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100 Best Novels (board's list)
Modern Library, 1998. A critics list, ranked. See the original list
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The Way of All Flesh
Samuel Butler, 1903
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Tender Is the Night
F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1934
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The Studs Lonigan Trilogy
James T. Farrell, 1930
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The Naked and the Dead
Norman Mailer, 1948
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The Alexandria Quartet
Lawrence Durrell, 1962
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A High Wind in Jamaica
Richard Hughes, 1929
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The Postman Always Rings Twice
James M. Cain, 1934
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The lists that agree with this one most
| List | Books in common |
|---|---|
| All-Time 100 Novels (Time, 2005) | 47 |
| The 100 best novels written in English (The Guardian / Observer, 2015) | 34 |
| The 100 greatest British novels (BBC Culture, 2015) | 26 |
| The 100 best novels of all time (The Guardian, 2026) | 22 |
| The 100 greatest novels of all time (The Observer, 2003) | 19 |