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Random House Modern Library’s 100 Best Novels of the 20 th Century www.randomhouse.com/modernlibrary/100bestnovels.html

TROPIC OF CANCER ULYSSES by James Joyce by Henry Miller THE NAKED AND THE DEAD THE GREAT GATSBY by F. Scott Fitzgerald by Norman Mailer PORTNOY'S COMPLAINT A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN by by PALE FIRE James Joyce by Vladimir Nabokov LIGHT IN AUGUST LOLITA by Vladimir Nabokov by ON THE ROAD BRAVE NEW WORLD by Aldous Huxley by Jack Kerouac THE MALTESE FALCON THE SOUND AND THE FURY by William Faulkner by Dashiell Hammett PARADE'S END CATCH-22 by Joseph Heller by Ford Madox Ford THE AGE OF INNOCENCE DARKNESS AT NOON by Arthur Koestler by Edith Wharton ZULEIKA DOBSON SONS AND LOVERS by D.H. Lawrence by Max Beerbohm THE MOVIEGOER THE GRAPES OF WRATH by John Steinbeck by DEATH COMES FOR THE ARCHBISHOP UNDER THE VOLCANO by Malcolm Lowry by Willa Cather FROM HERE TO ETERNITY THE WAY OF ALL FLESH by Samuel Butler by THE WAPSHOT CHRONICLES 1984 by George Orwell by THE CATCHER IN THE RYE I, CLAUDIUS by Robert Graves by J.D. Salinger A CLOCKWORK ORANGE TO THE LIGHTHOUSE by Virginia Woolf by Anthony Burgess OF HUMAN BONDAGE AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY by Theodore Dreiser by W. Somerset Maugham HEART OF DARKNESS THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER by Carson McCullers by Joseph Conrad MAIN STREET SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE by Kurt Vonnegut by Sinclair Lewis THE HOUSE OF MIRTH by by Edith Wharton THE ALEXANDRIA QUARTET NATIVE SON by Richard Wright by Lawrence Durell A HIGH WIND IN JAMAICA HENDERSON THE RAIN KING by by Richard Hughes A HOUSE FOR MR BISWAS APPOINTMENT IN SAMARRA by John O'Hara by V.S. Naipaul THE DAY OF THE LOCUST U.S.A. (trilogy) by John Dos Passos by Nathanael West A FAREWELL TO ARMS WINESBURG, OHIO by Sherwood Anderson by Ernest Hemingway SCOOP A PASSAGE TO INDIA by E.M. Forster by Evelyn Waugh THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE THE WINGS OF THE DOVE by Henry James by Muriel Spark FINNEGANS WAKE THE AMBASSADORS by Henry James by James Joyce KIM TENDER IS THE NIGHT by F. Scott Fitzgerald by Rudyard Kipling A ROOM WITH A VIEW THE STUDS LONIGAN TRILOGY by James T. Farrell by E.M. Forster BRIDESHEAD REVISITED THE GOOD SOLDIER by Ford Madox Ford by Evelyn Waugh THE ADVENTURES OF AUGIE MARCH ANIMAL FARM by George Orwell by Saul Bellow ANGLE OF REPOSE THE GOLDEN BOWL by Henry James by Wallace Stegner A BEND IN THE RIVER SISTER CARRIE by Theodore Dreiser by V.S. Naipaul THE DEATH OF THE HEART A HANDFUL OF DUST by Evelyn Waugh by Elizabeth Bowen LORD JIM AS I LAY DYING by William Faulkner by Joseph Conrad RAGTIME ALL THE KING'S MEN by Robert Penn Warren by E.L. Doctorow THE OLD WIVES' TALE THE BRIDGE OF SAN LUIS REY by by Arnold Bennett THE CALL OF THE WILD HOWARDS END by E.M. Forster by Jack London LOVING GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN by James Baldwin by Henry Green MIDNIGHT'S CHILDREN THE HEART OF THE MATTER by Graham Greene by Salman Rushdie TOBACCO ROAD LORD OF THE FLIES by William Golding by Erskine Caldwell IRONWEED DELIVERANCE by James Dickey by William Kennedy THE MAGUS A DANCE TO THE MUSIC OF TIME (series) by Anthony by John Fowles WIDE SARGASSO SEA Powell by Jean Rhys UNDER THE NET POINT COUNTER POINT by Aldous Huxley by Iris Murdoch SOPHIE'S CHOICE THE SUN ALSO RISES by Ernest Hemingway by William Styron THE SHELTERING SKY THE SECRET AGENT by Joseph Conrad by Paul Bowles THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE NOSTROMO by Joseph Conrad by James M. THE RAINBOW by D.H. Lawrence Cain THE GINGER MAN WOMEN IN LOVE by D.H. Lawrence by J.P. Donleavy THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS on by Booth Tarkingt