| NEW - Top Ten Novels - In ORDER!
This is the long-awaited top ten book list.
It responds to the oft-asked question, "so what the
hell books do you like?"
Top Ten Novels (in English)
- 1. Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller
- 2. Lolita, Vladmir Nabokov
- 3. On the Road, Jack Kerouac
- 4. Mustang Sally, Edward Allen
- 5. The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera
- 6. The Fountainhead, Ayn Rand
- 7. The Sportswriter, Richard Ford
- 8. Sieze the Day, Saul Bellow
- 9. A Confederacy of Dunces, O'Toole
- 10. Jailbird, Kurt Vonnegut
- 11. 1984, George Orwell
Warning: If you read the above list and think to yourself:
'Where's the literature?' you
probably spend too much
time inside and you need to refer to the Modern Library list of top novels.
Also, if you're wondering who O'Toole is, see: Percy, Walker.
Also, if you think Rand is a weak writer, you're right, but this list
isn't just about style. For style-only writing see: Hemingway, Ernest. |
The top 50 novels of the century in English
compiled by the editorial board of the Modern Library
Very Interesting (and, in my opinion, well chosen)
- 1. Ulysses, James Joyce
- 2. The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
- 3. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce
- 4. Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
- 5. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
- 6. The Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner
- 7. Catch-22, Joseph Heller
- 8. Darkenss at Noon, Arthur Koestler
- 9. Sons and Lovers, D.H. Lawrence
- 10. The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck
- 11. Under the Volcano, Malcolm Lowry
- 12. The Way of All Flesh, Samuel Butler
- 13. 1984, George Orwell
- 14. I, Claudius, Robert Graves
- 15. To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf
- 16. An American Tragedy, Theodore Dreiser
- 17. The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers
- 18. Slaughterhouse Five, Kurt Vonnegut
- 19. Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison
- 20. Native Son, Richard Wright
- 21. Henderson and the Rain King, Saul Bellow
- 22. Appointment in Samarra, John O'Hara
- 23. U.S.A. (trilogy), John Dos Passos
- 24. Winesburg, Ohio, Sherwood Anderson
- 25. A Passage to India, E.M. Forster
- 26. The Wings of the Dove, Henry James
- 27. The Ambassadors, Henry James
- 28. Tender Is the Night, F. Scott Fitzgerald
- 29. The Studs Lonigan Trilogy, James T. Farrell
- 30. The Good Soldier, Ford Maddox Ford
- 31. Animal Farm, George Orwell
- 32. The Golden Bowl, Henry James
- 33. Sister Carrie, Theodore Dreiser
- 34. A Handful of Dust, Evelyn Waugh
- 35. As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner
- 36. All the King's Men, Robert Penn Warren
- 37. The Bridge of San Luis Rey, Thornton Wilder
- 38. Howards End, E.M. Forster
- 39. Go Tell It on the Mountain, James Baldwin
- 40. The Heart of the Matter, Graham Greene
- 41. Lord of the Flies, William Golding
- 42. Deliverance, James Dickey
- 43. A Dance to the Music of Time (series), Anthony Powell
- 44. Point Counter Point, Aldous Huxley
- 45. The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway
- 46. The Secret Agent, Joseph Conrad
- 47. Nostromo, Joseph Conrad
- 48. The Rainbow, D.H. Lawrence
- 49. Women in Love, D.H. Lawrence
- 50. Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller
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