the UrbanSpaceman MENU Random House 100 Best English-language Novels of the 20th Century This list was selected by The Board of the Modern Library, a division of the US publishers Random House in 1998. My plan is to read them all, over however many years as it takes. This page is track my progress. I've also decided to try to read the books on a number of other lists - see List Central for more information. Read BBC means "Read before BookCrossing", so the the book is not registered on BC/has no journal entry. Number of Random House 100 Best novels read: 19 1 - Ulysses, James Joyce (1922) 2 - 3 - A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce (1916) 4 - Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov (1958) 5 - 6 - The Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner (1929) 7 - 8 - Darkness at Noon, Arthur Koestler (1941) 9 - Sons and Lovers, D. H. Lawrence (1913) 10 - The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck 11 - Under the Volcano, Malcolm Lowry (1947) 12 - The Way of All Flesh, Samuel Butler (1903) 13 - 14 - I, Claudius, Robert Graves (1934) 15 - To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf (1927) 16 - An American Tragedy, Theodore Dreiser (1925) 17 - 18 - 19 - Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison (1952) 20 - Native Son, Richard Wright (1940) 21 - Henderson the Rain King, Saul Bellow (1959) 22 - Appointment in Samarra, John O'Hara (1934) 23 - U.S.A. (trilogy), John Dos Passos (1937—trilogy completed) 24 - Winesburg, Ohio, Sherwood Anderson (1919) 25 - 26 - The Wings of the Dove, Henry James (1902) 27 - The Ambassadors, Henry James (1903) 28 - Tender is the Night, F Scott Fitzgerald (1934) 29 - The Studs Lonigan Trilogy, James T. Farrell (1935) 30 - The Good Soldier, Ford Madox Ford (1915) 31 - 32 - The Golden Bowl, Henry James (1904) 33 - Sister Carrie, Theodore Dreiser (1900) 34 - 35 - 36 - All the King's Men, Robert Penn Warren (1946) 37 - The Bridge of San Luis Rey, Thornton Wilder (1927) 38 - Howards End, E. M. Forster (1910) 39 - Go Tell It on the Mountain, James Baldwin (1953) 40 - 41 - 42 - Deliverance, James Dickey (1969) 43 - A Dance to the Music of Time (series), Anthony Powell (1975—series completed) 44 - Point Counter Point, Aldous Huxley (1928) 45 - The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway (1926) 46 - The Secret Agent, Joseph Conrad (1907) 47 - Nostromo, Joseph Conrad (1904) 48 - The Rainbow, D H Lawrence (1915) 49 - Women in Love, D. H. Lawrence (1921) 50 - Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller (1934) 51 - The Naked and the Dead, Norman Mailer (1948) 52 - Portnoy's Complaint, Philip Roth (1969) 53 - Pale Fire, Vladimir Nabokov (1962) 54 - Light in August, William Faulkner (1932) 55 - 56 - 57 - Parade's End, Ford Madox Ford (1950) 58 - The Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton (1920) 59 - Zuleika Dobson, Max Beerbohm (1911) 60 - The Moviegoer, Walker Percy (1961) 61 - Death Comes for the Archbishop, Willa Cather (1927) 62 - From Here to Eternity, James Jones (1951) 63 - The Wapshot Chronicles, John Cheever (1957) 64 - 65 - 66 - Of Human Bondage, W. Somerset Maugham (1915) 67 - 68 - Main Street, Sinclair Lewis (1920) 69 - The House of Mirth, Edith Wharton (1905) 70 - The Alexandria Quartet, Lawrence Durrell (1960—series completed) 71 - A High Wind in Jamaica, Richard Hughes (1929) 72 - A House for Mr. Biswas, V. S. Naipaul (1961) 73 - The Day of the Locust, Nathanael West (1939) 74 - 75 - Scoop, Evelyn Waugh (1938) 76 - The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Muriel Spark (1961) 77 - Finnegans Wake, James Joyce (1939) 78 - Kim, Rudyard Kipling (1901) 79 - A Room with a View, E. M. Forster (1908) 80 - Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh (1945) 81 - The Adventures of Augie March, Saul Bellow (1953) 82 - Angle of Repose, Wallace Stegner (1971) 83 - A Bend in the River, V. S. Naipaul (1979) 84 - The Death of the Heart, Elizabeth Bowen (1938) 85 - Lord Jim, Joseph Conrad (1900) 86 - Ragtime, E. L. Doctorow (1975) 87 - The Old Wives' Tale, Arnold Bennett (1908) 88 - The Call of the Wild, Jack London (1903) 89 - Loving, Henry Green (1945) 90 - Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie (1981) 91 - Tobacco Road, Erskine Caldwell (1933) 92 - Ironweed, William Kennedy (1983) 93 - 94 - Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys (1966) 95 - Under the Net, Iris Murdoch (1954) 96 - Sophie's Choice, William Styron (1979) 97 - The Sheltering Sky, Paul Bowles (1949) 98 - The Postman Always Rings Twice, James M. Cain (1934) 99 - The Ginger Man, J P Donleavy (1955) 100 - The Magnificent Ambersons, Booth Tarkington (1918) |
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