The Modern Library: the 200 best novels in English since 1950

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Based on the book by Carmen Callil and Colm Tóibín, published by Picador (1999). See the list of books on the Clare County Library's website. This list is not associated with the publisher Modern

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The list has 202 items; Callil and Tóibín could not agree on the best work of V.S. Naipaul, and of Saul Bellow, so each of their choices was included for those two authors. In addition the first edition stopped short of 200 (at 194) and invited readers to send in suggestions for the final six; these were included in subsequent editions. These six are annotated on their listing below.
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Year Awarded:
1999
ObraEtiqueta d'ordenació
S'anuncia un assassinat (1950) de Agatha Christie
1950
Nothing (1950) de Henry Green
1950
Power Without Glory (1950) de Frank Hardy
1950
The Grand Sophy (1950) de Georgette Heyer
1950
December Bride (1951) de Sam Hanna Bell
1951
My Cousin Rachel (1951) de Daphne Du Maurier
1951
The West Pier (1953) de Patrick Hamilton
1951
La Balada del cafè trist (1943) de Carson McCullers
1951
La Música del temps : primeres novel·les (1962) de Anthony Powell
1951–75
1951
El vigilant en el camp de sègol (1951) de J. D. Salinger
1951
Invisible Man (1952) de Ralph Ellison
1952
El vell i la mar (1950) de Ernest Hemingway
1952
The Natural (1952) de Bernard Malamud
1952
The Financial Expert (1953) de R. K. Narayan
1952
Wise Blood (1952) de Flannery O'Connor
1952
East of Eden (1952) de John Steinbeck
1952
The Sword of Honour Trilogy (1952) de Evelyn Waugh
1952–61
1952
Private Life of an Indian Prince (1953) de Mulk Raj Anand
1953
Go Tell It on the Mountain (1953) de James Baldwin
1953
The Adventures of Augie March (1953) de Saul Bellow
1953
El llarg adeu (1953) de Raymond Chandler
1953
The Go-Between (1953) de L. P. Hartley
1953
The Echoing Grove (1953) de Rosamond Lehmann
1953
El Bevedor de vi de palma : i el seu difunt sagnador de vi de palma a la ciutat dels morts (1952) de Amos Tutuola
1953
Jim i la sort : novel·la (1954) de Kingsley Amis
1954
Senyor de les mosques (1954) de William Golding
1954
The Tortoise and the Hare (1954) de Elizabeth Jenkins
1954
The Flint Anchor (1954) de Sylvia Townsend Warner
1954
Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable (1951) de Samuel Beckett
1955–58
1955
The Recognitions (1955) de William Gaddis
1955
L'Enginyós senyor Ripley (1955) de Patricia Highsmith
1955
Lolita (1955) de Vladimir Nabokov
1955
A Legacy (1956) de Sybille Bedford
1956
Train to Pakistan (1956) de Khushwant Singh
1956
Owls Do Cry (1957) de Janet Frame
1957
En el camino (1957) de Jack Kerouac
1957
Angel (1957) de Elizabeth Taylor
1957
The Fountain Overflows (1956) de Rebecca West
1957
Tot se'n va en orris (1958) de Chinua Achebe
1958
Babette's Feast and Other Anecdotes of Destiny (1958) de Tania Blixen
1958
From the Terrace (1958) de John O'Hara
1958
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1958) de Alan Sillitoe
1958
El almuerzo desnudo ( (1962) de William S. Burroughs
1959
A Heritage and its History (1959) de Ivy Compton-Burnett
1959
The Little Disturbances of Man (1959) de Grace Paley
1959
Matar un rossinyol (1960) de Harper Lee
1960
The Balkan Trilogy (1960) de Olivia Manning
1960–65
1960
Rabbit Angstrom: A Tetralogy (1995) de John Updike
1960–90
1960
Jeeves in the Offing (1960) de P. G. Wodehouse
US: How Right You Are, Jeeves
1960
Catch-22 (1961) de Joseph Heller
1961
A House for Mr Biswas (1961) de V. S. Naipaul
1961
El Punt dolç de la senyoreta Brodie (1961) de Muriel Spark
1961
Riders in the Chariot (1961) de Patrick White
1961
That's How It Was (1962) de Maureen Duffy
1962
The Reivers (1962) de William Faulkner
1962
El Quadern daurat (1962) de Doris Lessing
1962
Girl with Green Eyes (1962) de Edna O'Brien
The Lonely Girl, renamed Girl with Green Eyes 1964
1962
Ship of Fools (1962) de Katherine Anne Porter
1962
The Little Girls (1964) de Elizabeth Bowen
1963
L'espia que va tornar del fred (1963) de John le Carré
1963
The Group (1963) de Mary McCarthy
1963
La campana de vidre (1963) de Sylvia Plath
1963
Herzog (1964) de Saul Bellow
1964
Heartland (1964) de Wilson Harris
1964
Last Exit to Brooklyn (1964) de Hubert Selby Jr.
1964
Memoirs of a Peon (1965) de Frank Sargeson
1965
Els intèrprets (1965) de Wole Soyinka
1965
The Magus (1965) de John Fowles
3rd of 6 additions by the editors for the first paperback edition
1966
A Jest of God (1966) de Margaret Laurence
1966
Wide Sargasso Sea (1966) de Jean Rhys
1966
The Jewel in the Crown (1966) de Paul Scott
1966
Cotters' England (1966) de Christina Stead
US: Dark Places of the Heart 1967
1966
The Confessions of Nat Turner (1967) de William Styron
1967
A Grain of Wheat (1967) de Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
1967
In the Heart of the Heart of the Country & Other Stories (1968) de William H. Gass
1968
The Nice and the Good (1968) de Iris Murdoch
1968
The Unfortunates (1969) de B. S. Johnson
1969
Happiness and Other Stories (1969) de Mary Lavin
1969
El padrí (1969) de Mario Puzo
1969
El cinquè en joc (1970) de Robertson Davies
1970
Capità de mar i de guerra (1969) de Patrick O'Brian
1970
The Day of the Jackal (1971) de Frederick Forsyth
1971
St. Urbain's Horseman (1971) de Mordecai Richler
1971
Black List, Section H (1971) de Francis Stuart
1971
La filla de l'optimista (1972) de Eudora Welty
1972
The Siege of Krishnapur (1973) de J. G. Farrell
1973
Gravity's Rainbow (1973) de Thomas Pynchon
1973
Ragtime (1975) de E. L. Doctorow
1975
Heat and Dust (1975) de Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
1975
Intercanvis : una història de dos campus (1975) de David Lodge
1975
The Lost Salt Gift of Blood (1988) de Alistair MacLeod
1976
Interview with the Vampire (1976) de Anne Rice
1976
Saville (1976) de David Storey
1976
Injury Time (1977) de Beryl Bainbridge
1977
Falconer (1977) de John Cheever
1977
A Book of Common Prayer (1977) de Joan Didion
1977
The Ice Age (1977) de Margaret Drabble
1977
Tirra Lirra by the River (1978) de Jessica Anderson
1978
Plumb (1978) de Maurice Gee
1978
El Factor humà (1978) de Graham Greene
1978
The Murderer (1978) de Roy Heath
1978
The Cement Garden (1978) de Ian McEwan
1978
The Year of the French (1979) de Thomas Flanagan
1979
From the Fifteenth District (1979) de Mavis Gallant
1979
La Filla de Burger (1979) de Nadine Gordimer
1979
Sleepless Nights (1979) de Elizabeth Hardwick
1979
The Executioner's Song (1979) de Norman Mailer
1979
A Bend in the River (1979) de V. S. Naipaul
1979
Earthly Powers (1980) de Anthony Burgess
1980
The Transit of Venus (1980) de Shirley Hazzard
1980
Riddley Walker (1980) de Russell Hoban
1980
Lamb (1980) de Bernard MacLaverty
1980
So Long, See You Tomorrow (1979) de William Maxwell
5th of 6 additions by the editors for the first paperback edition
1980
Housekeeping (1980) de Marilynne Robinson
1980
La Conxorxa dels ximples (1980) de John Kennedy Toole
1980
Puffball (1980) de Fay Weldon
1980
Lanark (1981) de Alasdair Gray
1981
Red Dragon (1981) de Thomas Harris
1981
Els Fills de la mitjanit (1981) de Salman Rushdie
1981
A Flag for Sunrise (1981) de Robert Stone
1981
On the Black Hill (1982) de Bruce Chatwin
1982
Schindler's Ark (1982) de Thomas Keneally
US: Schindler's List
1982
The Color Purple (1982) de Alice Walker
1982
La història particular d'un noi (1982) de Edmund White
1982
Money: A Suicide Note (1984) de Martin Amis
1984
L'Imperi del Sol (1984) de J. G. Ballard
1984
El lloro de Flaubert (1984) de Julian Barnes
1984
In Custody (1984) de Anita Desai
1984
The Children's Bach (1984) de Helen Garner
6th of 6 additions by the editors for the first paperback edition
1984
Nation of Fools: Scenes from Indian Life (1984) de Balraj Khanna
1984
Somnis de màquina (1984) de Jayne Anne Phillips
1984
Família i amics (1985) de Anita Brookner
1985
Meridià de sang (1985) de Cormac McCarthy
1985
Lonesome Dove (1985) de Larry McMurtry
1985
Black Robe (1985) de Brian Moore
1985
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (1985) de Jeanette Winterson
1985
El Cronista d'esports (1986) de Richard Ford
1986
An Artist of the Floating World (1986) de Kazuo Ishiguro
1986
A Summons to Memphis (1986) de Peter Taylor
1986
A Dark-Adapted Eye (1986) de Barbara Vine
1986
Ellen Foster (1987) de Kaye Gibbons
1987
Double Whammy (1987) de Carl Hiaasen
1987
Misery (1987) de Stephen King
1987
Beloved (1987) de Toni Morrison
1987
In the Skin of a Lion (1987) de Michael Ondaatje
1987
L'Altre jardí (1987) de Francis Wyndham
1987
Oscar and Lucinda (1988) de Peter Carey
1988
Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories (1988) de Raymond Carver
1988
Paris Trout (1988) de Pete Dexter
1988
The Sugar Mother (1988) de Elizabeth Jolley
1988
Forty-seventeen (1988) de Frank Moorhouse
1988
Cracking India (1988) de Bapsi Sidhwa
1988
Breathing Lessons (1988) de Anne Tyler
1988
La Foguera de les vanitats (1987) de Tom Wolfe
1988
Llibre de l'evidència (1989) de John Banville
1989
Els Reis del mambo toquen cançons d'amor (1989) de Oscar Hijuelos
1989
El Club de la Bona Estrella (1989) de Amy Tan
1989
Possession (1990) de A. S. Byatt
1990
L'edat de ferro (1990) de J. M. Coetzee
1990
A Home at the End of the World (1990) de Michael Cunningham
1990
The Snapper (1990) de Roddy Doyle
1990
Get Shorty (1990) de Elmore Leonard
1990
The Great World (1990) de David Malouf
1990
Amongst Women (1990) de John McGahern
1990
Friend of My Youth: Stories (1990) de Alice Munro
1990
The Regeneration Trilogy (1991) de Pat Barker
1991–95
1991
Wise Children (1991) de Angela Carter
1991
A Strange and Sublime Address (1600) de Amit Chaudhuri
1991
American Psycho (Catalan Edition) (1991) de Bret Easton Ellis
1991
The Redundancy of Courage (1991) de Timothy Mo
1991
Mating (1991) de Norman Rush
1991
Downriver (1991) de Iain Sinclair
1991
A Thousand Acres (1991) de Jane Smiley
1991
Reading Turgenev (1991) de William Trevor
1991
Cloudstreet (1991) de Tim Winton
1991
Death and Nightingales (1992) de Eugene McCabe
1992
The Butcher Boy (1992) de Patrick McCabe
1992
The Secret History (1992) de Donna Tartt
1992
The Virgin Suicides (1993) de Jeffrey Eugenides
1993
Birdsong (1993) de Sebastian Faulks
1st of 6 additions by the editors for the first paperback edition
1993
A River Sutra (1993) de Gita Mehta
1993
The Shipping News (1993) de E. Annie Proulx
1993
My Idea of Fun (1993) de Will Self
1993
A Suitable Boy (1993) de Vikram Seth
4th of 6 additions by the editors for the first paperback edition
1993
Trainspotting (1993) de Irvine Welsh
1993
What a Carve Up! (1994) de Jonathan Coe
US: The Winshaw Legacy
1994
La mandolina del capità Corelli (1993) de Louis De Bernières
US: Corelli's Mandolin
1994
The Folding Star (1994) de Alan Hollinghurst
1994
Original Sin (1994) de P. D. James
1994
How Late It Was, How Late (1994) de James Kelman
1994
The Tortilla Curtain (1995) de T. Coraghessan Boyle
1995
The Blue Flower (1995) de Penelope Fitzgerald
1995
Un equilibri perfecte (1995) de Rohinton Mistry
1995
Alias Grace (1996) de Margaret Atwood
1996
Follia (1997) de Patrick McGrath
1996
Last Orders (1996) de Graham Swift
1996
The Night in Question: Stories (1996) de Tobias Wolff
1996
Quarantine (1997) de Jim Crace
1997
Submón (1997) de Don DeLillo
1997
Cold Mountain (1997) de Charles Frazier
2nd of 6 additions by the editors for the first paperback edition
1997
Pastoral americana (1997) de Philip Roth
1997
The Lady from Guatemala (1997) de V. S. Pritchett
1998

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