Modern Library 100 Best Novels, Reader's Choice

100: The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie

99: The Cunning Man by Robertson Davies

98: Illusions by Richard Bach

97: Mythago Wood by Rober Holdstock

96: Suttree by Cormac McCarthy

95: Mulengro by Charles de Lint

94: My Antonia by Willa Cather

93: Sometimes a Great Notion by Ken Kesey

92: The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles

91: A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway

90: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey

89: Light in August by William Faulkner

88: Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh

87: Citizen of the Galaxy by Robert Heinlein

86: Double Star by Robert Heinlein

85: V by Thomas Pynchon

84: It by Stephen King

83: The Puppet Masters by Robert Heinlein

82: Guilty Pleasures by Laurell K. Hamilton

81: The Hunt for Red October by Tom Clancy

80: Naked Lunch by William S. Styron

79: Watership Down by Richard Adams

78: Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis

77: Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

76: At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O'Brien

75: The Call of the Wild by Jack London

74: I, Claudius by Robert Graves

73: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig

72: The Door Into Summer by Robert Heinlein

71: The Magus by John Fowles

70: The Wood Wife by Terri Windling

69: Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

68: Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller

67: As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner

66: The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

65: Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury

64: The World According to Garp by John Irving

63: The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

62: Starship Toopers by Robert Heinlein

61: The Recognitions by William Gaddis

60: The Little Country by Charles de Lint

59: Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card

58: Greenmantle by Charles de Lint

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

56: On the Beach by Nevil Shute

55: A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

54: Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy

53: The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

52: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers

51: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

50: Trader by Charles de Lint

49: The Moviegoer by Walker Percy

48: To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

47: Memory and Dream by Charles de Lint

46: One Lonely Night by Mickey Spillane

45: At the Mountains of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft

44: Yarrow by Charles de Lint

43: Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

42: On the Road by Jack Kerouac

41: Someplace to be Flying by Charles de Lint

40: Fifth Business by Robertson Davies

39: Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry

38: Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor

37: Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham

36: Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner

35: Moonheart by Charles de Lint

34: Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

33: The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

32: The Worm Ouroboros by E.R. Eddison

31: Beloved by Toni Morrison

30: The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles

29: The Stand by Stephen King

28: A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving

27: Trustee From the Toolroom by Nevil Shute

26: Shane by Jack Schaefer

25: Lord of the Flies by William Golding

24: Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

23: Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut

22: The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

21: Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon

20: Animal Farm by George Orwell

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

18: Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

17: A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute

16: Stranger in a Stange Land by Robert Heinlein

15: The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert Heinlein

14: Dune by Frank Herbert

13: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

12: Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

11: Ulysses by James Joyce

10: Fear by L. Ron Hubbard

9: Mission Earth by L. Ron Hubbard

8: We the Living by Ayn Rand

7: Anthem by Ayn Rand

6: 1984 by George Orwell

5: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

4: The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien

3: Battlefield Earth by L. Ron Hubbard

2: The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand

1: Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand