Rank

B O A R D ‘ S   L I S T

R E A D E R ‘ S   L I S T

1

Ulysses   (James Joyce) #11

Atlas Shrugged  (Ayn Rand)

2

The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)

The Fountainhead  (Ayn Rand)

3

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (James Joyce) #57

Battlefield Earth  (L. Ron Hubard)

4

Lolita   (Vladimir Nabokov) #34

The Lord of the Rings  (J.R.R. Tolkien)

5

Brave New World  (Aldous Huxley) #18

To Kill a Mockingbird  (Harper Lee)

6

The Sound and the Fury  (William Faulkner) #33

1984   (George Orwell) #13

7

Catch-22   (Joseph Heller) #12

Anthem  (Ayn Rand)

8

Darkness at Noon  (Arthur Koestler)

We The Living  (Ayn Rand)

9

Sons and Lovers  (D.H. Lawrence)

Mission Earth  (L. Ron Hubbard)

10

The Grapes of Wrath  (John Steinbeck)

Fear  (L. Ron Hubbard)

11

Under the Volcano  (Malcolm Lowry) #39

Ulysses   (James Joyce) #1

12

The Way Of All Flesh  (Samuel Butler)

Catch-22   (Joseph Heller) #7

13

1984   (George Orwell) #6

The Great  Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald) #2

14

I, Claudius  (Robert Graves) #74

Dune  (Frank Herbert)

15

To the Lighthouse  (Virginia Woolf) #48

The Moon is a Harsh Mistress (Robert Heinlein)

16

An American Tragedy  (Theodore Dreiser)

Stranger in a Strange Land  (Robert Heinlein)

17

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter  (Carson McCullers) #52

A Town Like Alice  (Nevil Shute)

18

Slaughterhouse-Five   (Kurt Vonnegut) #23

Brave New World  (Aldous Huxley) #5

19

Invisible Man  (Ralph Ellison) #69

The Catcher in the Rye  (J.D. Salinger) #64

20

Native Son  (Richard Wright)

Animal Farm  (George Orwell)

21

Henderson The Rain King  (Saul Bellow)

Gravity’s Rainbow  (Thomas Pynchon)

22

Appointment in Samarra  (John O’Hara)

The Grapes of Wrath  (John Steinbeck)

23

U.S.A. (trilogy)  (John Dos Passos)

Slaughterhouse-Five   (Kurt Vonnegut) #18

24

Winesburg, Ohio  (Sherwood Anderson)

Gone With The Wind  (Margaret Mitchell)

25

A Passage to India  (E.M. Forster)

Lord of the Flies  (William Golding)

26

The Wings of the Dove  (Henry James)

Shane  (Jack Schaefer)

27

The Ambassadors  (Henry James)

Trustee from the Toolroom  (Nevil Shute)

28

Tender is the Night  (F. Scott Fitzgerald)

A Prayer for Owen Meany  (John Irving)

29

The Studs Lonigan Trilogy  (James T. Farrell)

The Stand  (Steven King)

30

The Good Soldier  (Ford Madox Ford)

The French Lieutenant’s Woman  (John Fowles)

31

Animal Farm  (George Orwell)

Beloved  (Toni Morrison)

32

The Golden Bowl  (Henry James)

The Worm Ouroboros  (E.R. Eddison)

33

Sister Carrie  (Theodore Dreiser)

The Sound and the Fury  (William Faulkner) #6

34

A Handful of Dust  (Evelyn Waugh)

Lolita   (Vladimir Nabokov) #4

35

As I Lay Dying  (William Faulkner) #67

Moonheart  (Charles de Lint)

36

All The King’s Men  (Robert Penn Warren)

Absalom, Absalom!  (William Faulkner)

37

The Bridge of San Luis Rey  (Thornton Wilder)

Of Human Bondage  (W. Somerset Maugham)  #66

38

Howards End  (E.M. Forster)

Wise Blood  (Flannery O’Connor)

39

Go Tell It On The Mountain  (James Baldwin)

Under the Volcano  (Malcolm Lowry) #11

40

The Heart of the Matter  (Graham Greene)

Fifth Business  (Robertson Davies)

41

Lord of the Flies  (William Golding)

Someplace to be Flying  (Charles de Lint)

42

Deliverance  (James Dickey)

On The Road  (Jack Kerouac) #55

43

A Dance to the Music of Time (Anthony Powell)

Heart of Darkness  (Joseph Conrad) #67

44

Point Counter Point  (Aldous Huxley)

Yarrow  (Charles de Lint)

45

The Sun Also Rises  (Ernest Hemingway) #63

At the Mountains of Madness  (H.P. Lovecraft)

46

The Secret Agent  (Joseph Conrad)

One Lonely Night  (Mickey Spillane)

47

Nostromo  (Joseph Conrad)

Memory and Dream  (Charles de Lint)

48

The Rainbow  (D.H. Lawrence)

To the Lighthouse  (Virginia Woolf) #15

49

Women in Love  (D.H. Lawrence)

The Moviegoer  (Walker Percy)

50

Tropic of Cancer  (Henry Miller) #68

Trader  (Charles de Lint)

51

The Naked and the Dead  (Norman Mailer)

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy  (Douglas Adams)

52

Portnoy’s Complaint  (Philip Roth)

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (Carson McCullers) #17

53

Pale Fire  (Vladimir Nabokov)

The Handmaid’s Tale  (Margaret Atwood)

54

Light in August  (William Faulkner) #89

Blood Meridian  (Cormac McCarthy)

55

On The Road  (Jack Kerouac) #42

A Clockwork Orange  (Anthony Burgess) #65

56

The Maltese Falcon  (Dashiell Hammett)

On the Beach  (Nevil Shute)

57

Parade’s End  (Ford Madox Ford)

A Portrait Artist as a Young Man (James Joyce) #3

58

The Age of Innocence  (Edith Wharton)

Greenmantle  (Charles de Lint)

59

Zuleika Dobson  (Max Beerbohm)

Ender’s Game  (Orson Scott Card)

60

The Moviegoer  (Walker Percy)

The Little Country  (Charles de Lint)

61

Death Comes for the Archbishop  (Willa Cather)

The Recognitions  (William Gaddis)

62

From Here to Eternity  (James Jones)

Starship Troopers  (Robert Heinlein)

63

The Wapshot Chronicles  (John Cheever)

The Sun Also Rises  (Ernest Hemingway) #45

64

The Catcher in the Rye  (J.D. Salinger) #19

The World According to Garp  (John Irving)

65

A Clockwork Orange  (Anthony Burgess) #55

Something Wicked This Way Comes (Ray Bradbury)

66

Of Human Bondage  (W. Somerset Maugham)  #37

The Haunting of Hill House  (Shirley Jackson)

67

Heart of Darkness  (Joseph Conrad) #43

As I Lay Dying  (William Faulkner) #35

68

Main Street  (Sinclair Lewis)

Tropic of Cancer  (Henry Miller) #50

69

The House of Mirth  (Edith Wharton)

Invisible Man  (Ralph Ellison) #19

70

The Alexandria Quartet  (Lawrence Durell)

The Wood Wife (Terri Windling)

71

A High Wind in Jamaica  (Richard Hughes)

The Magus  (John Fowles) #93

72

A House for Mr. Biswas  (V.S. Niapaul)

The Door Into Summer  (Robert Heinlein)

73

The Day of the Locust (Nathanael West)

Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (Robert Pirsig)

74

A Farewell to Arms  (Ernest Hemingway)

I, Claudius  (Robert Graves) #14

75

Scoop  (Evelyn Waugh)

The Call of the Wild  (Jack London) #88

76

The Prime of Miss jean Brodie  (Muriel Spark)

At Swim-Two-Birds  (Flann O’Brien)

77

Finnegans Wake  (James Joyce)

Fahrenheit 451 (Ray Bradbury)

78

Kim  (Rudyard Kipling)

Arrowsmith  (Sinclair Lewis)

79

A Room with a View  (E.M. Forster)

Watership Down  (Richard Adams)

80

Brideshead Revisited  (Evelyn Waugh) #88

Naked Lunch  (William S. Burroughs)

81

The Adventures of Augie March  (Saul Bellow)

The Hunt for Red October  (Tom Clancy)

82

Angle of Repose  (Wallace Stegner)

Guilty Pleasures  (Laurell K. Hamilton)

83

A Bend in the River  (V.S. Naipaul)

The Puppet Masters  (Robert Heinlein)

84

The Death of the Heart  (Elizabeth Bowen)

IT  (Steven King)

85

Lord Jim  (Joseph Conrad)

V.  (Thomas Pynchon)

86

Ragtime  (E.L. Doctorow)

Double Star  (Robert Heinlein)

87

The Old Wives’ Tale  (Arnold Bennett)

Citizen of the Galaxy  (Robert Heinlein)

88

The Call of the Wild  (Jack London) #75

Brideshead Revisited  (Evelyn Waugh) #80

89

Loving  (Henry Green)

Light in August  (William Faulkner) #54

90

Midnight’s Children  (Salman Rushdie)

One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest  (Ken Kesey)

91

Tobacco Road  (Erskine Caldwell)

A Fairwell to Arms  (Ernest Hemingway)

92

Ironweed  (William Kennedy)

The Sheltering Sky  (Paul Bowles) #97

93

The Magus  (John Fowles) #71

Sometimes a Great Notion  (Ken Kesey)

94

Wide Sargasso Sea  (Jean Rhys)

My Antonia  (Willa Cather)

95

Under the Net  (Iris Murdoch)

Mulengro  (Charles de Lint)

96

Sophie’s Choice  (William Styron)

Suttree  (Cormac McCarthy)

97

The Sheltering Sky  (Paul Bowles) #92

Mythago Wood  (Robert Holdstock)

98

The Postman Always Rings Twice  (James M. Cain)

Illusions  (Richard Bach)

99

The Ginger Man  (J.P. Donleavy)

The Cunning Man  (Robertson Davis)

100

The Magnificent Ambersons  (Booth Tarkington)

The Satanic Verses  (Salman Rushdie)