Below you can find the complete list of the books selected by the Modern Library as the 100 best novels written in English in the 20th century.

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Ranking	Title	Author	Year published	Public domain in USA
1	ULYSSES	James Joyce	1922	Yes
2	THE GREAT GATSBY	F. Scott Fitzgerald	1925	Yes
3	A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN	James Joyce	1916	Yes
4	LOLITA	Vladimir Nabokov	1955	No
5	BRAVE NEW WORLD	Aldous Huxley	1932	No
6	THE SOUND AND THE FURY	William Faulkner	1929	No
7	CATCH-22	Joseph Heller	1961	No
8	DARKNESS AT NOON	Arthur Koestler	1940	No
9	SONS AND LOVERS	D.H. Lawrence	1913	Yes
10	THE GRAPES OF WRATH	John Steinbeck	1939	No
11	UNDER THE VOLCANO	Malcolm Lowry	1947	No
12	THE WAY OF ALL FLESH	Samuel Butler	1903	Yes
13	1984	George Orwell	1949	No
14	I, CLAUDIUS	Robert Graves	1934	No
15	TO THE LIGHTHOUSE	Virginia Woolf	1927	Yes
16	AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY	Theodore Dreiser	1925	Yes
17	THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER	Carson McCullers	1940	No
18	SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE	Kurt Vonnegut	1969	No
19	INVISIBLE MAN	Ralph Ellison	1952	No
20	NATIVE SON	Richard Wright	1940	No
21	HENDERSON THE RAIN KING	Saul Bellow	1959	No
22	APPOINTMENT IN SAMARRA	John O’Hara	1934	No
23	U.S.A.(trilogy)	John Dos Passos	1930	No
24	WINESBURG, OHIO	Sherwood Anderson	1919	Yes
25	A PASSAGE TO INDIA	E.M. Forster	1924	Yes
26	THE WINGS OF THE DOVE	Henry James	1902	Yes
27	THE AMBASSADORS	Henry James	1903	Yes
28	TENDER IS THE NIGHT	F. Scott Fitzgerald	1934	No
29	THE STUDS LONIGAN TRILOGY	James T. Farrell	1932	No
30	THE GOOD SOLDIER	Ford Madox Ford	1915	Yes
31	ANIMAL FARM	George Orwell	1945	No
32	THE GOLDEN BOWL	Henry James	1904	Yes
33	SISTER CARRIE	Theodore Dreiser	1900	Yes
34	A HANDFUL OF DUST	Evelyn Waugh	1934	No
35	AS I LAY DYING	William Faulkner	1930	No
36	ALL THE KING’S MEN	Robert Penn Warren	1946	No
37	THE BRIDGE OF SAN LUIS REY	Thornton Wilder	1927	Yes
38	HOWARDS END	E.M. Forster	1910	Yes
39	GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN	James Baldwin	1953	No
40	THE HEART OF THE MATTER	Graham Greene	1948	No
41	LORD OF THE FLIES	William Golding	1954	No
42	DELIVERANCE	James Dickey	1970	No
43	A DANCE TO THE MUSIC OF TIME (series)	Anthony Powell	1951	No
44	POINT COUNTER POINT	Aldous Huxley	1928	No
45	THE SUN ALSO RISES	Ernest Hemingway	1926	Yes
46	THE SECRET AGENT	Joseph Conrad	1907	Yes
47	NOSTROMO	Joseph Conrad	1904	Yes
48	THE RAINBOW	D.H. Lawrence	1915	Yes
49	WOMEN IN LOVE	D.H. Lawrence	1920	Yes
50	TROPIC OF CANCER	Henry Miller	1934	No
51	THE NAKED AND THE DEAD	Norman Mailer	1948	No
52	PORTNOY’S COMPLAINT	Philip Roth	1969	No
53	PALE FIRE	Vladimir Nabokov	1962	No
54	LIGHT IN AUGUST	William Faulkner	1932	No
55	ON THE ROAD	Jack Kerouac	1957	No
56	THE MALTESE FALCON	Dashiell Hammett	1929	No
57	PARADE’S END	Ford Madox Ford	1924-1928	Yes
58	THE AGE OF INNOCENCE	Edith Wharton	1920	Yes
59	ZULEIKA DOBSON	Max Beerbohm	1911	Yes
60	THE MOVIEGOER	Walker Percy	1961	No
61	DEATH COMES FOR THE ARCHBISHOP	Willa Cather	1927	Yes
62	FROM HERE TO ETERNITY	James Jones	1951	No
63	THE WAPSHOT CHRONICLES	John Cheever	1957	No
64	THE CATCHER IN THE RYE	J.D. Salinger	1951	No
65	A CLOCKWORK ORANGE	Anthony Burgess	1962	No
66	OF HUMAN BONDAGE	W. Somerset Maugham	1915	Yes
67	HEART OF DARKNESS	Joseph Conrad	1902	Yes
68	MAIN STREET	Sinclair Lewis	1920	Yes
69	THE HOUSE OF MIRTH	Edith Wharton	1905	Yes
70	THE ALEXANDRIA QUARTET	Lawrence Durrell	1957-1960	No
71	A HIGH WIND IN JAMAICA	Richard Hughes	1929	No
72	A HOUSE FOR MR BISWAS	V.S. Naipaul	1961	No
73	THE DAY OF THE LOCUST	Nathanael West	1939	No
74	A FAREWELL TO ARMS	Ernest Hemingway	1929	No
75	SCOOP	Evelyn Waugh	1938	No
76	THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE	Muriel Spark	1961	No
77	FINNEGANS WAKE	James Joyce	1939	No
78	KIM	Rudyard Kipling	1901	Yes
79	A ROOM WITH A VIEW	E.M. Forster	1908	Yes
80	BRIDESHEAD REVISITED	Evelyn Waugh	1945	No
81	THE ADVENTURES OF AUGIE MARCH	Saul Bellow	1953	No
82	ANGLE OF REPOSE	Wallace Stegner	1971	No
83	A BEND IN THE RIVER	V.S. Naipaul	1979	No
84	THE DEATH OF THE HEART	Elizabeth Bowen	1938	No
85	LORD JIM	Joseph Conrad	1900	Yes
86	RAGTIME	E.L. Doctorow	1975	No
87	THE OLD WIVES’ TALE	Arnold Bennett	1908	Yes
88	THE CALL OF THE WILD	Jack London	1903	Yes
89	LOVING	Henry Green	1945	No
90	MIDNIGHT’S CHILDREN	Salman Rushdie	1981	No
91	TOBACCO ROAD	Erskine Caldwell	1932	No
92	IRONWEED	William Kennedy	1983	No
93	THE MAGUS	John Fowles	1966	No
94	WIDE SARGASSO SEA	Jean Rhys	1966	No
95	UNDER THE NET	Iris Murdoch	1954	No
96	SOPHIE’S CHOICE	William Styron	1979	No
97	THE SHELTERING SKY	Paul Bowles	1949	No
98	THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE	James M. Cain	1934	No
99	THE GINGER MAN	J.P. Donleavy	1955	No
100	THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS	Booth Tarkington	1918	Yes

The Modern Library selected novels in public domain: