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

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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

mostrar mais 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.

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Year Awarded:
1998
ObraEtiqueta de Ordem
Atlas Shrugged (1957) por Ayn Rand
1
The Fountainhead (1943) por Ayn Rand
2
Battlefield Earth: A Saga of the Year 3000 (1982) por L. Ron Hubbard
3
O Senhor dos Anéis (1954) por J. R. R. Tolkien
4
To Kill a Mockingbird (1960) por Harper Lee
5
1984 (1949) por George Orwell
6
Anthem (1938) por Ayn Rand
7
We the Living (1936) por Ayn Rand
8
The Invaders Plan (1985) por L. Ron Hubbard
9
Fear (1940) por L. Ron Hubbard
10
Ulysses (1922) por James Joyce
11
Catch-22 (1961) por Joseph Heller
12
O grande Gatsby (1925) por F. Scott Fitzgerald
13
Dune (1965) por Frank Herbert
14
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress (1966) por Robert A. Heinlein
15
Stranger in a Strange Land (1961) por Robert A. Heinlein
16
A Town Like Alice (1950) por Nevil Shute
17
Brave New World (1932) por Aldous Huxley
18
The Catcher in the Rye (1951) por J. D. Salinger
19
O Triunfo dos Porcos (1945) por George Orwell
20
Gravity's Rainbow (1973) por Thomas Pynchon
21
The Grapes of Wrath (1939) por John Steinbeck
22
Slaughterhouse-Five (1969) por Kurt Vonnegut
23
Gone with the Wind (1936) por Margaret Mitchell
24
Lord of the Flies (1954) por William Golding
25
Shane (1949) por Jack Schaefer
26
Trustee from the Toolroom (1960) por Nevil Shute
27
A Prayer for Owen Meany (1989) por John Irving
28
The Stand: The Complete and Uncut Edition (1990) por Stephen King
29
The French Lieutenant's Woman (1969) por John Fowles
30
Beloved (1987) por Toni Morrison
31
The Worm Ouroboros (1922) por E. R. Eddison
32
The Sound and the Fury (1929) por William Faulkner
33
Lolita (1955) por Vladimir Nabokov
34
Moonheart (1984) por Charles de Lint
35
Absalom, Absalom! (1936) por William Faulkner
36
Of Human Bondage (1915) por W. Somerset Maugham
37
Wise Blood (1952) por Flannery O'Connor
38
Under the Volcano (1947) por Malcolm Lowry
39
Fifth Business (1970) por Robertson Davies
40
Someplace to be Flying (1998) por Charles de Lint
41
On the Road (1957) por Jack Kerouac
42
Heart of Darkness (1899) por Joseph Conrad
43
Yarrow (1986) por Charles de Lint
44
At the Mountains of Madness [novella] (1936) por H. P. Lovecraft
45
One Lonely Night (1951) por Mickey Spillane
46
Memory and Dream (1994) por Charles de Lint
47
To the Lighthouse (1927) por Virginia Woolf
48
The Moviegoer (1961) por Walker Percy
49
Trader (1997) por Charles de Lint
50
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1979) por Douglas Adams
51
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1940) por Carson McCullers
52
The Handmaid's Tale (1985) por Margaret Atwood
53
Blood Meridian (1985) por Cormac McCarthy
54
A Clockwork Orange (1962) por Anthony Burgess
55
On the Beach (1957) por Nevil Shute
56
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) por James Joyce
57
Greenmantle (1988) por Charles de Lint
58
Ender's Game (1985) por Orson Scott Card
59
The Little Country (1991) por Charles de Lint
60
The Recognitions (1955) por William Gaddis
61
Starship Troopers (1959) por Robert A. Heinlein
62
The Sun Also Rises (1926) por Ernest Hemingway
63
The World According to Garp (1978) por John Irving
64
Something Wicked This Way Comes (1962) por Ray Bradbury
65
The Haunting of Hill House (1959) por Shirley Jackson
66
As I Lay Dying (1930) por William Faulkner
67
Tropic of Cancer (1934) por Henry Miller
68
Invisible Man (1952) por Ralph Ellison
69
The Wood Wife (1996) por Terri Windling
70
The Magus (1965) por John Fowles
71
The Door into Summer (1956) por Robert A. Heinlein
72
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values (1974) por Robert M. Pirsig
73
I, Claudius (1934) por Robert Graves
74
The Call of the Wild (1903) por Jack London
75
At Swim-Two-Birds (1939) por Flann O'Brien
76
Fahrenheit 451 (1953) por Ray Bradbury
77
Arrowsmith (1925) por Sinclair Lewis
78
Watership Down (1972) por Richard Adams
79
Naked Lunch (1962) por William S. Burroughs
80
The Hunt for Red October (1984) por Tom Clancy
81
Guilty Pleasures (1993) por Laurell K. Hamilton
82
The Puppet Masters (1951) por Robert A. Heinlein
83
It (1986) por Stephen King
84
V. (1963) por Thomas Pynchon
85
Double Star (1956) por Robert A. Heinlein
86
Citizen of the Galaxy (1957) por Robert A. Heinlein
87
Brideshead Revisited (1945) por Evelyn Waugh
88
Light in August (1932) por William Faulkner
89
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962) por Ken Kesey
90
A Farewell to Arms (1929) por Ernest Hemingway
91
The Sheltering Sky (1949) por Paul Bowles
92
Sometimes a Great Notion (1964) por Ken Kesey
93
My Ántonia (1918) por Willa Cather
94
Mulengro (1985) por Charles de Lint
95
Suttree (1979) por Cormac McCarthy
96
Mythago Wood (1984) por Robert Holdstock
97
Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah (1977) por Richard Bach
98
The Cunning Man (1994) por Robertson Davies
99
The Satanic Verses (1988) por Salman Rushdie
100

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