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Modern Library 100 Best Novels

Modern Library 100 Best Novels In 1998, Modern Library picked the top 100 Novels of the century. This list contains all of the books from our collection that made the list. The full list can be seen here.

Books:

Ulysses
Ulysses

by James Joyce (Author)

#1

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

by James Joyce (Author)

#3

Sons and Lovers
Sons and Lovers

by D H Lawrence (Author)

#9

The Way of All Flesh
The Way of All Flesh

by Samuel Butler (Author)

#12

Winesburg, Ohio; a group of tales of Ohio small town life
Winesburg, Ohio; a group of tales of Ohio small town life

by Sherwood Anderson (Author)

#24

The Ambassadors
The Ambassadors

by Henry James (Author)

#27

The Good Soldier
The Good Soldier

by Ford Madox Ford (Author)

#30

The Golden Bowl — Complete

by Henry James (Author)

#32

Sister Carrie: a Novel
Sister Carrie: a Novel

by Theodore Dreiser (Author)

#33

Howards End
Howards End

by E M Forster (Author)

#38

The Secret Agent; a Simple Tale
The Secret Agent; a Simple Tale

by Joseph Conrad (Author)

#46

Nostromo, a Tale of the Seaboard
Nostromo, a Tale of the Seaboard

by Joseph Conrad (Author)

#47

Women in Love

by D H Lawrence (Author)

#49

The Age of Innocence
The Age of Innocence

by Edith Wharton (Author)

#58

Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story
Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story

by Max Beerbohm (Author)

#59

Of Human Bondage
Of Human Bondage

by W Somerset Maugham (Author)

#66

Heart of Darkness
Heart of Darkness

by Joseph Conrad (Author)

#67

Main Street
Main Street

by Sinclair Lewis (Author)

#68

House of Mirth
House of Mirth

by Edith Wharton (Author)

#69

Kim
Kim

by Rudyard Kipling (Author)

#78

A Room with a View
A Room with a View

by E M Forster (Author)

#79

Lord Jim
Lord Jim

by Joseph Conrad (Author)

#85

The Call of the Wild
The Call of the Wild

by Jack London (Author)

#88

The Magnificent Ambersons
The Magnificent Ambersons

by Booth Tarkington (Author)

#100

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Sheila of Big Wreck Cove
A Story of Cape Cod
Sheila of Big Wreck Cove A Story of Cape Cod
by
James A Cooper (Author), R Emmett Owen (Illustrator)

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