The Random House Top 100 is the list of top 100 novels in English published in the 20th century, as selected and rated by Random House.
Reading score: 99/100
† Yet to read.
| Rank | Title | Author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ulysses | James Joyce |
| 2 | The Great Gatsby | F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| 3 | A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | James Joyce |
| 4 | Lolita | Vladimir Nabokov |
| 5 | Brave New World | Aldous Huxley |
| 6 | The Sound and the Fury | William Faulkner |
| 7 | Catch-22 | Joseph Heller |
| 8 | Darkness at Noon | Arthur Koestler |
| 9 | Sons and Lovers | D. H. Lawrence |
| 10 | The Grapes of Wrath | John Steinbeck |
| 11 | Under the Volcano | Malcolm Lowry |
| 12 | The Way of All Flesh | Samuel Butler |
| 13 | 1984 | George Orwell |
| 14 | I, Claudius | Robert Graves |
| 15 | To the Lighthouse | Virginia Woolf |
| 16 | An American Tragedy | Theodore Dreiser |
| 17 | The Heart is a Lonely Hunter | Carson McCullers |
| 18 | Slaughterhouse-Five | Kurt Vonnegut |
| 19 | Invisible Man | Ralph Ellison |
| 20 | Native Son | Richard Wright |
| 21 | Henderson the Rain King | Saul Bellow |
| 22 | Appointment in Samarra | John O’Hara |
| 23 | U.S.A. (trilogy) | John Dos Passos |
| 24 | Winesburg, Ohio | Sherwood Anderson |
| 25 | A Passage to India | E. M. Forster |
| 26 | The Wings of the Dove | Henry James |
| 27 | The Ambassadors | Henry James |
| 28 | Tender is the Night | F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| 29 | The Studs Lonigan Trilogy | James T. Farrell |
| 30 | The Good Soldier | Ford Madox Ford |
| 31 | Animal Farm | George Orwell |
| 32 | The Golden Bowl | Henry James |
| 33 | Sister Carrie | Theodore Dreiser |
| 34 | A Handful of Dust | Evelyn Waugh |
| 35 | As I Lay Dying | William Faulkner |
| 36 | All the King’s Men | Robert Penn Warren |
| 37 | The Bridge of San Luis Rey | Thornton Wilder |
| 38 | Howards End | E. M. Forster |
| 39 | Go Tell It on the Mountain | James Baldwin |
| 40 | The Heart of the Matter | Graham Greene |
| 41 | Lord of the Flies | William Golding |
| 42 | Deliverance | James Dickey |
| 43 | A Dance to the Music of Time | Anthony Powell |
| 44 | Point Counter Point | Aldous Huxley |
| 45 | The Sun Also Rises | Ernest Hemingway |
| 46 | The Secret Agent | Joseph Conrad |
| 47 | Nostromo | Joseph Conrad |
| 48 | The Rainbow | D. H. Lawrence |
| 49 | Women in Love | D. H. Lawrence |
| 50 | Tropic of Cancer | Henry Miller |
| 51 | The Naked and the Dead | Norman Mailer |
| 52 | Portnoy’s Complaint | Philip Roth |
| 53 | Pale Fire | Vladimir Nabokov |
| 54 | Light in August | William Faulkner |
| 55 | On the Road | Jack Kerouac |
| 56 | The Maltese Falcon | Dashiell Hammett |
| 57 | Parade’s End | Ford Madox Ford |
| 58 | The Age of Innocence | Edith Wharton |
| 59 | Zuleika Dobson | Max Beerbohm |
| 60 | The Moviegoer | Walker Percy |
| 61 | Death Comes for the Archbishop | Willa Cather |
| 62 | From Here to Eternity | James Jones |
| 63 | The Wapshot Chronicles | John Cheever |
| 64 | The Catcher in the Rye | J. D. Salinger |
| 65 | A Clockwork Orange | Anthony Burgess |
| 66 | Of Human Bondage | W. Somerset Maugham |
| 67 | Heart of Darkness | Joseph Conrad |
| 68 | Main Street | Sinclair Lewis |
| 69 | The House of Mirth | Edith Wharton |
| 70 | The Alexandria Quartet | Lawrence Durrell |
| 71 | A High Wind in Jamaica | Richard Hughes |
| 72 | A House for Mr. Biswas | V. S. Naipaul |
| 73 | The Day of the Locust | Nathanael West |
| 74 | A Farewell To Arms | Ernest Hemingway |
| 75 | Scoop | Evelyn Waugh |
| 76 | The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie | Muriel Spark |
| 77 | Finnegans Wake † | James Joyce |
| 78 | Kim | Rudyard Kipling |
| 79 | A Room with a View | E. M. Forster |
| 80 | Brideshead Revisited | Evelyn Waugh |
| 81 | The Adventures of Augie March | Saul Bellow |
| 82 | Angle of Repose | Wallace Stegner |
| 83 | A Bend in the River | V. S. Naipaul |
| 84 | The Death of the Heart | Elizabeth Bowen |
| 85 | Lord Jim | Joseph Conrad |
| 86 | Ragtime | E. L. Doctorow |
| 87 | The Old Wives’ Tale | Arnold Bennett |
| 88 | The Call of the Wild | Jack London |
| 89 | Loving | Henry Green |
| 90 | Midnight’s Children | Salman Rushdie |
| 91 | Tobacco Road | Erskine Caldwell |
| 92 | Ironweed | William Kennedy |
| 93 | The Magus | John Fowles |
| 94 | Wide Sargasso Sea | Jean Rhys |
| 95 | Under the Net | Iris Murdoch |
| 96 | Sophie’s Choice | William Styron |
| 97 | The Sheltering Sky | Paul Bowles |
| 98 | The Postman Always Rings Twice | James M. Cain |
| 99 | The Ginger Man | J. P. Donleavy |
| 100 | The Magnificent Ambersons | Booth Tarkington |