Paritosh Uttam: Reading - The Modern Library Top 200

The Modern Library Top 200 is the list of the 200 best novels in English published since 1950, selected by Carmen Callil and Colm Toibin.

Reading score: 100/200

† Yet to read.

Rank	Title	Author
1	The Adventures of Augie March	Saul Bellow
2	Anecdotes of Destiny	Karen Blixen
3	Angel	Elizabeth Taylor
4	The Ballad of the Sad Café	Carson McCullers
5	The Catcher in the Rye	J. D. Salinger
6	A Dance to the Music of Time	Anthony Powell
7	December Bride	Sam Hanna Bell
8	East of Eden	John Steinbeck
9	The Echoing Grove	Rosamond Lehmann
10	The Financial Expert	R. K. Narayan
11	The Flint Anchor ^†	Sylvia Townsend Warner
12	The Fountain Overflows	Rebecca West
13	From the Terrace ^†	John O’Hara
14	Go Tell It on the Mountain	James Baldwin
15	The Go-Between	L. P. Hartley
16	The Grand Sophy ^†	Georgette Heyer
17	A Heritage and its History ^†	Ivy Compton-Burnett
18	Invisible Man	Ralph Ellison
19	A Legacy ^†	Sybille Bedford
20	The Little Disturbances of Man : Stories of Women and Men at Love ^†	Grace Paley
21	Lolita	Vladimir Nabokov
22	The Long Goodbye	Raymond Chandler
23	Lord of the Flies	William Golding
24	Lucky Jim	Kingsley Amis
25	Molloy; Malone Dies; The Unnamable ^†	Samuel Beckett
26	A Murder Is Announced	Agatha Christie
27	My Cousin Rachel	Daphne du Maurier
28	Naked Lunch	William S. Burroughs
29	The Natural ^†	Bernard Malamud
30	Nothing ^†	Henry Green
31	The Old Man and the Sea	Ernest Hemingway
32	On the Road	Jack Kerouac
33	Owls Do Cry ^†	Janet Frame
34	The Palm-wine Drinkard ^†	Amos Tutuola
35	Power Without Glory ^†	Frank Hardy
36	Private Life of an Indian Prince ^†	Mulk Raj Anand
37	The Recognitions	William Gaddis
38	Saturday Night and Sunday Morning ^†	Alan Sillitoe
39	The Sword of Honour Trilogy ^†	Evelyn Waugh
40	The Talented Mr. Ripley	Patricia Highsmith
41	Things Fall Apart	Chinua Achebe
42	The Tortoise and the Hare ^†	Elizabeth Jenkins
43	Train to Pakistan	Khushwant Singh
44	The West Pier ^†	Patrick Hamilton
45	Wise Blood	Flannery O’Connor
46	The Balkan Trilogy ^†	Olivia Manning
47	The Bell Jar	Sylvia Plath
48	Catch-22	Joseph Heller
49	The Confessions of Nat Turner	William Styron
50	Cotter’s England ^†	Christina Stead
51	Girl with Green Eyes ^†	Edna O’Brien
52	The Godfather	Mario Puzo
53	The Golden Notebook	Doris Lessing
54	A Grain of Wheat ^†	Ngûgî wa Thiong’o
55	The Group ^†	Mary McCarthy
56	Happiness, and other stories ^†	Mary Lavin
57	Heartland ^†	Wilson Harris
58	Herzog	Saul Bellow
59	A House for Mr. Biswas	V. S. Naipaul
60	In the Heart of the Country & Other Stories ^†	William H. Gass
61	The Interpreters ^†	Wole Soyinka
62	Jeeves in the Offing	P. G. Wodehouse
63	A Jest of God	Margaret Laurence
64	The Jewel in the Crown	Paul Scott
65	Last Exit to Brooklyn	Hubert Selby, Jr.
66	The Little Girls ^†	Elizabeth Bowen
67	The Magus	John Fowles
68	Memoirs of a Peon ^†	Frank Sargeson
69	The Nice and the Good ^†	Iris Murdoch
70	The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie	Muriel Spark
71	Rabbit Angstrom: A Tetrology ^†	John Updike
72	The Reivers	William Faulkner
73	Riders in the Chariot ^†	Patrick White
74	Ship of Fools ^†	Katherine Anne Porter
75	The Spy Who Came in From the Cold	John le Carré
76	That’s How It Was ^†	Maureen Duffy
77	To Kill a Mockingbird	Harper Lee
78	The Unfortunates ^†	B. S. Johnson
79	Wide Sargasso Sea	Jean Rhys
80	A Bend in the River	V. S. Naipaul
81	Black List, Section H ^†	Francis Stuart
82	A Book of Common Prayer	Joan Didion
83	Burger’s Daughter ^†	Nadine Gordimer
84	The Cement Garden	Ian McEwan
85	Changing Places ^†	David Lodge
86	The Day of the Jackal	Frederick Forsyth
87	The Executioner’s Song ^†	Norman Mailer
88	Falconer	John Cheever
89	Fifth Business ^†	Robertson Davies
90	From the Fifteenth District ^†	Mavis Gallant
91	Gravity’s Rainbow	Thomas Pynchon
92	Heat and Dust	Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
93	The Human Factor	Graham Greene
94	The Ice Age ^†	Margaret Drabble
95	Injury Time	Beryl Bainbridge
96	Interview with the Vampire	Anne Rice
97	The Lost Salt Gift of Blood ^†	Alistair MacLeod
98	Master and Commander	Patrick O’Brian
99	The Murderer ^†	Roy A. K. Heath
100	The Optimist’s Daughter	Eudora Welty
101	Plumb ^†	Maurice Gee
102	Ragtime	E. L. Doctorow
103	Saville	David Storey
104	The Siege of Krishnapur	J. G. Farrell
105	Sleepless Nights ^†	Elizabeth Hardwick
106	St. Urbain’s Horseman ^†	Mordecai Richler
107	Tirra Lirra by the River ^†	Jessica Anderson
108	The Year of the French ^†	Thomas Flanagan
109	An Artist of the Floating World	Kazuo Ishiguro
110	Beloved	Toni Morrison
111	Black Robe	Brian Moore
112	Blood Meridian	Cormac McCarthy
113	The Bonfire of the Vanities	Tom Wolfe
114	The Book of Evidence ^†	John Banville
115	A Boy’s Own Story ^†	Edmund White
116	Breathing Lessons	Anne Tyler
117	The Color Purple	Alice Walker
118	A Confederacy of Dunces ^†	John Kennedy Toole
119	Cracking India ^†	Bapsi Sidhwa
120	A Dark-Adapted Eye	Barbara Vine
121	Double Whammy	Carl Hiaasen
122	Earthly Powers ^†	Anthony Burgess
123	Ellen Foster ^†	Kaye Gibbons
124	Empire of the Sun	J. G. Ballard
125	A Flag for Sunrise ^†	Robert Stone
126	Flaubert’s Parrot	Julian Barnes
127	Forty-seventeen ^†	Frank Moorhouse
128	Housekeeping	Marilynne Robinson
129	In Custody	Anita Desai
130	In the Skin of a Lion ^†	Michael Ondaatje
131	The Joy Luck Club	Amy Tan
132	Lamb ^†	Bernard MacLaverty
133	Lanark ^†	Alasdair Gray
134	Lonesome Dove ^†	Larry McMurtry
135	Machine Dreams ^†	Jayne Anne Phillips
136	The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love ^†	Oscar Hijuelos
137	Midnight’s Children	Salman Rushdie
138	Misery	Stephen King
139	Money	Martin Amis
140	Nation of Fools: Scenes from Indian Life ^†	Balraj Khanna
141	On the Black Hill	Bruce Chatwin
142	Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit	Jeanette Winterson
143	Oscar and Lucinda	Peter Carey
144	The Other Garden ^†	Francis Wyndham
145	Paris Trout	Pete Dexter
146	Puffball ^†	Fay Weldon
147	Red Dragon	Thomas Harris
148	Riddley Walker ^†	Russell Hoban
149	Schindler’s Ark	Thomas Keneally
150	So Long, See You Tomorrow ^†	William Maxwell
151	The Sportswriter	Richard Ford
152	The Sugar Mother ^†	Elizabeth Jolley
153	A Summons to Memphis ^†	Peter Taylor
154	The Transit of Venus ^†	Shirley Hazzard
155	Where I'm Calling From: Selected Stories	Raymond Carver
156	Age of Iron ^†	J.M. Coetzee
157	Alias Grace ^†	Margaret Atwood
158	American Pastoral	Philip Roth
159	American Psycho	Bret Easton Ellis
160	Amongst Women	John McGahern
161	Asylum ^†	Patrick McGrath
162	Birdsong	Sebastian Faulks
163	The Blue Flower ^†	Penelope Fitzgerald
164	The Butcher Boy ^†	Patrick McCabe
165	Captain Corelli’s Mandolin	Louis de Bernières
166	Cloudstreet ^†	Tim Winton
167	Cold Mountain	Charles Frazier
168	Death and Nightingales ^†	Eugene McCabe
169	Downriver ^†	Iain Sinclair
170	A Fine Balance ^†	Rohinton Mistry
171	The Folding Star ^†	Alan Hollinghurst
172	Freedom Song: Three Novels ^†	Amit Chaudhuri
173	Friend of My Youth: Stories ^†	Alice Munro
174	Get Shorty	Elmore Leonard
175	The Great World ^†	David Malouf
176	A Home at the End of the World ^†	Michael Cunningham
177	How Late It Was, How Late	James Kelman
178	The Lady from Guatemala ^†	V. S. Pritchett
179	Last Orders	Graham Swift
180	Mating ^†	Norman Rush
181	My Idea of Fun ^†	Will Self
182	The Night in Question ^†	Tobias Wolff
183	Original Sin ^†	P. D. James
184	Possession	A. S. Byatt
185	Quarantine ^†	Jim Crace
186	Reading Turgenev ^†	William Trevor
187	The Redundancy of Courage ^†	Timothy Mo
188	The Regeneration Trilogy ^†	Pat Barker
189	A River Sutra ^†	Gita Mehta
190	The Secret History ^†	Donna Tartt
191	The Shipping News	E. Annie Proulx
192	The Snapper ^†	Roddy Doyle
193	A Suitable Boy	Vikram Seth
194	A Thousand Acres	Jane Smiley
195	The Tortilla Curtain	T. Coraghessan Boyle
196	Trainspotting ^†	Irvine Welsh
197	Underworld ^†	Don DeLillo
198	The Virgin Suicides	Jeffrey Eugenides
199	What a Carve Up! ^†	Jonathan Coe
200	Wise Children ^†	Angela Carter