100 Best Novels of the 20th Century Selections by the Board of the Modern Library, a division of Random House. 76   The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie Muriel Spark 1961 77   Finnegans Wake James Joyce 1939 78   Kim Rudyard Kipling 1901 79   A Room with a View E. M. Forster 1908 80   Brideshead Revisited Evelyn Waugh 1945 81   The Adventures of Augie March Saul Bellow 1953 82   Angle of Repose Wallace Stegner 1971 83   A Bend in the River V. S. Naipaul 1979 84   The Death of the Heart Elizabeth Bowen 1938 85   Lord Jim Joseph Conrad 1900 86   Ragtime E. L. Doctorow 1975 87   The Old Wives' Tale Arnold Bennett 1908 88   The Call of the Wild Jack London 1903 89   Loving Henry Green 1945 90   Midnight's Children Salman Rushdie 1981 91   Tobacco Road Erskine Caldwell 1933 92   Ironweed William Kennedy 1983 93   The Magus John Fowles 1966 94   Wide Sargasso Sea Jean Rhys 1966 95   Under the Net Iris Murdoch 1954 96   Sophie's Choice William Styron 1979 97   The Sheltering Sky Paul Bowles 1949 98   The Postman Always Rings Twice James M. Cain 1934 99   The Ginger Man J. P. Donleavy 1955 100   The Magnificent Ambersons Booth Tarkington 1918 1-25 | 26-50 | 51-75 | 76-100