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Matthew Rasnake

Modern Library Top 100 20th Century

#2

Ulysses : a critical and synoptic edition

1920 • 654 Readers • 656 pages • 3.9

#3

The Great Gatsby

1920 • 3,086 Readers • 180 pages • 3.7

#4

A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man

198 • 428 Readers • 490 pages • 3.6

#5

Lolita

1954 • 1,506 Readers • 395 pages • 3.9

#6

Brave New World

1930 • 2,888 Readers • 332 pages • 3.9

#7

The Sound and the Fury

1929 • 428 Readers • 326 pages • 3.7

#8

Catch-22

1961 • 1,543 Readers • 466 pages • 4

#9

Darkness at Noon

1940 • 98 Readers • 272 pages • 4

#10

Sons and Lovers

1913 • 78 Readers • 493 pages • 3.7

#11

The Grapes of Wrath

1939 • 1,174 Readers • 496 pages • 3.8

#12

Under the Volcano

1947 • 99 Readers • 363 pages • 3.7

#13

The Way of All Flesh

1903 • 27 Readers • 450 pages • 4.3

#14

1984

1949 • 5,483 Readers • 352 pages • 4.2

#15

I, Claudius

1934 • 206 Readers • 432 pages • 4.1

#16

To the Lighthouse

1925 • 579 Readers • 326 pages • 3.7

#17

An American Tragedy

1900 • 91 Readers • 502 pages • 3.8

#18

Slaughterhouse 5

1968 • 2,282 Readers • 292 pages • 4.1

#19

Invisible Man

503 Readers • 3.8

#20

Native Son

1940 • 204 Readers • 624 pages • 4

#21

Henderson the Rain King

1959 • 38 Readers • 354 pages • 3.9

#22

Appointment in Samarra

1934 • 50 Readers • 4.2

#23

The 42nd Parallel

1930 • 42 Readers • 416 pages • 4.2

#24

Winesburg, Ohio

1919 • 72 Readers • 256 pages • 4.1

#25

A Passage to India

1901 • 185 Readers • 376 pages • 3.4

#26

The Wings of the Dove

46 Readers • 3.7

#27

The Ambassadors

1903 • 30 Readers • 384 pages • 3.5

#28

Tender is the Night

1934 • 266 Readers • 336 pages • 3.5

#29

Studs Lonigan Trilogy: Young Lonigan/The Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan/Judgment Day

1935 • 11 Readers • 486 pages • 5

#30

The Good Soldier

1915 • 110 Readers • 3.3

#31

Animal Farm and Related Readings

1 Reader

#32

The Golden Bowl

1904 • 35 Readers • 632 pages • 3

#33

Sister Carrie

58 Readers • 3.4

#34

A Handful of Dust

1934 • 64 Readers • 240 pages • 4

#35

As I Lay Dying

1930 • 413 Readers • 231 pages • 3.6

#36

All the King's Men

1946 • 145 Readers • 669 pages • 4.1

#37

The Bridge of San Luis Rey

1927 • 71 Readers • 3.8

#38

Howards End

1910 • 83 Readers • 352 pages • 3.5

#39

Go Tell It on the Mountain

1953 • 242 Readers • 184 pages • 3.9

#40

Heart of Matter

1948 • 4 Readers • 412 pages • 4.5

#41

Lord of the Flies

1854 • 2,607 Readers • 208 pages • 3.6

#42

Deliverance

66 Readers • 4.1

#43

A dance to the music of time

1955 • 717 pages

#44

Point Counter Point

1928 • 43 Readers • 452 pages • 4.3

#45

The Sun Also Rises

1926 • 660 Readers • 264 pages • 3.6

#46

The Secret Agent

1907 • 77 Readers • 321 pages • 3.1

#47

Nostromo

1904 • 47 Readers • 463 pages • 3.4

#48

The Rainbow

1915 • 57 Readers • 491 pages • 3.4

#49

Women in Love

1920 • 62 Readers • 596 pages • 3.7

#50

Tropic of Cancer

1934 • 183 Readers • 318 pages • 3.3

#51

The Naked and the Dead

1948 • 70 Readers • 721 pages • 4.1

#52

Portnoy's Complaint

1969 • 117 Readers • 296 pages • 3.5

#53

Pale Fire

1945 • 354 Readers • 282 pages • 4.3

#54

Light In August

1932 • 123 Readers • 480 pages • 3.7

#55

On the Road

1955 • 747 Readers • 254 pages • 3.3

#56

The Maltese Falcon

1929 • 242 Readers • 165 pages • 3.9

#57

Parade's End

1928 • 25 Readers • 845 pages • 3.5

#58

The Age of Innocence

1920 • 316 Readers • 388 pages • 4

#59

Zuleika Dobson

1911 • 13 Readers • 252 pages • 3

#60

The Moviegoer

1961 • 83 Readers • 242 pages • 3.5

#61

Death Comes for the Archbishop

1927 • 78 Readers • 306 pages • 4.1

#62

From Here to Eternity

1951 • 44 Readers • 821 pages • 4.8

#63

The Wapshot Chronicle

1957 • 13 Readers • 352 pages • 3.3

#64

The Catcher in the Rye

1951 • 2,803 Readers • 288 pages • 3.6

#65

A Clockwork Orange

1962 • 1,360 Readers • 149 pages • 3.9

#66

Of Human Bondage

1915 • 143 Readers • 618 pages • 4.3

#67

Heart of Darkness and Selected Short Fiction

1899 • 13 Readers • 272 pages • 3.8

#68

Main Street / Babbitt

1992 • 41 Readers • 898 pages • 3.8

#69

The House of Mirth

1905 • 181 Readers • 435 pages • 4

#70

The Alexandria Quartet

1960 • 7 Readers • 884 pages • 3

#71

A High Wind in Jamaica

1929 • 32 Readers • 192 pages • 3

#72

A House for Mr Biswas

1961 • 40 Readers • 564 pages • 4

#73

Day of the Locust

1939 • 1 Reader

#74

A Farewell To Arms

199 • 569 Readers • 352 pages • 3.7

#75

Scoop

1938 • 55 Readers • 304 pages • 3.6

#76

The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie

1961 • 135 Readers • 164 pages • 3.6

#77

Finnegans Wake

1928 • 147 Readers • 628 pages • 4

#78

Kim

1901 • 88 Readers • 312 pages • 3.4

#79

A Room with a View

1908 • 302 Readers • 242 pages • 3.7

#80

Brideshead Revisited

1930 • 296 Readers • 351 pages • 3.8

#81

The Adventures of Augie March

1953 • 64 Readers • 386 pages • 4

#82

Angle of Repose

1971 • 83 Readers • 482 pages • 4.3

#83

A Bend in the River

1979 • 41 Readers • 326 pages • 4

#84

The Death of the Heart

1938 • 49 Readers • 418 pages • 4.3

#85

Lord Jim

1900 • 69 Readers • 304 pages • 3.5

#86

Ragtime

1974 • 14 Readers • 236 pages • 3.7

#87

Old wives' tale

1908 • 16 Readers • 576 pages • 4.5

#88

The Call of the Wild

1903 • 552 Readers • 142 pages • 3.6

#89

Loving; Living; Party Going

1978 • 1 Reader • 528 pages • 2

#90

Midnight's Children

1981 • 428 Readers • 640 pages • 4

#91

Tobacco Road

1932 • 13 Readers • 192 pages • 3.5

#92

Ironweed

1983 • 37 Readers • 227 pages • 3.7

#93

The Magus

1965 • 178 Readers • 3.8

#94

Wide Sargasso Sea

1966 • 272 Readers • 189 pages • 3.4

#95

Under the net

1954 • 37 Readers • 252 pages • 3.4

#96

Sophie's Choice

1979 • 136 Readers • 632 pages • 3.6

#97

The Sheltering Sky / Let It Come Down / The Spider's House

2002 • 38 Readers • 940 pages • 3.4

#98

The Postman Always Rings Twice

1934 • 112 Readers • 128 pages • 3.7

#99

The Ginger Man

1955 • 14 Readers • 347 pages • 3

#100

The Magnificent Ambersons

1918 • 32 Readers • 242 pages • 3.9

#101

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

1940 • 232 Readers • 368 pages • 3.7