Top 100 Novels

Top 100 Novels

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