Best Fiction Ever Written
Thu/30/Oct 2008
I noticed an interesting list at my local public library today. A group that calls themselves “The Modern Library Board” has chosen the most well-written fiction books since 1900. In addition, The National Review has chosen the “most well-written and important non-fiction books.” Here’s the fiction list. I’ll post the non-fiction list later this week. How many of these have you read?
Top 25 Fiction Books:
1. Ulysses by James Joyce
2. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
3. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
4. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
5. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
6. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
7. Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
8. Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler
9. Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence
10. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
11. Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry
12. The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler
13. 1984 by George Orwell
14. I, Claudius by Robert Graves
15. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
16. An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
17. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
18. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
19. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
20. Native Son by Richard Wright
21. Henderson the Rain Kng by Saul Bellow
22. Appointment in Samarra by John O’Harra
23. U.S.A. by John Dos Passos
24. Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson
25. A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
* How many I have read: 0
