100 Best Novels of 20th Century

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100 Best Novels of the 20th Century Read?
1. ULYSSES by James Joyce  
2. THE GREAT GATSBY by F. Scott Fitzgerald x
3. A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN by James Joyce x
4. LOLITA by Vladimir Nabokov x
5. BRAVE NEW WORLD by Aldous Huxley x
6. THE SOUND AND THE FURY by William Faulkner x
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 x
11. UNDER THE VOLCANO by Malcolm Lowry  
12. THE WAY OF ALL FLESH by Samuel Butler  
13. 1984 by George Orwell x
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 x
19. INVISIBLE MAN by Ralph Ellison x
20. NATIVE SON by Richard Wright x
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 x
29. THE STUDS LONIGAN TRILOGY by James T. Farrell  
30. THE GOOD SOLDIER by Ford Madox Ford  
31. ANIMAL FARM by George Orwell x
32. THE GOLDEN BOWL by Henry James  
33. SISTER CARRIE by Theodore Dreiser x
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 x
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 x
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 x
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 x
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 x
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 Durell  
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 x
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 x
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 x
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  

Last Updated on 4/19/00
By David Phillips
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