| Ranking |
Name of Novel |
Author(s) |
| 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. |
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 |
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 FOR 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 Durell |
| 71 |
A HIGH WIND IN JAMAICA |
Richard Hughes |
| 72 |
A HOUSE FOR MR BISWAS |
V.S. Naipaul |
| 73 |
THE DAY OF THE LOCUST |
Nathanael 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 |
