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Modern Libary's Top 100 Books (this century) |
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Author |
Year |
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1 |
Ulysses |
James Joyce |
1922 |
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2 |
The Great Gatsby |
F. Scott Fitzgerald |
1925 | | ||
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3 |
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man |
James Joyce |
1916 |
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4 |
Lolita |
Vladimir Nabokov |
1958 | | ||
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5 |
Brave New World |
Aldous Huxley |
1932 | | ||
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6 |
The Sound and the Fury |
William Faulkner |
1924 | | ||
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7 |
Catch-22 |
Joseph Heller |
1961 |
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8 |
Darkness at Noon |
Arthur Koestler |
1940 |
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9 |
Sons and Lovers |
D.H. Lawrence |
1913 |
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10 |
The Grapes of Wrath |
John Steinbeck |
1939 | | ||
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11 |
Under the Volcano |
Malcolm Lowry |
1947 |
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12 |
The Way of All Flesh |
Samuel Butler |
1903 |
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13 |
1984 |
George Orwell |
1949 | | ||
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14 |
I Claudius |
Robert Graves |
1934 | | ||
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15 |
To the Lighthouse |
Virginia Woolf |
1927 |
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16 |
An American Tragedy |
Theodore Dreiser |
1925 | | ||
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17 |
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter |
Carson McCullers |
1940 | | ||
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18 |
Slaughterhouse-Five |
Kurt Vonnegut |
1969 | | ||
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19 |
Invisible Man |
Ralph Ellison |
1952 | | ||
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20 |
Native Son |
Richard Wright |
1940 |
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21 |
Henderson the Rain King |
Saul Bellow |
1959 |
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22 |
Appointment in Samarra |
John O’Hara |
1934 |
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23 |
USA (trilogy) |
John Dos Passos |
1930 |
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24 |
Winesburg Ohio |
Sherwood Anderson |
1919 |
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25 |
A Passage to India |
E.M. Forster |
1924 |
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26 |
The Wings of the Dove |
Henry James |
1902 |
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27 |
The Ambassadors |
Henry James |
1903 |
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28 |
Tender is the Night |
F. Scott Fitzgerald |
1934 |
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29 |
Studs Lonigan Trilogy |
James T. Farrell |
1932 |
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30 |
The Good Soldier |
Ford Madox Ford |
1915 |
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31 |
Animal Farm |
George Orwell |
1945 | | ||
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32 |
The Golden Bowl |
Henry James |
1904 |
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33 |
Sister Carrie |
Theodore Dreiser |
1960 |
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34 |
A Handful of Dust |
Evelyn Waugh |
1934 | | ||
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35 |
As I Lay Dying |
William Faulkner |
1930 | | ||
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36 |
All the King’s Men |
Robert Penn Warren |
1946 |
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37 |
The Bridge of San Luis Rey |
Thornton Wilder |
1927 |
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38 |
Howards End |
E.M. Forster |
1910 | | ||
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39 |
Go Tell It on the Mountain |
James Baldwin |
1953 |
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40 |
The Heart of the Matter |
Graham Greene |
1948 |
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41 |
Lord of the Flies |
William Golding |
1954 |
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42 |
Deliverance |
James Dickey |
1970 |
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43 |
A Dance to the Music of Time |
Anthony Powell |
1951 |
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44 |
Point Counter Point |
Aldous Huxley |
1928 |
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45 |
The Sun Also Rises |
Ernest Hemingway |
1926 | | ||
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46 |
The Secret Agent |
Joseph Conrad |
1907 |
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47 |
Nostromo |
Joseph Conrad |
1904 |
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48 |
The Rainbow |
D.H. Lawrence |
1915 |
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49 |
Women in Love |
D.H. Lawrence |
1921 |
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50 |
Tropic of Cancer |
Henry Miller |
1934 |
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51 |
The Naked and the Dead |
Norman Mailer |
1948 |
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52 |
Portnoy’s Complaint |
Philip Roth |
1969 | | ||
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53 |
Pale Fire |
Vladimir Nabokov |
1962 | | ||
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54 |
Light in August |
William Faulkner |
1932 | | ||
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55 |
On the Road |
Jack Kerouac |
1957 |
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56 |
The Maltese Falcon |
Dashiell Hammett |
1930 |
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57 |
Parade’s End |
Ford Madox Ford |
1924 |
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58 |
The Age of Innocence |
Edith Wharton |
1920 |
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59 |
Zuleika Dobson |
Max Beerbohm |
1911 |
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60 |
The Moviegoer |
Walker Percy |
1961 |
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61 |
Death Comes for the Archbishop |
Willa Cather |
1927 |
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62 |
From Here to Eternity |
James Jones |
1951 |
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63 |
The Wapshot Chronicle |
John Cheever |
1957 |
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64 |
The Catcher in the Rye |
J.D. Salinger |
1951 | | ||
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65 |
A Clockwork Orange |
Anthony Burgess |
1962 |
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66 |
Of Human Bondage |
W. Somerset Maugham |
1915 |
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67 |
Heart of Darkness |
Joseph Conrad |
1902 |
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68 |
Main Street |
Sinclair Lewis |
1920 |
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69 |
The House of Mirth |
Edith Wharton |
1905 |
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70 |
The Alexandria Quartet |
Lawrence Durrell |
1957 |
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71 |
A High Wind in Jamaica |
Richard Hughes |
1929 |
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72 |
A House for Mr. Biswas |
V.S. Naipaul |
1961 |
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73 |
The Day of the Locust |
Nathanael West |
1939 |
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74 |
A Farewell to Arms |
Ernest Hemingway |
1929 | | ||
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75 |
Scoop |
Evelyn Waugh |
1938 |
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76 |
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie |
Muriel Spark |
1961 |
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77 |
Finnegans Wake |
James Joyce |
1939 |
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78 |
Kim |
Rudyard Kipling |
1901 |
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79 |
A Room with a View |
E.M. Forster |
1908 |
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80 |
Brideshead Revisited |
Evelyn Waugh |
1945 | | ||
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81 |
The Adventures of Augie March |
Saul Bellow |
1953 |
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82 |
Angle of Repose |
Wallace Stegner |
1971 |
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83 |
A Bend in the River |
V.S. Naipaul |
1979 |
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84 |
The Death of the Heart |
Elizabeth Bowen |
1938 |
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85 |
Lord Jim |
Joseph Conrad |
1900 |
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86 |
Ragtime |
E.L. Doctorow |
1975 |
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87 |
The Old Wives’ Tale |
Arnold Bennett |
1908 |
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88 |
The Call of the Wild |
Jack London |
1903 | | ||
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89 |
Loving |
Henry Green |
1945 |
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90 |
Midnight’s Children |
Salman Rushdie |
1981 |
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91 |
Tobacco Road |
Erskine Caldwell |
1932 |
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92 |
Ironweed |
William Kennedy |
1987 |
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93 |
The Magus |
John Fowles |
1966 |
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94 |
The Wide Sargasso Sea |
Jean Rhys |
1966 |
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95 |
Under the Net |
Iris Murdoch |
1954 |
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96 |
Sophie’s Choice |
William Styron |
1979
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97 |
The Sheltering Sky |
Paul Bowles |
1948
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98 |
The Postman Always Rings Twice |
James M. Cain |
1934
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99 |
The Ginger Man |
J.P. Donleavy |
1955
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100 |
The Magnificent Ambersons |
Booth Tarkington |
1918
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