Another excellent guide to a world of excellent novels with a number of selections not found on the Modern Library’s list of the same name.

1. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
2. The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger
3. The Lord of the Rings, J. R. R. Tolkien
4. Gone With the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
5. Beloved, Toni Morrison
6. The Color Purple, Alice Walker
7. 1984, George Orwell
8. Animal Farm, George Orwell
9. Lord of the Flies, William Golding
10. Catch-22, Joseph L. Heller
11. The Good Earth, Pearl Buck
12. Charlotte’s Web, E. B. White
13. The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
14. Slaughterhouse Five, Kurt Vonnegut
15. One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
16. Lonesome Dove, Larry McMurtry
17. Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
18. Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury
19. Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier
20. The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck
21. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Betty Smith
22. The Hobbit, J. R. R. Tolkien
23. One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest, Ken Kesey
24. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Muriel Spark
25. My Antonia, Willa Cather
26. The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway
27. Lady Chatterley’s Lover, D. H. Lawrence
28. Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison
29. Exodus, Leon Uris
30. Sophie’s Choice, William Styron
31. Native Son, Richard Wright
32. Little House on the Prairie, Laura Ingalls Wilder
33. A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway
34. Winnie the Pooh, A. A. Milne
35. The Jungle, Upton Sinlair
36. The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood
37. The Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton
38. Rabbit Run, John Updike
39. On the Road, Jack Kerouac
40. Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert A. Heinlein
41. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
42. Angle of Repose, Wallace Stegne
43. All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque
44. Ulysses, James Joyce
45. The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway
46. The Stranger, Albert Camus
47. The Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner
48. Possession, A. S. Byatt
49. Stone Diaries, Carol Shields
50. Song of Solomon, Toni Morrison
51. The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan
52. Roots, Alex Haley
53. The Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man, James Joyce
54. Look Homeward Angel, Thomas Wolfe
55. Pale Horse, Pale Rider, Katherine Anne Porter
56. Ethan Frome, Edith Wharton
57. The Lover, Marguerite Duras
58. A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess
59. Winesburg, Ohio, Sherwood Anderson
60. To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf
61. The World According to Garp, John Irving
62. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, L. Frank Baum
63. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, C. S. Lewis
64. The Hound of the Baskervilles, A. Conan Doyle
65. The Fountainhead, Ayn Rand
66. The Burger’s Daughter, Nadine Gordimer
67. Call of the Wild, Jack London
68. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Alexander Solzhenitsyn
69. The Mists of Avalon, Marion Zimmer Bradley
70. I, Claudius, Robert Graves
71. From Here to Eternity, James Jones
72. East of Eden, John Steinbeck
73. Cry, the Beloved Country, Alan Paton
74. Advise and Consent, Allen Drury
75. A Passage to India, E.M. Forster
76. 2001 A Space Odyssey, Arthur C. Clarke
77. The Good Soldier, Ford Maddox Ford
78. Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston
79. The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame
80. Portnoy’s Complaint, Philip Roth
81. The Plague, Albert Camus
82. The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupery
83. The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison
84. The Bean Trees, Barbara Kingsolver
85. Tarzan of the Apes, Edgar Rice Burroughs
86. Sister Carrie, Theodore Dreiser
87. A Good Man is Hard to Find, Flannery O’Connor
88. Remembrance of Things Past, Marcel Proust
89. Ragtime, E.L. Doctorow
90. Ordinary People, Judith Guest
91. Of Human Bondage, W. Somerset Maugham
92. Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
93. Babbit, Sinclair Lewis
94. All the King’s Men, Robert Penn Warren
95. Women in Love, D.H. Lawrence
96. Kate Vaiden, Reynolds Price
97. U.S.A. (trilogy), John Dos Passos
98. The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera
99. A Death in the Family, James Agee
100. The Once and Future King, T. H. White