The Modern Library Board has selected and ranked what it considers to be the best novels published in the English language since 1900. The majority of the books listed are available in the I. D. Weeks Library.  Search the Library Catalog for location details.

1. Ulysses by James Joyce (PR6019 .09 U45 1961)
2. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (PS3511 .I9 G7x)
3. A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man by James Joyce (PR6019 .09 P63 1964)
4. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (PS3527 .A15 L65x)
5. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (PR6015 .U9 B73x)
6. The Sound and The Fury by William Faulkner (PS3511 .A86 S68x 1956)
7. Catch- 22 by Joseph Heller (PS3558 .E44x C37)
8. Darkness At Noon by Arthur Koestler (PR6021 .04 D3x)
9. Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence (PR6023 .A93 S66x)
10. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (PS3537 .T3234 G8 1939)
11. Under The Volcano by Malcolm Lowry (PR6023 .096 U53x)
12. The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler (PR4349 .B7 W35x)
13. 1984 by George Orwell (PR6029 .R8 N5x 1961)
14. I, Claudius by Robert Graves (PR6013 .R35 I24x)
15. To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf (PR6045 .072 T6x)
16. An American Tragedy by Theodore Drieser (PS3507 .R55 D74)
17. The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers (PS3525 .A1772 H43x 1967)
18. Slaughterhouse- Five by Kurt Vonnegut (PS3572 .O5 S55x 1969)
19. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison (PS3555 .L625 I59x)
20. Native Son by Richard Wright (PS3545 .R815 N37x 1978)
21. Henderson The Rain King by Saul Bellow (PS3503 .E4488 H45x)
22. Appointment In Samarra by John O'Hara (PS3529 .H29 A66x 1976)
23. U.S.A. (trilogy) by John Dos Passos (PS3507 .O743 A15)
24. Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson (PS3501 .N4 W35 1947)
25. A Passage To India by E. M. Forster (PR6011 .O58 P37x 1924)
26. The Wings Of The Dove by Henry James (PS2116 .W55x C76)
27. The Ambassadors by Henry James (PS2116 .A421)
28. Tender Is The Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald (PS3511 .I94 T4)
29. The Studs Lonigan Trilogy by James T. Farrell (PS3511 .A738 T7x)
30. The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford (PR6011.O53 G5 1996)
31. Animal Farm by George Orwell (PR6029 .R8 A53x 1946)
32. The Golden Bowl by Henry James (PS2116 .G6 1904)
33. Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser (PS3507 .R55S5 1959)
34. A Handful Of Dust by Evelyn Waugh (PR6045 .A97 H35x)
35. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner (PS3511 .A86 A8x)
36. All The King's Men by Robert Penn Warren (PS3545 .A748 A44x)
37. The Bridge Of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder (PS3545 .I345 B75x 1927)
38. Howard's End by E. M. Forster (PR6011 .O58 H6x)
39. Go Tell It On The Mountain by James Baldwin (PS3552 .A45 G6x)
40. The Heart Of The Matter by Graham Greene (PR6013 .R44 H4x)
41. Lord Of The Flies by William Golding  (PR6013 .O33 L6 1999)
42. Deliverance by James Dickey (PS3554 .I32 D4x)
43. A Dance To The Music Of Time (series) by Anthony Powell (PR6031 .O74 A15 1962)
44. Point Counter Point by Aldous Huxley (PR6019 .36 P65 1928)
45. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway (PS3515 .E37 S915x)
46. The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad (PR6005 .O4 S43x)
47. Nostromo by Joseph Conrad (PR6005 .O4 N65x)
48. The Rainbow by D. H. Lawrence (PR6023 .A93 R25 1915)
49. Women In Love by D. H. Lawrence (PR6023 .A93 W65x)
50. Tropic Of Cancer by Henry Miller (PS3525 .I544 T7 1961)
51. The Naked And The Dead by Norman Mailer (PS325 .A27x N3)
52. Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth (PS3568 .O85 P6x)
53. Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov (PS3527 A15 P35x)
54. Light In August by William Faulkner (PS3511 .A86 L54x)
55. On The Road by Jack Kerouac (PS3521 .E73 O58x)
56. The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett (PS3515 .A4347)
57. Parade's End by Ford Madox Ford (823 F71 P)
58. The Age Of Innocence by Edith Wharton (PS3545 .H16 A35x)
59. Zuleika Dobson by Max Beerbohm (PR6003 E4 Z45 1926)
60. The Moviegoer by Walker Percy (PS3531 .E7x M69)
61. Death Comes For The Archbishop by Willa Cather (PS30 .A87 O432x)
62. From Here To Eternity by James Jones (PS360 .O49 F76x)
63. The Wapshot Chronicles by John Cheever (PS3505 .H6428 W36x 1957)
64. The Catcher In The Rye by J. D. Salinger (PS337 .A426 C37x)
65. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess (PR6052 .U638 C56x)
66. Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham (PR6025 .A86 O4 1936b)
67. Heart Of Darkness by Joseph Conrad (PR6005 .O4 H43x)
68. Main Street by Sinclair Lewis (PS3523 .E94 M35x)
69. The House Of Mirth by Edith Wharton (PS3545 .H16H68x)
70. The Alexandria Quartet by Lawrence Durell (PR6007 .U76 A4x)
71. A High Wind In Jamaica by Richard Hughes (PR6015 .U35 I55)
72. A House For Mr. Biswas by V. S. Naipaul (PR9272 .9 N32 H6 1983)
73. The Day Of The Locust by Nathanael West (PS3545 .E8334 1939)
74. A Farewell To Arms by Ernest Hemingway (PS3515 .E37 F37x)
75. Scoop by Evelyn Waugh (PR6045 .A97 S2x)
76. The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark (PR6037 .P29 P75x)
77. Finnegan's Wake by James Joyce (PR6019 .O9 F58x)
78. Kim by Rudyard Kipling (PR4854 .K55x 1920)
79. A Room With A View by E. M. Forster (PR6011 .O8 R66 1923)
80. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh (PR6045 .A97 B7 1945a)
81. The Adventures Of Augie March by Saul Bellow (PS3503 .E4488 A39x)
82. Angle Of Repose by Wallace Stegner (PS3537 .T316 A8)
83. A Bend In The River by V. S. Naipaul  (PR9272.9 N32 B4 1997)
84. The Death Of The Heart by Elizabeth Bowen (PR6003 .O6757 D4 1939)
85. Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad (PR 6005 .O4L67x 1958)
86. Ragtime by E. L. Doctorow (PS3554 .O3 R35x)
87. The Old Wives' Tale by Arnold Bennett (PR6003 .E604 1911a)
88. The Call Of The Wild by Jack London (PR3523 .O46 C35x 1907)
89. Loving by Henry Green (PR6013 .R43x L6)
90. Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
91. Tobacco Road by Erskine Caldwell (813 C127t)
92. Ironweed by William Kennedy (PS3516 .E42817 1983)
93. The Magus by John Fowles (PR6056 .O85 M34x)
94. Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys (PR6035 .H96 W53x 1982)
95. Under The Net by Iris Murdoch (PR6063 .U7 U5 1982)
96. Sophie's Choice by William Styron (PS3569 .T9 S66x)
97. The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles (PS3552 .O57x S5)
98. The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain (PS3505 .A3113 P67x)
99. The Ginger Man by J. P. Donleavy  (PS3507 .O686 G56 1988)
100. The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington (PS2972 .M25 M34)