The Modern Library 100 Best Novels Challenge discussion

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x 1.ULYSSES by James Joyce
x 2.THE GREAT GATSBY by F. Scott Fitzgerald
x 3.A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN by James Joyce
x 4.LOLITA by Vladimir Nabokov
x 5.BRAVE NEW WORLD by Aldous Huxley
x 6.THE SOUND AND THE FURY by William Faulkner
x 7.CATCH-22 by Joseph Heller
__ 8.DARKNESS AT NOON by Arthur Koestler
__ 9.SONS AND LOVERS by D.H. Lawrence
__10.THE GRAPES OF WRATH by John Steinbeck
__11.UNDER THE VOLCANO by Malcolm Lowry
__12.THE WAY OF ALL FLESH by Samuel Butler
x 13.1984 by George Orwell
__14.I, CLAUDIUS by Robert Graves
x 15.TO THE LIGHTHOUSE by Virginia Woolf
x 16.AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY by Theodore Dreiser
__17.THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER by Carson McCullers
__18.SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE by Kurt Vonnegut
x 19.INVISIBLE MAN by Ralph Ellison
x 20.NATIVE SON by Richard Wright
__21.HENDERSON THE RAIN KING by Saul Bellow
__22.APPOINTMENT IN SAMARRA by John O’Hara
__23.U.S.A.(trilogy) by John Dos Passos
__24.WINESBURG, OHIO by Sherwood Anderson
__25.A PASSAGE TO INDIA by E.M. Forster
__26.THE WINGS OF THE DOVE by Henry James
__27.THE AMBASSADORS by Henry James
__28.TENDER IS THE NIGHT by F. Scott Fitzgerald
__29.THE STUDS LONIGAN TRILOGY by James T. Farrell
__30.THE GOOD SOLDIER by Ford Madox Ford
__31.ANIMAL FARM by George Orwell
__32.THE GOLDEN BOWL by Henry James
__33.SISTER CARRIE by Theodore Dreiser
__34.A HANDFUL OF DUST by Evelyn Waugh
__35.AS I LAY DYING by William Faulkner
__36.ALL THE KING’S MEN by Robert Penn Warren
__37.THE BRIDGE OF SAN LUIS REY by Thornton Wilder
x 38.HOWARDS END by E.M. Forster
__39.GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN by James Baldwin
__40.THE HEART OF THE MATTER by Graham Greene
__41.LORD OF THE FLIES by William Golding
__42.DELIVERANCE by James Dickey
__43.A DANCE TO THE MUSIC OF TIME (series) by Anthony Powell
__44.POINT COUNTER POINT by Aldous Huxley
x 45.THE SUN ALSO RISES by Ernest Hemingway
__46.THE SECRET AGENT by Joseph Conrad
__47.NOSTROMO by Joseph Conrad
x 48.THE RAINBOW by D.H. Lawrence
__49.WOMEN IN LOVE by D.H. Lawrence
__50.TROPIC OF CANCER by Henry Miller
__51.THE NAKED AND THE DEAD by Norman Mailer
__52.PORTNOY’S COMPLAINT by Philip Roth
__53.PALE FIRE by Vladimir Nabokov
__54.LIGHT IN AUGUST by William Faulkner
x 55.ON THE ROAD by Jack Kerouac
__56.THE MALTESE FALCON by Dashiell Hammett
__57.PARADE’S END by Ford Madox Ford
x 58.THE AGE OF INNOCENCE by Edith Wharton
__59.ZULEIKA DOBSON by Max Beerbohm
__60.THE MOVIEGOER by Walker Percy
__61.DEATH COMES FOR THE ARCHBISHOP by Willa Cather
__62.FROM HERE TO ETERNITY by James Jones
__63.THE WAPSHOT CHRONICLES by John Cheever
x 64.THE CATCHER IN THE RYE by J.D. Salinger
__65.A CLOCKWORK ORANGE by Anthony Burgess
__66.OF HUMAN BONDAGE by W. Somerset Maugham
x 67.HEART OF DARKNESS by Joseph Conrad
__68.MAIN STREET by Sinclair Lewis
x 69.THE HOUSE OF MIRTH by Edith Wharton
__70.THE ALEXANDRIA QUARTET by Lawrence Durell
__71.A HIGH WIND IN JAMAICA by Richard Hughes
__72.A HOUSE FOR MR BISWAS by V.S. Naipaul
__73.THE DAY OF THE LOCUST by Nathanael West
x 74.A FAREWELL TO ARMS by Ernest Hemingway
__75.SCOOP by Evelyn Waugh
__76.THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE by Muriel Spark
x 77.FINNEGANS WAKE by James Joyce
__78.KIM by Rudyard Kipling
x 79.A ROOM WITH A VIEW by E.M. Forster
__80.BRIDESHEAD REVISITED by Evelyn Waugh
__81.THE ADVENTURES OF AUGIE MARCH by Saul Bellow
__82.ANGLE OF REPOSE by Wallace Stegner
__83.A BEND IN THE RIVER by V.S. Naipaul
__84.THE DEATH OF THE HEART by Elizabeth Bowen
x 85.LORD JIM by Joseph Conrad
__86.RAGTIME by E.L. Doctorow
__87.THE OLD WIVES’ TALE by Arnold Bennett
__88.THE CALL OF THE WILD by Jack London
__89.LOVING by Henry Green
__90.MIDNIGHT’S CHILDREN by Salman Rushdie
__91.TOBACCO ROAD by Erskine Caldwell
__92.IRONWEED by William Kennedy
__93.THE MAGUS by John Fowles
__94.WIDE SARGASSO SEA by Jean Rhys
__95.UNDER THE NET by Iris Murdoch
__96.SOPHIE’S CHOICE by William Styron
__97.THE SHELTERING SKY by Paul Bowles
__98.THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE by James M. Cain
__99.THE GINGER MAN by J.P. Donleavy
__100.THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS by Booth Tarkington

I'm very impressed that you've read all of the James Joyce on the list.

Kai wrote: "I'm very impressed that you've read all of the James Joyce on the list."

Thanks! I was lucky enough to take a Joyce course in college!