Modern Library assembled top 100 lists of the best novels and non-fiction books based on online votes. The poll for the novels closed on October 20, 1998 with 217,520 votes cast. Here are the results:
- James Joyce Ulysses (1922)
- F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby (1925)
- James Joyce A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916)
- Vladimir Nabokov Lolita (1955)
- Aldous Huxley Brave New World (1932)
- William Faulkner The Sound and the Fury (1929)
- Joseph Heller Catch-22 (1961)
- Arthur Koestler Darkness at Noon (1940)
- D.H. Lawrence Sons and Lovers (1913)
- John Steinbeck The Grapes of Wrath (1939)
- Malcolm Lowry Under the Volcano (1947)
- Samuel Butler The Way of All Flesh (1903)
- George Orwell 1984 (1949)
- Robert Graves I, Claudius (1934)
- Virginia Woolf To the Lighthouse (1927)
- Theodore Dreiser An American Tragedy (1925)
- Carson McCullers The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1940)
- Kurt Vonnegut Slaughterhouse-Five (1969)
- Ralph Ellison Invisible Man (1952)
- Richard Wright Native Son (1940)
- Saul Bellow Henderson the Rain King (1959)
- John O’Hara Appointment in Samarra (1934)
- John Dos Passos U.S.A. (Trilogy) (1936)
- Sherwood Anderson Winesburg, Ohio (1919)
- E.M. Forster A Passage to India (1924)
- Henry James The Wings of the Dove (1902)
- Henry James The Ambassadors (1903)
- F. Scott Fitzgerald Tender Is the Night (1934)
- James T. Farrell The Studs Lonigan Trilogy (1935)
- Ford Madox Ford The Good Soldier (1915)
- George Orwell Animal Farm (1954)
- Henry James The Golden Bowl (1904)
- Theodore Dreiser Sister Carrie (1900)
- Evelyn Waugh A Handful of Dust (1934)
- William Faulkner As I Lay Dying (1930)
- Robert Penn Warren All the King’s Men (1946)
- Thornton Wilder The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1928)
- E.M. Forster Howards End (1910)
- James Baldwin Go Tell It on the Mountain (1953)
- Graham Greene The Heart of the Matter (1948)
- William Golding Lord of the Flies (1954)
- James Dickey Deliverance (1970)
- Anthony Powell A Dance to the Music of Time (Series) (1975)
- Aldous Huxley Point Counter Point (1928)
- Ernest Hemingway The Sun Also Rises (1926)
- Joseph Conrad The Secret Agent (1926)
- Joseph Conrad Nostromo (1904)
- D.H. Lawrence The Rainbow (1915)
- D.H. Lawrence Women in Love (1920)
- Henry Miller Tropic of Cancer (1934)
- Norman Mailer The Naked and the Dead (1948)
- Philip Roth Portnoy’s Complaint (1969)
- Vladimir Nabokov Pale Fire (1962)
- William Faulkner Light in August (1932)
- Jack Kerouac On the Road (1957)
- Dashiell Hammett The Maltese Falcon (1929)
- Ford Madox Ford Parade’s End (1928)
- Edith Wharton The Age of Innocence (1920)
- Max Beerbohm Zuleika Dobson (1911)
- Walker Percy The Moviegoer (1961)
- Willa Cather Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927)
- James Jones From Here to Eternity (1951)
- John Cheever The Wapshot Chronicles (1958)
- J.D. Salinger The Catcher in the Rye (1951)
- Anthony Burgess A Clockwork Orange (1962)
- W. Somerset Maugham Of Human Bondage (1915)
- Joseph Conrad Heart of Darkness (1899)
- Sinclair Lewis Main Street (1920)
- Edith Wharton The House of Mirth (1905)
- Lawrence Durrell The Alexandria Quartet (1960)
- Richard Hughes A High Wind in Jamaica (1929)
- V.S. Naipaul A House for Mr. Biswas (1961)
- Nathanael West The Day of the Locust (1939)
- Ernest Hemingway A Farewell to Arms (1929)
- Evelyn Waugh Scoop (1938)
- Muriel Spark The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1960)
- James Joyce Finnegan’s Wake (1941)
- Rudyard Kipling Kim (1901)
- E.M. Forster A Room with a View (1908)
- Evelyn Waugh Brideshead Revisited (1945)
- Saul Bellow The Adventures of Augie March (1953)
- Wallace Stegner Angle of Repose (1971)
- V.S. Naipaul A Bend in the River (1979)
- Elizabeth Bowen The Death of the Heart (1938)
- Joseph Conrad Lord Jim (1900)
- E.L. Doctorow Ragtime (1975)
- Arnold Bennett The Old Wives’ Tale (1908)
- Jack London The Call of the Wild (1903)
- Henry Green Loving (1945)
- Salman Rushdie Midnight’s Children (1981)
- Erskine Caldwell Tobacco Road (1932)
- William Kennedy Ironweed (1983)
- John Fowles The Magus (1965)
- Jean Rhys Wide Sargasso Sea (1966)
- Iris Murdoch Under the Net (1954)
- William Styron Sophie’s Choice (1979)
- Paul Bowles The Sheltering Sky (1949)
- James M. Cain The Postman Always Rings Twice (1934)
- J.P. Donleavy The Ginger Man (1955)
- Booth Tarkington The Magnificent Ambersons (1919)
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