Modern Library 100 Best Novels, Board's Choice

100: The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington

99: The Ginger Man by J.P. Donleavy

98: The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain

97: The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles

96: Sophie's Choice by William Styon

95: Under the Net by Iris Murdoch

94: Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys

93: The Magus by John Fowles

92: Ironweed by William Kennedy

91: Tobacco Road by Erskine Caldwell

90: Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie

89: Loving by Henry Green

88: The Call of the Wild by Jack London

87: The Old Wives' Tale byArnold Bennett

86: Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow

85: Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad

84: The Death of the Heart by Elizabeth Bowen

83: A Bend in the River by V.S. Naipaul

82: Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner

81: The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow

80: Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh

79: A Room With a View by E.M. Forster

78: Kim by Rudyard Kipling

77: Finnegans Wake by James Joyce

76: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark

75: Scoop by Evelyn Waugh

74: A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway

73: The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West

72: A House for Mr. Biswas by V.S. Naipaul

71: A High Wind in Jamaica by Richard Hughes

70: The Alexandria Quartet by Lawrence Durell

69: The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

68: Main Street by Sinclair Lewis

67: Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

66: Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham

65: A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

64: The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

63: The Wapshot Chronicles by John Cheever

62: From Here to Eternity by James Jones

61: Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather

60: The Moviegoer by Walker Percy

59: Zuleika Dobson by Max Beerbohm

58: The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

57: Parade's End by Ford Madox Ford

56: The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett

55: On the Road by Jack Kerouac

54: Light in August by William Faulkner

53: Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov

52: Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth

51: The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer

50: Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller

49: Women in Love by D.H. Lawrence

48: The Rainbow by D.H. Lawrence

47: Nostromo by Joseph Conrad

46: The Secret Agent by by Joseph Conrad

45: The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

44: Point Counter Point by Aldous Huxley

43: A Dance to the Music of Time (series) by Anthony Powell

42: Deliverance by James Dickey

41: Lord of the Flies by William Golding

40: The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene

39: Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin

38: Howards End by E.M. Forster

37: The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder

36: All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren

35: As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner

34: A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh

33: Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser

32: The Golden Bowl by Henry James

31: Animal Farm by George Orwell

30: The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford

29: The Studs Lonigan Trilogy by James T. Farrell

28: Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald

27: The Ambassadors by Henry James

26: The Wings of the Dove by Henry James

25: A Passage to India by E.M. Forster

24: Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson

23: U.S.A. (trilogy) by John Dos Passos

22: Appointment in Samarra by John O'Hara

21: Henderson the Rain King by Saul Bellow

20: Native Son by Richard Wright

19: Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

18: Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut

17: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers

16: An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser

15: To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

14: I, Claudius by Robert Graves

13: 1984 by George Orwell

12: The Way of all Flesh by Samuel Butler

11: Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry

10: The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

9: Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence

8: Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler

7: Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

6: The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

5: Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

4: Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

3: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

2: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

1: Ulysses by James Joyce