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 |