The Associated Press
The 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century,
as drawn up by the editorial board of the Modern Library:
*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. ``Darkness 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 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
*52. ``Portnoy's Complaint,'' Philip Roth
53. ``Pale Fire,'' Vladimir Nabokov
54. ``Light in August,'' William Faulkner
*55. ``On the Road,'' Jack Kerouac
*56. ``The Maltese Falcon,'' Dashiell Hammett
57. ``Parade's End,'' Ford Maddox Ford
58. ``The Age of Innocence,'' Edith Wharton
59. ``Zuleika Dobson,'' Max Beerbohm
*60. ``The Moviegoer,'' Walker Percy
61. ``Death Comes for the Archbishop,'' Willa Cather
62. ``From Here to Eternity,'' James Jones
63. ``The Wapshot Chronicles,'' John Cheever
*64. ``The Catcher in the Rye,'' J.D. Salinger
*65. ``A Clockwork Orange,'' Anthony Burgess
66. ``Of Human Bondage,'' W. Somerset Maugham
*67. ``Heart of Darkness,'' Joseph Conrad
68. ``Main Street,'' Sinclair Lewis
69. ``The House of Mirth,'' Edith Wharton
70. ``The Alexandria Quartet,'' Lawrence Durrell
71. ``A High Wind in Jamaica,'' Richard Hughes
72. ``A House for Mr. Biswas,'' V.S. Naipaul
*73. ``The Day of the Locust,'' Nathanael West
*74. ``A Farewell to Arms,'' Ernest Hemingway
75. ``Scoop,'' Evelyn Waugh
76. ``The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie,'' Muriel Spark
77. ``Finnegans Wake,'' James Joyce
*78. ``Kim,'' Rudyard Kipling
*79. ``A Room With a View,'' E.M. Forster
80. ``Brideshead Revisited,'' Evelyn Waugh
81. ``The Adventures of Augie March,'' Saul Bellow
82. ``Angle of Repose,'' Wallace Stegner
83. ``A Bend in the River,'' V.S. Naipaul
84. ``The Death of the Heart,'' Elizabeth Bowen
*85. ``Lord Jim,'' Joseph Conrad
*86. ``Ragtime,'' E.L. Doctorow
87. ``The Old Wives' Tale,'' Arnold Bennett
*88. ``The Call of the Wild,'' Jack London
89. ``Loving,'' Henry Green
90. ``Midnight's Children,'' Salman Rushdie
91. ``Tobacco Road,'' Erskine Caldwell
92. ``Ironweed,'' William Kennedy
93. ``The Magus,'' John Fowles
94. ``Wide Sargasso Sea,'' Jean Rhys
95. ``Under the Net,'' Iris Murdoch
96. ``Sophie's Choice,'' William Styron
97. ``The Sheltering Sky,'' Paul Bowles
*98. ``The Postman Always Rings Twice,'' James M. Cain
*99. ``The Ginger Man,'' J.P. Donleavy
100. ``The Magnificent Ambersons,'' Booth Tarkington
