100 Best Books Published in the English Language Since 1900

As Compiled by The Modern Library Board

1. ULYSSES by James Joyce: RC 19994, BR 10287, BRA12895.
   
   
2. THE GREAT GATSBY by F. Scott Fitzgerald: RC 16147, BR 00089, BR 11057.
   
   
3. A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN, by James Joyce: RC 22892, BR 06244, BRA14012.
   
   
4. LOLITA by Vladimir Nabokov: RC 16746, BRA07484, BRX00048.
   
   
5. BRAVE NEW WORLD, by Aldous Huxley: RC 13455, RC 47108, BR 01601, BR 11922.
   
   
6. THE SOUND AND THE FURY by William Faulkner: BR 01590, BR 11402, RC 09506, RC 11340.
   
   
7. CATCH-22 by Joseph Heller: BRA 07498, BRJ02156, RC 18132.
   
   
8. DARKNESS AT NOON by Arthur Koestler: BR 00204, RC 16347.
   
   
9. SONS AND LOVERS by D.H. Lawrence: BR 06785, BRA 05050, RC 22335, RC 39196.
   
   
10. THE GRAPES OF WRATH by John Steinbeck: BR 01621, BR 09954, RC 21574.
    
    
11. UNDER THE VOLCANO by Malcolm Lowry: BRA 03058, RC 08992.
    
    
12. THE WAY OF ALL FLESH by Samuel Butler: BR 00085, RC 14539.
    
    
13. 1984 by George Orwell: BR 01614, BR 10312, RC 34268.
    
    
14. I, CLAUDIUS by Robert Graves: BRA 03422, BRA 17332, RC 12463.
    
    
15. TO THE LIGHTHOUSE by Virginia Woolf: BR 00617, RC 09805.
    
    
16. AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY by Theodore Dreiser: BR 06297, BRA 06309, RC 23138.
    
    
17. THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER by Carson McCullers: BR 11395, BRA08842, RC 16203.
    
    
18. SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE by Kurt Vonnegut: BR 01062, RC 28083.
    
    
19. INVISIBLE MAN by Ralph Ellison: BR 08550, RC 09600.
    
    
20. NATIVE SON by Richard Wright: BR 10299, BRX00110, RC 25087, RC 41552.
    
    
21. HENDERSON THE RAIN KING by Saul Bellow: RC 13757.
    
    
22. APPOINTMENT IN SAMARRA by John O'Hara: BRA 00653, RC 11656.
    
    
23. U.S.A. (Trilogy) by John Dos Passos: RC 42698, RD 07389.
    
    
24. WINESBURG, OHIO by Sherwood Anderson: BR 06937, BRA 01634, RC 18118.
    
    
25. A PASSAGE TO INDIA by E. M. Forster: BR 06076, BRA 06821, FD 21242, RC 21242.
    
    
26. THE WINGS OF THE DOVE by Henry James: BRA 07476, RC 12456, RC 32177.
    
    
27. THE AMBASSADORS by Henry James: BRA 03922, RC 22291.
    
    
28. TENDER IS THE NIGHT by F. Scott Fitzgerald: BR 11055, BRA 05324, RC 18133.
    
    
29. STUDS LONIGAN TRILOGY by James T. Farrell:
    
    
    1. YOUNG LONIGAN: BRA09702, RC 12902.
       
       
    2. THE YOUNG MANHOOD OF STUDS LONIGAN: RC 12607.
       
       
    3. JUDGMENT DAY: RC 33611.
       
       
30. THE GOOD SOLDIER by Ford Madox Ford: BR 08798, BRA 09529, RC 17884.
    
    
31. ANIMAL FARM by George Orwell: BR 01613, RC 38959.
    
    
32. THE GOLDEN BOWL by Henry James: BRA 18011, BRJ01465, RC 14648.
    
    
33. SISTER CARRIE by Theodore Dreiser: BRA 10307, RC 25296.
    
    
34. A HANDFUL OF DUST by Evelyn Waugh: BRA 15110, RC 18119.
    
    
35. AS I LAY DYING by William Faulkner: BRA 07900, RC 11553.
    
    
36. ALL THE KINGS MEN by Robert Penn Warren: BRA 00069, BRA 16603, RC 12200.
    
    
37. THE BRIDGE OF SAN LUIS REY by Thornton Wilder: BR 03167, BRA 02714, RC 41185.
    
    
38. HOWARDS END by E.M. Forster: RC 34285.
    
    
39. GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN by James Baldwin: BR 08734, RC 33488, RD 06817.
    
    
40. THE HEART OF THE MATTER by Graham Greene: BRA 07235, RC 12897.
    
    
41. LORD OF THE FLIES by William Golding: BR 01595, BR 09480, RC 14817.
    
    
42. DELIVERANCE by James Dickey: BRA 02655, RC 25291.
    
    
43. A DANCE TO THE MUSIC OF TIME (Series) by Anthony Powell:
    
    
    1. A QUESTION OF UPBRINGING: BRA 13169, IC-BPH (CIL 1432) RC.
       
       
    2. A BUYER'S MARKET: BRA 13170, IC-BPH (CIL 1427) RC.
       
       
    3. THE ACCEPTANCE WORLD: BRA 13147, IC-BPH (CIL 1416) RC.
       
       
    4. AT LADY MOLLY'S: BRA13148, IC-BPH (CIL 1461) RM.
       
       
    5. CASANOVA'S CHINESE RESTAURANT: IC-BPH (CIL 1434) RC.
       
       
    6. THE KINDLY ONES: BRA 11664, IC-BPH (CIL 1425) RC.
       
       
    7. THE VALLEY OF BONES: BRA 13150, IC-BPH (CIL 1446) RM.
       
       
    8. THE SOLDIER'S ART: IC-BPH (CIL 1422) RM.
       
       
    9. THE MILITARY PHILOSOPHERS: BRA 013151, IC-BPH (CIL 1435) RC.
       
       
    10. BOOKS DO FURNISH A ROOM: BRA18627, IC-BPH (CIL 1438) RC.
        
        
    11. TEMPORARY KINGS: BRA 18534, RD 07972.
        
        
    12. HEARING SECRET HARMONIES: BRA 13168, IC-BPH (CIL 1431) RC.
        
        
44. POINT COUNTER POINT by Aldous Huxley: BR 01775, RC 18010.
    
    
45. THE SUN ALSO RISES by Ernest Hemingway: BR 03615, RC 13421 , RC 34114.
    
    
46. THE SECRET AGENT by Joseph Conrad: BR 09079, BRA18216, RC 25290.
    
    
47. NOSTROMO by Joseph Conrad: BR 08540, BRA 00546, BRA 07586, RC 11674.
    
    
48. THE RAINBOW by D.H. Lawrence: BR 01497, RC 21575.
    
    
49. WOMEN IN LOVE by D.H. Lawrence: BRJ00467, RC 09569.
    
    
50. TROPIC OF CANCER by Henry Miller: BR 01025, BRA 11849, RC 17191.
    
    
51. THE NAKED AND THE DEAD by Norman Mailer: BRJ01475, RC 13465.
    
    
52. PORTNOY"S COMPLAINT by Philip Roth: BR 01003, RC 26788.
    
    
53. PALE FIRE by Vladimir Nabokov: BRA 08436, RC 25448.
    
    
54. LIGHT IN AUGUST by William Faulkner: BR 11398, BRA 02174, RC 20001.
    
    
55. ON THE ROAD by Jack Kerouac: BRA 18002, BRJ00718, RC 31675.
    
    
56. THE MALTESE FALCON by Dashiell Hammett: BR 01597, RC 16593.
    
    
57. PARADE'S END by Ford Madox Ford: RC 24870.
    
    
58. THE AGE OF INNOCENCE by Edith Wharton: BRA06724, RC 28162.
    
    
59. ZULEIKA DOBSON by Max Beerbohm: BRJ00919, RC 18763.
    
    
60. THE MOVIEGOER by Walker Percy: BR 01854, RC 11841.
    
    
61. DEATH COMES FOR THE ARCHBISHOP by Willa Cather: BR 00816, RC 15290.
    
    
62. FROM HERE TO ETERNITY by James Jones: RC 11491, FD 11491.
    
    
63. WAPSHOT CHRONICLE by John Cheever: BR 11943, BRA07221, BRA02521, BRA02522, RC 12886.
    
    
64. THE CATCHER IN THE RYE by J.D. Salinger: BR 01617, BR 11909, RC 12335, RC 47480.
    
    
65. A CLOCKWORK ORANGE by Anthony Burgess: BRA 04951, RC 15213.
    
    
66. OF HUMAN BONDAGE by W. Somerset Maugham: BRA 08916, RC 24363.
    
    
67. HEART OF DARKNESS by Joseph Conrad: BR 11418, BRA 05780, RC 12613.
    
    
68. MAIN STREET by Sinclair Lewis: BR 00063, RC 42189.
    
    
69. THE HOUSE OF MIRTH by Edith Wharton: BR 09091, BRA 06619, RC 35369, RD 11196.
    
    
70. THE ALEXANDRIA QUARTET by Lawrence Durrell:
    
    
    1. JUSTINE: BRJ00311, RC 36388.
       
       
    2. BALTHAZAR: BRA03972, BRA05056, BRA10310, RC 37578.
       
       
    3. MOUNTOLIVE: BRA 05088, BRA05091, RC 36432.
       
       
    4. CLEA, A NOVEL: BRA 08150, RC 37194.
       
       
71. A HIGH WIND IN JAMAICA by Richard Hughes: BRA12784, BRA10307, RC 43203, RD 08212.
    
    
72. A HOUSE FOR MR. BISWAS by V.S. Naipaul: RC 20604.
    
    
73. THE DAY OF THE LOCUST by Nathanael West: BRA 03293, RC 12925.
    
    
74. A FAREWELL TO ARMS by Ernest Hemingway: BR 01599, RC 10857.
    
    
75. SCOOP by Evelyn Waugh: BRA15261, RC 17125.
    
    
76. THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE by Muriel Spark: RC 25844.
    
    
77. FINNEGANS WAKE by James Joyce: BR 10256, RC 21424.
    
    
78. KIM by Rudyard Kipling: RC 35722.
    
    
79. A ROOM WITH A VIEW by E.M. Forster: RC 12985.
    
    
80. BRIDESHEAD REVISITED by Evelyn Waugh: BRX00660, RC 14575.
    
    
81. THE ADVENTURES OF AUGIE MARCH by Saul Bellow: BRA 09393, BRX00328, RC 15751.
    
    
82. ANGLE OF REPOSE by Wallace Stegner: BRA 14974, RC 15186.
    
    
83. A BEND IN THE RIVER by V.S. Naipaul: RCF01260.
    
    
84. THE DEATH OF THE HEART by Elizabeth Bowen: BRJ01637, RC 22816.
    
    
85. LORD JIM by Joseph Conrad: BR 01585, RC 15912.
    
    
86. RAGTIME by E.L. Doctorow: BR 02822, RC 44378, RD 08287.
    
    
87. THE OLD WIVES' TALE by Arnold Bennett: BRA02514, RC 22209.
    
    
88. THE CALL OF THE WILD by Jack London: BR 09833, BRA00894, BRA 10441, BRA16350, RC 27843.
    
    
89. LOVING by Henry Green: Not available.
    
    
90. MIDNIGHT'S CHILDREN by Salman Rushdie: RC 16993.
    
    
91. TOBACCO ROAD by Erskine Caldwell: BR 11889, BRJ01293, RC 07958, RC 46240, RD 07958.
    
    
92. IRONWEED by William Kennedy: RC 20612.
    
    
93. THE MAGUS by John Fowles: BRA04675, RC 13287.
    
    
94. WIDE SARGASSO SEA by Jean Rhys: RC 23148.
    
    
95. UNDER THE NET by Iris Murdoch: NNRB (DX0162(02)) RC.
    
    
96. SOPHIE'S CHOICE by William Styron: BR 04142, RC 13812, FD 13812.
    
    
97. THE SHELTERING SKY by Paul Bowles: BR 08835, BRA 08953, RC 23642.
    
    
98. THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE by James M. Cain: BRA 04013, RC 17817.
    
    
99. THE GINGER MAN by J.P. Donleavy: BRJ01226, RC 12512.
    
    
100. THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS by Booth Tarkington: BRA 00049, RC 11017.
     
     

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