The Modern Library: the 200 best novels in English since 1950

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202 Works 1,045,892 Books 19,324 Reviews ½ 3.9
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
Categories:
All, 1950s (45), 1960s (34), 1970s (29), 1980s (49), 1990s (44), No Category (1)
Years:
All, [1990] (1)
WorkCategoryYear
The Lady from Guatemala by V. S. Pritchett
1990s1997
Underworld by Don DeLillo
1990s1997
Quarantine by Jim Crace
1990s1997
Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
1990s1997
American Pastoral by Philip Roth
1990s1997
Asylum by Patrick McGrath
1990s1997
The Night in Question: Stories by Tobias Wolff
1990s1996
Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
1990s1996
Last Orders by Graham Swift
1990s1996
Rabbit Angstrom: A Tetralogy by John Updike
1960s1995
The Tortilla Curtain by T. Coraghessan Boyle
1990s1995
A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
1990s1995
Original Sin by P. D. James
1990s1994
The Folding Star by Alan Hollinghurst
1990s1994
What a Carve Up! by Jonathan Coe
1990s1994
How Late It Was, How Late by James Kelman
1990s1994
Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
1990s1993
My Idea of Fun by Will Self
1990s1993
Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh
1990s1993
A River Sutra by Gita Mehta
1990s1993
The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
1990s1993
A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth
1990s1993
The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx
1990s1993
Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis De Bernières
1990s1993
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
1990s1992
Death and Nightingales by Eugene McCabe
1990s1992
The Butcher Boy by Patrick McCabe
1990s1992
A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley
1990s1991
Reading Turgenev by William Trevor
1990s1991
Mating by Norman Rush
1990s1991
Wise Children by Angela Carter
1990s1991
The Redundancy of Courage by Timothy Mo
1990s1991
Cloudstreet by Tim Winton
1990s1991
Downriver by Iain Sinclair
1990s1991
American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
1990s1991
The Regeneration Trilogy by Pat Barker
1990s1991
Freedom Song: Three Novels by Amit Chaudhuri
1990s1991
A Home at the End of the World by Michael Cunningham
1990s1990
Age of Iron by J. M. Coetzee
1990s1990
The Snapper by Roddy Doyle
1990s1990
Get Shorty by Elmore Leonard
1990s1990
Amongst Women by John McGahern
1990s1990
The Great World by David Malouf
1990s1990
Possession by A. S. Byatt
1990s1990
Friend of My Youth: Stories by Alice Munro
1990s1990
The Blue Flower by Penelope Fitzgerald
[1990]
The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love by Oscar Hijuelos
1980s1989
The Book of Evidence by John Banville
1980s1989
The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
1980s1989
The Lost Salt Gift of Blood by Alistair MacLeod
1970s1988
Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler
1980s1988
Paris Trout by Pete Dexter
1980s1988
Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories by Raymond Carver
1980s1988
Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey
1980s1988
Forty-seventeen by Frank Moorhouse
1980s1988
The Sugar Mother by Elizabeth Jolley
1980s1988
Cracking India by Bapsi Sidhwa
1980s1988
The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe
1980s1987
The Other Garden by Francis Wyndham
1980s1987
Beloved by Toni Morrison
1980s1987
In the Skin of a Lion by Michael Ondaatje
1980s1987
Misery by Stephen King
1980s1987
Ellen Foster by Kaye Gibbons
1980s1987
Double Whammy by Carl Hiaasen
1980s1987
A Summons to Memphis by Peter Taylor
1980s1986
An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro
1980s1986
A Dark-Adapted Eye by Barbara Vine
1980s1986
The Sportswriter by Richard Ford
1980s1986
Family and Friends by Anita Brookner
1980s1985
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
1980s1985
Black Robe by Brian Moore
1980s1985
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
1980s1985
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson
1980s1985
In Custody by Anita Desai
1980s1984
Flaubert's Parrot by Julian Barnes
1980s1984
Money: A Suicide Note by Martin Amis
1980s1984
Empire of the Sun by J. G. Ballard
1980s1984
Machine Dreams by Jayne Anne Phillips
1980s1984
The Children's Bach by Helen Garner
1980s1984
Nation of Fools: Scenes from Indian Life by Balraj Khanna
1980s1984
Schindler's Ark by Thomas Keneally
1980s1982
On the Black Hill by Bruce Chatwin
1980s1982
A Boy's Own Story by Edmund White
1980s1982
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
1980s1982
Red Dragon by Thomas Harris
1980s1981
A Flag for Sunrise by Robert Stone
1980s1981
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
1980s1981
Lanark by Alasdair Gray
1980s1981
Earthly Powers by Anthony Burgess
1980s1980
Lamb by Bernard MacLaverty
1980s1980
Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban
1980s1980
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
1980s1980
The Transit of Venus by Shirley Hazzard
1980s1980
Puffball by Fay Weldon
1980s1980
Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
1980s1980
So Long, See You Tomorrow by William Maxwell
1980s1979
The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer
1970s1979
From the Fifteenth District by Mavis Gallant
1970s1979
Burger's Daughter by Nadine Gordimer
1970s1979
A Bend in the River by V. S. Naipaul
1970s1979
The Year of the French by Thomas Flanagan
1970s1979
Sleepless Nights by Elizabeth Hardwick
1970s1979
Plumb by Maurice Gee
1970s1978
The Cement Garden by Ian McEwan
1970s1978
The Human Factor by Graham Greene
1970s1978
The Murderer by Roy Heath
1970s1978
Tirra Lirra by the River by Jessica Anderson
1970s1978
The Ice Age by Margaret Drabble
1970s1977
A Book of Common Prayer by Joan Didion
1970s1977
Falconer by John Cheever
1970s1977
Injury Time by Beryl Bainbridge
1970s1977
Saville by David Storey
1970s1976
Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice
1970s1976
Heat and Dust by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
1970s1975
Ragtime by E. L. Doctorow
1970s1975
Changing Places by David Lodge
1970s1975
Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
1970s1973
The Siege of Krishnapur by J. G. Farrell
1970s1973
The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty
1970s1972
Black List, Section H by Francis Stuart
1970s1971
The Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth
1970s1971
St. Urbain's Horseman by Mordecai Richler
1970s1971
Fifth Business by Robertson Davies
1970s1970
Happiness and Other Stories by Mary Lavin
1960s1969
The Godfather by Mario Puzo
1960s1969
The Unfortunates by B. S. Johnson
1960s1969
Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian
1970s1969
In the Heart of the Heart of the Country & Other Stories by William H. Gass
1960s1968
The Nice and the Good by Iris Murdoch
1960s1968
The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron
1960s1967
A Grain of Wheat by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
1960s1967
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
1960s1966
The Jewel in the Crown by Paul Scott
1960s1966
A Jest of God by Margaret Laurence
1960s1966
Cotters' England by Christina Stead
1960s1966
The Magus by John Fowles
1960s1965
Memoirs of a Peon by Frank Sargeson
1960s1965
Interpreters by Wole Soyinka
1960s1965
The Little Girls by Elizabeth Bowen
1960s1964
Herzog by Saul Bellow
1960s1964
Heartland by Wilson Harris
1960s1964
Last Exit to Brooklyn by Hubert Selby Jr.
1960s1964
The Spy Who Came in From the Cold by John le Carré
1960s1963
The Group by Mary McCarthy
1960s1963
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
1960s1963
Girl with Green Eyes by Edna O'Brien
1960s1962
The Reivers by William Faulkner
1960s1962
Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs
1950s1962
A Dance to the Music of Time: First Movement, Spring by Anthony Powell
1950s1962
That's How It Was by Maureen Duffy
1960s1962
The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
1960s1962
Ship of Fools by Katherine Anne Porter
1960s1962
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
1960s1961
Riders in the Chariot by Patrick White
1960s1961
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
1960s1961
A House for Mr Biswas by V. S. Naipaul
1960s1961
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
1960s1960
Jeeves in the Offing by P. G. Wodehouse
1960s1960
The Balkan Trilogy by Olivia Manning
1960s1960
A Heritage and its History by Ivy Compton-Burnett
1950s1959
The Little Disturbances of Man by Grace Paley
1950s1959
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
1950s1958
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning by Alan Sillitoe
1950s1958
From the Terrace by John O'Hara
1950s1958
Babette's Feast and Other Anecdotes of Destiny by Isak Dinesen
1950s1958
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
1950s1957
Owls Do Cry by Janet Frame
1950s1957
Angel by Elizabeth Taylor
1950s1957
The Fountain Overflows by Rebecca West
1950s1956
A Legacy by Sybille Bedford
1950s1956
Train to Pakistan by Khushwant Singh
1950s1956
The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
1950s1955
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
1950s1955
The Recognitions by William Gaddis
1950s1955
The Flint Anchor by Sylvia Townsend Warner
1950s1954
Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis
1950s1954
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
1950s1954
The Tortoise and the Hare by Elizabeth Jenkins
1950s1954
The Go-Between by L. P. Hartley
1950s1953
The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow
1950s1953
The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler
1950s1953
The Echoing Grove by Rosamond Lehmann
1950s1953
Private Life of an Indian Prince by Mulk Raj Anand
1950s1953
Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
1950s1953
The West Pier by Patrick Hamilton
1950s1953
The Financial Expert by R. K. Narayan
1950s1953
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
1950s1952
The Natural by Bernard Malamud
1950s1952
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
1950s1952
Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor
1950s1952
The Palm-Wine Drinkard and his Dead Palm-Wine Tapster in the Deads' Town by Amos Tutuola
1950s1952
The Sword of Honour Trilogy by Evelyn Waugh
1950s1952
The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
1950s1951
Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable by Samuel Beckett
1950s1951
December Bride by Sam Hanna Bell
1950s1951
My Cousin Rachel by Daphne Du Maurier
1950s1951
A Murder Is Announced by Agatha Christie
1950s1950
Nothing by Henry Green
1950s1950
Power Without Glory by Frank Hardy
1950s1950
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
1950s1950
The Grand Sophy by Georgette Heyer
1950s1950
The Ballad of the Sad Café and Other Stories by Carson McCullers
1950s1943
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