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2. THE GREAT GATSBY by F. Scott Fitzgerald
4. LOLITA by Vladimir Nabokov
5. BRAVE NEW WORLD by Aldous Huxley
6. THE SOUND AND THE FURY by William Faulkner
7. CATCH-22
9. SONS AND LOVERS by D.H. Lawrence
10. THE GRAPES OF WRATH by John Steinbeck
13. 1984 by George Orwell
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
24. WINESBURG, OHIO by Sherwood Anderson
26. THE WINGS OF THE DOVE by Henry James
27. THE AMBASSADORS by Henry James
28. TENDER IS THE NIGHT by F. Scott Fitzgerald
31. ANIMAL FARM by George Orwell
39. GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN by James Baldwin
41. LORD OF THE FLIES by William Golding
45. THE SUN ALSO RISES by Ernest Hemingway
49. WOMEN IN LOVE by D.H. Lawrence
50. TROPIC OF CANCER by Henry Miller
52. PORTNOY'S COMPLAINT by Philip Roth
55. ON THE ROAD by Jack Kerouac
58. THE AGE OF INNOCENCE by Edith Wharton
64. THE CATCHER IN THE RYE by J.D. Salinger
66. OF HUMAN BONDAGE by W. Somerset Maugham
67. HEART OF DARKNESS by Joseph Conrad
79. A ROOM WITH A VIEW by E.M. Forster
83. A BEND IN THE RIVER by V.S. Naipaul
92. IRONWEED by William Kennedy
96. SOPHIE'S CHOICE by William Styron
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I would imagine this list is slanted towards novels that Modern Library has published...
and The Great Gatsby was a beautiful novel...one of my all-time favorites.
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