Recommended Reading - 100 Best Novels

100 Best Novels As compiled by the Modern Library publishing house Readalikes l Genre & Topic Lists l Bestsellers l Helpful Websites l Reviews

___________	1. Ulysses by James Joyce	34. A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh	68. Main Street by Sinclair Lewis	___________
	2. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald	35. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner	69. The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
	3. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce	36. All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren	70. The Alexandria Quartet by Lawrence Durell
	4. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov	37. The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder	71. A High Wind in Jamaica by Richard Hughes
	5. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley	38. Howards End by E.M. Forster	72. A House For Mr. Biswas by V.S. Naipaul
	6. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner	39. Go Tell It On the Mountain by James Baldwin	73. The Day of the Locust by Nathaniel West
	7. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller	40. The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene	74. A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
	8. Darkness at Noon by Arthuer Koestler	41. Lord of the Flies by William Golding	75. Scoopy by Evelyn Waugh
	9. Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence	42. Deliverance by James Dickey	76. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
	10. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck	43. A Dance to the Music of Time (series) by Anthony Powell	77. Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
	11. Under the Volcano by Malcom Lowry	44. Point Counter Point by Aldous Huxley	78. Kim by Rudyard Kipling
	12. The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler	45. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway	79. A Room With a View by E.M. Forster
	13. 1984 by George Orwell	46. The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad	80. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
	14. I, Claudius by Robert Graves	47. Nostromo by Joseph Conrad	81. The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow
	15. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf	48. The Rainbow by D.H. Lawrence	82. Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
	16. An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser	49. Women in Love by D.H. Lawrence	83. A Bend in the River by V.S. Naipul
	17. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers	50. Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller	84. The Death of the Heart by Elizabeth Bowen
	18. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut	51. The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer	85. Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad
	19. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison	52. Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth	86. Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow
	20. Native Son by Richard Wright	53. Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov	87. The Old Wives' Tale by Arnold Bennett
	21. Henderson the Rain King by Saul Bellow	54. Light in August by William Faulkner	88. The Call of the Wild by Jack London
	22. Appointment in Samarra by John O'Hara	55. On the Road by Jack Kerouac	89. Loving by Henry Green
	23. U.S.A. (trilogy) by John Dos Passos	56. The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett	90. Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
	24. Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson	57. Parade's End by Ford Madox Ford	91. Tobacco Road by Erskine Caldwell
	25. A Passage to India by E.M. Forster	58. The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton	92. Ironweed by William Kennedy
	26. The Wings of the Dove by Henry James	59. Zuleika Dobson by Max Beerbohm	93. The Magus by John Fowles
	27. The Ambassadors by Henry James	60. The Moviegoer by Walker Percy	94. Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
	28. Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald	61. Death Comes For the Archbishop by Willa Cather	95. Under the Net by Iris Murdoch
	29. The Studs Lonigan Trilogy by James T. Farrell	62. From Here to Eternity by James Jones	96. Sophie's Choice by William Styron
	30. The Good Soldier by Ford Maddox Ford	63. The Wapshot Chronicle by John Cheever	97. The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles
	31. Animal Farm by George Orwell	64. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Sallinger	98. The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain
	32. The Golden Bowl by Henry James	65. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess	99. The Ginger Man by J.P. Donleavy
	33. Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser	66. Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham	100. The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington
__________		67. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad		__________