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100 BEST ENGLISH-LANGUAGE NOVELS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY |
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100 BEST ENGLISH-LANGUAGE NOVELS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY |
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| JAMES JOYCE |
On July 28, 1998 the Modern Library's Editorial Board announced their selection of the "100 best english-language novels of the twentieth century" The Modern Library is a division of Random House that has published classic literature since 1917. The novels which made the list, however, were chosen regardless of publisher. The list that follows is given in rank order with James Joyce's Ulysses garnering the most support.
| 01 | James Joyce | Ulysses |
| 02 | F. Scott Fitzgerald | The Great Gatsby |
| 03 | James Joyce | A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man |
| 04 | Vladimir Nabokov | Lolita |
| 05 | Aldous Huxley | Brave New World |
| 06 | William Faulkner | The Sound and the Fury |
| 07 | Joseph Heller | Catch-22 |
| 08 | Arthur Koestler | Darkness at Noon |
| 09 | D.H. Lawrence | Sons and Lovers |
| 10 | John Steinbeck | The Grapes of Wrath |
| 11 | Malcolm Lowry | Under the Volcano |
| 12 | Samuel Butler | The Way of All Flesh |
| 13 | George Orwell | 1984 |
| 14 | Robert Graves | I, Claudius |
| 15 | Virginia Woolf | To the Lighthouse |
| 16 | Theodore Dreiser | An American Tragedy |
| 17 | Carson McCullers | The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter |
| 18 | Kurt Vonegut | Slaughterhouse Five |
| 19 | Ralph Ellison | Invisible Man |
| 20 | Richard Wright | Native Son |
| 21 | Saul Bellow | Henderson the Rain King |
| 22 | John O'Hara | Appointment in Samarra |
| 23 | John Dos Passos | U.S.A. |
| 24 | Sherwood Anderson | Winesburg, Ohio |
| 25 | E.M. Forster | A Passage to India |
| 26 | Henry James | The Wings of the Dove |
| 27 | Henry James | The Ambassadors |
| 28 | F. Scott Fitzgerald | Tender Is the Night |
| 29 | James T. Farrell | The Studs Lonigan Trilogy |
| 30 | Ford Madox Ford | The Good Soldier |
| 31 | George Orwell | Animal Farm |
| 32 | Henry James | The Golden Bowl |
| 33 | Theodore Dreiser | Sister Carrie |
| 34 | Evelyn Waugh | A Handful of Dust |
| 35 | William Faulkner | As I Lay Dying |
| 36 | Robert Penn Warren | All the King's Men |
| 37 | Thornton Wilder | The Bridge of San Luis Rey |
| 38 | E.M. Forster | Howard's End |
| 39 | James Baldwin | Go Tell It on the Mountain |
| 40 | Graham Greene | The Heart of the Matter |
| 41 | William Golding | Lord of the Flies |
| 42 | James Dickey | Deliverance |
| 43 | Anthony Powell | A Dance to the Music of Time |
| 44 | Aldous Huxley | Point Counter Point |
| 45 | Ernest Hemingway | The Sun Also Rises |
| 46 | Joseph Conrad | The Secret Agent |
| 47 | Joseph Conrad | Nostromo |
| 48 | D.H. Lawrence | The Rainbow |
| 49 | D.H. Lawrence | Women in Love |
| 50 | Henry Miller | Tropic of Cancer |
| 51 | Norman Mailer | The Naked and the Dead |
| 52 | Philip Roth | Portnoy's Complaint |
| 53 | Vladimir Nabokov | Pale Fire |
| 54 | William Faulkner | Light in August |
| 55 | Jack Kerouac | On the Road |
| 56 | Dashiell Hammett | The Maltese Falcon |
| 57 | Ford Madox Ford | Parade's End |
| 58 | Edith Wharton | The Age of Innocence |
| 59 | Max Beerbohm | Zuleika Dobson |
| 60 | Walker Percy | The Moviegoer |
| 61 | Willa Cather | Death Comes for the Archbishop |
| 62 | James Jones | From Here to Eternity |
| 63 | John Cheever | The Wapshot Chronicles |
| 64 | J.D. Salinger | The Catcher in the Rye |
| 65 | Anthony Burgess | A Clockwork Orange |
| 66 | W. Somerset Maugham | Of Human Bondage |
| 67 | Joseph Conrad | Heart of Darkness |
| 68 | Sinclair Lewis | Main Street |
| 69 | Edith Wharton | The House of Mirth |
| 70 | Lawrence Durrell | The Alexandria Quartet |
| 71 | Richard Hughes | A High Wind in Jamaica |
| 72 | V.S. Naipaul | A House for Mr. Biswas |
| 73 | Nathanael West | The Day of the Locust |
| 74 | Ernest Hemingway | A Farewell to Arms |
| 75 | Evelyn Waugh | Scoop |
| 76 | Muriel Spark | The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie |
| 77 | James Joyce | Finnegan's Wake |
| 78 | Rudyard Kipling | Kim |
| 79 | E.M. Forster | A Room with a View |
| 80 | Evelyn Waugh | Brideshead Revisited |
| 81 | Saul Bellow | The Adventures of Augie Marsh |
| 82 | Wallace Stegner | Angle of Repose |
| 83 | V.S. Naipaul | A Bend in the River |
| 84 | Elizabeth Bowen | The Death of the Heart |
| 85 | Joseph Conrad | Lord Jim |
| 86 | E.L. Doctorow | Ragtime |
| 87 | Arnold Bennett | The Old Wives' Tale |
| 88 | Jack London | The Call of the Wild |
| 89 | Henry Green | Loving |
| 90 | Salman Rushdie | Midnight's Children |
| 91 | Erskine Caldwell | Tobacco Road |
| 92 | William Kennedy | Ironweed |
| 93 | John Fowles | The Magus |
| 94 | Jean Rhys | Wide Sargasso Sea |
| 95 | Iris Murdoch | Under the Net |
| 96 | William Styron | Sophie's Choice |
| 97 | Paul Bowles | The Sheltering Sky |
| 98 | James M. cain | The Postman Always Rings Twice |
| 99 | J.P. Donleavy | The Ginger Man |
| 100 | Booth Tarkington | The Magnificent Ambersons |
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