This list of 100 novels was drawn up by the editorial board of Modern Library. Where possible, book titles have been linked to either the original New York Times review or a later article about the book.
1. "Ulysses, " James Joyce
2. "The Great Gatsby, " F. Scott Fitzgerald
3. "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, " James Joyce
4. "Lolita, " Vladimir Nabokov
5. "Brave New World, " Aldous Huxley
6. "The Sound and the Fury, " William Faulkner
7. "Catch-22, " Joseph Heller
8. "Darkness at Noon, " Arthur Koestler
9. "Sons and Lovers, " D. H. Lawrence
10. "The Grapes of Wrath, " John Steinbeck
11. "Under the Volcano, " Malcolm Lowry 12. "The Way of All Flesh, " Samuel Butler 13. "1984, " George Orwell 14. "I, Claudius, " Robert Graves 15. "To the Lighthouse, " Virginia Woolf 16. "An American Tragedy, " Theodore Dreiser 17. "The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, " Carson McCullers 18. "Slaughterhouse Five, " Kurt Vonnegut 19. "Invisible Man, " Ralph Ellison 20. "Native Son, " Richard Wright 21. "Henderson the Rain King, " Saul Bellow 22. "Appointment in Samarra, " John O' Hara 23. "U.S.A." (trilogy), John Dos Passos 24. "Winesburg, Ohio, " Sherwood Anderson 25. "A Passage to India, " E. M. Forster 26. "The Wings of the Dove, " Henry James 27. "The Ambassadors, " Henry James 28. "Tender Is the Night, " F. Scott Fitzgerald 29. "The Studs Lonigan Trilogy, " James T. Farrell 30. "The Good Soldier, " Ford Madox Ford 31. "Animal Farm, " George Orwell 32. "The Golden Bowl, " Henry James 33. "Sister Carrie, " Theodore Dreiser 34. "A Handful of Dust, " Evelyn Waugh 35. "As I Lay Dying, " William Faulkner 36. "All the King's Men, " Robert Penn Warren 37. "The Bridge of San Luis Rey, " Thornton Wilder 38. "Howards End, " E. M. Forster 39. "Go Tell It on the Mountain, " James Baldwin 40. "The Heart of the Matter, " Graham Greene 41. "Lord of the Flies, " William Golding 42. "Deliverance, " James Dickey 43. "A Dance to the Music of Time" (series), Anthony Powell 44. "Point Counter Point, " Aldous Huxley 45. "The Sun Also Rises, " Ernest Hemingway 46. "The Secret Agent, " Joseph Conrad 47. "Nostromo, " Joseph Conrad 48. "The Rainbow, " D. H. Lawrence 49. "Women in Love, " D. H. Lawrence 50. "Tropic of Cancer, " Henry Miller 51. "The Naked and the Dead, " Norman Mailer 52. "Portnoy's Complaint, " Philip Roth 53. "Pale Fire, " Vladimir Nabokov 54. "Light in August, " William Faulkner 55. "On the Road, " Jack Kerouac 56. "The Maltese Falcon, " Dashiell Hammett 57. "Parade's End, " Ford Madox Ford 58. "The Age of Innocence, " Edith Wharton 59. "Zuleika Dobson, " Max Beerbohm 60. "The Moviegoer, " Walker Percy 61. "Death Comes to the Archbishop, " Willa Cather 62. "From Here to Eternity, " James Jones 63. "The Wapshot Chronicles, " John Cheever 64. "The Catcher in the Rye, " J. D. Salinger 65. "A Clockwork Orange, " Anthony Burgess 66. "Of Human Bondage, " W. Somerset Maugham 67. "Heart of Darkness, " Joseph Conrad 68. "Main Street, " Sinclair Lewis 69. "The House of Mirth, " Edith Wharton 70. "The Alexandria Quartet, " Lawrence Durrell 71. "A High Wind in Jamaica, " Richard Hughes 72. "A House for Ms. Biswas, " V. S. Naipaul 73. "The Day of the Locust, " Nathaniel West 74. "A Farewell to Arms, " Ernest Hemingway 75. "Scoop, " Evelyn Waugh 76. "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, " Muriel Spark 77. "Finnegans Wake, " James Joyce 78. "Kim, " Rudyard Kipling 79. "A Room With a View, " E. M. Forster 80. "Brideshead Revisited, " Evelyn Waugh 81. "The Adventures of Augie March, " Saul Bellow 82. "Angle of Repose, " Wallace Stegner 83. "A Bend in the River, " V. S. Naipaul 84. "The Death of the Heart, " Elizabeth Bowen 85. "Lord Jim, " Joseph Conrad 86. "Ragtime, " E. L. Doctorow 87. "The Old Wives' Tale, " Arnold Bennett 88. "The Call of the Wild, " Jack London 89. "Loving, " Henry Green 90. "Midnight's Children, " Salman Rushdie 91. "Tobacco Road, " Erskine Caldwell 92. "Ironweed, " William Kennedy 93. "The Magus, " John Fowles 94. "Wide Sargasso Sea, " Jean Rhys 95. "Under the Net, " Iris Murdoch 96. "Sophie's Choice, " William Styron 97. "The Sheltering Sky, " Paul Bowles 98. "The Postman Always Rings Twice, " James M. Cain 99. "The Ginger Man, " J. P. Donleavy 100. "The Magnificent Ambersons, " Booth Tarkington