The Modern Library's 100 Best Novels: The Board's List

Given by Modern Library

100 obres 1,175,216 Llibres 18,908 Ressenyes ½ 3.9

The goal of the "100 Best" project was to get people talking about great books. We succeeded beyond our wildest imaginings — more than 400,000 avid readers rushed online to cast votes for their

mostra'n més favorite books.

The readers' poll for the best novels published in the English language since 1900 opened on July 20, 1998 and closed on October 20, 1998, with 217,520 votes cast.

This list of 100 novels was drawn up by the editorial board of Modern Library. See also The Readers' List. mostra'n menys

Year Awarded:
1998
ObraEtiqueta d'ordenació
Ulisses (1922) de James Joyce
1
El gran Gatsby (1925) de F. Scott Fitzgerald
2
Retrat de l'artista adolescent (1916) de James Joyce
3
Lolita (1955) de Vladimir Nabokov
4
Un món feliç (1932) de Aldous Huxley
5
El soroll i la fúria (1929) de William Faulkner
6
Catch-22 (1961) de Joseph Heller
7
Darkness at Noon (1940) de Arthur Koestler
8
Fills i amants (1913) de D. H. Lawrence
9
El raïm de la ira (1939) de John Steinbeck
10
Sota el volcà (1947) de Malcolm Lowry
11
The Way of All Flesh (1903) de Samuel Butler
12
1984 (1949) de George Orwell
13
Jo, Claudi (1934) de Robert Graves
14
Al far (1927) de Virginia Woolf
15
An American Tragedy (1925) de Theodore Dreiser
16
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1940) de Carson McCullers
17
Escorxador-5 (1969) de Kurt Vonnegut
18
Invisible Man (1952) de Ralph Ellison
19
Native Son (1940) de Richard Wright
20
Henderson, el rei de la pluja (1958) de Saul Bellow
21
Appointment in Samarra (1934) de John O'Hara
22
U.S.A. (1938) de John Dos Passos
23
Winesburg, Ohio (1919) de Sherwood Anderson
24
Viatge a l'Índia (1924) de E. M. Forster
25
The Wings of the Dove (1902) de Henry James
26
The Ambassadors (1903) de Henry James
27
Tendra és la nit (1934) de F. Scott Fitzgerald
28
Studs Lonigan (1935) de James T. Farrell
29
The Good Soldier (1915) de Ford Madox Ford
30
La revolta dels animals (1945) de George Orwell
31
La copa daurada (1904) de Henry James
32
Sister Carrie (1900) de Theodore Dreiser
33
Un Grapat de pols (1934) de Evelyn Waugh
34
Mentre em moria (1930) de William Faulkner
35
All the King's Men (1946) de Robert Penn Warren
36
El Pont de San Luis Rey (1927) de Thornton Wilder
37
Howards End (1910) de E. M. Forster
38
Go Tell It on the Mountain (1953) de James Baldwin
39
El fons de la qüestió (1948) de Graham Greene
40
Senyor de les mosques (1954) de William Golding
41
Deliverance (1970) de James Dickey
42
A Dance to the Music of Time (1955) de Anthony Powell
43
Contrapunt (1928) de Aldous Huxley
44
El Sol també s'aixeca (1926) de Ernest Hemingway
45
L'agent secret (1907) de Joseph Conrad
46
Nostromo (1904) de Joseph Conrad
47
The Rainbow (1915) de D. H. Lawrence
48
Dones enamorades (1920) de D. H. Lawrence
49
Tròpic de Càncer (1934) de Henry Miller
50
Els Nus i els morts (1948) de Norman Mailer
51
El trastorn de Portnoy (1967) de Philip Roth
52
Foc pàl·lid (2011) de Vladimir Nabokov
53
Llum d'Agost (1932) de William Faulkner
54
En el camino (1957) de Jack Kerouac
55
El falcó maltès (1930) de Dashiell Hammett
56
Parade's End (1925) de Ford Madox Ford
57
L'edat de la innocència (1920) de Edith Wharton
58
Zuleika Dobson (1911) de Max Beerbohm
59
The Moviegoer (1961) de Walker Percy
60
La mort s'adreça a l'arquebisbe (1927) de Willa Cather
61
From Here to Eternity (1951) de James Jones
62
The Wapshot Chronicle (1957) de John Cheever
63
El vigilant en el camp de sègol (1951) de J. D. Salinger
64
La taronja mecànica (1962) de Anthony Burgess
65
De la servitud humana (1915) de W. Somerset Maugham
66
El cor de les tenebres (1899) de Joseph Conrad
67
Main Street (1920) de Sinclair Lewis
68
The House of Mirth (1905) de Edith Wharton
69
Quartet d'Alexandria (1957) de Lawrence Durrell
70
A High Wind in Jamaica (1929) de Richard Hughes
71
A House for Mr Biswas (1961) de V. S. Naipaul
72
The Day of the Locust (1939) de Nathanael West
73
Un adéu a les armes (1929) de Ernest Hemingway
74
Últimes notícies (1938) de Evelyn Waugh
75
El Punt dolç de la senyoreta Brodie (1961) de Muriel Spark
76
Finnegans Wake (1939) de James Joyce
77
Kim (1901) de Rudyard Kipling
78
A Room with a view (1908) de E. M. Forster
79
Brideshead Revisited (1945) de Evelyn Waugh
80
The Adventures of Augie March (1953) de Saul Bellow
81
Angle of Repose (1971) de Wallace Stegner
82
A Bend in the River (1979) de V. S. Naipaul
83
The Death of the Heart (1938) de Elizabeth Bowen
84
Lord Jim (1900) de Joseph Conrad
85
Ragtime (1975) de E. L. Doctorow
86
The Old Wives' Tale (1908) de Arnold Bennett
87
La Crida del bosc (1903) de Jack London
88
Loving (1945) de Henry Green
89
Els Fills de la mitjanit (1981) de Salman Rushdie
90
La Ruta del tabac (1932) de Erskine Caldwell
91
Ironweed (1983) de William J. Kennedy
92
The Magus (1965) de John Fowles
93
Wide Sargasso Sea (1966) de Jean Rhys
94
Sota la xarxa (1954) de Iris Murdoch
95
Sophie's Choice (1979) de William Styron
96
El Cel protector (1949) de Paul Bowles
97
El carter sempre truca dues vegades (1934) de James M. Cain
98
The Ginger Man (1955) de J. P. Donleavy
99
The Magnificent Ambersons (1918) de Booth Tarkington
100

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