1. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce 2. The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald 3.

The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger 4. Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad 5. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley 6. The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck 7. Angle of Repose, Wallace Stegner 8. Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov 9. Humboldt's Gift, Saul Bellow 10. A Passage to India, E.M. Forster 11. To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf 12. U.S.A. Trilogy, John Dos Passos 13. The Untouchable, John Banville 14. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee 15. Rabbit at Rest, John Updike 16. All the King's Men, Robert Penn Warren 17. American Pastoral, Philip Roth

18. Beloved, Toni Morrison 19. The Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro 20. Of Human Bondage, W. Somerset Maugham 21. Light in August, William Faulkner 22. My Antonia, Willa Cather 23. The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway 24. A Lesson Before Dying, Ernest Gaines 25. Rabbit, Run, John Updike 26. Babbitt, Sinclair Lewis 27. The Moviegoer, Walker Percy 28. The Jungle, Upton Sinclair 29. The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath 30. Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie 31. All the Pretty Horses, Cormac McCarthy 32. The Sportswriter, Richard Ford 33. The Lay of the Land, Richard Ford 34. Sons and Lovers, D.H. Lawrence

35. Aloft, Chang-Rae Lee 36. Appointment in Samarra, John O'Hara 37. Atonement, Ian McEwan 38. So Long, See You Tomorrow, William Maxwell 39. Winesburg, Ohio, Sherwood Anderson 40. Lucky Jim, Kingsley Amis 41. The Forsyte Saga, John Galsworthy 42. Franny and Zooey, J.D. Salinger 43. A Soldier of the Great War, Mark Helprin 44. The Big Sleep, Raymond Chandler 45. Animal Farm, George Orwell 46. Charlotte's Web, E.B. White 47. The Good Soldier, Ford Maddox Ford 48. The Secret Sharer, Joseph Conrad 49. Blood Meridian, Cormac McCarthy 50. The Day of the Locust, Nathaniel West 51. Crossing to Safety, Wallace Stegner

52. Felicia's Journey, William Trevor 53. Ironweed, William Kennedy 54. Lonesome Dove, Larry McMurtry 55. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, John LeCarre 56. In the Lake of the Woods, Tim O'Brien 57. A Coffin for Dimitrios, Eric Ambler 58. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Robert Pirsig 59. The Caine Mutiny, Herman Wouk 60. The Killer Angels, Michael Shaara 61. The Human Factor, Graham Greene 62. Tarzan of the Apes, Edgar Rice Burroughs 63. Paris Trout, Pete Dexter 64. Howard's End, E.M. Forster 65. The Killer Inside Me, Jim Thompson 66. The English Patient, Michael Ondaatje 67. Portnoy's Complaint, Philip Roth 68. Fabulous Small Jews, Joseph Epstein

69. Tender is the Night, F. Scott Fitzgerald 70. Roscoe, William Kennedy 71. Charming Billy, Alice McDermott 72. Lord of the Flies, William Golding 73. Razor's Edge, W. Somerset Maugham 74. Lying Awake, Mark Salzman 75. A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole 76. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Ken Kesey 77. Light Years, James Salter 78. Black Dogs, Ian McEwan 79. Spartina, John Casey 80. A Fan's Notes, Frederick Exley 81. Scoop, Evelyn Waugh 82. Blood of the Lamb, Peter De Vries 83. Empire Falls, Richard Russo 84. The Maltese Falcon, Dashiell Hammett 85. Double Indemnity, James Cain

86. The Sunlight Dialogues, John Gardner 87. The Ginger Man, J.P. Donleavy 88. Seize the Day, Saul Bellow 89. Rabbit Is Rich, John Updike 90. Deliverance, James Dickey 91. The Bird Artist, Howard Norman 92. Pnin, Vladimir Nabokov 93. City Boy, Herman Wouk 94. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, John le Carre 95. Advise and Consent, Allen Drury 96. A Man in Full, Tom Wolfe 97. Sophie's Choice, William Styron 98. Breakfast of Champions, Kurt Vonnegut 99. The Godfather, Mario Puzo 100. A History of Love, Nicole Krauss