- 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 by Joseph Heller
- 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
- Zulekia 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 Jamacia 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
- Brideheads 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 Tarkington
Well, there you go! The Top 100 Novels according to modernlibrary.com and let me tell you, some of those writers look daunting. Well, guess I am off to get a new library card and find the first book on the list, Ulysses by James Joyce.
Keep on reading 🙂
On a personal note: The day I got this challenge i had already bought a bag of books. Already through the smaller novels, just a few bigger ones to read. It’s going to be fun!