THE 100 BEST NOVELS OF 20th CENTURY

1. Ulysses, 1922 James Joyce
2. In Search of Lost Time, 1913-27 Marcel Proust
3. The Man Without Qualities, 1930-43 Robert Musil 
4. The Trial, 1925 Franz Kafka
5. One Hundred Years of Solitude, 1967 Gabriel Garcia Marquez
6. The Sound and the Fury, 1929 William Faulkner
7. The Magic Mountain, 1924 Thomas Mann 
8. The Stranger, 1942 Albert Camus
9. To The Lighthouse, 1927 Virginia Woolf
10. Molloy; Malone Dies; The Unnamable, 1951-53 Samuel Beckett
11. Absalom, Absalom!, 1936 William Faulkner
12. Nineteen Eighty-Four, 1949 George Orwell
13. Journey to the End of Night, 1932 Louis-Ferdinand Céline
14. The Master and Margarita, 1967 Mikhaíl Bulgákov 
15. Lolita, 1955 Vladimir Nabokov 
16. The Tin Drum, 1959 Gunter Grass 
17. The Grapes of Wrath, 1939 John Steinbeck
18. The Quiet Don, 1928-40 Mikhail Sholokhov 
19. The Castle, 1926 Franz Kafka 
20. Buddenbrooks, 1901 Thomas Mann
21. Berlin Alexanderplatz, 1929 Alfred Döblin
22. Hopscotch, 1963 Julio Cortázar
23. Gravity’s Rainbow, 1973 Thomas Pynchon
24. Nostromo, 1904 Joseph Conrad
25. Catch-22, 1961 Joseph Heller
26. The Death of Virgil, 1945 Hermann Broch 
27. Pedro Páramo, 1955 Juan Rulfo
28. Mrs.Dalloway, 1925 Virginia Woolf
29. The Ambassadors, 1903 Henry James
30. Love in the Time of Cholera, 1985 Gabriel Garcia Marquez
31. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, 1916 James Joyce
32. Petersburg, 1913 Andrei Bely 
33. Sons and Lovers, 1913 D. H. Lawrence
34. The Death of Artemio Cruz, 1962 Carlos Fuentes
35. Confessions of Zeno, 1923 Italo Svevo
36. Doctor Faustus, 1947 Thomas Mann 
37. Invisible Man, 1952 Ralph Ellison
38. The Devil to Pay in the Backlands, 1956 João Guimarães Rosa
39. The Tartar Steppe, 1940 Dino Buzzati
40. The Name of the Rose, 1980 Umberto Eco 
41. Under the Volcano, 1947 Malcolm Lowry
42. As I Lay Dying, 1930 William Faulkner
43. Memoirs of Hadrian, 1951 Marguerite Yourcenar
44. The Tunnel, 1948 Ernesto Sabato
45. Blood Meridian, 1985 Cormac McCarthy
46. Season of Migration to the North, 1966 Tayeb Salih
47. The Leopard, 1958 Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
48. Independent People, 1934-35 Halldór Laxness
49. A Passage to India, 1924 E. M. Forster
50. Insatiability, 1930 Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz
51. Cities of Salt, 1984-89 Abdul Rahman Munif
52. Things Fall Apart, 1958 Chinua Achebe
53. The Plague, 1947 Albert Camus
54. Auto da Fé, 1935 Elias Canetti 
55. Kokoro, 1914 Natsume Sōseki
56. Three Trapped Tigers, 1967 Guillermo Cabrera Infante
57. Slaughterhouse-Five, 1969 Kurt Vonnegut
58. Life and Fate, 1959 Vasili Grossman
59. The Sun Also Rises, 1926 Ernest Hemingway
60. The Time of the Hero, 1963 Mario Vargas Llosa
61. Ferdydurke, 1937 Witold Gombrowicz
62. Blindness, 1995 José Saramago
63. That Awful Mess on Via Merulana, 1957 Carlo Emilio Gadda
64. The Savage Detectives, 1998 Roberto Bolaño
65. Pale Fire, 1962 Vladimir Nabokov
66. The House of the Spirits, 1982 Isabel Allende
67. The Golden Bowl, 1904 Henry James
68. If on a Winter's Night a Traveler, 1979 Italo Calvino,
69. Anniversaries: From the Life of Gesine Cresspahl, 1970-83 Uwe Johnson
70. Nausea, 1938 Jean-Paul Sartre
71. The Sound of the Mountain, 1949-54 Yasunari Kawabata
72. The General of the Dead Army, 1963 Ismail Kadare
73. Lord of the Flies, 1954 William Golding
74. Beloved, 1987 Toni Morrison
75. The Kingdom of This World, 1949 Alejo Carpentier
76. History, 1974 Elsa Morante 
77. The Golden Notebook, 1962 Doris Lessing
78. Mister President, 1946 Miguel Ángel Asturias
79. Infinite Jest, 1996 David Foster Wallace
80. The Great Gatsby, 1925 F. Scott Fitzgerald
81. Radetzky March, 1932 Joseph Roth
82. The Cairo Trilogy, 1956-57 Naguib Mahfouz
83. All Quiet on the Western Front, 1929 Erich Maria Remarque 
84. The U.S.A. Trilogy, 1930-36 John Dos Passos
85. The French Lieutenant's Woman, 1969 John Fowles
86. The Catcher in the Rye, 1951 J. D. Salinger
87. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, 1963 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 
88. On the Road, 1957 Jack Kerouac
89. Zorba the Greek, 1946 Nikos Kazantzakis
90. The Counterfeiters, 1926 Andre Gide
91. The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge, 1910 Rainer Maria Rilke
92. Lord Jim, 1900 Joseph Conrad
93. The Sea of Fertility, 1969-71 Yukio Mishima
94. The Joke, 1967 Milan Kundera
95. I, the Supreme, 1974 Augusto Roa Bastos
96. The Bridge on the Drina, 1945 Ivo Andrić
97. Siddhartha, 1922 Hermann Hesse
98. Dictionary of the Khazars: A Lexicon Novel, 1984 Milorad Pavić
99. Perfume, 1985 Patrick Süskind
100. Paradiso, 1966 José Lezama Lima