Un Cuaderno Blanco: 16/1/11

This list was prepared by the editorial board of the Modern Library, a division of Random House. The board consists of: Daniel J. Boorstin, A.S. Byatt, Christopher Cerf, Shelby Foote, Vartan Gregorian, Edmund Morris, John Richardson, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., William Styron and Gore Vidal. Where possible, a New York Times book review web link is provided.

Some have suggested that the list was simply a clever publicity stunt on the part of the publishing giant Random House—you be the judge. An alternative list compiled by the students of the Radcliffe Publishing Course is provided below. It’s notable for including works that were overlooked in the Modern Library offering, such as “To Kill a Mockingbird”, “For Whom the Bell Tolls”, “Lord of the Rings” and “Winnie-the-Pooh”, among others.

1. Ulysses (1918) James Joyce (1882-1941)

http://www.nytimes.com/library/books/072098joyce-ulysses.html

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

http://www.nytimes.com/library/books/072098fitzgerald-gatsby.html

3. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) James Joyce (1882-1941)

4. Lolita (1955) Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977)

http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/03/02/lifetimes/nab-r-lolita.html

5. Brave New World (1932) Aldous Huxley (1894-1963)

http://www.nytimes.com/library/books/072098huxley-brave.html

6. The Sound and the Fury (1929) William Faulkner (1897-1962)

7. Catch-22 (1961) Joseph Heller (1923-99)

http://www.nytimes.com/books/98/02/15/home/heller-catch2.html

8. Darkness at Noon (1941) Arthur Koestler (1905-1983)

http://www.nytimes.com/library/books/072098koestler-darkness.html

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

http://www.nytimes.com/library/books/072098lawrence-sons.html

10. The Grapes of Wrath (1939) John Steinbeck (1902-1968)

http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/07/06/home/history-grapes.html

11. Under the Volcano (1947) Malcolm Lowry (1909-1957)

12. The Way of All Flesh (1903) Samuel Butler (1835-1902)

13. 1984 (1949) George Orwell (1903-1949)

http://www.nytimes.com/library/books/072098orwell-1984.html

14. I, Claudius (1934) Robert Graves (1895-1985)

15. To the Lighthouse (1927) Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)

http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/06/08/reviews/woolf-lighthouse.html

16. An American Tragedy (1925) Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945)

http://www.nytimes.com/library/books/072098dreiser-tragedy.html

17. The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1940) Carson McCullers (1917-1967)

18. Slaughterhouse Five (1969) Kurt Vonnegut (1922-)

http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/09/28/lifetimes/vonnegut-slaughterhouse.html

19. Invisible Man (1952) Ralph Ellison (1914-1994)

http://www.nytimes.com/library/books/072098ellison-invisible.html

20. Native Son (1940) Richard Wright (1908-1960)

http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/07/06/home/history-son.html

21. Henderson the Rain King (1959) Saul Bellow (1915-)

http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/05/25/reviews/bellow-henderson.html

22. Appointment in Samarra (1934) John O'Hara (1905-1970)

http://www.nytimes.com/library/books/072098ohara-samarra.html

23. The USA Trilogy (1930-36) John Dos Passos (1896-1970)

http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/03/16/bookend/bookend.html

24. Winesburg, Ohio (1919) Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941)

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

http://www.nytimes.com/library/books/072098forster-india.html

26. The Wings of the Dove (1902) Henry James (1843-1916)

27. The Ambassadors (1903) Henry James (1843-1916)

http://www.nytimes.com/library/books/072098james-ambassadors.html

28. Tender Is the Night (1934) F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)

29. Studs Lonigan (1932-35) James T. Farrell (1904-1979)

http://www.nytimes.com/library/books/072098farrell-lonigan.html

30. The Good Soldier (1915) Ford Maddox Ford (1873-1939)

31. Animal Farm (1946) George Orwell (1903-1949)

http://www.nytimes.com/library/books/072098orwell-animal.html

32. The Golden Bowl (1904) Henry James (1843-1916)

http://www.nytimes.com/library/books/072098james-golden.html

33. Sister Carrie (1900) Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945)

http://www.nytimes.com/library/books/072098dreiser-carrie.html

34. A Handful of Dust (1934) Evelyn Waugh (1903-66)

http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/05/04/reviews/waugh-dust.html

35. As I Lay Dying (1930) William Faulkner (1897-1962)

36. All the King's Men (1946) Robert Penn Warren (1905-1989)

http://www.nytimes.com/library/books/072098warren-all.html

37. The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1927) Thornton Wilder (1897-1975)

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

39. Go Tell It on the Mountain (1953) James Baldwin (1922-1987)

http://www.nytimes.com/books/98/03/29/specials/baldwin-mountain.html

40. The Heart of the Matter (1948) Graham Greene (1904-1991)

41. Lord of the Flies (1954) William Golding (1911-1993)

http://www.nytimes.com/library/books/072098golding-flies.html

42. Deliverance (1970) James Dickey (1923-1997)

http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/03/23/bookend/dickey-deliverance.html

43. A Dance to the Music of Time (1951-75) Anthony Powell (1905-2000)

44. Point Counter Point (1928) Aldous Huxley (1894-1963)

45. The Sun Also Rises (1926) Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)

46. The Secret Agent (1920) Joseph Conrad (1857-1924)

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

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

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

50. Tropic of Cancer (1934) Henry Miller (1891-1980)

51. The Naked and the Dead (1948) Norman Mailer (1923-)

http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/05/04/reviews/mailer-dead.html

52. Portnoy's Complaint (1969) Philip Roth (1933-)

http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/04/20/reviews/roth-greenfeld.html

53. Pale Fire (1962) Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977)

http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/03/02/lifetimes/nab-r-palefire.html

54. Light in August (1932) William Faulkner (1897-1962)

http://www.nytimes.com/library/books/072098faulkner-august.html

55. On the Road (1957) Jack Kerouac (1922-1969)

http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/09/07/home/kerouac-roadglowing.html

56. The Maltese Falcon (1930) Dashiell Hammett (1894-1961)

57. Parade's End (1924-28) Ford Madox Ford (1873-1939)

58. The Age of Innocence (1920) Edith Wharton (1862-1937)

http://www.nytimes.com/library/books/072098wharton-innocence.html

59. Zuleika Dobson or An Oxford Love Story (1911) Max Beerbohm (1872-1956)

http://www.nytimes.com/library/books/072098beerbohm-zuleika.html

60. The Moviegoer (1961) Walker Percy (1916-1990)

http://www.nytimes.com/library/books/072098percy-moviegoer.html

61. Death Comes to the Archbishop (1927) Willa Cather (1873-1947)

62. From Here to Eternity (1957) James Jones (1921-1977)

http://www.nytimes.com/library/books/072098jones-eternity.html

63. The Wapshot Chronicles (1957) John Cheever (1912-1982)

64. The Catcher in the Rye (1951) J.D. Salinger (1919-)

65. A Clockwork Orange (1962) Anthony Burgess (1917-1993)

http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/11/30/home/burgess-orange.html

66. Of Human Bondage (1915) W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965)

67. Heart of Darkness (1902) Joseph Conrad (1857-1924)

68. Main Street (1920) Sinclair Lewis †(1885-1951)

69. The House of Mirth (1905) Edith Wharton (1862-1937)

70. The Alexandria Quartet (1957-60) Lawrence Durrell (1912-1990)

http://www.nytimes.com/library/books/072098durrell-alexandria.html

71. A High Wind in Jamaica (1929) Richard Hughes (1900-1976)

72. A House for Ms. Biswas (1961) V.S. Naipaul (1932-)

73. The Day of the Locust (1939) Nathanael West (1902-1940)

74. A Farewell to Arms (1929) Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)

75. Scoop (1937) Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966)

76. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961) Muriel Spark (1918-)

http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/05/11/reviews/spark-brodie.html

77. Finnegans Wake (1939) James Joyce (1882-1941)

78. Kim (1901) Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)

79. A Room With a View (1908) E.M. Forster (1879-1970)

80. Brideshead Revisited (1945) Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966)

http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/05/04/reviews/waugh-brideshead.html

81. The Adventures of Augie March (1953) Saul Bellow (1915-)

http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/05/25/reviews/bellow-march.html

82. Angle of Repose (1971) Wallace Stegner (1909-1993)

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

http://www.nytimes.com/books/98/06/07/specials/naipaul-river.html

84. The Death of the Heart (1938) Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973)

85. Lord Jim (1900) Joseph Conrad (1857-1924)

http://www.nytimes.com/library/books/072098conrad-jim.html

86. Ragtime (1975) E.L. Doctorow (1931-)

http://www.nytimes.com/specials/ragtime/rag-novel.html

87. The Old Wives' Tale (1908) Arnold Bennett (1867-1931)

88. The Call of the Wild (1903) Jack London (1876-1916)

89. Loving (1945) Henry Green (1905-1974)

90. Midnight's Children (1980) Salman Rushdie (1947-)

http://www.nytimes.com/library/books/072098rushdie-children.html

91. Tobacco Road (1932) Erskine Caldwell (1903-1987)

http://www.nytimes.com/library/books/072098caldwell-tobacco.html

92. Ironweed (1983) William Kennedy

http://www.nytimes.com/library/books/072098kennedy-ironweed.html

93. The Magus (1965) John Fowles (1926-)

http://www.nytimes.com/books/98/05/31/specials/fowles-magus1.html

94. Wide Sargasso Sea (1966) Jean Rhys (1890-1979)

95. Under the Net (1954) Iris Murdoch (1919-1999)

96. Sophie's Choice (1979) William Styron (1925-)

97. The Sheltering Sky (1949) Paul Bowles (1910-)

http://www.nytimes.com/books/98/05/17/specials/bowles-sheltering.html

98. The Postman Always Rings Twice (1934) James M. Cain (1892-1977)

99. The Ginger Man (1955) J.P. Donleavy (1926-)

100. The Magnificent Ambersons (1918) Booth Tarkington (1869-1946)

The 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century, as compiled by students of the Radcliffe Publishing Course

1. "The Great Gatsby," F. Scott Fitzgerald

2. "The Catcher in the Rye," J.D. Salinger

3. "The Grapes of Wrath," John Steinbeck

4. "To Kill a Mockingbird," Harper Lee

5. "The Color Purple," Alice Walker

6. "Ulysses," James Joyce

7. "Beloved," Toni Morrison

8. "The Lord of the Flies," William Golding

9. "1984," George Orwell

10. "The Sound and the Fury," William Faulkner

11. "Lolita," Vladmir Nabokov

12. "Of Mice and Men," John Steinbeck

13. "Charlotte's Web," E.B. White

14. "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man," James Joyce

15. "Catch-22," Joseph Heller

16. "Brave New World," Aldous Huxley

17. "Animal Farm," George Orwell

18. "The Sun Also Rises," Ernest Hemingway

19. "As I Lay Dying," William Faulkner

20. "A Farewell to Arms," Ernest Hemingway

21. "Heart of Darkness," Joseph Conrad

22. "Winnie-the-Pooh," A.A. Milne

23. "Their Eyes are Watching God," Zora Neale Hurston

24. "Invisible Man," Ralph Ellison

25. "Song of Solomon," Toni Morrison

26. "Gone with the Wind," Margaret Mitchell

27. "Native Son," Richard Wright

28. "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," Ken Kesey

29. "Slaughterhouse Five," Kurt Vonnegut

30. "For Whom the Bell Tolls," Ernest Hemingway

31. "On the Road," Jack Kerouac

32. "The Old Man and the Sea," Ernest Hemingway

33. "The Call of the Wild," Jack London

34. "To the Lighthouse," Virginia Woolf

35. "Portrait of a Lady," Henry James

36. "Go Tell it on the Mountain," James Baldwin

37. "The World According to Garp," John Irving

38. "All the King's Men," Robert Penn Warren

39. "A Room with a View," E.M. Forster

40. "The Lord of the Rings," J.R.R. Tolkien

41. "Schindler's List," Thomas Keneally

42. "The Age of Innocence," Edith Wharton

43. "The Fountainhead," Ayn Rand

44. "Finnegans Wake," James Joyce

45. "The Jungle," Upton Sinclair

46. "Mrs. Dalloway," Virginia Woolf

47. "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz," Frank L. Baum

48. "Lady Chatterley's Lover," D.H. Lawrence

49. "A Clockwork Orange," Anthony Burgess

50. "The Awakening," Kate Chopin

51. "My Antonia," Willa Cather

52. "Howard's End," E.M. Forster

53. "In Cold Blood," Truman Capote

54. "Franny and Zooey," J.D. Salinger

55. "Satanic Verses," Salman Rushdie

56. "Jazz," Toni Morrison

57. "Sophie's Choice," William Styron

58. "Absalom, Absalom!" William Faulkner

59. "Passage to India," E.M. Forster

60. "Ethan Frome," Edith Wharton

61. "A Good Man is Hard to Find," Flannery O'Connor

62. "Tender is the Night," F. Scott Fitzgerald

63. "Orlando," Virginia Woolf

64. "Sons and Lovers," D.H. Lawrence

65. "Bonfire of the Vanities," Thomas Wolfe

66. "Cat's Cradle," Kurt Vonnegut

67. "A Separate Peace," John Knowles

68. "Light in August," William Faulkner

69. "The Wings of the Dove," Henry James

70. "Things Fall Apart," Chinua Achebe

71. "Rebecca," Daphne du Maurier

72. "A Hithchiker's Guide to the Galaxy," Douglas Adams

73. "Naked Lunch," William S. Burroughs

74. "Brideshead Revisited," Evelyn Waugh

75. "Women in Love," D.H. Lawrence

76. "Look Homeward, Angel," Thomas Wolfe

77. "In Our Time," Ernest Hemingway

78. "The Autobiography of Alice B. Tokias," Gertrude Stein

79. "The Maltese Falcon," Dashiell Hammett

80. "The Naked and the Dead," Norman Mailer

81. "The Wide Sargasso Sea," Jean Rhys

82. "White Noise," Don DeLillo

83. "O Pioneers!" Willa Cather

84. "Tropic of Cancer," Henry Miller

85. "The War of the Worlds," HG Wells

86. "Lord Jim," Joseph Conrad

87. "The Bostonians," James Henry

88. "An American Tragedy," Theodore Dreiser

89. "Death Comes for the Archbishop," Willa Cather

90. "The Wind in the Willows," Kenneth Grahame

91. "This Side of Paradise," F. Scott Fitzgerald

92. "Atlas Shrugged," Ayn Rand

93. "The French Lieutenant's Woman," John Fowles

94. "Babbitt," Sinclair Lewis

95. "Kim," Rudyard Kipling

96. "The Beautiful and the Damned," F. Scott Fitzgerald

97. "Rabbit, Run," John Updike

98. "Where Angels Fear to Tread," EM Forster

99. "Main Street," Sinclair Lewis

100. "Midnight's Children," Salman Rushdie

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