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