Modern Library’s top 100

The Modern Library has created a list of the top 100 books of the 20th Century. The Board’s list (there is a reader one, too) is below.

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