The Board’s List of 100 Best Novels
- ULYSSES by James Joyce
- THE GREAT GATSBY by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN by James Joyce
- LOLITA by Vladimir Nabokov
- BRAVE NEW WORLD by Aldous Huxley
- THE SOUND AND THE FURY by William Faulkner
- CATCH-22 by Joseph Heller
- DARKNESS AT NOON by Arthur Koestler
- SONS AND LOVERS by D.H. Lawrence
- THE GRAPES OF WRATH by John Steinbeck
- UNDER THE VOLCANO by Malcolm Lowry
- THE WAY OF ALL FLESHby Samuel Butler
- 1984 by George Orwell
- I, CLAUDIUS by Robert Graves
- TO THE LIGHTHOUSE by Virginia Woolf
- AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY by Theodore Dreiser
- THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER by Carson McCullers
- SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE by Kurt Vonnegut
- INVISIBLE MAN by Ralph Ellison
- NATIVE SON by Richard Wright
- HENDERSON THE RAIN KING by Saul Bellow
- APPOINTMENT IN SAMARRA by John O’Hara
- U.S.A.(trilogy) by John Dos Passos
- WINESBURG, OHIO by Sherwood Anderson
- A PASSAGE TO INDIA by E.M. Forster
- THE WINGS OF THE DOVE by Henry James
- THE AMBASSADORS by Henry James
- TENDER IS THE NIGHT by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- THE STUDS LONIGAN TRILOGY by James T. Farrell
- THE GOOD SOLDIER by Ford Madox Ford
- ANIMAL FARM by George Orwell
- THE GOLDEN BOWL by Henry James
- SISTER CARRIE by Theodore Dreiser
- A HANDFUL OF DUST by Evelyn Waugh
- AS I LAY DYING by William Faulkner
- ALL THE KING’S MEN by Robert Penn Warren
- THE BRIDGE OF SAN LUIS REY by Thornton Wilder
- HOWARDS END by E.M. Forster
- GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN by James Baldwin
- THE HEART OF THE MATTER by Graham Greene
- LORD OF THE FLIES by William Golding
- DELIVERANCE by James Dickey
- A DANCE TO THE MUSIC OF TIME (series) by Anthony Powell
- POINT COUNTER POINT by Aldous Huxley
- THE SUN ALSO RISES by Ernest Hemingway
- THE SECRET AGENT by Joseph Conrad
- NOSTROMO by Joseph Conrad
- THE RAINBOW by D.H. Lawrence
- WOMEN IN LOVE by D.H. Lawrence
- TROPIC OF CANCER by Henry Miller
- THE NAKED AND THE DEAD by Norman Mailer
- PORTNOY’S COMPLAINT by Philip Roth
- PALE FIRE by Vladimir Nabokov
- LIGHT IN AUGUST by William Faulkner
- ON THE ROADby Jack Kerouac
- THE MALTESE FALCONby Dashiell Hammett
- PARADE’S END by Ford Madox Ford
- THE AGE OF INNOCENCE by Edith Wharton
- ZULEIKA DOBSON by Max Beerbohm
- THE MOVIEGOER by Walker Percy
- DEATH COMES FOR THE ARCHBISHOP by Willa Cather
- FROM HERE TO ETERNITY by James Jones
- THE WAPSHOT CHRONICLES by John Cheever
- THE CATCHER IN THE RYE by J.D. Salinger
- A CLOCKWORK ORANGE by Anthony Burgess
- OF HUMAN BONDAGE by W. Somerset Maugham
- HEART OF DARKNESS by Joseph Conrad
- MAIN STREET by Sinclair Lewis
- THE HOUSE OF MIRTH by Edith Wharton
- THE ALEXANDRIA QUARTET by Lawrence Durell
- A HIGH WIND IN JAMAICA by Richard Hughes
- A HOUSE FOR MR BISWAS by V.S. Naipaul
- THE DAY OF THE LOCUST by Nathanael West
- A FAREWELL TO ARMS by Ernest Hemingway
- SCOOP by Evelyn Waugh
- THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE by Muriel Spark
- FINNEGANS WAKE by James Joyce
- KIM by Rudyard Kipling
- A ROOM WITH A VIEW by E.M. Forster
- BRIDESHEAD REVISITED by Evelyn Waugh
- THE ADVENTURES OF AUGIE MARCH by Saul Bellow
- ANGLE OF REPOSE by Wallace Stegner
- A BEND IN THE RIVER by V.S. Naipaul
- THE DEATH OF THE HEART by Elizabeth Bowen
- LORD JIM by Joseph Conrad
- RAGTIME by E.L. Doctorow
- THE OLD WIVES’ TALE by Arnold Bennett
- THE CALL OF THE WILD by Jack London
- LOVING by Henry Green
- MIDNIGHT’S CHILDREN by Salman Rushdie
- TOBACCO ROAD by Erskine Caldwell
- IRONWEED by William Kennedy
- THE MAGUS by John Fowles
- WIDE SARGASSO SEA by Jean Rhys
- UNDER THE NET by Iris Murdoch
- SOPHIE’S CHOICE by William Styron
- THE SHELTERING SKYby Paul Bowles
- THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICEby James M. Cain
- THE GINGER MANby J.P. Donleavy
- THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONSby Booth Tarkington
The Readers’ List of 100 Best Novels
- ATLAS SHRUGGED by Ayn Rand
- THE FOUNTAINHEAD by Ayn Rand
- BATTLEFIELD EARTH by L. Ron Hubbard
- THE LORD OF THE RINGS by J.R.R. Tolkien
- TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD by Harper Lee
- 1984 by George Orwell
- ANTHEM by Ayn Rand
- WE THE LIVINGby Ayn Rand
- MISSION EARTHby L. Ron Hubbard
- FEARby L. Ron Hubbard
- ULYSSESby James Joyce
- CATCH-22 by Joseph Heller
- THE GREAT GATSBY by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- DUNE by Frank Herbert
- THE MOON IS A HARSH MISTRESS by Robert Heinlein
- STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND by Robert Heinlein
- A TOWN LIKE ALICE by Nevil Shute
- BRAVE NEW WORLD by Aldous Huxley
- THE CATCHER IN THE RYE by J.D. Salinger
- ANIMAL FARM by George Orwell
- GRAVITY’S RAINBOW by Thomas Pynchon
- THE GRAPES OF WRATH by John Steinbeck
- SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE by Kurt Vonnegut
- GONE WITH THE WIND by Margaret Mitchell
- LORD OF THE FLIES by William Golding
- SHANE by Jack Schaefer
- TRUSTEE FROM THE TOOLROOM by Nevil Shute
- A PRAYER FOR OWEN MEANY by John Irving
- THE STAND by Stephen King
- THE FRENCH LIEUTENANT’S WOMAN by John Fowles
- BELOVED by Toni Morrison
- THE WORM OUROBOROS by E.R. Eddison
- THE SOUND AND THE FURY by William Faulkner
- LOLITA by Vladimir Nabokov
- MOONHEART by Charles de Lint
- ABSALOM, ABSALOM!by William Faulkner
- OF HUMAN BONDAGE by W. Somerset Maugham
- WISE BLOODby Flannery O’Connor
- UNDER THE VOLCANOby Malcolm Lowry
- FIFTH BUSINESSby Robertson Davies
- SOMEPLACE TO BE FLYING by Charles de Lint
- ON THE ROAD by Jack Kerouac
- HEART OF DARKNESS by Joseph Conrad
- YARROW by Charles de Lint
- AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS by H.P. Lovecraft
- ONE LONELY NIGHT by Mickey Spillane
- MEMORY AND DREAMby Charles de Lint
- TO THE LIGHTHOUSE by Virginia Woolf
- THE MOVIEGOER by Walker Percy
- TRADER by Charles de Lint
- THE HITCHHIKER’S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY by Douglas Adams
- THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER by Carson McCullers
- THE HANDMAID’S TALE by Margaret Atwood
- BLOOD MERIDIAN by Cormac McCarthy
- A CLOCKWORK ORANGE by Anthony Burgess
- ON THE BEACH by Nevil Shute
- A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN by James Joyce
- GREENMANTLE by Charles de Lint
- ENDER’S GAME by Orson Scott Card
- THE LITTLE COUNTRY by Charles de Lint
- THE RECOGNITIONS by William Gaddis
- STARSHIP TROOPERS by Robert Heinlein
- THE SUN ALSO RISES by Ernest Hemingway
- THE WORLD ACCORDING TO GARP by John Irving
- SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES by Ray Bradbury
- THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE by Shirley Jackson
- AS I LAY DYING by William Faulkner
- TROPIC OF CANCER by Henry Miller
- INVISIBLE MAN by Ralph Ellison
- THE WOOD WIFE by Terri Windling
- THE MAGUS by John Fowles
- THE DOOR INTO SUMMER by Robert Heinlein
- ZEN AND THE ART OF MOTORCYCLE MAINTENANCE by Robert Pirsig
- I, CLAUDIUS by Robert Graves
- THE CALL OF THE WILD by Jack London
- AT SWIM-TWO-BIRDS by Flann O’Brien
- FARENHEIT 451by Ray Bradbury
- ARROWSMITHby Sinclair Lewis
- WATERSHIP DOWN by Richard Adams
- NAKED LUNCH by William S. Burroughs
- THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER by Tom Clancy
- GUILTY PLEASURES by Laurell K. Hamilton
- THE PUPPET MASTERS by Robert Heinlein
- IT by Stephen King
- V. by Thomas Pynchon
- DOUBLE STAR by Robert Heinlein
- CITIZEN OF THE GALAXY by Robert Heinlein
- BRIDESHEAD REVISITED by Evelyn Waugh
- LIGHT IN AUGUST by William Faulkner
- ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO’S NEST by Ken Kesey
- A FAREWELL TO ARMS by Ernest Hemingway
- THE SHELTERING SKY by Paul Bowles
- SOMETIMES A GREAT NOTION by Ken Kesey
- MY ANTONIA by Willa Cather
- MULENGRO by Charles de Lint
- SUTTREE by Cormac McCarthy
- MYTHAGO WOOD by Robert Holdstock
- ILLUSIONS by Richard Bach
- THE CUNNING MAN by Robertson Davies
- THE SATANIC VERSES by Salman Rushdie