This list was prepared by the editorial board of the Modern Library, a division of Random House. The board consists of: Daniel J. Boorstin, A.S. Byatt, Christopher Cerf, Shelby Foote, Vartan Gregorian, Edmund Morris, John Richardson, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., William Styron and Gore Vidal. Where possible, a New York Times book review web link is provided. Some have suggested that the list was simply a clever publicity stunt on the part of the publishing giant Random House—you be the judge. An alternative list compiled by the students of the Radcliffe Publishing Course is provided below. It’s notable for including works that were overlooked in the Modern Library offering, such as “To Kill a Mockingbird”, “For Whom the Bell Tolls”, “Lord of the Rings” and “Winnie-the-Pooh”, among others.  1. Ulysses (1918) James Joyce (1882-1941) http://www.nytimes.com/library/books/072098joyce-ulysses.html 2. The Great Gatsby (1925) F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) http://www.nytimes.com/library/books/072098fitzgerald-gatsby.html 3. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) James Joyce (1882-1941) 4. Lolita (1955) Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977) http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/03/02/lifetimes/nab-r-lolita.html 5. Brave New World (1932) Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) http://www.nytimes.com/library/books/072098huxley-brave.html 6. The Sound and the Fury (1929) William Faulkner (1897-1962) 7. Catch-22 (1961) Joseph Heller (1923-99) http://www.nytimes.com/books/98/02/15/home/heller-catch2.html 8. Darkness at Noon (1941) Arthur Koestler (1905-1983) http://www.nytimes.com/library/books/072098koestler-darkness.html 9. Sons and Lovers (1913) D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930) http://www.nytimes.com/library/books/072098lawrence-sons.html 10. The Grapes of Wrath (1939) John Steinbeck (1902-1968) http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/07/06/home/history-grapes.html 11. Under the Volcano (1947) Malcolm Lowry (1909-1957) 12. The Way of All Flesh (1903) Samuel Butler (1835-1902) 13. 1984 (1949) George Orwell (1903-1949) http://www.nytimes.com/library/books/072098orwell-1984.html 14. I, Claudius (1934) Robert Graves (1895-1985) 15. To the Lighthouse (1927) Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/06/08/reviews/woolf-lighthouse.html 16. An American Tragedy (1925) Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945) http://www.nytimes.com/library/books/072098dreiser-tragedy.html 17. The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1940) Carson McCullers (1917-1967) 18. Slaughterhouse Five (1969) Kurt Vonnegut (1922-) http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/09/28/lifetimes/vonnegut-slaughterhouse.html 19. Invisible Man (1952) Ralph Ellison (1914-1994) http://www.nytimes.com/library/books/072098ellison-invisible.html 20. Native Son (1940) Richard Wright (1908-1960) http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/07/06/home/history-son.html 21. Henderson the Rain King (1959) Saul Bellow (1915-) http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/05/25/reviews/bellow-henderson.html 22. Appointment in Samarra (1934) John O'Hara (1905-1970) http://www.nytimes.com/library/books/072098ohara-samarra.html 23. The USA Trilogy (1930-36) John Dos Passos (1896-1970) http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/03/16/bookend/bookend.html 24. Winesburg, Ohio (1919) Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941) 25. A Passage to India (1924) E.M. Forster (1879-1970) http://www.nytimes.com/library/books/072098forster-india.html 26. The Wings of the Dove (1902) Henry James (1843-1916) 27. The Ambassadors (1903) Henry James (1843-1916) http://www.nytimes.com/library/books/072098james-ambassadors.html 28. Tender Is the Night (1934) F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) 29. Studs Lonigan (1932-35) James T. Farrell (1904-1979) http://www.nytimes.com/library/books/072098farrell-lonigan.html 30. The Good Soldier (1915) Ford Maddox Ford (1873-1939) 31. Animal Farm (1946) George Orwell (1903-1949) http://www.nytimes.com/library/books/072098orwell-animal.html 32. The Golden Bowl (1904) Henry James (1843-1916) http://www.nytimes.com/library/books/072098james-golden.html 33. Sister Carrie (1900) Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945) http://www.nytimes.com/library/books/072098dreiser-carrie.html 34. A Handful of Dust (1934) Evelyn Waugh (1903-66) http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/05/04/reviews/waugh-dust.html 35. As I Lay Dying (1930) William Faulkner (1897-1962) 36. All the King's Men (1946) Robert Penn Warren (1905-1989) http://www.nytimes.com/library/books/072098warren-all.html 37. The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1927) Thornton Wilder (1897-1975) 38. Howards End (1910) E.M. Forster (1879-1970) 39. Go Tell It on the Mountain (1953) James Baldwin (1922-1987) http://www.nytimes.com/books/98/03/29/specials/baldwin-mountain.html 40. The Heart of the Matter (1948) Graham Greene (1904-1991) 41. Lord of the Flies (1954) William Golding (1911-1993) http://www.nytimes.com/library/books/072098golding-flies.html 42. Deliverance (1970) James Dickey (1923-1997) http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/03/23/bookend/dickey-deliverance.html 43. A Dance to the Music of Time (1951-75) Anthony Powell (1905-2000) 44. Point Counter Point (1928) Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) 45. The Sun Also Rises (1926) Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) 46. The Secret Agent (1920) Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) 47. Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard (1904) Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) 48. The Rainbow (1915) D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930) 49. Women in Love (1920) D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930) 50. Tropic of Cancer (1934) Henry Miller (1891-1980) 51. The Naked and the Dead (1948) Norman Mailer (1923-) http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/05/04/reviews/mailer-dead.html 52. Portnoy's Complaint (1969) Philip Roth (1933-) http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/04/20/reviews/roth-greenfeld.html 53. Pale Fire (1962) Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977) http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/03/02/lifetimes/nab-r-palefire.html 54. Light in August (1932) William Faulkner (1897-1962) http://www.nytimes.com/library/books/072098faulkner-august.html 55. On the Road (1957) Jack Kerouac (1922-1969) http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/09/07/home/kerouac-roadglowing.html 56. The Maltese Falcon (1930) Dashiell Hammett (1894-1961) 57. Parade's End (1924-28) Ford Madox Ford (1873-1939) 58. The Age of Innocence (1920) Edith Wharton (1862-1937) http://www.nytimes.com/library/books/072098wharton-innocence.html 59. Zuleika Dobson or An Oxford Love Story (1911) Max Beerbohm (1872-1956) http://www.nytimes.com/library/books/072098beerbohm-zuleika.html 60. The Moviegoer (1961) Walker Percy (1916-1990) http://www.nytimes.com/library/books/072098percy-moviegoer.html 61. Death Comes to the Archbishop (1927) Willa Cather (1873-1947) 62. From Here to Eternity (1957) James Jones (1921-1977) http://www.nytimes.com/library/books/072098jones-eternity.html 63. The Wapshot Chronicles (1957) John Cheever (1912-1982) 64. The Catcher in the Rye (1951) J.D. Salinger (1919-) 65. A Clockwork Orange (1962) Anthony Burgess (1917-1993) http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/11/30/home/burgess-orange.html 66. Of Human Bondage (1915) W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) 67. Heart of Darkness (1902) Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) 68. Main Street (1920) Sinclair Lewis †(1885-1951) 69. The House of Mirth (1905) Edith Wharton (1862-1937) 70. The Alexandria Quartet (1957-60) Lawrence Durrell (1912-1990) http://www.nytimes.com/library/books/072098durrell-alexandria.html 71. A High Wind in Jamaica (1929) Richard Hughes (1900-1976) 72. A House for Ms. Biswas (1961) V.S. Naipaul (1932-) 73. The Day of the Locust (1939) Nathanael West (1902-1940) 74. A Farewell to Arms (1929) Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) 75. Scoop (1937) Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966) 76. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961) Muriel Spark (1918-) http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/05/11/reviews/spark-brodie.html 77. Finnegans Wake (1939) James Joyce (1882-1941) 78. Kim (1901) Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) 79. A Room With a View (1908) E.M. Forster (1879-1970) 80. Brideshead Revisited (1945) Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966) http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/05/04/reviews/waugh-brideshead.html 81. The Adventures of Augie March (1953) Saul Bellow (1915-) http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/05/25/reviews/bellow-march.html 82. Angle of Repose (1971) Wallace Stegner (1909-1993) 83. A Bend in the River (1979) V.S. Naipaul (1932-) http://www.nytimes.com/books/98/06/07/specials/naipaul-river.html 84. The Death of the Heart (1938) Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973) 85. Lord Jim (1900) Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) http://www.nytimes.com/library/books/072098conrad-jim.html 86. Ragtime (1975) E.L. Doctorow (1931-) http://www.nytimes.com/specials/ragtime/rag-novel.html 87. The Old Wives' Tale (1908) Arnold Bennett (1867-1931) 88. The Call of the Wild (1903) Jack London (1876-1916) 89. Loving (1945) Henry Green (1905-1974) 90. Midnight's Children (1980) Salman Rushdie (1947-) http://www.nytimes.com/library/books/072098rushdie-children.html 91. Tobacco Road (1932) Erskine Caldwell (1903-1987) http://www.nytimes.com/library/books/072098caldwell-tobacco.html 92. Ironweed (1983) William Kennedy http://www.nytimes.com/library/books/072098kennedy-ironweed.html 93. The Magus (1965) John Fowles (1926-) http://www.nytimes.com/books/98/05/31/specials/fowles-magus1.html 94. Wide Sargasso Sea (1966) Jean Rhys (1890-1979) 95. Under the Net (1954) Iris Murdoch (1919-1999) 96. Sophie's Choice (1979) William Styron (1925-) 97. The Sheltering Sky (1949) Paul Bowles (1910-) http://www.nytimes.com/books/98/05/17/specials/bowles-sheltering.html 98. The Postman Always Rings Twice (1934) James M. Cain (1892-1977) 99. The Ginger Man (1955) J.P. Donleavy (1926-) 100. The Magnificent Ambersons (1918) Booth Tarkington (1869-1946)  The 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century, as compiled by students of the Radcliffe Publishing Course 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," Vladmir 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," George 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 are 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. "The Fountainhead," Ayn Rand 44. "Finnegans Wake," James Joyce 45. "The Jungle," Upton Sinclair 46. "Mrs. Dalloway," Virginia Woolf 47. "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz," Frank L. 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. "Howard's End," E.M. Forster 53. "In Cold Blood," Truman Capote 54. "Franny and Zooey," J.D. Salinger 55. "Satanic Verses," Salman Rushdie 56. "Jazz," Toni Morrison 57. "Sophie's Choice," William Styron 58. "Absalom, Absalom!" William Faulkner 59. "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," Thomas 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. "A Hithchiker'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. "The 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," HG Wells 86. "Lord Jim," Joseph Conrad 87. "The Bostonians," James Henry 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 the Damned," F. Scott Fitzgerald 97. "Rabbit, Run," John Updike 98. "Where Angels Fear to Tread," EM Forster 99. "Main Street," Sinclair Lewis 100. "Midnight's Children," Salman Rushdie