Greatest Modern Books 1-50

Achebe, Chinua : Things Fall Apart

Agee, James : A Death in the Family

Amis, Kingsley : Lucky Jim

Amis, Martin : Money

Atwood, Margaret : The Blind Assassin

Baldwin, James : Go Tell it on the Mountain

Barth, John : The Sot-Weed Factor

Bellow, Saul : The Adventures of Augie March

Bellow, Saul : Herzog

Blume, Judy : Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret

Bowen, Elizabeth : The Death of the Heart

Bowles, Paul : The Sheltering Sky

Burgess, Anthony : A Clockwork Orange

Burroughs, William : Naked Lunch

Byatt, A.S. : Posession

Cather, Willa : Death Comes for the Archbishop

Chandler, Raymond : The Big Sleep

Cheever, John : Falconer

DeLillo, Don : White Noise

Dickey, James : Deliverance

Didion, Joan : Play It As It Lays

Doctorow, E.L. : Ragtime

Dreiser, Theodore : An American Tragedy

Ellison, Ralph : Invisible Man

Faulkner, William : Light in August

Faulkner, William : The Sound and the Fury

Fitzgerald, F. Scott : The Great Gatsby

Ford, Richard : The Sportswriter

Forster, E.M. : A Passage to India

Fowles, John : The French Lieutenant's Woman

Franzen, Jonathan : The Corrections

Gaddis, William : The Recognitions

Gibson, William : Neuromancer

Golding, William : Lord of the Flies

Graves, Robert : I, Claudius

Green, Henry : Loving

Greene, Graham : The Heart of the Matter

Greene, Graham : The Power and the Glory

Hammett, Dashiell : Red Harvest

Heller, Joseph : Catch-22

Hemingway, Ernest : The Sun Also Rises

Isherwood, Christopher : The Berlin Stories

Ishiguro, Kazuo : Never Let Me Go

K. Dick, Philip : Ubik

Kerouac, Jack : On the Road

Kesey, Ken : One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Kosinski, Jerzy : The Painted Bird

LeCarre, John : The Spy Who Came in From the Cold

Lee, Harper : To Kill a Mockingbird

Lessig, Doris : The Golden Notebook

Greatest Modern Books 51-100

Lewis, C.S. : The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe

Lowrey, Malcolm : Under the Volcano

Malamud, Bernard : The Assistant

McCarthy, Cormac : Blood Meridian

McCullers, Carson : The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter

McEwan, Ian : Atonement

Miller, Henry : Tropic of Cancer

Mitchell, Margaret : Gone With the Wind

Moore, Alan : Watchmen

Morrison, Toni : Beloved

Murdoch, Iris : Under the Net

Nabokov, Vladimir : Lolita

Nabokov, Vladimir : Pale Fire

Naipaul, V.S. : A House for Mr. Biswas

Neale Hurston, Zora : Their Eyes Were Watching God

O'Brien, Flann : At Swim-Two-Birds

O'Hara, John : Appointment in Samarra

Orwell, George : Animal Farm

Orwell, George : 1984

Penn Warren, Robert : All the King's Men

Percy, Walker : The Moviegoer

Powell, Anthony : A Dance to the Music of Time

Pynchon, Thomas : The Crying of Lot 49

Pynchon, Thomas : Gravity's Rainbow

Rhys, Jean : Wide Sargasso Sea

Robinson, Marilynne : Housekeeping

Roth, Henry : Call It Sleep

Roth, Philip : American Pastoral

Roth, Philip : Portnoy's Complaint

Rushdie, Salman : Midnight's Children

Salinger, J.D. : The Catcher in the Rye

Smith, Zadie : White Teeth

Spark, Muriel : The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

Stead, Christina : The Man Who Loved Children

Steinbeck, John : The Grapes of Wrath

Stephenson, Neal : Snow Crash

Stone, Robert : Dog Soldiers

Styron, William : The Confessions of Nat Turner

Tolkein, J.R.R. : The Lord of the Rings

Updike, John : Rabbit, Run

Vonnegut, Kurt : Slaughterhouse-Five

Wallace, David Foster : Infinite Jest

Waugh, Evelyn : Brideshead Revisited

Waugh, Evelyn : A Handful of Dust

West, Nathanael : The Day of the Locust

Wilder, Thornton : The Bridge of San Luis Rey

Woolf, Virginia : Mrs. Dalloway

Woolf, Virginia : To the Lighthouse

Wright, Richard : Native Son

Yates, Richard : Revolutionary Road