302 reviews
4
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12
Invisible Man
by Ralph Ellison
16,266 members
212 reviews
4
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13
Animal Farm
by George Orwell
60,405 members
892 reviews
4
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14
Wide Sargasso Sea
by Jean Rhys
8,516 members
255 reviews
½ 3.5
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15
The Catcher in the Rye
by J. D. Salinger
69,843 members
1,086 reviews
3.8
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16
The Secret Agent
by Joseph Conrad
6,603 members
101 reviews
½ 3.6
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17
Sophie's Choice
by William Styron
6,021 members
87 reviews
4.1
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18
1984
by George Orwell
82,453 members
1,276 reviews
4.2
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19
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
by Thornton Wilder
4,800 members
119 reviews
3.8
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20
Main Street
by Sinclair Lewis
4,129 members
75 reviews
½ 3.7
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21
The Way of All Flesh
by Samuel Butler
3,614 members
42 reviews
½ 3.6
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22
Ironweed
by William Kennedy
2,455 members
51 reviews
3.8
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23
From Here to Eternity
by James Jones
2,081 members
34 reviews
4
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24
All the King's Men
by Robert Penn Warren
7,353 members
129 reviews
4.1
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25
A High Wind in Jamaica
by Richard Hughes
2,152 members
65 reviews
3.9
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26
Lord of the Flies
by William Golding
49,923 members
748 reviews
½ 3.7
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27
Brave New World
by Aldous Huxley
54,188 members
774 reviews
3.9
28
Slaughterhouse-Five
by Kurt Vonnegut
44,217 members
709 reviews
4.1
29
Catch-22
by Joseph Heller
40,183 members
529 reviews
4.1
30
Lolita
by Vladimir Nabokov
31,847 members
565 reviews
4.1
31
On the Road
by Jack Kerouac
28,022 members
387 reviews
½ 3.6
32
A Clockwork Orange
by Anthony Burgess
25,996 members
389 reviews
4
33
Ulysses
by James Joyce
24,226 members
379 reviews
4
34
Heart of Darkness
by Joseph Conrad
23,723 members
390 reviews
½ 3.6
35
The Sun Also Rises
by Ernest Hemingway
23,054 members
339 reviews
3.8
36
A Farewell to Arms
by Ernest Hemingway
22,538 members
245 reviews
½ 3.7
37
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
by James Joyce
21,326 members
217 reviews
½ 3.7
38
The Call of the Wild
by Jack London
20,302 members
324 reviews
3.8
39
To the Lighthouse
by Virginia Woolf
17,698 members
271 reviews
3.9
40
The Sound and the Fury
by William Faulkner
17,368 members
226 reviews
4
41
As I Lay Dying
by William Faulkner
14,851 members
218 reviews
3.9
42
Midnight's Children
by Salman Rushdie
13,975 members
245 reviews
4
43
Tender is the Night
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
12,994 members
184 reviews
½ 3.7
44
Brideshead Revisited
by Evelyn Waugh
12,633 members
265 reviews
4
45
A Room with a View
by E. M. Forster
11,231 members
224 reviews
3.9
46
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
by Carson McCullers
10,789 members
244 reviews
4
47
Sons and Lovers
by D. H. Lawrence
9,554 members
100 reviews
½ 3.6
48
Light in August
by William Faulkner
9,273 members
104 reviews
4
49
Lord Jim
by Joseph Conrad
9,088 members
115 reviews
½ 3.7
50
Kim
by Rudyard Kipling
9,042 members
201 reviews
3.8
51
Tropic of Cancer
by Henry Miller
8,856 members
131 reviews
½ 3.6
52
Howards End
by E. M. Forster
8,820 members
133 reviews
4
53
Of Human Bondage
by W. Somerset Maugham
8,498 members
146 reviews
4.1
54
Pale Fire
by Vladimir Nabokov
7,969 members
140 reviews
4.2
55
Native Son
by Richard Wright
7,777 members
102 reviews
4
56
Portnoy's Complaint
by Philip Roth
7,404 members
155 reviews
½ 3.6
57
Women in Love
by D. H. Lawrence
6,690 members
54 reviews
½ 3.5
58
Ragtime: A Novel
by E. L. Doctorow
6,281 members
125 reviews
3.9
59
Death Comes for the Archbishop
by Willa Cather
5,992 members
147 reviews
4
60
Winesburg, Ohio
by Sherwood Anderson
5,961 members
121 reviews
3.8
61
Go Tell It on the Mountain
by James Baldwin
5,802 members
112 reviews
3.9
62
Darkness at Noon
by Arthur Koestler
5,408 members
101 reviews
4
63
Finnegans Wake
by James Joyce
5,357 members
60 reviews
3.9
64
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
by Muriel Spark
5,255 members
172 reviews
½ 3.7
65
The Heart of the Matter
by Graham Greene
5,098 members
84 reviews
3.9
66
The Good Soldier
by Ford Madox Ford
4,812 members
115 reviews
3.8
67
Nostromo
by Joseph Conrad
4,790 members
58 reviews
3.8
68
The Moviegoer
by Walker Percy
4,711 members
93 reviews
½ 3.6
69
Under the Volcano
by Malcolm Lowry
4,429 members
89 reviews
3.8
70
A Handful of Dust
by Evelyn Waugh
4,423 members
92 reviews
3.8
71
The Sheltering Sky
by Paul Bowles
4,334 members
79 reviews
3.8
72
The Rainbow
by D. H. Lawrence
4,167 members
48 reviews
½ 3.7
73
The Naked and the Dead
by Norman Mailer
4,151 members
47 reviews
3.9
74
Sister Carrie
by Theodore Dreiser
4,058 members
61 reviews
½ 3.7
75
An American Tragedy
by Theodore Dreiser
4,014 members
48 reviews
3.9
76
The Ambassadors
by Henry James
3,993 members
43 reviews
½ 3.7
77
The Adventures of Augie March
by Saul Bellow
3,872 members
73 reviews
3.8
78
Scoop
by Evelyn Waugh
3,832 members
84 reviews
3.8
79
A House for Mr Biswas
by V. S. Naipaul
3,464 members
69 reviews
3.8
80
The Wings of the Dove
by Henry James
3,413 members
41 reviews
½ 3.7
81
A Bend in the River
by V. S. Naipaul
3,202 members
57 reviews
½ 3.7
82
Henderson the Rain King
by Saul Bellow
2,882 members
54 reviews
½ 3.7
83
The Golden Bowl
by Henry James
2,768 members
27 reviews
½ 3.6
84
Point Counter Point
by Aldous Huxley
2,601 members
26 reviews
3.8
85
Deliverance
by James Dickey
2,591 members
59 reviews
3.9
86
Under the Net
by Iris Murdoch
2,145 members
52 reviews
½ 3.6
87
The Alexandria Quartet
by Lawrence Durrell
2,131 members
29 reviews
½ 4.3
88
The Ginger Man
by J. P. Donleavy
1,876 members
34 reviews
½ 3.5
89
The Day of the Locust
by Nathanael West
1,868 members
49 reviews
½ 3.6
90
Appointment in Samarra
by John O'Hara
1,813 members
45 reviews
3.8
91
Parade's End
by Ford Madox Ford
1,766 members
26 reviews
3.8
92
The Death of the Heart
by Elizabeth Bowen
1,700 members
39 reviews
3.8
93
Zuleika Dobson
by Max Beerbohm
1,691 members
37 reviews
½ 3.4
94
The Wapshot Chronicle
by John Cheever
1,583 members
19 reviews
½ 3.7
95
The Old Wives' Tale
by Arnold Bennett
1,561 members
25 reviews
3.9
96
U.S.A.
by John Dos Passos
1,482 members
15 reviews
4
97
The Magus
by John Fowles
1,462 members
30 reviews
3.9
98
Studs Lonigan
by James T. Farrell
982 members
14 reviews
3.9
99
Loving
by Henry Green
722 members
19 reviews
½ 3.4
100
A Dance to the Music of Time
by Anthony Powell
150 members
6 reviews
½ 4.6