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
• UNDER THE VOLCANO by Malcolm Lowry
• THE WAY OF ALL FLESH by Samuel Butler
• 1984 by George Orwell
• I, CLAUDIUS by Robert Graves
• TO THE LIGHTHOUSE by Virginia Woolf
• AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY by Theodore Dreiser
• THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER by Carson McCullers
• SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE by Kurt Vonnegut
• INVISIBLE MAN by Ralph Ellison
• NATIVE SON by Richard Wright
• HENDERSON THE RAIN KING by Saul Bellow
• APPOINTMENT IN SAMARRA by John O'Hara
• U.S.A. (trilogy) by John Dos Passos
• WINESBURG, OHIO by Sherwood Anderson
• A PASSAGE TO INDIA by E.M. Forster
• THE WINGS OF THE DOVE by Henry James
• THE AMBASSADORS by Henry James
• TENDER IS THE NIGHT by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• THE STUDS LONIGAN TRILOGY by James T. Farrell
• THE GOOD SOLDIER by Ford Madox Ford
• ANIMAL FARM by George Orwell
• THE GOLDEN BOWL by Henry James
• SISTER CARRIE by Theodore Dreiser
• A HANDFUL OF DUST by Evelyn Waugh
• AS I LAY DYING by William Faulkner
• ALL THE KING'S MEN by Robert Penn Warren
• THE BRIDGE OF SAN LUIS REY by Thornton Wilder
• HOWARDS END by E.M. Forster
• GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN by James Baldwin
• THE HEART OF THE MATTER by Graham Greene
• LORD OF THE FLIES by William Golding
• DELIVERANCE by James Dickey
• A DANCE TO THE MUSIC OF TIME (series) by Anthony Powell
• POINT COUNTER POINT by Aldous Huxley
• THE SUN ALSO RISES by Ernest Hemingway
• THE SECRET AGENT by Joseph Conrad
• NOSTROMO by Joseph Conrad
• THE RAINBOW by D.H. Lawrence
• WOMEN IN LOVE by D.H. Lawrence
• TROPIC OF CANCER by Henry Miller
• THE NAKED AND THE DEAD by Norman Mailer
• PORTNOY'S COMPLAINT by Philip Roth
• PALE FIRE by Vladimir Nabokov
• LIGHT IN AUGUST by William Faulkner
• ON THE ROAD by Jack Kerouac
• THE MALTESE FALCON by Dashiell Hammett
• PARADE'S END by Ford Madox Ford
• THE AGE OF INNOCENCE by Edith Wharton
• ZULEIKA DOBSON by Max Beerbohm
• THE MOVIEGOER by Walker Percy
• DEATH COMES FOR THE ARCHBISHOP by Willa Cather
• FROM HERE TO ETERNITY by James Jones
• THE WAPSHOT CHRONICLES by John Cheever
• THE CATCHER IN THE RYE by J.D. Salinger
• A CLOCKWORK ORANGE by Anthony Burgess
• OF HUMAN BONDAGE by W. Somerset Maugham
• HEART OF DARKNESS by Joseph Conrad
• MAIN STREET by Sinclair Lewis
• THE HOUSE OF MIRTH by Edith Wharton
• THE ALEXANDRIA QUARTET by Lawrence Durell
• A HIGH WIND IN JAMAICA by Richard Hughes
• A HOUSE FOR MR BISWAS by V.S. Naipaul
• THE DAY OF THE LOCUST by Nathanael West
• A FAREWELL TO ARMS by Ernest Hemingway
• SCOOP by Evelyn Waugh
• THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE by Muriel Spark
• FINNEGANS WAKE by James Joyce
• KIM by Rudyard Kipling
• A ROOM WITH A VIEW by E.M. Forster
• BRIDESHEAD REVISITED by Evelyn Waugh
• THE ADVENTURES OF AUGIE MARCH by Saul Bellow
• ANGLE OF REPOSE by Wallace Stegner
• A BEND IN THE RIVER by V.S. Naipaul
• THE DEATH OF THE HEART by Elizabeth Bowen
• LORD JIM by Joseph Conrad
• RAGTIME by E.L. Doctorow
• THE OLD WIVES' TALE by Arnold Bennett
• THE CALL OF THE WILD by Jack London
• LOVING by Henry Green
• MIDNIGHT'S CHILDREN by Salman Rushdie
• TOBACCO ROAD by Erskine Caldwell
• IRONWEED by William Kennedy
• THE MAGUS by John Fowles
• WIDE SARGASSO SEA by Jean Rhys
• UNDER THE NET by Iris Murdoch
• SOPHIE'S CHOICE by William Styron
• THE SHELTERING SKY by Paul Bowles
• THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE by James M. Cain
• THE GINGER MAN by J.P. Donleavy THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS by Booth arkington

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
• ULYSSES by James Joyce
• CATCH-22 by Joseph Heller
• THE GREAT GATSBY by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• DUNE by Frank Herbert
• THE MOON IS A HARSH MISTRESS by Robert Heinlein
• STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND by Robert Heinlein
• A TOWN LIKE ALICE by Nevil Shute
• BRAVE NEW WORLD by Aldous Huxley
• THE CATCHER IN THE RYE by J.D. Salinger
• ANIMAL FARM by George Orwell
• GRAVITY'S RAINBOW by Thomas Pynchon
• THE GRAPES OF WRATH by John Steinbeck
• SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE by Kurt Vonnegut
• GONE WITH THE WIND by Margaret Mitchell
• LORD OF THE FLIES by William Golding
• SHANE by Jack Schaefer
• TRUSTEE FROM THE TOOLROOM by Nevil Shute
• A PRAYER FOR OWEN MEANY by John Irving
• THE STAND by Stephen King
• THE FRENCH LIEUTENANT'S WOMAN by John Fowles
• BELOVED by Toni Morrison
• THE WORM OUROBOROS by E.R. Eddison
• THE SOUND AND THE FURY by William Faulkner
• LOLITA by Vladimir Nabokov
• MOONHEART by Charles de Lint
• ABSALOM, ABSALOM! by William Faulkner
• OF HUMAN BONDAGE by W. Somerset Maugham
• WISE BLOOD by Flannery O'Connor
• UNDER THE VOLCANO by Malcolm Lowry
• FIFTH BUSINESS by Robertson Davies
• SOMEPLACE TO BE FLYING by Charles de Lint
• ON THE ROAD by Jack Kerouac
• HEART OF DARKNESS by Joseph Conrad
• YARROW by Charles de Lint
• AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS by H.P. Lovecraft
• ONE LONELY NIGHT by Mickey Spillane
• MEMORY AND DREAM by Charles de Lint
• TO THE LIGHTHOUSE by Virginia Woolf
• THE MOVIEGOER by Walker Percy
• TRADER by Charles de Lint
• THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY by Douglas Adams
• THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER by Carson McCullers
• THE HANDMAID'S TALE by Margaret Atwood
• BLOOD MERIDIAN by Cormac McCarthy
• A CLOCKWORK ORANGE by Anthony Burgess
• ON THE BEACH by Nevil Shute
• A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN by James Joyce
• GREENMANTLE by Charles de Lint
• ENDER'S GAME by Orson Scott Card
• THE LITTLE COUNTRY by Charles de Lint
• THE RECOGNITIONS by William Gaddis
• STARSHIP TROOPERS by Robert Heinlein
• THE SUN ALSO RISES by Ernest Hemingway
• THE WORLD ACCORDING TO GARP by John Irving
• SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES by Ray Bradbury
• THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE by Shirley Jackson
• AS I LAY DYING by William Faulkner
• TROPIC OF CANCER by Henry Miller
• INVISIBLE MAN by Ralph Ellison
• THE WOOD WIFE by Terri Windling
• THE MAGUS by John Fowles
• THE DOOR INTO SUMMER by Robert Heinlein
• ZEN AND THE ART OF MOTORCYCLE MAINTENANCE by Robert Pirsig
• I, CLAUDIUS by Robert Graves
• THE CALL OF THE WILD by Jack London
• AT SWIM-TWO-BIRDS by Flann O'Brien
• FARENHEIT 451 by Ray Bradbury
• ARROWSMITH by Sinclair Lewis
• WATERSHIP DOWN by Richard Adams
• NAKED LUNCH by William S. Burroughs
• THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER by Tom Clancy
• GUILTY PLEASURES by Laurell K. Hamilton
• THE PUPPET MASTERS by Robert Heinlein
• IT by Stephen King
• V. by Thomas Pynchon
• DOUBLE STAR by Robert Heinlein
• CITIZEN OF THE GALAXY by Robert Heinlein
• BRIDESHEAD REVISITED by Evelyn Waugh
• LIGHT IN AUGUST by William Faulkner
• ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST by Ken Kesey
• A FAREWELL TO ARMS by Ernest Hemingway
• THE SHELTERING SKY by Paul Bowles
• SOMETIMES A GREAT NOTION by Ken Kesey
• MY ANTONIA by Willa Cather
• MULENGRO by Charles de Lint
• SUTTREE by Cormac McCarthy
• MYTHAGO WOOD by Robert Holdstock
• ILLUSIONS by Richard Bach
• THE CUNNING MAN by Robertson Davies
• THE SATANIC VERSES by Salman Rushdie

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