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

Given by Modern Library

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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 vis mere 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.

This list of 100 novels was drawn up by the editorial board of Modern Library. See also The Readers' List. vis mindre
Year Awarded:
1998
VærkOrder Label
Ulysses (1922) af James Joyce
1
Den store Gatsby (1925) af F. Scott Fitzgerald
2
Portræt af kunstneren som ungt menneske (1916) af James Joyce
3
Lolita (1955) af Vladimir Nabokov
4
Fagre nye verden (1932) af Aldous Huxley
5
Brølet og vreden (1929) af William Faulkner
6
Punkt 22 (1961) af Joseph Heller
7
Mørke midt på dagen (1940) af Arthur Koestler
8
Sønner og elskere (1913) af D. H. Lawrence
9
Vredens druer (1939) af John Steinbeck
10
Under vulkanen (1947) af Malcolm Lowry
11
The Way of All Flesh (1903) af Samuel Butler
12
1984 (1949) af George Orwell
13
Jeg, Claudius : af Tiberius Claudius' selvbiografi, romernes kejser, født 10 f. Kr. myrdet og ophøjet til gud 54 e. Kr. (1934) af Robert Graves
14
Til fyret : roman (1927) af Virginia Woolf
15
An American Tragedy (1925) af Theodore Dreiser
16
Hjertet er en ensom vandrer (1940) af Carson McCullers
17
Slagtehal fem eller børnekorstoget (1969) af Kurt Vonnegut
18
Usynlig mand (1952) af Ralph Ellison
19
Native Son (1940) af Richard Wright
20
Regnkongen Henderson (1958) af Saul Bellow
21
Vi mødes i Samarra (1934) af John O'Hara
22
U.S.A. (1938) af John Dos Passos
23
En by i Ohio (1919) af Sherwood Anderson
24
Indiske dage (1924) af E. M. Forster
25
The Wings of the Dove (1902) af Henry James
26
The Ambassadors (1903) af Henry James
27
Natten er blid (1934) af F. Scott Fitzgerald
28
Studs Lonigan (1935) af James T. Farrell
29
Den gode soldat (1915) af Ford Madox Ford
30
Kammerat Napoleon (1945) af George Orwell
31
The Golden Bowl (1904) af Henry James
32
Søster Carrie (1900) af Theodore Dreiser
33
En ¤håndfuld støv (1934) af Evelyn Waugh
34
As I Lay Dying (1930) af William Faulkner
35
All the King's Men (1946) af Robert Penn Warren
36
The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1927) af Thornton Wilder
37
Howards End (1910) af E. M. Forster
38
Råb det fra bjergene (1953) af James Baldwin
39
Sagens kerne (1948) af Graham Greene
40
Fluernes herre (1954) af William Golding
41
Forløsning (1970) af James Dickey
42
A Dance to the Music of Time (1955) af Anthony Powell
43
Kontrapunkt (1928) af Aldous Huxley
44
Solen går sin gang (1926) af Ernest Hemingway
45
Den hemmelige agent (1907) af Joseph Conrad
46
Nostromo (1904) af Joseph Conrad
47
The Rainbow (1915) af D. H. Lawrence
48
Når kvinder elsker (1920) af D. H. Lawrence
49
Krebsens vendekreds (1934) af Henry Miller
50
De nøgne og de døde (1948) af Norman Mailer
51
Portnoys genvordigheder (1967) af Philip Roth
52
Pale Fire (1962) af Vladimir Nabokov
53
Forløsning i august (1932) af William Faulkner
54
Vejene (1957) af Jack Kerouac
55
The Maltese Falcon (1930) af Dashiell Hammett
56
Parade's End (1925) af Ford Madox Ford
57
The Age of Innocence (1920) af Edith Wharton
58
Zuleika Dobson (1911) af Max Beerbohm
59
The Moviegoer (1961) af Walker Percy
60
Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927) af Willa Cather
61
Herfra til evigheden (1951) af James Jones
62
The Wapshot Chronicle (1957) af John Cheever
63
The Catcher in the Rye (1951) af J. D. Salinger
64
A clockwork orange (1962) af Anthony Burgess
65
Of Human Bondage (1915) af W. Somerset Maugham
66
Mørkets hjerte (1899) af Joseph Conrad
67
Main Street (1920) af Sinclair Lewis
68
The House of Mirth (1905) af Edith Wharton
69
(Alexandria-kvartetten) / (1-4) (1957) af Lawrence Durrell
70
Storm over Jamaica (1929) af Richard Hughes
71
A House for Mr Biswas (1961) af V. S. Naipaul
72
The Day of the Locust (1939) af Nathanael West
73
Farvel til våbnene (1929) af Ernest Hemingway
74
Scoop (1938) af Evelyn Waugh
75
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961) af Muriel Spark
76
Finnegans Wake (1939) af James Joyce
77
Kim / Rudyard Kipling ; på dansk ved Jesper Ewald (1901) af Rudyard Kipling
78
Værelse med udsigt (1908) af E. M. Forster
79
Gensyn med Brideshead : kaptajn Charles Ryders åndelige og verdslige erindringer (1945) af Evelyn Waugh
80
En ung amerikaners eventyr (1953) af Saul Bellow
81
Angle of Repose (1971) af Wallace Stegner
82
Ved en krumning på floden : roman (1979) af V. S. Naipaul
83
The Death of the Heart (1938) af Elizabeth Bowen
84
Forlis (Lord Jim) (1900) af Joseph Conrad
85
Ragtime: A Novel (1975) af E. L. Doctorow
86
The Old Wives' Tale (1908) af Arnold Bennett
87
The Call of the Wild (1903) af Jack London
88
Loving (1945) af Henry Green
89
Midnatsbørn (1981) af Salman Rushdie
90
Tobacco Road (1932) af Erskine Caldwell
91
Ironweed (1983) af William Kennedy
92
Troldmanden (1965) af John Fowles
93
Wide Sargasso Sea (1966) af Jean Rhys
94
Under nettet (1954) af Iris Murdoch
95
Sophies valg (1979) af William Styron
96
Under himlens dække (1949) af Paul Bowles
97
Postbudet ringer altid to gange (1934) af James M. Cain
98
The Ginger Man (1955) af J. P. Donleavy
99
The Magnificent Ambersons (1918) af Booth Tarkington
100

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