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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