100 Best Novels

The Board's List
# ULYSSES by James Joyce
# THE GREAT GATSBY by F. Scott Fitzgerald
# A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN by James Joyce
# LOLITA by Vladimir Nabokov
# BRAVE NEW WORLD by Aldous Huxley
# THE SOUND AND THE FURY by William Faulkner
# CATCH-22
# DARKNESS AT NOON by Arthur Koestler
# SONS AND LOVERS by D.H. Lawrence
# THE GRAPES OF WRATH by John Steinbeck
The Reader's List
# ATLAS SHRUGGED by Ayn Rand
# THE FOUNTAINHEAD by Ayn Rand
# BATTLEFIELD EARTH by L. Ron Hubbard
# THE LORD OF THE RINGS by J.R.R. Tolkien
# TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD by Harper Lee
# 1984 by George Orwell
# ANTHEM by Ayn Rand
# WE THE LIVING by Ayn Rand
# MISSION EARTH by L. Ron Hubbard
# FEAR by L. Ron Hubbard

1. ULYSSES by James Joyce

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2. THE GREAT GATSBY by F. Scott Fitzgerald
3. A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN by James Joyce
4. LOLITA by Vladimir Nabokov
5. BRAVE NEW WORLD by Aldous Huxley
6. THE SOUND AND THE FURY by William Faulkner
7. CATCH-22
8. DARKNESS AT NOON by Arthur Koestler
9. SONS AND LOVERS by D.H. Lawrence
10. THE GRAPES OF WRATH by John Steinbeck
UNDER THE VOLCANO by Malcolm Lowry
11. THE WAY OF ALL FLESH by Samuel Butler
12. 1984 by George Orwell
13. I, CLAUDIUS by Robert Graves
14. TO THE LIGHTHOUSE by Virginia Woolf
15. AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY by Theodore Dreiser
16. THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER by Carson McCullers
17. SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE by Kurt Vonnegut
18. INVISIBLE MAN by Ralph Ellison
19. NATIVE SON by Richard Wright
20. HENDERSON THE RAIN KING by Saul Bellow
21. APPOINTMENT IN SAMARRA by John O'Hara
22. U.S.A. (trilogy) by John Dos Passos
23. WINESBURG, OHIO by Sherwood Anderson
24. A PASSAGE TO INDIA by E.M. Forster
25. THE WINGS OF THE DOVE by Henry James
26. THE AMBASSADORS by Henry James
27. TENDER IS THE NIGHT by F. Scott Fitzgerald
28. THE STUDS LONIGAN TRILOGY by James T. Farrell
29. THE GOOD SOLDIER by Ford Madox Ford
30. ANIMAL FARM by George Orwell
31. THE GOLDEN BOWL by Henry James
32. SISTER CARRIE by Theodore Dreiser
33. A HANDFUL OF DUST by Evelyn Waugh
34. AS I LAY DYING by William Faulkner
35. ALL THE KING'S MEN by Robert Penn Warren
36. THE BRIDGE OF SAN LUIS REY by Thornton Wilder
37. HOWARDS END by E.M. Forster
38. GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN by James Baldwin
39. THE HEART OF THE MATTER by Graham Greene
40. LORD OF THE FLIES by William Golding
41. DELIVERANCE by James Dickey
42. A DANCE TO THE MUSIC OF TIME (series) by Anthony Powell
43. POINT COUNTER POINT by Aldous Huxley
44. THE SUN ALSO RISES by Ernest Hemingway
45. THE SECRET AGENT by Joseph Conrad
46. NOSTROMO by Joseph Conrad
47. THE RAINBOW by D.H. Lawrence
48. WOMEN IN LOVE by D.H. Lawrence
49. TROPIC OF CANCER by Henry Miller
50. THE NAKED AND THE DEAD by Norman Mailer
51. PORTNOY'S COMPLAINT by Philip Roth
52. PALE FIRE by Vladimir Nabokov
53. LIGHT IN AUGUST by William Faulkner
54. ON THE ROAD by Jack Kerouac
55. THE MALTESE FALCON by Dashiell Hammett
56. PARADE'S END by Ford Madox Ford
57. THE AGE OF INNOCENCE by Edith Wharton
58. ZULEIKA DOBSON by Max Beerbohm
59. THE MOVIEGOER by Walker Percy
60. DEATH COMES FOR THE ARCHBISHOP by Willa Cather
61. FROM HERE TO ETERNITY by James Jones
62. THE WAPSHOT CHRONICLES by John Cheever
63. THE CATCHER IN THE RYE by J.D. Salinger
64. A CLOCKWORK ORANGE by Anthony Burgess
65. OF HUMAN BONDAGE by W. Somerset Maugham
66. HEART OF DARKNESS by Joseph Conrad
67. MAIN STREET by Sinclair Lewis
68. THE HOUSE OF MIRTH by Edith Wharton
69. THE ALEXANDRIA QUARTET by Lawrence Durell
70. A HIGH WIND IN JAMAICA by Richard Hughes
71. A HOUSE FOR MR BISWAS by V.S. Naipaul
72. THE DAY OF THE LOCUST by Nathanael West
73. A FAREWELL TO ARMS by Ernest Hemingway
74. SCOOP by Evelyn Waugh
75. THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE by Muriel Spark
76. FINNEGANS WAKE by James Joyce
77. KIM by Rudyard Kipling
78. A ROOM WITH A VIEW by E.M. Forster
79. BRIDESHEAD REVISITED by Evelyn Waugh
80. THE ADVENTURES OF AUGIE MARCH by Saul Bellow
81. ANGLE OF REPOSE by Wallace Stegner
82. A BEND IN THE RIVER by V.S. Naipaul
83. THE DEATH OF THE HEART by Elizabeth Bowen
84. LORD JIM by Joseph Conrad
85. RAGTIME by E.L. Doctorow
86. THE OLD WIVES' TALE by Arnold Bennett
87. THE CALL OF THE WILD by Jack London
88. LOVING by Henry Green
89. MIDNIGHT'S CHILDREN by Salman Rushdie
90. TOBACCO ROAD by Erskine Caldwell
91. IRONWEED by William Kennedy
92. THE MAGUS by John Fowles
93. WIDE SARGASSO SEA by Jean Rhys
94. UNDER THE NET by Iris Murdoch
95. SOPHIE'S CHOICE by William Styron
96. THE SHELTERING SKY by Paul Bowles
97. THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE by James M. Cain
98. THE GINGER MAN by J.P. Donleavy
99. THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS by Booth Tarkington

1. ATLAS SHRUGGED by Ayn Rand
2. THE FOUNTAINHEAD by Ayn Rand
3. BATTLEFIELD EARTH by L. Ron Hubbard
4. THE LORD OF THE RINGS by J.R.R. Tolkien
5. TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD by Harper Lee
6. 1984 by George Orwell
7. ANTHEM by Ayn Rand
8. WE THE LIVING by Ayn Rand
9. MISSION EARTH by L. Ron Hubbard
10. FEAR by L. Ron Hubbard
11. ULYSSES by James Joyce
12. CATCH-22 by Joseph Heller
13. THE GREAT GATSBY by F. Scott Fitzgerald
14. DUNE by Frank Herbert
15. THE MOON IS A HARSH MISTRESS by Robert Heinlein
16. STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND by Robert Heinlein
17. A TOWN LIKE ALICE by Nevil Shute
18. BRAVE NEW WORLD by Aldous Huxley
19. THE CATCHER IN THE RYE by J.D. Salinger
20. ANIMAL FARM by George Orwell
21. GRAVITY'S RAINBOW by Thomas Pynchon
22. THE GRAPES OF WRATH by John Steinbeck
23. SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE by Kurt Vonnegut
24. GONE WITH THE WIND by Margaret Mitchell
25. LORD OF THE FLIES by William Golding
26. SHANE by Jack Schaefer
27. TRUSTEE FROM THE TOOLROOM by Nevil Shute
28. A PRAYER FOR OWEN MEANY by John Irving
29. THE STAND by Stephen King
30. THE FRENCH LIEUTENANT'S WOMAN by John Fowles
31. BELOVED by Toni Morrison
32. THE WORM OUROBOROS by E.R. Eddison
33. THE SOUND AND THE FURY by William Faulkner
34. LOLITA by Vladimir Nabokov
35. MOONHEART by Charles de Lint
36. ABSALOM, ABSALOM! by William Faulkner
37. OF HUMAN BONDAGE by W. Somerset Maugham
38. WISE BLOOD by Flannery O'Connor
39. UNDER THE VOLCANO by Malcolm Lowry
40. FIFTH BUSINESS by Robertson Davies
41. SOMEPLACE TO BE FLYING by Charles de Lint
42. ON THE ROAD by Jack Kerouac
43. HEART OF DARKNESS by Joseph Conrad
44. YARROW by Charles de Lint
45. AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS by H.P. Lovecraft
46. ONE LONELY NIGHT by Mickey Spillane
47. MEMORY AND DREAM by Charles de Lint
48. TO THE LIGHTHOUSE by Virginia Woolf
49. THE MOVIEGOER by Walker Percy
50. TRADER by Charles de Lint
51. THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY by Douglas Adams
52. THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER by Carson McCullers
53. THE HANDMAID'S TALE by Margaret Atwood
54. BLOOD MERIDIAN by Cormac McCarthy
55. A CLOCKWORK ORANGE by Anthony Burgess
56. ON THE BEACH by Nevil Shute
57. A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN by James Joyce
58. GREENMANTLE by Charles de Lint
59. ENDER'S GAME by Orson Scott Card
60. THE LITTLE COUNTRY by Charles de Lint
61. THE RECOGNITIONS by William Gaddis
62. STARSHIP TROOPERS by Robert Heinlein
63. THE SUN ALSO RISES by Ernest Hemingway
64. THE WORLD ACCORDING TO GARP by John Irving
65. SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES by Ray Bradbury
66. THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE by Shirley Jackson
67. AS I LAY DYING by William Faulkner
68. TROPIC OF CANCER by Henry Miller
69. INVISIBLE MAN by Ralph Ellison
70. THE WOOD WIFE by Terri Windling
71. THE MAGUS by John Fowles
72. THE DOOR INTO SUMMER by Robert Heinlein
73. ZEN AND THE ART OF MOTORCYCLE MAINTENANCE by Robert Pirsig
74. I, CLAUDIUS by Robert Graves
75. THE CALL OF THE WILD by Jack London
76. AT SWIM-TWO-BIRDS by Flann O'Brien
77. FARENHEIT 451 by Ray Bradbury
78. ARROWSMITH by Sinclair Lewis
79. WATERSHIP DOWN by Richard Adams
80. NAKED LUNCH by William S. Burroughs
81. THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER by Tom Clancy
82. GUILTY PLEASURES by Laurell K. Hamilton
83. THE PUPPET MASTERS by Robert Heinlein
84. IT by Stephen King
85. V. by Thomas Pynchon
86. DOUBLE STAR by Robert Heinlein
87. CITIZEN OF THE GALAXY by Robert Heinlein
88. BRIDESHEAD REVISITED by Evelyn Waugh
89. LIGHT IN AUGUST by William Faulkner
90. ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST by Ken Kesey
91. A FAREWELL TO ARMS by Ernest Hemingway
92. THE SHELTERING SKY by Paul Bowles
93. SOMETIMES A GREAT NOTION by Ken Kesey
94. MY ANTONIA by Willa Cather
95. MULENGRO by Charles de Lint
96. SUTTREE by Cormac McCarthy
97. MYTHAGO WOOD by Robert Holdstock
98. ILLUSIONS by Richard Bach
99. THE CUNNING MAN by Robertson Davies
100. THE SATANIC VERSES by Salman Rushdie

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