The Century's Top 100 Novels

Behold the list of  the century's top 100 novels as requested by the Modern Library editoral board.

 1. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

 2. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

 3. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

 4. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

 5. The Color Purple by Alice Walker

6. Ulysses by James Joyce

 7. Beloved by Toni Morrison

 8. The Lord of the Flies by William Golding

 9. 1984 by George Orwell

10. The Sound and The Fury by William Faulkner

 11. Lolita by Vladmir Nabokov

 12. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

 13. Charlotte's Web by E. B. White

 14. A Portrait of The Artist As a Young Man by James Joyce

 15. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

 16. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

 17. Animal Farm by George Orwell

 18. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

 19. As I Lay Dying, by William Faulkner

 20. A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway

 21. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

 22. Winnie The Pooh by A. A. Milne

 23. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

 24. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

 25. Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison

 26. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

 27. Native Son by Richard Wright

 28. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, by Ken Kesey

 29. Slaughterhouse-Five, by Kurt Vonnegut

 30. For Whom the Bell Tolls, by Ernest Hemingway

 31. On The Road by Jack Kerouac

 32. The Old Man and The Sea by Ernest Hemingway

 33. The Call of the Wild by Jack London

 34. To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

 35. Portrait of A Lady by Henry James

 36. Go Tell it on the Mountain, by James Baldwin

 37. The World According To Garp by John Irving

 38. All the King's Men, by Robert Penn Warren

 39. A Room With A View by E. M. Forster

 40. The Lord of the Rings, by J.R.R. Tolkien

 41. Schindler's List by Thomas Keneally

 42. Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

 43. The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand

 44. Finnegan's Wake by James Joyce

 45. The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair

 46. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

 47. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum

 48. Lady Chatterley's Lover, by D.H. Lawrence

 49. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

 50. The Awakening, by Kate Chopin

 51. My Antonia by Willa Cather

 52. Howard's End by E. M. Forster

53. In Cold Blood, by Truman Capote

 54. Franny and Zooey by J. D. Salinger

 55. The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie

 56. Jazz by Toni Morrison

 57. Sophie's Choice, by William Styron

 58. Absalom! Absalom! by William Faulkner

 59. A Passage to India by E. M. Forster

 60. Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton

 61. A Good Man is Hard to Find by Flannery O'Connor

 62. Tender is The Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald

 63. Orlando by Virginia Woolf

 64. Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence

 65. Bonfire of The Vanities by Tom Wolfe

 66. Cat's Cradle, by Kurt Vonnegut

 67. A Separate Peace, by John Knowles

 68. Light in August by William Faulkner

 69. The Wings of The Dove by Henry James

 70. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

 71. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

 72. A Hitchhiker's Guide to The Galaxy by Douglas Adams

 73. Naked Lunch, by William S. Burroughs

 74. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh

 75. Women in Love, by D.H. Lawrence

 76. Look Homeward, Angel by Thomas Wolfe

 77. In Our Time by Ernest Hemingway

 78. The Autobiography of Alice B. Tokias by Gertrude Stein

 79. The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett

 80. The Naked and the Dead, by Norman Mailer

 81. Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys

 82. White Noise by Don DeLillo

 83. O Pioneers! by Willa Cather

 84. Tropic of Cancer, by Henry Miller

 85. The War of The Worlds by H. G. Wells

 86.  Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad

 87. The Bostonians by Henry James

 88. An American Tragedy, by Theodore Dreiser

 89. Death Comes for The Archbishop by Willa Cather

 90. The Wind In The Willows by Kenneth Grahane

 91. This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald

 92. Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand

 93. The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles

 94. Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis

 95. Kim by Rudyard Kipling

 96. The Beautiful and The Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald

 97. Rabbit, Run by John Updike

 98. Where Angels Fear to Tread by E. M. Forster

 99. Main Street by Sinclair Lewis

 100. Midnight's Children by Salmon Rushdie