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Modern Libary - The Board's List The 100 best novels of the 20th century selected by Modern Library Board members in 1999. 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 Nobokov
5. Brave New World - Aldus Huxley
Radcliffe Publishing Course - The Century's Top 100 Novels Released in 1998 by the Radcliffe Publishing Course, at the request of the Modern Library editorial board. 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
Harvard Book Store - Top 100 Books Selected by the Harvard Book Store staff. 1. A People's History of the United States - Howard Zinn
2. The Wind Up Bird Chronicles - Haruki Murakami
3. The New York Trilogy - Paul Auster
4. The Crying of Lot 49 - Thomas Pynchon
5. Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien
Telegraph's Top 100 Books Published in 2004 by the Telegraph. 1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2. Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien
3. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4. Harry Potter Series - J.K. Rowling
5. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
Time - All-Time 100 Novels Time critics Lev Grossman and Richard Lacayo selected the top 100 English-language novels from 1923 to 2005. Not Ranked
BBC - Big Read In 2003, the BBC broadcast the Big Read series where viewers voted for their favorite books. 1. Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien
2. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
3. His Dark Materials - Phillip Pullman
4. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
5. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - J.K. Rowling
Great Books Guide The 100 greatest novels of all time selected by Ted Gioia on his blog, Great Books Guide. 1. Remembrance of Things Past - Marcel Proust
2. The Brothers Karamozov - Fyodor Dostoevsky
3. The Magic Mountain - Thomas Mann
4. The Ambassadors - Henry James
5. Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes
The Guardian - Top 100 Books of All Time Determined by a vote of 100 noted writers from 54 countries, released by the Norwegian Book Club in 2002. 1. Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes

Others not ranked.
The Observer - The 100 Greatest Novels of All Time Selected by Robert Crum, published in The Observer in October 2003. 1. Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes
2. Pilgrim's Progress - John Bunyan
3. Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe
4. Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift
5. Tom Jones - Henry Fielding
The 100 Favorite Novels of Librarians Based on a 1999 survey of librarians by Brodart Co. 1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
3. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4. Gone with the Wind - Margaret Mitchell
5. Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien
Waterstone's Books of the Century Waterstone's, a European bookstore chain, sponsored this Books of the Century poll in 1997. 1. Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien
2. 1984 - George Orwell
3. Animal Farm - George Orwell
4. Ulysses - James Joyce
5. Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
The Novel 100 From the book "The Novel 100: A Ranking of the Greatest Novels of All Time" written in 2004 by Daniel S. Burt. 1. Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes
2. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
3. Ulysses - James Joyce
4. Remembrance of Things Past - Marcel Proust
5. The Brothers Karamozov - Fyodor Dostoevsky
Best 100 Novels The top 100 novels of all time as selected by website visitors. 1. 1984 - George Orwell
2. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
3. The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
4. Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien
5. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
100 Must-Read Books A 2008 listing from the blog, "The Art of Manliness". 1. The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
2. The Prince - Niccolo Machiavelli
3. Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut
4. 1984 - George Orwell
5. The Republic - Plato
Best-Selling Books of All Time List of best-selling books in history, based on published sales estimates. 1. Harry Potter Series - J.K. Rowling
2. A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
3. Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien
4. The Chronicles of Narnia - C.S. Lewis
5. And Then There Were None - Agatha Christie