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Modern Library's 100 Best Novels - The Board and the Readers Agreed on These 32

What are the best fiction books published in the English language since 1900? These 32 books made it onto both the Modern Library Board's and the readers' lists. [Note: Modern Library's list was published in 1998]
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Ulysses (James Joyce)
Ulysses
1
James Joyce
The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
The Great Gatsby
2
F. Scott Fitzgerald
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (James Joyce)
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
3
James Joyce
Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov)
Lolita
4
Vladimir Nabokov
Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
Brave New World
5
Aldous Huxley
The Sound and the Fury (William Faulkner)
The Sound and the Fury
6
William Faulkner
Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
Catch-22
7
Joseph Heller
The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)
The Grapes of Wrath
8
John Steinbeck
Under the Volcano (Malcolm Lowry)
Under the Volcano
9
Malcolm Lowry
1984 (George Orwell)
1984
10
George Orwell
I, Claudius (Robert Graves)
I, Claudius
11
Robert Graves
To the Lighthouse (Virginia Woolf)
To the Lighthouse
12
Virginia Woolf
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (Carson McCullers)
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
13
Carson McCullers
Slaughterhouse-Five (Kurt Vonnegut)
Slaughterhouse-Five
14
Kurt Vonnegut
Invisible Man (Ralph Ellison)
Invisible Man
15
Ralph Ellison
Animal Farm (George Orwell)
Animal Farm
16
George Orwell
As I Lay Dying (William Faulkner)
As I Lay Dying
17
William Faulkner
Lord of the Flies (William Golding)
Lord of the Flies
18
William Golding
The Sun Also Rises (Ernest Hemingway)
The Sun Also Rises
19
Ernest Hemingway
Tropic of Cancer (Henry Miller)
Tropic of Cancer
20
Henry Miller
Light in August (William Faulkner)
Light in August
21
William Faulkner
On the Road (Jack Kerouac)
On the Road
22
Jack Kerouac
The Moviegoer (Walker Percy)
The Moviegoer
23
Walker Percy
The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)
The Catcher in the Rye
24
J.D. Salinger
A Clockwork Orange (Anthony Burgess)
A Clockwork Orange
25
Anthony Burgess
Of Human Bondage (W Somerset Maugham)
Of Human Bondage
26
W Somerset Maugham
Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad)
Heart of Darkness
27
Joseph Conrad
A Farewell to Arms (Ernest Hemingway - 1929)
A Farewell to Arms
28
Ernest Hemingway - 1929
Brideshead Revisited (Evelyn Waugh)
Brideshead Revisited
29
Evelyn Waugh
The Call of the Wild (Jack London)
The Call of the Wild
30
Jack London
The Magus (John Fowles)
The Magus
31
John Fowles
The Sheltering Sky (Paul Bowles)
The Sheltering Sky
32
Paul Bowles
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