100 Best Novels of the 20th Century Selections by the Board of the Modern Library, a division of Random House. 51   The Naked and the Dead Norman Mailer 1948 52   Portnoy's Complaint Philip Roth 1969 53   Pale Fire Vladimir Nabokov 1962 54   Light in August William Faulkner 1932 55   On the Road Jack Kerouac 1957 56   The Maltese Falcon Dashiell Hammett 1930 57   Parade's End Ford Madox Ford 1950 58   The Age of Innocence Edith Wharton 1920 59   Zuleika Dobson Max Beerbohm 1911 60   The Moviegoer Walker Percy 1961 61   Death Comes for the Archbishop Willa Cather 1927 62   From Here to Eternity James Jones 1951 63   The Wapshot Chronicles John Cheever 1957 64   The Catcher in the Rye J. D. Salinger 1951 65   A Clockwork Orange Anthony Burgess 1962 66   Of Human Bondage W. Somerset Maugham 1915 67   Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad 1902 68   Main Street Sinclair Lewis 1920 69   The House of Mirth Edith Wharton 1905 70   The Alexandria Quartet Lawrence Durrell 1960-series completed 71   A High Wind in Jamaica Richard Hughes 1929 72   A House for Mr. Biswas V. S. Naipaul 1961 73   The Day of the Locust Nathanael West 1939 74   A Farewell to Arms Ernest Hemingway 1929 75   Scoop Evelyn Waugh 1938 1-25 | 26-50 | 51-75 | 76-100