Thursday 15 December 2016

Modern Library 100 Best Novels of the 20th Century Readers' List

1 Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
2 The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
3 Battlefield Earth by L Ron Hubbard
4 The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien
5 To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
6 Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
7 Anthem by Ayn Rand
8 We the Living by Ayn Rand
9 Mission Earth by L Ron Hubbard
10 Fear by L Ron Hubbard
11 Ulysses by James Joyce
12 Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
13 The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald
14 Dune by Frank L Herbert
15 The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A Heinlein
16 Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A Heinlein
17 A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute
18 Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
19 The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger
20 Animal Farm by George Orwell
21 Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
22 The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
23 Slaughterhouse 5 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 ER Eddison
33 The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
34 Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
35 Moonheart by Charles de Lint
36 Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner
37 Of Human Bondage by W Somerset Maugham
38 Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor
39 Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry
40 Fifth Business by Robertson Davies
41 Someplace to be Flying by Charles de Lint
42 On The Road by Jack Kerouac
43 Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
44 Yarrow by Charles de Lint
45 At the Mountains of Madness by HP Lovecraft
46 One Lonely Night by Mickey Spillane
47 Memory and Dream by Charles de Lint
48 To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
49 The Moviegoer by Walker Percy
50 Trader by Charles de Lint
51 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
52 The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
53 The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
54 Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
55 A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
56 On the Beach by Nevil Shute
57 A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
58 Greenmantle by Charles de Lint
59 Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
60 The Little Country by Charles de Lint
61 The Recognitions by William Gaddis
62 Starship Troopers by Robert A Heinlein
63 The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
64 The World According to Garp by John Irving
65 Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
66 The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
67 As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
68 Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
69 The Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
70 The Wood Wife by Terri Windling
71 The Magus by John Fowles
72 The Door into Summer by Robert A Heinlein
73 Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig
74 I, Claudius by Robert Graves
75 The Call of the Wild by Jack London
76 At-Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O'Brien
77 Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
78 Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis
79 Watership Down by Richard Adams
80 The Naked Lunch by William Burroughs
81 The Hunt for Red October by Tom Clancy
82 Guilty Pleasures by Donald Barthelme
83 The Puppet Masters by Robert A Heinlein
84 It by Stephen King
85 V by Thomas Pynchon
86 Double Star by Robert A Heinlein
87 Citizen of the Galaxy by Robert A Heinlein
88 Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
89 Light in August by William Faulkner
90 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
91 A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
92 The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles
93 Sometimes a Great Notion by Ken Kesey
94 My Antonia by Willa Cather
95 Mulengro by Charles de Lint
96 Suttree by Cormac McCarthy
97 Mythago Wood by Robert Holdstock
98 Illusions by Richard Bach
99 The Cunning Man by Robertson Davies
100 Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie

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