The Modern Library's list of the top 100 English novels
20 July 1998


      1.     ULYSSES by James Joyce
      2.     THE GREAT GATSBY by F. Scott Fitzgerald
      3.     A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN by James Joyce
      4.     LOLITA by Vladimir Nabokov
      5.     BRAVE NEW WORLD by Aldous Huxley
      6.     THE SOUND AND THE FURY by William Faulkner
      7.     CATCH-22 by Joseph Heller
      8.     DARKNESS AT NOON by Arthur Koestler
      9.     SONS AND LOVERS by D.H. Lawrence
    10.     THE GRAPES OF WRATH by John Steinbeck
    11.     UNDER THE VOLCANO by Malcolm Lowry
    12.     THE WAY OF ALL FLESH by Samuel Butler
    13.     1984 by George Orwell
    14.      I, CLAUDIUS by Robert Graves
    15.     TO THE LIGHTHOUSE by Virginia Woolf
    16.     AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY by Theodore Dreiser
    17.     THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER by Carson McCullers
    18.     SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE by Kurt Vonnegut
    19.     INVISIBLE MAN by Ralph Ellison
    20.     NATIVE SON by Richard Wright
    21.     HENDERSON THE RAIN KING by Saul Bellow
    22.     APPOINTMENT IN SAMARRA by John O'Hara
    23.     U.S.A. (trilogy) by John Dos Passos
    24.     WINESBURG, OHIO by Sherwood Anderson
    25.     A PASSAGE TO INDIA by E.M. Forster
    26.     THE WINGS OF THE DOVE by Henry James
    27.     THE AMBASSADORS by Henry James
    28.     TENDER IS THE NIGHT by F. Scott Fitzgerald
    29.     THE STUDS LONIGAN TRILOGY by James T. Farrell
    30.     THE GOOD SOLDIER by Ford Madox Ford
    31.     ANIMAL FARM by George Orwell
    32.     THE GOLDEN BOWL by Henry James
    33.     SISTER CARRIE by Theodore Dreiser
    34.     A HANDFUL OF DUST by Evelyn Waugh
    35.     AS I LAY DYING by William Faulkner
    36.     ALL THE KING'S MEN by Robert Penn Warren
    37.     THE BRIDGE OF SAN LUIS REY by Thornton Wilder
    38.     HOWARDS END by E.M. Forster
    39.     GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN by James Baldwin
    40.     THE HEART OF THE MATTER by Graham Greene
    41.     LORD OF THE FLIES by William Golding
    42.     DELIVERANCE by James Dickey
    43.     A DANCE TO THE MUSIC OF TIME (series) by Anthony Powell
    44.     POINT COUNTER POINT by Aldous Huxley
    45.     THE SUN ALSO RISES by Ernest Hemingway
    46.     THE SECRET AGENT by Joseph Conrad
    47.     NOSTROMO by Joseph Conrad
    48.     THE RAINBOW by D.H. Lawrence
    49.     WOMEN IN LOVE by D.H. Lawrence
    50.     TROPIC OF CANCER by Henry Miller
    51.     THE NAKED AND THE DEAD by Norman Mailer
    52.     PORTNOY'S COMPLAINT by Philip Roth
    53.     PALE FIRE by Vladimir Nabokov
    54.     LIGHT IN AUGUST by William Faulkner
    55.     ON THE ROAD by Jack Kerouac
    56.     THE MALTESE FALCON by Dashiell Hammett
    57.     PARADE'S END by Ford Madox Ford
    58.     THE AGE OF INNOCENCE by Edith Wharton
    59.     ZULEIKA DOBSON by Max Beerbohm
    60.     THE MOVIEGOER by Walker Percy
    61.     DEATH COMES FOR THE ARCHBISHOP by Willa Cather
    62.     FROM HERE TO ETERNITY by James Jones
    63.     THE WAPSHOT CHRONICLES by John Cheever
    64.     THE CATCHER IN THE RYE by J.D. Salinger
    65.     A CLOCKWORK ORANGE by Anthony Burgess
    66.     OF HUMAN BONDAGE by W. Somerset Maugham
    67.     HEART OF DARKNESS by Joseph Conrad
    68.     MAIN STREET by Sinclair Lewis
    69.     THE HOUSE OF MIRTH by Edith Wharton
    70.     THE ALEXANDRIA QUARTET by Lawrence Durrell
    71.     A HIGH WIND IN JAMAICA by Richard Hughes
    72.     A HOUSE FOR MR BISWAS by V.S. Naipaul
    73.     THE DAY OF THE LOCUST by Nathanael West
    74.     A FAREWELL TO ARMS by Ernest Hemingway
    75.     SCOOP by Evelyn Waugh
    76.     THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE by Muriel Spark
    77.     FINNEGANS WAKE by James Joyce
    78.     KIM by Rudyard Kipling
    79.     A ROOM WITH A VIEW by E.M. Forster
    80.     BRIDESHEAD REVISITED by Evelyn Waugh
    81.     THE ADVENTURES OF AUGIE MARCH by Saul Bellow
    82.     ANGLE OF REPOSE by Wallace Stegner
    83.     A BEND IN THE RIVER by V.S. Naipaul
    84.     THE DEATH OF THE HEART by Elizabeth Bowen
    85.     LORD JIM by Joseph Conrad
    86.     RAGTIME by E.L. Doctorow
    87.     THE OLD WIVES' TALE by Arnold Bennett
    88.     THE CALL OF THE WILD by Jack London
    89.     LOVING by Henry Green
    90.     MIDNIGHT'S CHILDREN by Salman Rushdie
    91.     TOBACCO ROAD by Erskine Caldwell
    92.     IRONWEED by William Kennedy
    93.     THE MAGUS by John Fowles
    94.     WIDE SARGASSO SEA by Jean Rhys
    95.     UNDER THE NET by Iris Murdoch
    96.     SOPHIE'S CHOICE by William Styron
    97.     THE SHELTERING SKY by Paul Bowles
    98.     THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE by James M. Cain
    99.     THE GINGER MAN by J.P. Donleavy
  100.     THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS by Booth Tarkington