Books
Just The Good Stuff
The Modern Library was one of the most important publishing houses of the early 1920s and billed itself as "The Modern Library of World's Best Books." The current Board includes the likes of Maya Angelou, Daniel J. Boorstin, and Gore Vidal. In 1998, The Modern Library published a list of the 100 Best Novels. Below is an excerpt from that list.
The Modern Library's 90 Best Novels - Fiction
1. Ulysses
By James Joyce
2. The Great Gatsby
By F. Scott Fitzgerald
3. A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man
By James Joyce
4. Lolita
By Vladimir Nabokov
5. Brave New World
By Aldous Huxley
6. The Sound and the Fury
By William Faulkner
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
11. Under The Volcano
By Malcolm Lowry
12. The Way Of All Flesh
By Samuel Butler
13. 1984
By George Orwell
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
19. Invisible Man
By Ralph Ellison
20. Native Son
By Richard Wright
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
29. The Studs Lonigan Trilogy
By James T. Farrell
30. The Good Soldier
By Ford Madox Ford
31. Animal Farm
By George Orwell
32. The Golden Bowl
By Henry James
33. Sister Carrie
By Theodore Dreiser
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
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
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
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
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 Chronicle
By John Cheever
64. The Catcher In The Rye
By J.D. Salinger
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
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
89. Loving
By Henry Green
90. Midnight's Children
By Salman Rushdie
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