2. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn ~ by Mark Twain (1885)
3. The Alchemist ~ by Paulo Coelho (1993)
4. Alice in Wonderland ~ by Lewis Carroll (1865)
5. All the King's Men ~ by Robert Penn Warren (1946)
6. All the Pretty Horses ~ by Cormac McCarthy (1992)
7. The Ambassadors ~ by Henry James (1903)
8. And Then There Were None ~ by Agatha Christie (1939)
9. Anne of Green Gables ~ by L. M. Montgomery (1908)
10. Beloved ~ by Toni Morrison (1987)
11. Brave New World ~ by Aldous Huxley (1932)
12. Brideshead Revisited ~ by Evelyn Waugh (1945)
13. Bridget Jones's Diary ~ by Helen Fielding (1996)
14. The Call of the Wild ~ by Jack London (1903)
15. The Canterbury Tales ~ by Geoffrey Chaucer (late 13th century)
16. Catch-22 ~ by Joseph Heller (1961)
17. The Catcher in the Rye ~ J. D. Salinger (1951)
18. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory ~ Roald Dahl (1964)
19. Charlotte's Web ~ by E. B. White (1952)
20. Cloud Atlas ~ by David Mitchell (2004)
21. The Color Purple ~ by Alice Walker (1982)
22. A Confederacy of Dunces ~ by John Kennedy Toole (1980)
23. Count of Monte Cristo ~ by Alexandre Dumas (1844)
24. Crime and Punishment ~ by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1866)
25. Darkness at Noon ~ Arthur Koestler (1940)
26. Don Quixote ~ by Miguel de Cervantes (1605)
27. Dracula ~ by Bram Stoker (1897)
28. Dune ~ by Frank Herbert (1965)
29. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test ~ by Tom Wolfe (1969)
30. Fahrenheit 451 ~ by Ray Bradbury (1951)
31. A Fine Balance ~ by Rohinton Mistry (1995)
32. Go Tell It on the Mountain ~ by James Baldwin (1953)
33. The Golden Notebook ~ by Doris Lessing (1962)
34. Gone with the Wind ~ by Margaret Mitchell (1936)
35. The Good Soldier ~ by Ford Madox Ford (1915)
36. The Grapes of Wrath ~ by John Steinbeck (1939)
37. Gravity's Rainbow ~ by Thomas Pynchon (1972)
38. Great Expectations ~ by Charles Dickens (1861)
39. The Great Gatsby ~ by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1925)
40. Gulliver's Travels ~ by Jonathan Swift (1726)
41. Hamlet ~ by William Shakespeare (1603)
42. The Handmaid's Tale ~ by Margaret Atwood (1986)
43. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone ~ by J. K. Rowling (1997)
44. The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter ~ by Carson McCullers (1940)
45. Heart of Darkness ~ by Joseph Conrad (1899)
46. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy ~ by Douglas Adams (1979)
47. Howard's End ~ by E. M. Forster (1910)
48. In Search of Lost Time ~ by Marcel Proust (1913)
49. Invisible Man ~ by Ralph Ellison (1952)
50. Jane Eyre ~ by Charlotte Brontë (1847)
51. The Kite Runner ~ by Khaled Hosseini (2003)
52. Les Misérables ~ by Victor Hugo (1862)
53. Life of Pi ~ by Yann Martel (2001)
54. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe ~ by C. S. Lewis (1950)
55. The Little Prince ~ by Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1943)
56. Little Women ~ by Louisa M. Alcott (1868)
57. Lolita ~ by Vladimir Nabokov (1955)
58. Lord of the Flies ~ by William Golding (1954)
59. The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings) ~ by J. R. R. Tolkien (1954)
60. Madame Bovary ~ by Gustave Falubert (1856)
61. Main Street ~ by Sinclair Lewis (1920)
62. The Maltese Falcon ~ by Dashiell Hammett (1930)
63. Memoirs of a Geisha ~ by Arthur Golden (1997)
64. Middlemarch ~ by George Eliot (1874)
65. Midnight's Children ~ by Salman Rushdie (1981)
66. Moby Dick ~ by Herman Melville (1851)
67. Naked Lunch ~ by William S. Burroughs (1959)
68. Native Son ~ by Richard Wright (1940)
69. Northern Lights (The Golden Compass) ~ by Philip Pullman (1995)
70. The Old Man and the Sea ~ by Ernest Hemingway (1952)
71. On the Road ~ by Jack Kerouac (1957)
72. One Hundred Years of Solitude ~ by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (`970)
73. A Prayer for Owen Meaney ~ by John Irving (1989)
74. Pride and Prejudice ~ by Jane Austen (1813)
75. The Remains of the Day ~ by Kazuo Ishiguro (1989)
76. The Scarlet Letter ~ by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1850)
77. The Secret Garden ~ by Frances Hodgson Burnett (1911)
78. The Secret History ~ by Donna Tartt (1992)
79. A Separate Peace ~ by John Knowles (1959)
80. The Shadow of the Wind ~ by Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2004)
81. Sister Carrie ~ by Theodore Dreiser (1900)
82. Slaughterhouse-Five ~ by Kurt Vonnegut (1969)
83. Sons and Lovers ~ by D. H. Lawrence (1913)
84. The Sound and the Fury ~ by William Faulkner (1929)
85. Stranger in a Strange Land ~ by Robert Heinlein (1961)
86. Swallows and Amazons ~ by Arthur Ransom (1930)
87. The Time Traveler's Wife ~ by Audrey Niffenegger (2003)
88. To Kill a Mockingbird ~ by Harper Lee (1960)
89. To the Lighthouse ~ by Virginia Woolf (1927)
90. A Town Like Alice ~ by Nevil Shute (1950)
91. Tropic of Cancer ~ by Henry Miller (1934)
92. Ulysses ~ by James Joyce (1922)
93. Under the Volcano ~ by Malcolm Lowry (1947)
94. War and Peace ~ by Leo Tolstoy (1869)
95. Watership Down ~ by Richard Adams (1972)
96. The Way of All Flesh ~ by Samuel Butler (1903)
97. The Wind in the Willows ~ by Kenneth Grahame (1908)
98. Winnie the Pooh ~ by A. A. Milne (1926)
99. Wuthering Heights ~ by Emily Bronte (1847)
100. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance ~ by Robert M. Pirsig (1974)
The Stranger ~ by Albert Camus (1942)I added dates to the books on today's list so you can see how old (or new) the books are. Other lists: In 2008, I shared a list of 100 new classics from Entertainment Weekly. The Modern Library's 100 Best Novels is actually two lists, one from the Board and one from the Readers.
The Plague ~ by Albert Camus (1947)
The Brothers Karamatzov ~ by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1880)
A Tale of Two Cities ~ by Charles Dickens (1859)
Time and Again ~ by Jack Finney (1970)
On the Beach ~ by Nevil Shute (1957)
Possession ~ by A.S. Byatt(1990)
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer ~ by Mark Twain (1876)
The Secret Life of Bees ~ by Sue Monk Kidd (2002)
The Trial ~ by Franz Kafka (1925)
Cold Mountain ~ by Charles Frazier (1997)
The Giver ~ by Lois Lowry (1993)
A Thousand Acres ~ by Jane Smiley (1991)