Modern Library's 100 Best Novels - Statistics

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Author Book % Correct
George Orwell Nineteen Eighty-Four
90%
F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby
89%
John Steinbeck The Grapes of Wrath
74%
George Orwell Animal Farm
73%
J. D. Salinger The Catcher in the Rye
72%
James Joyce Ulysses
71%
Vladimir Nabokov Lolita
67%
Aldous Huxley Brave New World
65%
Joseph Heller Catch-22
60%
Jack Kerouac On the Road
57%
Joseph Conrad Heart of Darkness
55%
Kurt Vonnegut Slaughterhouse-Five
49%
William Golding Lord of the Flies
48%
Jack London The Call of the Wild
40%
Ernest Hemingway A Farewell to Arms
34%
Anthony Burgess A Clockwork Orange
33%
Virginia Woolf To the Lighthouse
33%
William Faulkner The Sound and the Fury
32%
James Joyce A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
31%
Ernest Hemingway The Sun Also Rises
30%
Ralph Ellison Invisible Man
28%
D. H. Lawrence Sons and Lovers
27%
James Joyce Finnegans Wake
26%
William Faulkner As I Lay Dying
25%
Rudyard Kipling Kim
25%
E. M. Forster A Passage to India
24%
Salman Rushdie Midnight's Children
24%
Evelyn Waugh Brideshead Revisited
23%
E. M. Forster A Room with a View
22%
Dashiell Hammett The Maltese Falcon
19%
Joseph Conrad Lord Jim
18%
Henry Miller Tropic of Cancer
18%
Robert Graves I, Claudius
17%
F. Scott Fitzgerald Tender is the Night
17%
Edith Wharton The Age of Innocence
17%
E. M. Forster Howards End
16%
Philip Roth Portnoy's Complaint
16%
D. H. Lawrence Women in Love
15%
Vladimir Nabokov Pale Fire
14%
Carson McCullers The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
14%
Richard Wright Native Son
13%
D. H. Lawrence The Rainbow
13%
Robert Penn Warren All The King's Men
12%
Joseph Conrad Nostromo
12%
Henry James The Ambassadors
12%
Norman Mailer The Naked and the Dead
12%
Jean Rhys Wide Sargasso Sea
12%
Theodore Dreiser An American Tragedy
11%
James Baldwin Go Tell It on the Mountain
11%
William Faulkner Light in August
11%
W. Somerset Maugham Of Human Bondage
11%
E. L. Doctorow Ragtime
11%
Theodore Dreiser Sister Carrie
11%
William Styron Sophie's Choice
11%
Muriel Spark The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
11%
Malcolm Lowry Under the Volcano
11%
Arthur Koestler Darkness at Noon
10%
Willa Cather Death Comes for the Archbishop
10%
Evelyn Waugh Scoop
10%
Edith Wharton The House of Mirth
10%
John Dos Passos U.S.A. Trilogy
10%
V. S. Naipaul A Bend in the River
9%
Sinclair Lewis Main Street
9%
Henry James The Golden Bowl
9%
Ford Madox Ford The Good Soldier
9%
Joseph Conrad The Secret Agent
9%
Henry James The Wings of the Dove
9%
V. S. Naipaul A House For Mr. Biswas
8%
James Dickey Deliverance
8%
John Fowles The Magus
8%
Evelyn Waugh A Handful of Dust
7%
James Jones From Here to Eternity
7%
Ford Madox Ford Parade's End
7%
Saul Bellow The Adventures of Augie March
7%
Nathanael West The Day of the Locust
7%
Graham Greene The Heart of the Matter
7%
Booth Tarkington The Magnificent Ambersons
7%
Walker Percy The Moviegoer
7%
James M. Cain The Postman Always Rings Twice
7%
Samuel Butler The Way of all Flesh
7%
Sherwood Anderson Winesburg, Ohio
7%
Saul Bellow Henderson the Rain King
6%
William Kennedy Ironweed
6%
Aldous Huxley Point Counter Point
6%
Thornton Wilder The Bridge of San Luis Rey
6%
Paul Bowles The Sheltering Sky
6%
Erskine Caldwell Tobacco Road
6%
Wallace Stegner Angle of Repose
5%
John O'Hara Appointment In Samarra
5%
Henry Green Loving
5%
Lawrence Durrell The Alexandria Quartet
5%
J. P. Donleavy The Ginger Man
5%
Iris Murdoch Under the Net
5%
Max Beerbohm Zuleika Dobson
5%
Richard Hughes A High Wind In Jamaica
4%
James T. Farrell Studs Lonigan
4%
Elizabeth Bowen The Death of the Heart
4%
Arnold Bennett The Old Wives' Tale
4%
John Cheever The Wapshot Chronicle
4%
Anthony Powell A Question of Upbringing
3%
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