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4 | 100 Best Novels of the 20th Century | |||||
5 | I've read 48 of the Board's 100 | I've read all of the Reader's Top 100 | ||||
6 | Board's List | Reader's List | ||||
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8 | 1 | Ulysses by James Joyce | 1 | Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand | ||
9 | 2 | The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald | 2 | The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand | ||
10 | 3 | A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce | 3 | Battlefield Earth by L. Ron Hubbard | ||
11 | 4 | Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov | 4 | The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
12 | 5 | Brave New World by Aldous Huxley | 5 | To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee | ||
13 | 6 | The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner | 6 | 1984 by George Orwell | ||
14 | 7 | Catch-22 by Joseph Heller | 7 | Anthem by Ayn Rand | ||
15 | 8 | Darkness at Noon: A Novel by Arthur Koestler | 8 | We the Living by Ayn Rand | ||
16 | 9 | Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence | 9 | The Books of the Mission Earth Dekalogy, Complete 10-volume Set (Vol. 1: The Invaders Plan; Vol. 2: Black Genesis; Vol. 3: The Enemy Within; Vol. 4: An Alien Affair; Vol. 5: Fortune of Fear; Vol. 6: Death Quest; Vol. 7: Voyage of Vengeance; Vol. 8: Disaster; Vol. 9: Villainy Victorious; Vol. 10: The Doomed Planet) by L. Ron Hubbard | ||
17 | 10 | The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck | 10 | Fear by L. Ron Hubbard | ||
18 | 11 | Under the Volcano: A Novel by Malcolm Lowry | 11 | Ulysses by James Joyce | ||
19 | 12 | The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler | 12 | Catch-22 by Joseph Heller | ||
20 | 13 | 1984 by George Orwell | 13 | The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald | ||
21 | 14 | I, Claudius : From the Autobiography of Tiberius Claudius, Born 10 B.C., Murdered and Deified A.D. 54 by Robert Graves | 14 | Dune (Dune Chronicles, Book 1) by Frank Herbert | ||
22 | 15 | To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf | 15 | The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress by Robert Heinlein | ||
23 | 1 | 16 | An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser | 16 | Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein | |
24 | 17 | The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers | 17 | A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute | ||
25 | 18 | Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut | 18 | Brave New World by Aldous Huxley | ||
26 | 19 | Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison | 19 | The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger | ||
27 | 1 | 20 | Native Son by Richard Wright | 20 | Animal Farm by George Orwell | |
28 | 21 | Henderson the Rain King by Saul Bellow | 21 | Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon | ||
29 | 1 | 22 | Appointment in Samarra: A Novel by John O'Hara | 22 | The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck | |
30 | 1 | 23 | U.S.A.: The 42nd Parallel / 1919 / The Big Money by John Dos Passos | 23 | Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut | |
31 | 24 | Winesburg Ohio : a group of tales of Ohio small town life by Sherwood Anderson | 24 | Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell | ||
32 | 1 | 25 | A Passage to India by E.M. Forster | 25 | Lord of the Flies by William Golding | |
33 | 1 | 26 | The Wings of the Dove by Henry James | 26 | Shane by Jack Schaefer | |
34 | 1 | 27 | The Ambassadors by Henry James | 27 | Trustee from the Toolroom by Nevil Shute | |
35 | 1 | 28 | Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald | 28 | A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving | |
36 | 1 | 29 | Studs Lonigan; A trilogy Containing: Young Lonigan, The Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan, Judgement Day by James T. Farrell | 29 | The Stand: by Stephen King | |
37 | 1 | 30 | The Good Soldier: A Tale of Passion by Ford Madox Ford | 30 | The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles | |
38 | 31 | Animal Farm by George Orwell | 31 | Beloved by Toni Morrison | ||
39 | 1 | 32 | The Golden Bowl by Henry James | 32 | The Worm Ouroboros by E.R. Eddison | |
40 | 1 | 33 | Sister Carrie: a Novel by Theodore Dreiser | 33 | The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner | |
41 | 1 | 34 | A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh | 34 | Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov | |
42 | 35 | As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner | 35 | Moonheart by Charles de Lint | ||
43 | 36 | All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren | 36 | Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner | ||
44 | 1 | 37 | The Bridge of San Luis Rey (Perennial Classics) by Thornton Wilder | 37 | Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham | |
45 | 1 | 38 | Howards End by E.M. Forster | 38 | Wise Blood: A Novel by Flannery O'Connor | |
46 | 39 | Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin | 39 | Under the Volcano: A Novel by Malcolm Lowry | ||
47 | 1 | 40 | The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene | 40 | Fifth Business by Robertson Davies | |
48 | 41 | Lord of the Flies by William Golding | 41 | Someplace to Be Flying (Newford) by Charles de Lint | ||
49 | 42 | Deliverance by James Dickey | 42 | On the Road by Jack Kerouac | ||
50 | 1 | 43 | A Dance to the Music of Time: First Movement (Dance to the Music of Time) (series) by Anthony Powell | 43 | Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad | |
51 | 1 | 44 | Point Counter Point by Aldous Huxley | 44 | Yarrow by Charles de Lint | |
52 | 45 | The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway | 45 | At the Mountains of Madness: And Other Tales of Terror by H.P. Lovecraft | ||
53 | 1 | 46 | The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad | 46 | One Lonely Night (Mike Hammer Series) by Mickey Spillane | |
54 | 1 | 47 | Nostromo (Everyman's Library (Cloth)) by Joseph Conrad | 47 | Memory and Dream (Newford) by Charles de Lint | |
55 | 1 | 48 | The Rainbow by D.H. Lawrence | 48 | To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf | |
56 | 1 | 49 | Women in Love by D.H. Lawrence | 49 | The Moviegoer by Walker Percy | |
57 | 50 | Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller | 50 | Trader (Newford) by Charles de Lint | ||
58 | 1 | 51 | The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer | 51 | The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams | |
59 | 1 | 52 | Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth | 52 | The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers | |
60 | 1 | 53 | Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov | 53 | The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood | |
61 | 54 | Light in August by William Faulkner | 54 | Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy | ||
62 | 55 | On the Road by Jack Kerouac | 55 | A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess | ||
63 | 56 | The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett | 56 | On the Beach by Nevil Shute | ||
64 | 1 | 57 | Parade's End by Ford Madox Ford | 57 | A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce | |
65 | 1 | 58 | The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton | 58 | Greenmantle by Charles de Lint | |
66 | 1 | 59 | Zuleika Dobson by Max Beerbohm | 59 | Ender's Game (Ender, Book 1) by Orson Scott Card | |
67 | 60 | The Moviegoer by Walker Percy | 60 | The Little Country by Charles de Lint | ||
68 | 1 | 61 | Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather | 61 | The Recognitions by William Gaddis | |
69 | 1 | 62 | From Here to Eternity by James Jones | 62 | Starship Troopers by Robert Heinlein | |
70 | 63 | The Wapshot Chronicle by John Cheever | 63 | The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway | ||
71 | 64 | The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger | 64 | The World According to Garp by John Irving | ||
72 | 65 | A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess | 65 | Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury | ||
73 | 66 | Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham | 66 | The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson | ||
74 | 67 | Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad | 67 | As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner | ||
75 | 68 | Main Street by Sinclair Lewis | 68 | Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller | ||
76 | 1 | 69 | The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton | 69 | Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison | |
77 | 1 | 70 | The Alexandria Quartet Boxed Set (Alexandria Quartet) by Lawrence Durell | 70 | The Wood Wife by Terri Windling | |
78 | 1 | 71 | A High Wind in Jamaica (New York Review Books Classics) by Richard Hughes | 71 | The Magus by John Fowles | |
79 | 72 | A House for Mr.Biswas by V.S. Naipaul | 72 | The Door into Summer by Robert Heinlein | ||
80 | 1 | 73 | The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West | 73 | Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values by Robert Pirsig | |
81 | 74 | A Farewell To Arms by Ernest Hemingway | 74 | I, Claudius : From the Autobiography of Tiberius Claudius, Born 10 B.C., Murdered and Deified A.D. 54 by Robert Graves | ||
82 | 1 | 75 | Scoop by Evelyn Waugh | 75 | The Call of the Wild by Jack London | |
83 | 1 | 76 | The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark | 76 | At Swim-Two-Birds (John F. Byrne Irish Literature Series) by Flann O'Brien | |
84 | 1 | 77 | Finnegans Wake by James Joyce | 77 | Farenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury | |
85 | 78 | Kim by Rudyard Kipling | 78 | Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis | ||
86 | 1 | 79 | A Room with a View by E.M. Forster | 79 | Watership Down: A Novel by Richard Adams | |
87 | 80 | Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh | 80 | Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs | ||
88 | 1 | 81 | The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow | 81 | The Hunt for Red October (Jack Ryan Novels) by Tom Clancy | |
89 | 1 | 82 | Angle of Repose (Contemporary American Fiction) by Wallace Stegner | 82 | Guilty Pleasures (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter: Book 1)by Laurell K. Hamilton | |
90 | 1 | 83 | A Bend in the River by V.S. Naipaul | 83 | Puppet Masters by Robert Heinlein | |
91 | 1 | 84 | The Death of the Heart by Elizabeth Bowen | 84 | It by Stephen King | |
92 | 1 | 85 | Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad | 85 | V. by Thomas Pynchon | |
93 | 86 | Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow | 86 | Double Star by Robert Heinlein | ||
94 | 1 | 87 | The Old Wives' Tale by Arnold Bennett | 87 | Citizen of the Galaxy by Robert Heinlein | |
95 | 88 | The Call of the Wild by Jack London | 88 | Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh | ||
96 | 1 | 89 | Loving by Henry Green | 89 | Light in August by William Faulkner | |
97 | 90 | Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie | 90 | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey | ||
98 | 1 | 91 | Tobacco Road by Erskine Caldwell | 91 | A Farewell To Arms by Ernest Hemingway | |
99 | 1 | 92 | Ironweed by William Kennedy | 92 | The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles | |
100 | 93 | The Magus by John Fowles | 93 | Sometimes a Great Notion by Ken Kesey |