• The Modern Library’s 100 Most Influential Novels of the 20th Century

     

    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
     
    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 CHRONICLES 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
     
    91. TOBACCO ROAD by Erskine Caldwell
     
    92. IRONWEED by William Kennedy
     
    93. THE MAGUS by John Fowles
     
    94. WIDE SARGASSO SEA by Jean Rhys
     
    95. UNDER THE NET by Iris Murdoch
     
    96. SOPHIE'S CHOICE by William Styron
     
    97. THE SHELTERING SKY by Paul Bowles
     
    98. THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE by James M. Cain
     
    99. THE GINGER MAN by J.P. Donleavy
     
    100. THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS by Booth Tarkington
     
     
Last Modified on September 26, 2016