Top 100 Lists

Here are the book award winners that I’m collecting categorized by the top 100 lists that I’m following. Struck items are books that I’ve already read. For the complete list of links to the corresponding book write-ups, please visit The Rhapsodies. (Updated last April 2013)

All TIME 100 Novels

1. 1984 by George Orwell
2. The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow
3. All the King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren
4. American Pastoral by Philip Roth
5. An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
6. Animal Farm by George Orwell
7. Appointment in Samarra by John O’Hara
8. Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret by Judy Blume
9. The Assistant by Bernard Malamud
10. At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O’Brien
11. Atonement by Ian McEwan
12. Beloved by Toni Morrison
13. The Berlin Stories by Christopher Isherwood
14. The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
15. The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
16. Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
17. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
18. The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder
19. Call It Sleep by Henry Roth
20. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
21. The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
22. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
23. The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron
24. The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
25. The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
26. A Dance to the Music of Time by Anthony Powell
27. The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West
28. Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather
29. A Death in the Family by James Agee
30. The Death of the Heart by Elizabeth Bowen
31. Deliverance by James Dickey
32. Dog Soldiers by Robert Stone
33. Falconer by John Cheever
34. The French Lieutenant’s Woman by John Fowles
35. Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
36. The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
37. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
38. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
39. Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
40. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
41. A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh
42. The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
43. The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
44. Herzog by Saul Bellow
45. A House for Mr. Biswas by V. S. Naipaul
46. Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
47. I, Claudius by Robert Graves
48. Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
49. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
50. Light in August by William Faulkner
51. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis
52. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
53. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
54. The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien
55. Loving by Henry Green
56. Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis
57. The Man Who Loved Children by Christina Stead
58. Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
59. Money by Martin Amis
60. The Moviegoer by Walker Percy
61. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
62. Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs
63. Native Son by Richard Wright
64. Neuromancer by William Gibson
65. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
66. On the Road by Jack Kerouac
67. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
68. The Painted Bird by Jerzy Kosinski
69. Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
70. A Passage to India by E. M. Forster
71. Play It As It Lays by Joan Didion
72. Portnoy’s Complaint by Philip Roth
73. Possession by A. S. Byatt
74. The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
75. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
76. Rabbit, Run by John Updike
77. Ragtime by E. L. Doctorow
78. The Recognitions by William Gaddis
79. Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett
80. Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
81. The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles
82. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
83. Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
84. The Sot-Weed Factor by John Barth
85. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
86. The Sportswriter by Richard Ford
87. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John le Carre
88. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
89. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
90. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
91. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
92. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
93. Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
94. Ubik by Philip K. Dick
95. Under the Net by Iris Murdoch
96. Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry
97. Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons
98. White Noise by Don DeLillo
99. White Teeth by Zadie Smith
100. Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys

Modern Library’s 100 Best Novels:

1. 1984 by George Orwell
2. The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow
3. The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
4. The Alexandria Quartet by Lawrence Durrell
5. All the King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren
6. The Ambassadors by Henry James
7. An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
8. Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
9. Animal Farm by George Orwell
10. Appointment in Samarra by John O’Hara
11. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
12. A Bend in the River by V. S. Naipaul
13. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
14. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
15. The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder
16. The Call of the Wild by Jack London
17. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
18. The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
19. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
20. A Dance to the Music of Time by Anthony Powell
21. Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler
22. The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West
23. Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather
24. The Death of the Heart by Elizabeth Bowen
25. Deliverance by James Dickey
26. A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
27. Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
28. From Here to Eternity by James Jones
29. The Ginger Man by J. P. Donleavy
30. Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
31. The Golden Bowl by Henry James
32. The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford
33. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
34. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
35. A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh
36. The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
37. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
38. The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
39. Henderson the Rain King by Saul Bellow
40. A High Wind in Jamaica by Richard Hughes
41. A House for Mr. Biswas by V. S. Naipaul
42. The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
43. Howards End by E. M. Forster
44. I, Claudius by Robert Graves
45. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
46. Ironweed by William Kennedy
47. Kim by Rudyard Kipling
48. Light in August by William Faulkner
49. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
50. Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad
51. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
52. Loving by Henry Green
53. The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington
54. The Magus by John Fowles
55. Main Street by Sinclair Lewis
56. The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
57. Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
58. The Moviegoer by Walker Percy
59. The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer
60. Native Son by Richard Wright
61. Nostromo by Joseph Conrad
62. Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham
63. The Old Wives’ Tale by Arnold Bennett
64. On the Road by Jack Kerouac
65. Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
66. Parade’s End by Ford Madox Ford
67. A Passage to India by E. M. Forster
68. Point Counter Point by Aldous Huxley
69. Portnoy’s Complaint by Philip Roth
70. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
71. The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain
72. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
73. Ragtime by E. L. Doctorow
74. The Rainbow by D. H. Lawrence
75. A Room with a View by E. M. Forster
76. Scoop by Evelyn Waugh
77. The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad
78. The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles
79. Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser
80. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
81. Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence
82. Sophie’s Choice by William Styron
83. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
84. Studs Lonigan Trilogy by James T. Farrell
85. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
86. Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
87. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
88. Tobacco Road by Erskine Caldwell
89. Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
90. U.S.A. Trilogy by John Dos Passos
91. Ulysses by James Joyce
92. Under the Net by Iris Murdoch
93. Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry
94. The Wapshot Chronicle by John Cheever
95. The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler
96. Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
97. Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson
98. The Wings of the Dove by Henry James
99. Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence
100. Zuleika Dobson by Max Beerbohm

Radcliffe’s Rival 100 Best Novels:

1. 1984 by George Orwell
2. Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner
3. The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
4. All the King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren
5. An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
6. Animal Farm by George Orwell
7. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
8. Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
9. The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein
10. The Awakening by Kate Chopin
11. Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis
12. The Beautiful and the Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald
13. Beloved by Toni Morrison
14. Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe
15. The Bostonians by Henry James
16. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
17. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
18. The Call of the Wild by Jack London
19. Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
20. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
21. The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
22. Charlotte’s Web by E. B. White
23. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
24. The Color Purple by Alice Walker
25. Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather
26. Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
27. A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
28. Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
29. For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
30. The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
31. Franny and Zooey by J. D. Salinger
32. The French Lieutenant’s Woman by John Fowles
33. Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
34. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
35. A Good Man Is Hard to Find by Flannery O’Connor
36. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
37. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
38. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
39. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
40. Howards End by E. M. Forster
41. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
42. In Our Time by Ernest Hemingway
43. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
44. Jazz by Toni Morrison
45. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
46. Kim by Rudyard Kipling
47. Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D. H. Lawrence
48. Light in August by William Faulkner
49. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
50. Look Homeward, Angel by Thomas Wolfe
51. Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad
52. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
53. The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien
54. Main Street by Sinclair Lewis
55. The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
56. Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
57. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
58. My Antonia by Willa Cather
59. The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer
60. Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs
61. Native Son by Richard Wright
62. O Pioneers! by Willa Cather
63. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
64. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
65. On the Road by Jack Kerouac
66. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
67. Orlando by Virginia Woolf
68. A Passage to India by E. M. Forster
69. The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
70. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
71. Rabbit, Run by John Updike
72. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
73. A Room with a View by E. M. Forster
74. The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
75. Schindler’s List by Thomas Keneally
76. A Separate Peace by John Knowles
77. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
78. Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
79. Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence
80. Sophie’s Choice by William Styron
81. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
82. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
83. Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
84. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
85. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
86. This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald
87. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
88. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
89. Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
90. Ulysses by James Joyce
91. The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells
92. Where Angels Fear to Tread by E. M. Forster
93. White Noise by Don DeLillo
94. Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
95. The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
96. The Wings of the Dove by Henry James
97. Winnie-the-Pooh by A. A. Milne
98. Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence
99. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
100. The World According to Garp by John Irving

The Novel 100:

1. 1984 by George Orwell
2. Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner
3. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
4. The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
5. The Ambassadors by Henry James
6. An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
7. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
8. The Awakening by Kate Chopin
9. Beloved by Toni Morrison
10. Berlin Alexanderplatz by Alfred Doblin
11. The Betrothed by Alessandro Manzoni
12. Bleak House by Charles Dickens
13. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
14. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
15. Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann
16. Call It Sleep by Henry Roth
17. Candide by Voltaire
18. The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
19. Cities of Salt by ‘Abd al-Rahman Munif
20. Clarissa by Samuel Richardson
21. The Counterfeiters by Andre Gide
22. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
23. Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol
24. The Death of Artemio Cruz by Carlos Fuentes
25. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
26. Dracula by Bram Stoker
27. Dream of the Red Chamber by Cao Xueqin
28. Emma by Jane Austen
29. A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
30. Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev
31. Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
32. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
33. Germinal by Emile Zola
34. The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
35. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
36. The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford
37. The Good Soldier Svejk by Jaroslav Hasek
38. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
39. Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
40. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
41. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
42. Herzog by Saul Bellow
43. The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
44. Hunger by Knut Hamsun
45. In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust
46. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
47. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
48. The Last Chronicle of Barset by Anthony Trollope
49. The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
50. Le Pere Goriot by Honore de Balzac
51. The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
52. Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
53. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
54. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
55. The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
56. The Man Without Qualities by Robert Musil
57. Middlemarch by George Eliot
58. Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
59. Molloy; Malone Dies; The Unnamable by Samuel Beckett
60. My Antonia by Willa Cather
61. Native Son by Richard Wright
62. Nostromo by Joseph Conrad
63. Oblomov by Ivan Goncharov
64. On the Road by Jack Kerouac
65. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
66. A Passage to India by E. M. Forster
67. Petersburg by Andrey Bely
68. The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens
69. The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
70. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
71. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
72. The Princess of Cleves by Madame de Lafayette
73. The Red and the Black by Stendhal
74. The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
75. Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
76. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
77. Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata
78. The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
79. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
80. The Stranger by Albert Camus
81. The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu
82. Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
83. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
84. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
85. The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
86. The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass
87. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
88. Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
89. The Trial by Franz Kafka
90. Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne
91. U.S.A. Trilogy by John Dos Passos
92. Ulysses by James Joyce
93. Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
94. Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry
95. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
96. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
97. Waverley by Sir Walter Scott
98. The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
99. Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence
100. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte