Random House 100 Best Novels

 

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

     
      

     
     

101. ATLAS SHRUGGED by Ayn Rand
     
102. THE FOUNTAINHEAD by Ayn Rand
     
103. BATTLEFIELD EARTH by L. Ron Hubbard
     
104. THE LORD OF THE RINGS by J.R.R. Tolkien
     
105. TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD by Harper Lee
     
106. 1984 by George Orwell
     
107. ANTHEM by Ayn Rand
     
108. WE THE LIVING by Ayn Rand
     
109. MISSION EARTH by L. Ron Hubbard
     
110. FEAR by L. Ron Hubbard
     
111. ULYSSES by James Joyce
     
112. CATCH-22 by Joseph Heller
     
113. THE GREAT GATSBY by F. Scott Fitzgerald
     
114. DUNE by Frank Herbert
     
115. THE MOON IS A HARSH MISTRESS by Robert Heinlein
     
116. STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND by Robert Heinlein
     
117. A TOWN LIKE ALICE by Nevil Shute
     
118. BRAVE NEW WORLD by Aldous Huxley
     
119. THE CATCHER IN THE RYE by J.D. Salinger
     
120. ANIMAL FARM by George Orwell
     
121. GRAVITY'S RAINBOW by Thomas Pynchon
     
122. THE GRAPES OF WRATH by John Steinbeck
     
123. SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE by Kurt Vonnegut
     
124. GONE WITH THE WIND by Margaret Mitchell
     
125. LORD OF THE FLIES by William Golding
     
126. SHANE by Jack Schaefer
     
127. TRUSTEE FROM THE TOOLROOM by Nevil Shute
     
128. A PRAYER FOR OWEN MEANY by John Irving
     
129. THE STAND by Stephen King
     
130. THE FRENCH LIEUTENANT'S WOMANby John Fowles
     
131. BELOVED by Toni Morrison
     
132. THE WORM OUROBOROS by E.R. Eddison
     
133. THE SOUND AND THE FURY by William Faulkner
     
134. LOLITA by Vladimir Nabokov
     
135. MOONHEART by Charles de Lint
     
136. ABSALOM, ABSALOM! by William Faulkner
     
137. OF HUMAN BONDAGE by W. Somerset Maugham
     
138. WISE BLOOD by Flannery O'Connor
     
139. UNDER THE VOLCANO by Malcolm Lowry
     
140. FIFTH BUSINESS by Robertson Davies
     
141. SOMEPLACE TO BE FLYING by Charles de Lint
     
142. ON THE ROAD by Jack Kerouac
     
143. HEART OF DARKNESS by Joseph Conrad
     
144. YARROW by Charles de Lint
     
145. AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS by H.P. Lovecraft
     
146. ONE LONELY NIGHT by Mickey Spillane
     
147. MEMORY AND DREAM by Charles de Lint
     
148. TO THE LIGHTHOUSE by Virginia Woolf
     
149. THE MOVIEGOER by Walker Percy
     
150. TRADER by Charles de Lint
     
151. THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY by Douglas Adams
     
152. THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER by Carson McCullers
     
153. THE HANDMAID'S TALE by Margaret Atwood
     
154. BLOOD MERIDIAN by Cormac McCarthy
     
155. A CLOCKWORK ORANGE by Anthony Burgess
     
156. ON THE BEACH by Nevil Shute
     
157. A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN by James Joyce
     
158. GREENMANTLE by Charles de Lint
     
159. ENDER'S GAME by Orson Scott Card
     
160. THE LITTLE COUNTRY by Charles de Lint
     
161. THE RECOGNITIONS by William Gaddis
     
162. STARSHIP TROOPERS by Robert Heinlein
     
163. THE SUN ALSO RISES by Ernest Hemingway
     
164. THE WORLD ACCORDING TO GARP by John Irving
     
165. SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES by Ray Bradbury
     
166. THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE by Shirley Jackson
     
167. AS I LAY DYING by William Faulkner
     
168. TROPIC OF CANCER by Henry Miller
     
169. INVISIBLE MAN by Ralph Ellison
     
170. THE WOOD WIFE by Terri Windling
     
171. THE MAGUS by John Fowles
     
172. THE DOOR INTO SUMMER by Robert Heinlein
     
173. ZEN AND THE ART OF MOTORCYCLE MAINTENANCE by Robert Pirsig
     
174. I, CLAUDIUS by Robert Graves
     
175. THE CALL OF THE WILD by Jack London
     
176. AT SWIM-TWO-BIRDS by Flann O'Brien
     
177. FARENHEIT 451 by Ray Bradbury
     
178. ARROWSMITH by Sinclair Lewis
     
179. WATERSHIP DOWN by Richard Adams
     
180. NAKED LUNCH by William S. Burroughs
     
181. THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER by Tom Clancy
     
182. GUILTY PLEASURES by Laurell K. Hamilton
     
183. THE PUPPET MASTERS by Robert Heinlein
     
184. IT by Stephen King
     
185. V. by Thomas Pynchon
     
186. DOUBLE STAR by Robert Heinlein
     
187. CITIZEN OF THE GALAXY by Robert Heinlein
     
188. BRIDESHEAD REVISITED by Evelyn Waugh
     
189. LIGHT IN AUGUST by William Faulkner
     
190. ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NESTby Ken Kesey
     
191. A FAREWELL TO ARMS by Ernest Hemingway
     
192. THE SHELTERING SKY by Paul Bowles
     
193. SOMETIMES A GREAT NOTION by Ken Kesey
     
194. MY ANTONIA by Willa Cather
     
195. MULENGRO by Charles de Lint
     
196. SUTTREE by Cormac McCarthy
     
197. MYTHAGO WOOD by Robert Holdstock
     
198. ILLUSIONS by Richard Bach
     
199. THE CUNNING MAN by Robertson Davies
     
200. THE SATANIC VERSES by Salman Rushdie
     

      
      

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