The Best Novels

In 1998 the Modern Library, a division of Random House, New York, released a list of "the 100 best novels written in the English language and published since 1900." The list sparked an instant comeback for some of the titles. Available here are the free downloadable titles from the Modern Library 100.

#1. Joyce, James. Ulysses

#3. Joyce, James. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

#9. Lawrence, D. H. Sons and Lovers

#12. Butler, Samuel. The Way of All Flesh

#19. Ellison, Ralph. The Invisible Man

#24. Anderson, Sherwood. Winesburg, Ohio

#27. James, Henry. The Ambassadors

#30. Ford, Ford Madox. The Good Soldier

#32. James, Henry. The Golden Bowl

#33. Dreiser, Theodore. Sister Carrie

#38. Forster, E. M. Howard's End

#46. Conrad, Joseph. The Secret Agent

#47. Conrad, Joseph. Nostromo

#49. Lawrence, D. H. Women in Love

#58. Wharton, Edith. The Age of Innocence

#59. Beerbohm, Max. Zuleika Dobson

#66. Maugham, W. Somerset. Of Human Bondage

#67. Conrad, Joseph. Heart of Darkness

#68. Lewis, Sinclair Main Street

#69. Wharton, Edith. The House of Mirth

#78. Kipling, Rudyard. Kim

#79. Forster, E.M. A Room With A View

#85. Conrad, Joseph. Lord Jim

#87. Bennett, Arnold. The Old Wives' Tale

#88. London, Jack. The Call of the Wild

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