The 100 Best English-Language Novels of the 20th Century
Updated August 5, 2020 |
Infoplease Staff
The Board of the Modern Library, a division of Random House, published its selections in July 1998.
- Ulysses, James Joyce (1922)
- The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald (1925)
- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce (1916)
- Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov (1958)
- Brave New World, Aldous Huxley (1932)
- The Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner (1929)
- Catch-22, Joseph Heller (1961)
- Darkness at Noon, Arthur Koestler (1941)
- Sons and Lovers, D. H. Lawrence (1913)
- The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck (1939)
- Under the Volcano, Malcolm Lowry (1947)
- The Way of All Flesh, Samuel Butler (1903)
- 1984, George Orwell (1949)
- I, Claudius, Robert Graves (1934)
- To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf (1927)
- An American Tragedy, Theodore Dreiser (1925)
- The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers (1940)
- Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut (1969)
- Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison (1952)
- Native Son, Richard Wright (1940)
- Henderson the Rain King, Saul Bellow (1959)
- Appointment in Samarra, John O'Hara (1934)
- U.S.A. (trilogy), John Dos Passos (1937—trilogy completed)
- Winesburg, Ohio, Sherwood Anderson (1919)
- A Passage to India, E. M. Forster (1924)
- The Wings of the Dove, Henry James (1902)
- The Ambassadors, Henry James (1903)
- Tender Is the Night, F. Scott Fitzgerald (1934)
- The Studs Lonigan Trilogy, James T. Farrell (1935)
- The Good Soldier, Ford Madox Ford (1915)
- Animal Farm, George Orwell (1946)
- The Golden Bowl, Henry James (1904)
- Sister Carrie, Theodore Dreiser (1900)
- A Handful of Dust, Evelyn Waugh (1934)
- As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner (1930)
- All the King's Men, Robert Penn Warren (1946)
- The Bridge of San Luis Rey, Thornton Wilder (1927)
- Howards End, E. M. Forster (1910)
- Go Tell It on the Mountain, James Baldwin (1953)
- The Heart of the Matter, Graham Greene (1948)
- Lord of the Flies, William Golding (1954)
- Deliverance, James Dickey (1969)
- A Dance to the Music of Time (series), Anthony Powell (1975—series completed)
- Point Counter Point, Aldous Huxley (1928)
- The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway (1926)
- The Secret Agent, Joseph Conrad (1907)
- Nostromo, Joseph Conrad(1904)
- The Rainbow, D. H. Lawrence (1915)
- Women in Love, D. H. Lawrence (1921)
- Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller (1934)
- The Naked and the Dead, Norman Mailer (1948)
- Portnoy's Complaint, Philip Roth (1969)
- Pale Fire, Vladimir Nabokov (1962)
- Light in August, William Faulkner (1932)
- On the Road, Jack Kerouac (1957)
- The Maltese Falcon, Dashiell Hammett (1930)
- Parade's End, Ford Madox Ford (1950)
- The Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton (1920)
- Zuleika Dobson, Max Beerbohm (1911)
- The Moviegoer, Walker Percy (1961)
- Death Comes for the Archbishop, Willa Cather (1927)
- From Here to Eternity, James Jones (1951)
- The Wapshot Chronicles, John Cheever (1957)
- The Catcher in the Rye, J. D. Salinger (1951)
- A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess (1962)
- Of Human Bondage, W. Somerset Maugham (1915)
- Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad (1902)
- Main Street, Sinclair Lewis (1920)
- The House of Mirth, Edith Wharton (1905)
- The Alexandria Quartet, Lawrence Durrell (1960—series completed)
- A High Wind in Jamaica, Richard Hughes (1929)
- A House for Mr. Biswas, V. S. Naipaul (1961)
- The Day of the Locust, Nathanael West (1939)
- A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway (1929)
- Scoop, Evelyn Waugh (1938)
- The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Muriel Spark (1961)
- Finnegans Wake, James Joyce (1939)
- Kim, Rudyard Kipling (1901)
- A Room with a View, E. M. Forster (1908)
- Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh (1945)
- The Adventures of Augie March, Saul Bellow (1953)
- Angle of Repose, Wallace Stegner (1971)
- A Bend in the River, V. S. Naipaul (1979)
- The Death of the Heart, Elizabeth Bowen (1938)
- Lord Jim, Joseph Conrad (1900)
- Ragtime, E. L. Doctorow (1975)
- The Old Wives' Tale, Arnold Bennett (1908)
- The Call of the Wild, Jack London (1903)
- Loving, Henry Green (1945)
- Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie (1981)
- Tobacco Road, Erskine Caldwell (1933)
- Ironweed, William Kennedy (1983)
- The Magus, John Fowles (1966)
- Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys (1966)
- Under the Net, Iris Murdoch (1954)
- Sophie's Choice, William Styron (1979)
- The Sheltering Sky, Paul Bowles (1949)
- The Postman Always Rings Twice, James M. Cain (1934)
- The Ginger Man, J. P. Donleavy (1955)
- The Magnificent Ambersons, Booth Tarkington (1918)
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