Battle Of The Books: The Controversy Over The 100 Top Novels

1. Ulysses James Joyce (1922) 2.The Great GatsbyF. Scott Fitzgerald (1925) 3. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man James Joyce (1916) 4. LolitaVladimir Nabokov (1955) 5. Brave New WorldAldous Huxley (1932) 6. The Sound and the FuryWilliam Faulkner (1929) 7. Catch-22Joseph Heller (1961) 8. Darkness at Noon Arthur Koestler (1941) 9. Sons and LoversD. H. Lawrence (1913) 10. The Grapes of WrathJohn Steinbeck (1939) 11. Under the VolcanoMalcolm Lowry (1947) 12. The Way of All FleshSamuel Butler (1903) 13. 1984George Orwell (1949) 14. I, ClaudiusRobert Graves (1934) 15. To the LighthouseVirginia Woolf (1927) 16. An American TragedyTheodore Dreiser (1925) 17. The Heart Is a Lonely HunterCarson McCullers (1940) 18. Slaughterhouse FiveKurt Vonnegut, Jr. (1969) 19. Invisible ManRalph Ellison (1952) 20. Native SonRichard Wright (1940) 21. Henderson the Rain KingSaul Bellow (1959) 22. Appointment in SamarraJohn O'Hara (1934) 23. U.S.A. (trilogy)John Dos Passos (1936) 24. Winesburg, Ohio Sherwood Anderson (1919) 25. A Passage to IndiaE. M. Forster (1924) 26. The Wings of the DoveHenry James (1902) 27. The Ambassadors Henry James (1903) 28. Tender Is the Night E Scott Fitzgerald (1934) 29. Studs Lonigan (trilogy) James T. Farrell (1935) 30. The Good SoldierFord Madox Ford (1915) 31. Animal Farm George Orwell (1945) 32. The Golden Bowl Henry James (1904) 33. Sister Carrie Theodore Dreiser (1900) 34. A Handful of DustEvelyn Waugh (1934) 35. As I Lay Dying William Faulkner (1930) 36. All the King's MenRobert Penn Warren (1946) 37. The Bridge of San LuisRey Thornton Wilder (1927) 38. Howards End E. M. Forster (1910) 39. Go Tell It on the MountainJames Baldwin (1953) 40. The Heart of the MatterGraham Greene (1948) 41. Lord of the FliesWilliam Golding (1954) 42. DeliveranceJames Dickey (1970) 43. A Dance to the Music of Time (series)Anthony Powell (1975) 44. Point Counter Point Aldous Huxley (1928) 45. The Sun Also RisesErnest Hemingway (1926) 46. The Secret AgentJoseph Conrad (1907) 47. Nostromo Joseph Conrad (1904) 48. The Rainbow D. H. Lawrence (1915) 49. Women in Love D. H. Lawrence (1920) 50. Tropic of CancerHenry Miller (1934) 51. The Naked and the DeadNorman Mailer (1948) 52. Portnoy's ComplaintPhilip Roth (1969) 53. Pale Fire Vladimir Nabokov (1962) 54. Light in August William Faulkner (1932) 55. On the RoadJack Kerouac (1957) 56. The Maltese FalconDashiell Hammett (1930) 57. Parade's End Ford Madox Ford (1928) 58. The Age of InnocenceEdith Wharton (1920) 59. Zuleika Dobson Max Beerbohm (1911) 60. The MoviegoerWalker Percy (1961) 61. Death Comes for the ArchbishopWilla Cather (1927) 62. From Here to EternityJames Jones (1951) 63. The Wapshot ChronicleJohn Cheever (1957) 64. The Catcher in the RyeJ. D. Salinger (1951) 65. A Clockwork OrangeAnthony Burgess (1962) 66. Of Human BondageW. Somerset Maugham (1915) 67. Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad (1902) 68. Main StreetSinclair Lewis (1920) 69. The House of Mirth Edith Wharton (1905) 70. The Alexandria QuartetLawrence Durrell (1960) 7I. A High Wind in JamaicaRichard Hughes (1929) 72. A House for Mr.Biswas7 V. S. Naipaul (1961) 73. The Day of the LocustNathanael West (1939) 74. A Farewell to Arms Ernest Hemingway (1929) 75. Scoop Evelyn Waugh (1938) 76. The Prime of Miss Jean BrodieMuriel Spark (1961) 77. Finnegans Wake James Joyce (1939) 78. KimRudyard 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 (1971) 82. Angle of ReposeWallace Stegner (1971) 83. A Bend in the River V. S. Naipaul (1979) 84. The Death of the HeartElizabeth Bowen (1938) 85. Lord Jim Joseph Conrad (1900) 86. RagtimeE. L. Doctorow (1975) 87. The 0ld Wives' TaleArnold Bennett (1908) 88. The Call of the WildJack London (1903) 89. LovingHenry Green (1945) 90. Midnight's ChildrenSalman Rushdie (1981) 91. Tobacco RoadErskine Caldwell (1932) 92. Ironweed William Kennedy (1983) 93. The MagusJohn Fowles (1966) 94. Wide Sargasso SeaJean Rhys (1966) 95. Under the NetIris Murdoch (1954) 96. Sophie's Choice William Styron (1979) 97. The Sheltering SkyPaul Bowles (1949) 50. The Postman Always Rings TwiceJames M. Cain (1934) 99. The Ginger Man J.P. Donleavy (1955) 100. The Magnificent Ambersons Booth Tarkington (1918)

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