The Modern Library: the 200 best novels in English since 19501950s

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45 Works 333,101 Books 5,833 Reviews ½ 3.8
Based on the book by Carmen Callil and Colm Tóibín, published by Picador (2000). See the list of books on the Clare County Library's website. This list is not associated with the publisher Modern show more Library. show less
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All, 1950s (45), 1960s (34), 1970s (29), 1980s (49), 1990s (44), No Category (1)
WorkYear
Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs
1962
A Dance to the Music of Time: First Movement, Spring by Anthony Powell
1962
A Heritage and its History by Ivy Compton-Burnett
1959
The Little Disturbances of Man by Grace Paley
1959
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
1958
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning by Alan Sillitoe
1958
From the Terrace by John O'Hara
1958
Babette's Feast and Other Anecdotes of Destiny by Isak Dinesen
1958
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
1957
Owls Do Cry by Janet Frame
1957
Angel by Elizabeth Taylor
1957
The Fountain Overflows by Rebecca West
1956
A Legacy by Sybille Bedford
1956
Train to Pakistan by Khushwant Singh
1956
The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
1955
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
1955
The Recognitions by William Gaddis
1955
The Flint Anchor by Sylvia Townsend Warner
1954
Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis
1954
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
1954
The Tortoise and the Hare by Elizabeth Jenkins
1954
The Go-Between by L. P. Hartley
1953
The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow
1953
The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler
1953
The Echoing Grove by Rosamond Lehmann
1953
Private Life of an Indian Prince by Mulk Raj Anand
1953
Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
1953
The West Pier by Patrick Hamilton
1953
The Financial Expert by R. K. Narayan
1953
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
1952
The Natural by Bernard Malamud
1952
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
1952
Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor
1952
The Palm-Wine Drinkard and his Dead Palm-Wine Tapster in the Deads' Town by Amos Tutuola
1952
The Sword of Honour Trilogy by Evelyn Waugh
1952
The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
1951
Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable by Samuel Beckett
1951
December Bride by Sam Hanna Bell
1951
My Cousin Rachel by Daphne Du Maurier
1951
A Murder Is Announced by Agatha Christie
1950
Nothing by Henry Green
1950
Power Without Glory by Frank Hardy
1950
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
1950
The Grand Sophy by Georgette Heyer
1950
The Ballad of the Sad Café and Other Stories by Carson McCullers
1943
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