The Radcliffe Top 100 is the list of top 100 novels in English published in the 20th century, as selected and rated by the Radcliffe Publishing Course.
Reading score: 98/100
† Yet to read.
| Rank | Title | Author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Great Gatsby | F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| 2 | The Catcher in the Rye | J. D. Salinger |
| 3 | The Grapes of Wrath | John Steinbeck |
| 4 | To Kill a Mockingbird | Harper Lee |
| 5 | The Color Purple | Alice Walker |
| 6 | Ulysses | James Joyce |
| 7 | Beloved | Toni Morrison |
| 8 | The Lord of the Flies | William Golding |
| 9 | 1984 | George Orwell |
| 10 | The Sound and the Fury | William Faulkner |
| 11 | Lolita | Vladimir Nabokov |
| 12 | Of Mice and Men | John Steinbeck |
| 13 | Charlotte’s Web | E.B. White |
| 14 | A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | James Joyce |
| 15 | Catch-22 | Joseph Heller |
| 16 | Brave New World | Aldous Huxley |
| 17 | Animal Farm | Geore Orwell |
| 18 | The Sun Also Rises | Ernest Hemingway |
| 19 | As I Lay Dying | William Faulkner |
| 20 | A Farewell to Arms | Ernest Hemingway |
| 21 | Heart of Darkness | Joseph Conrad |
| 22 | Winnie-the-Pooh | A.A. Milne |
| 23 | Their Eyes Were Watching God | Zora Neale Hurston |
| 24 | Invisible Man | Ralph Ellison |
| 25 | Song of Solomon | Toni Morrison |
| 26 | Gone with the Wind | Margaret Mitchell |
| 27 | Native Son | Richard Wright |
| 28 | One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest | Ken Kesey |
| 29 | Slaughterhouse-Five | Kurt Vonnegut |
| 30 | For Whom the Bell Tolls | Ernest Hemingway |
| 31 | On the Road | Jack Kerouac |
| 32 | The Old Man and the Sea | Ernest Hemingway |
| 33 | The Call of the Wild | Jack London |
| 34 | To the Lighthouse | Virginia Woolf |
| 35 | The Portrait of a Lady | Henry James |
| 36 | Go Tell It on the Mountain | James Baldwin |
| 37 | The World According to Garp | John Irving |
| 38 | All the King’s Men | Robert Penn Warren |
| 39 | A Room with a View | E. M. Forster |
| 40 | The Lord of the Rings † | J.R.R. Tolkien |
| 41 | Schindler’s List | Thomas Keneally |
| 42 | The Age of Innocence | Edith Wharton |
| 43 | Fountainhead | Ayn Rand |
| 44 | Finnegans Wake † | James Joyce |
| 45 | The Jungle | Upton Sinclair |
| 46 | Mrs. Dalloway | Virginia Woolf |
| 47 | The Wonderful Wizard of Oz | L. Frank Baum |
| 48 | Lady Chatterley’s Lover | D. H. Lawrence |
| 49 | A Clockwork Orange | Anthony Burgess |
| 50 | The Awakening | Kate Chopin |
| 51 | My Antonia | Willa Cather |
| 52 | Howards End | E. M. Forster |
| 53 | In Cold Blood | Truman Capote |
| 54 | Franny and Zooey | J. D. Salinger |
| 55 | The Satanic Verses | Salman Rushdie |
| 56 | Jazz | Toni Morrison |
| 57 | Sophie’s Choice | William Styron |
| 58 | Absalom, Absalom! | William Faulkner |
| 59 | A Passage to India | E. M. Forster |
| 60 | Ethan Frome | Edith Wharton |
| 61 | A Good Man Is Hard to Find | Flannery O’Connor |
| 62 | Tender Is the Night | F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| 63 | Orlando | Virginia Woolf |
| 64 | Sons and Lovers | D. H. Lawrence |
| 65 | Bonfire of the Vanities | Tom Wolfe |
| 66 | Cat’s Cradle | Kurt Vonnegut |
| 67 | A Separate Peace | John Knowles |
| 68 | Light in August | William Faulkner |
| 69 | The Wings of the Dove | Henry James |
| 70 | Things Fall Apart | Chinua Achebe |
| 71 | Rebecca | Daphne du Maurier |
| 72 | The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy | Douglas Adams |
| 73 | Naked Lunch | William S. Burroughs |
| 74 | Brideshead Revisited | Evelyn Waugh |
| 75 | Women in Love | D. H. Lawrence |
| 76 | Look Homeward, Angel | Thomas Wolfe |
| 77 | In Our Time | Ernest Hemingway |
| 78 | The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas | Gertrude Stein |
| 79 | The Maltese Falcon | Dashiell Hammett |
| 80 | The Naked and the Dead | Norman Mailer |
| 81 | Wide Sargasso Sea | Jean Rhys |
| 82 | White Noise | Don DeLillo |
| 83 | O Pioneers! | Willa Cather |
| 84 | Tropic of Cancer | Henry Miller |
| 85 | The War of the Worlds | H. G. Wells |
| 86 | Lord Jim | Joseph Conrad |
| 87 | The Bostonians | Henry James |
| 88 | An American Tragedy | Theodore Dreiser |
| 89 | Death Comes for the Archbishop | Willa Cather |
| 90 | The Wind in the Willows | Kenneth Grahame |
| 91 | This Side of Paradise | F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| 92 | Atlas Shrugged | Ayn Rand |
| 93 | The French Lieutenant’s Woman | John Fowles |
| 94 | Babbitt | Sinclair Lewis |
| 95 | Kim | Rudyard Kipling |
| 96 | The Beautiful and Damned | F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| 97 | Rabbit, Run | John Updike |
| 98 | Where Angels Fear to Tread | E. M. Forster |
| 99 | Main Street | Sinclair Lewis |
| 100 | Midnight’s Children | Salman Rushdie |