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The Hot 100
The Top 100 20th Century English-speaking novels
| Work | Author |
|---|---|
| Ulysses | James Joyce |
| The Great Gatsby | F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | James Joyce |
| Lolita | Vladimir Nabokov |
| Brave New World | Aldous Huxley |
| The Sound and the Fury | William Faulkner |
| Catch-22 | Joseph Heller |
| Darkness at Noon | Arthur Koestler |
| Sons and Lovers | D.H. Lawrence |
| The Grapes of Wrath | John Steinbeck |
| Under the Volcano | Malcolm Lowry |
| The Way of All Flesh | Samuel Butler |
| 1984 | George Orwell |
| I, Claudius | Robert Graves |
| To the Lighthouse | Virginia Woolf |
| An American Tragedy | Theodore Dreiser |
| The Heart is a Lonely Hunter | Carson McCullers |
| Slaughterhouse Five | Kurt Vonnegut |
| Invisible Man | Ralph Ellison |
| Native Son | Richard Wright |
| Henderson and the Rain King | Saul Bellow |
| Appointment to Samarra | John O'Hara |
| U.S.A. (trilogy) | John Dos Passos |
| Winesburg, Ohio | Sherwood Anderson |
| A Passage to India | E.M. Forster |
| The Wings of the Dove | Henry James |
| The Ambassadors | Henry James |
| Tender is the Night | F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| Studs Lonigan (trilogy) | James T. Farrell |
| The Good Soldier | Ford Maddox Ford |
| Animal Farm | George Orwell |
| The Golden Bowl | Henry James |
| Sister Carrie | Theodore Dreiser |
| A Handful of Dust | Evelyn Waugh |
| As I Lay Dying | William Faulkner |
| All the King's Men | Robert Penn Warren |
| The Bridge of San Luis Rey | Thornton Wilder |
| Howards End | E.M. Forster |
| Go Tell It on the Mountain | James Baldwin |
| The Heart of the Matter | Graham Greene |
| Lord of the Flies | William Golding |
| Deliverance | James Dickey |
| A Dance to the Music of Time (series) | Anthony Powell |
| Point Counter Point | Aldous Huxley |
| The Sun Also Rises | Ernest Hemingway |
| The Secret Argent | Joseph Conrad |
| Nostromo | Joseph Conrad |
| The Rainbow | D.H. Lawrence |
| Women In Love | D.H. Lawrence |
| Tropic of Cancer | Henry Miller |
| The Naked and the Dead | Norman Mailer |
| Portnoy's Complaint | Philip Roth |
| Pale Fire | Vladimir Nabokov |
| Light In August | William Faulkner |
| On the Road | Jack Kerouac |
| The Maltese Falcon | Dashiell Hammett |
| Parade's End | Ford Madox Ford |
| The Age of Innocence | Edith Wharton |
| Zuleika Dobson | Max Beerbohm |
| The Moviegoer | Walker Percy |
| Death Comes for the Archbishop | Willa Cather |
| From Here to Eternity | James Jones |
| The Wapshot Chronicle | John Cheever |
| The Catcher in the Rye | J.D. Salinger |
| A Clockwork Orange | Anthony Burgess |
| Of Human Bondage | W. Somerset Maugham |
| Heart of Darkness | Joseph Conrad |
| Main Street | Sinclair Lewis |
| The House of Mirth | Edith Wharton |
| The Alexandria Quartet | Lawrence Durrell |
| The High Wind in Jamaica | Richard Hughes |
| A House for Mr. Biswas | V.S. Naipaul |
| The Day of the Locust | Nathanael West |
| A Farewell To Arms | Ernest Hemingway |
| Scoop | Evelyn Waugh |
| The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie | Muriel Spark |
| Finnegans Wake | James Joyce |
| Kim | Rudyard Kipling |
| A Room With a View | E.M. Forster |
| Brideshead Revisited | Evelyn Waugh |
| The Adventures of Augie March | Saul Bellow |
| Angle of Repose | Wallace Stegner |
| A Bend in the River | V.S. Naipaul |
| The Death of the Heart | Elizabeth Bowen |
| Lord Jim | Joseph Conrad |
| Ragtime | E.L. Doctorow |
| The Old Wives' Tale | Arnold Bennett |
| The Call of the Wild | Jack London |
| Loving | Henry Green |
| Midnight's Children | Salaman Rushdie |
| Tobacco Road | Erskine Caldwell |
| Ironweed | William Kennedy |
| The Magus | John Fowles |
| Wide Sargasso Sea | Jean Rhys |
| Under the Net | Iris Murdoch |
| Sophie's Choice | William Styron |
| The Sheltering Sky | Paul Bowles |
| The Postman Always Rings Twice | James M. Cain |
| The Ginger Man | J.P. Donleavy |
| The Magnificent Ambersons | Booth Tarkington |