Reviews of Modern Library Top 100 Novels of the 20th Century

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Zuleika Dobson or An Oxford Love Story (1911) - Max Beerbohm (1872-1956) (Grade:A)

The Sheltering Sky (1949) - Paul Bowles (1910-1999) (Grade:D)

A Clockwork Orange (1962) - Anthony Burgess (1917-1993) (Grade:A)

Tobacco Road (1932) - Erskine Caldwell (1903-1987) (Grade:C+)

Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927) - Willa Cather (1873-1947) (Grade:C)

Heart of Darkness (1902) - Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) (Grade:A)

The Alexandria Quartet: Justine/Balthazar/Mountolive/Clea (1957-1960) - Lawrence Durrell (1912-1990) (Grade:F)

The Wings of the Dove (1902) - Henry James (1843-1916) (Grade:D)

From Here to Eternity (1951) - James Jones (1921-1977) (Grade:A+)

Finnegan's Wake (1939) - James Joyce (1882-1941) (Grade:F)

Ulysses (1922) - James Joyce (1882-1941) (Grade:F)

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) - James Joyce (1882-1941) (Grade:F)

Call of the Wild (1903) - Jack London (1876-1916) (Grade:A)

Animal Farm (1945) - George Orwell (06/25/1903-1949) (Grade:A+)

1984 (1949) - George Orwell (06/25/1903-1949) (Grade:A+)

A Dance to the Music of Time (1951-1975) - Anthony Powell (1905-2000) (Grade:B-)

Slaughterhouse-Five (1969) - Kurt Vonnegut (1922-) (Grade:C)

The House of Mirth (1905) - Edith Wharton (1862-1937) (Grade:C+)

2) The Great Gatsby (1925) - F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) (Grade:B)

4) Lolita (1955) - Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977) (Grade:A)

5) Brave New World (1932) - Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) (Grade:A)

6) The Sound and the Fury (1929) - William Faulkner (1897-1962) (Grade:F)

7) Catch-22 (1961) - Joseph Heller (1923-1999) (Grade:A)

8) Darkness at Noon (1941) - Arthur Koestler (1905-1983) (Grade:A+)

9) Sons and Lovers (1913) - D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930) (Grade:D)

10) The Grapes of Wrath (1939) - John Steinbeck (1902-1968) (Grade:A-)

11) Under the Volcano (1947) - Malcolm Lowry (1909-1957) (Grade:C-)

12) The Way of All Flesh (1903) - Samuel Butler (1835-1902) (Grade:D)

14) I, Claudius (1934) - Robert Graves (1895-1985) (Grade:A+)

15) To the Lighthouse (1927) - Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) (Grade:F)

16) An American Tragedy (1925) - Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945) (Grade:F)

17) The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (1940) - Carson McCullers (1917-1967) (Grade:D)

19) Invisible Man (1952) - Ralph Ellison (1914-1994) (Grade:C)

20) Native Son (1940) - Richard Wright (1908-1960) (Grade:C+)

21) Henderson the Rain King (1959) - Saul Bellow (06/10/1915-04/05/2005) (Grade:D)

22) Appointment in Samarra (1934) - John O'Hara (1905-1970) (Grade:A)

23) The USA Trilogy: (The 42nd Parallel, 1930; Nineteen Nineteen, 1932; The Big Money, 1936) () - John Dos Passos (1896-1970) (Grade:C)

24) Winesburg, Ohio (1919) - Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941) (Grade:C-)

25) A Passage to India (1924) - E.M. Forster (1879-1970) (Grade:B)

27) The Ambassadors (1903) - Henry James (1843-1916) (Grade:D)

28) Tender is the Night (1934) - F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) (Grade:C-)

29) Studs Lonigan [Young Lonigan (1932), The Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan (1934),and Judgement Day (1935)] () - James T. Farrell (1904-1979) (Grade:D)

30) The Good Soldier (1915) - Ford Maddox Ford (12/17/1873-1939) (Grade:B-)

32) The Golden Bowl, or actually,The Turn of the Screw (in lieu of The Golden Bowl) () - Henry James (1843-1916) (Grade:B)

33) Sister Carrie (1900) - Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945) (Grade:F)

34) A Handful of Dust (1934) - Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966) (Grade:B)

35) As I Lay Dying (1930) - William Faulkner (1897-1962) (Grade:F)

36) All the King's Men (1946) - Robert Penn Warren (1905-1989) (Grade:A+)

37) The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1927) - Thornton Wilder (1897-1975) (Grade:C)

38) Howards End (1910) - E.M. Forster (1879-1970) (Grade:D)

39) Go Tell it on the Mountain (1953) - James Baldwin (1922-1987) (Grade:B)

40) The Heart of the Matter (1948) - Graham Greene (1904-1991) (Grade:A)

41) Lord of the Flies (1954) - William Golding (1911-1993) (Grade:C)

42) Deliverance (1970) - James Dickey (1923-1997) (Grade:A+)

44) Point Counter Point (1928) - Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) (Grade:D)

45) The Sun Also Rises (1926) - Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) (Grade:C-)

46) The Secret Agent (1907) - Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) (Grade:B)

47) Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard (1904) - Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) (Grade:D+)

48) The Rainbow (1915) - D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930) (Grade:F)

49) Women in Love (1920) - D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930) (Grade:F)

50) Tropic of Cancer (1934) - Henry Miller (1891-1980) (Grade:F)

51) The Naked and the Dead (1948) - Norman Mailer (01/31/1923-) (Grade:D)

52) Portnoy's Complaint (1969) - Phillip Roth (-) (Grade:F)

53) Pale Fire (1962) - Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977) (Grade:B)

54) Light in August (1932) - William Faulkner (1897-1962) (Grade:B-)

55) On the Road (1957) - Jack Kerouac (1922-1969) (Grade:F)

56) The Maltese Falcon (1930) - Dashiell Hammett (1894-1961) (Grade:A+)

57) Parade's End [Some Do Not (1924), No More Parades (1925), A Man Could Stand Up (1926), and The Last Post (1928)] (1924-1928) - Ford Maddox Ford (12/17/1873-1939) (Grade:D+)

58) The Age of Innocence (1920) - Edith Wharton (1862-1937) (Grade:A)

60) The Moviegoer (1961) - Walker Percy (1916-1990) (Grade:C+)

63) The Wapshot Chronicle (1957) - John Cheever (1912-1982) (Grade:D)

64) The Catcher in the Rye (1951) - J. D. Salinger (1919-) (Grade:A+)

65) Of Human Bondage (1915) - W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) (Grade:F)

68) Main Street (1920) - Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951) (Grade:C)

71) A High Wind in Jamaica: The Innocent Voyage (1929) - Richard Hughes (1900-1976) (Grade:C)

72) A House for Mr. Biswas (1961) - V.S. Naipaul (1932-) (Grade:B-)

73) The Day of the Locust (1939) - Nathanael West (1902-1940) (Grade:C-)

74) A Farewell to Arms (1929) - Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) (Grade:D)

75) Scoop (1937) - Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966) (Grade:B+)

76) The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961) - Muriel Spark (1918-) (Grade:D)

78) Kim (1901) - Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) (Grade:A)

79) A Room with a View (1908) - E.M. Forster (1879-1970) (Grade:D)

80) Brideshead Revisited (1945) - Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966) (Grade:C)

81) The Adventures of Augie March (1953) - Saul Bellow (06/10/1915-04/05/2005) (Grade:F)

82) Angle of Repose (1971) - Wallace Stegner (1909-1993) (Grade:C)

83) A Bend in the River (1979) - V.S. Naipaul (1932-) (Grade:C)

84) The Death of the Heart (1938) - Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973) (Grade:D)

85) Lord Jim (1900) - Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) (Grade:B)

86) Ragtime (1975) - E.L. Doctorow (1931-) (Grade:A)

87) The Old Wives' Tale (1908) - Arnold Bennett (1867-1931) (Grade:C)

89) Loving (1945) - Henry Green (1905-1974) (Grade:D)

90) Midnight's Children (1980) - Salman Rushdie (1947-) (Grade:C-)

92) Ironweed (1983) - William Kennedy (01/16/1928-) (Grade:A)

93) The Magus (1965) - John Fowles (1926-) (Grade:C)

94) Wide Sargasso Sea (1966) - Jean Rhys (1890-1979) (Grade:F-)

95) Under the Net (1954) - Iris Murdoch (1919-1999) (Grade:D+)

96) Sophie's Choice (1979) - William Styron (1925-) (Grade:C)

98) The Postman Always Rings Twice (1934) - James M Cain (7/1/1892-10/27/77) (Grade:A)

99) The Ginger Man (1955) - JP Donleavy (-) (Grade:D)

100) The Magnificent Ambersons (1918) - Newton Booth Tarkington (07/29/1869-05/19/1946) (Grade:A)