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

Question 1

Ulysses; A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man; Finnegan’s Wake

Answer 1

James Joyce

Question 2

The Great Gatsby; Tender is the Night

Answer 2

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Question 3

Lolita; Pale Fire

Answer 3

Vladimir Nabokov

Question 4

Brave New World; Point Counter Point

Answer 4

Aldous Huxley

Question 5

The Sound and the Fury; As I Lay Dying; Light in August

Answer 5

William Faulkner

Question 6

Catch-22

Answer 6

Joseph Heller

Question 7

Darkness at Noon

Answer 7

Arthur Koestler

Question 8

Sons and Lovers; The Rainbow; Women in Love

Answer 8

D.H. Lawrence

Question 9

The Grapes of Wrath

Answer 9

John Steinbeck

Question 10

Under the Volcano

Answer 10

Malcolm Lowry

Question 11

The Way of All Flesh

Answer 11

Samuel Butler

Question 12

1984; Animal House

Answer 12

George Orwell

Question 13

I, Claudius

Answer 13

Robert Graves

Question 14

To the Lighthouse

Answer 14

Virginia Woolfe

Question 15

An American Tragedy; Sister Carrie

Answer 15

Theodore Dreisler

Question 16

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

Answer 16

Carson McCullers

Question 17

Slaughterhouse-Five

Answer 17

Kurt Vonnegut

Question 18

Invisible Man

Answer 18

Ralph Ellison

Question 19

Native Son

Answer 19

Richard Wright

Question 20

Henderson the Rain King; The Adventures of Augie March

Answer 20

Saul Bellow

Question 21

Appointment in Samarra

Answer 21

John O’Hara

Question 22

USA (Trilogy)

Answer 22

John Dos Passos

Question 23

Winesburg, OH

Answer 23

Sherwood Anderson

Question 24

A Passage to India; Howard’s End; A Room with a View

Answer 24

E.M. Forster

Question 25

The Wings of a Dove; The Ambassadors; The Golden Bowl

Answer 25

Henry James

Question 26

The Studs Lonigan Trilogy

Answer 26

James T. Farrell

Question 27

The Good Soldier; Parade's End

Answer 27

Ford Maddox Ford

Question 28

A Handful of Dust; Scoop; Brideshade Revisited

Answer 28

Evelyn Waugh

Question 29

All the King's Men

Answer 29

Robert Penn Warren

Question 30

The Bridge of San Luis Ray

Answer 30

Thorton Wilder

Question 31

Go Tell it on the Mountain

Answer 31

James Baldwin

Question 32

The Heart of the Matter

Answer 32

Graham Greene

Question 33

Lord of the Flies

Answer 33

William Golding

Question 34

Deliverance

Answer 34

James Dickey

Question 35

A Dance to the Music of Time (Trilogy)

Answer 35

Anthony Powell

Question 36

The Sun Also Rises; A Farewell to Arms

Answer 36

Ernest Hemingway

Question 37

The Secret Agent; Nostromo; Heart of Darkness; Lord Jim

Answer 37

Joseph Conrad

Question 38

Tropic of Cancer

Answer 38

Henry Miller

Question 39

The Naked and the Dead

Answer 39

Norman Mailer

Question 40

Portnoy's Complaint

Answer 40

Philip Roth

Question 41

On the Road

Answer 41

Jack Kerouac

Question 42

The Maltese Falcon

Answer 42

Dashiell Hammett

Question 43

The Age of Innocence; The House of Mirth

Answer 43

Edith Wharton

Question 44

Zuleika Dobson

Answer 44

Max Beerbohm

Question 45

The Moviegoer

Answer 45

Walker Percy

Question 46

Death Comes for the Archbishop

Answer 46

Willa Cather

Question 47

From Here to Eternity

Answer 47

James Jones

Question 48

The Wapshot Chronicles

Answer 48

John Cheever

Question 49

The Catcher in the Rye

Answer 49

J.D. Salinger

Question 50

A Clockwork Orange

Answer 50

Anthony Burgess

Question 51

Of Human Bondage

Answer 51

W. Somerset Maugham

Question 52

Main Street

Answer 52

Sinclair Lewis

Question 53

The Alexandria Quartet

Answer 53

Lawrence Durell

Question 54

A High Wind in Jamacia

Answer 54

Richard Hughes

Question 55

A House for Mr. Biswas; A Bend in the River

Answer 55

V.S. Naispul

Question 56

The Day of the Locust

Answer 56

Nathanael West

Question 57

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

Answer 57

Muriel Spark

Question 58

Kim

Answer 58

Rudyard Kipling

Question 59

Angle of Repose

Answer 59

Wallace Stegner

Question 60

The Death of the Heart

Answer 60

Elizabeth Bowen

Question 61

Ragtime

Answer 61

E.L. Doctorow

Question 62

The Old Wives' Tales

Answer 62

Arnold Benett

Question 63

The Call of the Wild

Answer 63

Jack London

Question 64

Loving

Answer 64

Henry Green

Question 65

Midnight's Children

Answer 65

Salman Rushdie

Question 66

Tobacco Road

Answer 66

Erskine Caldwell

Question 67

Ironweed

Answer 67

William Kennedy

Question 68

The Magus

Answer 68

John Fowles

Question 69

Wide Sargasso Sea

Answer 69

Jean Rhys

Question 70

Under the Net

Answer 70

Iris Murdoch

Question 71

Sophie's Choice

Answer 71

William Styron

Question 72

The Sheltering Sky

Answer 72

Paul Bowles

Question 73

The Postman Always Rings Twice

Answer 73

James M. Cain

Question 74

The Ginger Man

Answer 74

J.P. Donleavy

Question 75

The Magnificent Ambersons

Answer 75

Booth Tarkington