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100 Best Books Published in the English Language (1900-1998)

These books, compiled by the Modern Library Board, are available from the Wisconsin Talking Book and Braille Library catalog.

  1. ULYSSES by James Joyce: DB019994
  2. THE GREAT GATSBY by F Scott Fitzgerald: DB055714
  3. A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN, by James Joyce: DB022892
  4. LOLITA by Vladimir Nabokov: DB067388
  5. BRAVE NEW WORLD, by Aldous Huxley: DB013455
  6. THE SOUND AND THE FURY by William Faulkner: DB049885
  7. CATCH-22 by Joseph Heller: DB018132
  8. DARKNESS AT NOON by Arthur Koestler: DB016347
  9. SONS AND LOVERS by DH Lawrence: DB039196
  10. THE GRAPES OF WRATH by John Steinbeck: DB068308
  11. UNDER THE VOLCANO by Malcolm Lowry: DB071965
  12. THE WAY OF ALL FLESH by Samuel Butler: DB014539
  13. 1984 by George Orwell: DB034268
  14. I, CLAUDIUS by Robert Graves: DB012463
  15. TO THE LIGHTHOUSE by Virginia Woolf: DB067708
  16. AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY by Theodore Dreiser: DB023138
  17. THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER by Carson McCullers: DB058532
  18. SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE by Kurt Vonnegut: DB064540
  19. INVISIBLE MAN by Ralph Ellison: DB009600
  20. NATIVE SON by Richard Wright: DB068181
  21. HENDERSON THE RAIN KING by Saul Bellow: DB013757
  22. APPOINTMENT IN SAMARRA by John O'Hara: DB058197
  23. USA (Trilogy) by John Dos Passos: DB042698
  24. WINESBURG, OHIO by Sherwood Anderson: DB018118
  25. A PASSAGE TO INDIA by E M Forster: DB021242
  26. THE WINGS OF THE DOVE by Henry James: DB032177
  27. THE AMBASSADORS by Henry James: DB068644
  28. TENDER IS THE NIGHT by F Scott Fitzgerald: DB018133
  29. STUDS LONIGAN TRILOGY by James T Farrell:
    1. YOUNG LONIGAN: DB012902
    2. THE YOUNG MANHOOD OF STUDS LONIGAN: DB012607
    3. JUDGMENT DAY: DB033611
  30. THE GOOD SOLDIER by Ford Madox Ford: DB017884
  31. ANIMAL FARM by George Orwell: DB038959
  32. THE GOLDEN BOWL by Henry James: DB068181
  33. SISTER CARRIE by Theodore Dreiser: DB025296
  34. A HANDFUL OF DUST by Evelyn Waugh: DB068488
  35. AS I LAY DYING by William Faulkner: DB049008
  36. ALL THE KINGS MEN by Robert Penn Warren: DB053553
  37. THE BRIDGE OF SAN LUIS REY by Thornton Wilder: BRW16394, DB041185
  38. HOWARDS END by EM Forster: DB034285
  39. GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN by James Baldwin: DB033488
  40. THE HEART OF THE MATTER by Graham Greene: DB012897
  41. LORD OF THE FLIES by William Golding: DB048388
  42. DELIVERANCE by James Dickey: DB025291
  43. A DANCE TO THE MUSIC OF TIME (Series) by Anthony Powell:
    • FIRST MOVEMENT: A QUESTION OF UPBRINGING, A BUYER'S MARKET, THE ACCEPTANCE WORLD: DB068288
    • SECOND MOVEMENT: AT LADY MOLLY'S, CASANOVA'S CHINESE RESTAURANT, THE KINDLY ONES: DB068333
    • THIRD MOVEMENT: THE VALLEY OF BONES, THE SOLDIER'S ART, THE MILITARY PHILOSOPHERS: DB068623
    • FOURTH MOVEMENT: BOOKS DO FURNISH A ROOM, TEMPORARY KINGS, HEARING SECRET HARMONIES: DB068662
  44. POINT COUNTER POINT by Aldous Huxley: DB018010
  45. THE SUN ALSO RISES by Ernest Hemingway: DB034114
  46. THE SECRET AGENT by Joseph Conrad: DB025290
  47. NOSTROMO by Joseph Conrad: DB071966
  48. THE RAINBOW by DH Lawrence: DB021575
  49. WOMEN IN LOVE by DH Lawrence: DB061435
  50. TROPIC OF CANCER by Henry Miller: DB090815
  51. THE NAKED AND THE DEAD by Norman Mailer: DB053839
  52. PORTNOY"S COMPLAINT by Philip Roth: DB067856
  53. PALE FIRE by Vladimir Nabokov: DB068672
  54. LIGHT IN AUGUST by William Faulkner: DB020001
  55. ON THE ROAD by Jack Kerouac: DB031675
  56. THE MALTESE FALCON by Dashiell Hammett: DB016593
  57. PARADE'S END by Ford Madox Ford: DB024870
  58. THE AGE OF INNOCENCE by Edith Wharton: DB065343
  59. ZULEIKA DOBSON by Max Beerbohm: DB018763
  60. THE MOVIEGOER by Walker Percy: DB068008
  61. DEATH COMES FOR THE ARCHBISHOP by Willa Cather: DB056535
  62. FROM HERE TO ETERNITY by James Jones: DB056319
  63. WAPSHOT CHRONICLE by John Cheever: DB063314
  64. THE CATCHER IN THE RYE by JD Salinger: DB047480
  65. A CLOCKWORK ORANGE by Anthony Burgess: DB015213
  66. OF HUMAN BONDAGE by W Somerset Maugham: DB024363
  67. HEART OF DARKNESS by Joseph Conrad: DB058105
  68. MAIN STREET by Sinclair Lewis: DB042189
  69. THE HOUSE OF MIRTH by Edith Wharton: DB035369
  70. THE ALEXANDRIA QUARTET by Lawrence Durrell:
    • JUSTINE: DB036388
    • BALTHAZAR: DB037578
    • MOUNTOLIVE: DB036432
    • CLEA, A NOVEL: DB037194
  71. A HIGH WIND IN JAMAICA by Richard Hughes: DB043203
  72. A HOUSE FOR MR BISWAS by VS Naipaul: DB020604
  73. THE DAY OF THE LOCUST by Nathanael West: DB049506
  74. A FAREWELL TO ARMS by Ernest Hemingway: DB049506
  75. SCOOP by Evelyn Waugh: DB017125
  76. THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE by Muriel Spark: DB069464
  77. FINNEGANS WAKE by James Joyce: DB021424
  78. KIM by Rudyard Kipling: DB035722
  79. A ROOM WITH A VIEW by EM Forster: DB012985
  80. BRIDESHEAD REVISITED by Evelyn Waugh: DB078564
  81. THE ADVENTURES OF AUGIE MARCH by Saul Bellow: DB058799
  82. ANGLE OF REPOSE by Wallace Stegner: DB054215
  83. A BEND IN THE RIVER by VS Naipaul: DB048487
  84. THE DEATH OF THE HEART by Elizabeth Bowen: DB022816
  85. LORD JIM by Joseph Conrad: DB015912
  86. RAGTIME by EL Doctorow: DB044378
  87. THE OLD WIVES' TALE by Arnold Bennett: DB022209
  88. THE CALL OF THE WILD by Jack London: DB027843
  89. LOVING by Henry Green: DB068632
  90. MIDNIGHT'S CHILDREN by Salman Rushdie: DB016993
  91. TOBACCO ROAD by Erskine Caldwell: DB046240
  92. IRONWEED by William Kennedy: DB020612
  93. THE MAGUS by John Fowles: DB013287
  94. WIDE SARGASSO SEA by Jean Rhys: DB023148
  95. UNDER THE NET by Iris Murdoch: DB068815
  96. SOPHIE'S CHOICE by William Styron: DB013812
  97. THE SHELTERING SKY by Paul Bowles: DB023642
  98. THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE by James M Cain: DB017817
  99. THE GINGER MAN by JP Donleavy: DB067518
  100. THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS by Booth Tarkington: DB048558