100 Best Nonfiction Radcliffe’s Rival 100 Best Novels List
1. ULYSSESby James Joyce
2. THE GREAT GATSBYby F. Scott Fitzgerald 3. A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MANby James Joyce 4. LOLITAby Vladimir Nabokov 5. BRAVE NEW WORLDby Aldous Huxley 6. THE SOUND AND THE FURYby William Faulkner 7. CATCH-22by Joseph Heller 8. DARKNESS AT NOONby Arthur Koestler 9. SONS AND LOVERSby D.H. Lawrence 10. THE GRAPES OF WRATHby John Steinbeck 11. UNDER THE VOLCANOby Malcolm Lowry 12. THE WAY OF ALL FLESHby Samuel Butler 13. 1984by George Orwell 14. I, CLAUDIUSby Robert Graves 15. TO THE LIGHTHOUSEby Virginia Woolf 16. AN AMERICAN TRAGEDYby Theodore Dreiser 17. THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTERby Carson McCullers 18. SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVEby Kurt Vonnegut 19. INVISIBLE MANby Ralph Ellison 20. NATIVE SONby Richard Wright 21. HENDERSON THE RAIN KINGby Saul Bellow 22. APPOINTMENT IN SAMARRAby John O’Hara 23. U.S.A.(trilogy)by John Dos Passos 24. WINESBURG, OHIOby Sherwood Anderson 25. A PASSAGE TO INDIAby E.M. Forster 26. THE WINGS OF THE DOVEby Henry James 27. THE AMBASSADORSby Henry James 28. TENDER IS THE NIGHTby F. Scott Fitzgerald 29. THE STUDS LONIGAN TRILOGYby James T. Farrell 30. THE GOOD SOLDIERby Ford Madox Ford 31. ANIMAL FARMby George Orwell 32. THE GOLDEN BOWLby Henry James 33. SISTER CARRIEby Theodore Dreiser 34. A HANDFUL OF DUSTby Evelyn Waugh 35. AS I LAY DYINGby William Faulkner 36. ALL THE KING’S MENby Robert Penn Warren 37. THE BRIDGE OF SAN LUIS REYby Thornton Wilder 38. HOWARDS ENDby E.M. Forster 39. GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAINby James Baldwin 40. THE HEART OF THE MATTERby Graham Greene 41. LORD OF THE FLIESby William Golding 42. DELIVERANCEby James Dickey 43. A DANCE TO THE MUSIC OF TIME (series)by Anthony Powell 44. POINT COUNTER POINTby Aldous Huxley 45. THE SUN ALSO RISESby Ernest Hemingway 46. THE SECRET AGENTby Joseph Conrad 47. NOSTROMOby Joseph Conrad 48. THE RAINBOWby D.H. Lawrence 49. WOMEN IN LOVEby D.H. Lawrence 50. TROPIC OF CANCERby Henry Miller 51. THE NAKED AND THE DEADby Norman Mailer 52. PORTNOY’S COMPLAINTby Philip Roth 53. PALE FIREby Vladimir Nabokov 54. LIGHT IN AUGUSTby William Faulkner 55. ON THE ROADby Jack Kerouac 56. THE MALTESE FALCONby Dashiell Hammett 57. PARADE’S ENDby Ford Madox Ford 58. THE AGE OF INNOCENCEby Edith Wharton 59. ZULEIKA DOBSONby Max Beerbohm 60. THE MOVIEGOERby Walker Percy 61. DEATH COMES FOR THE ARCHBISHOPby Willa Cather 62. FROM HERE TO ETERNITYby James Jones 63. THE WAPSHOT CHRONICLESby John Cheever 64. THE CATCHER IN THE RYEby J.D. Salinger 65. A CLOCKWORK ORANGEby Anthony Burgess 66. OF HUMAN BONDAGEby W. Somerset Maugham 67. HEART OF DARKNESSby Joseph Conrad 68. MAIN STREETby Sinclair Lewis 69. THE HOUSE OF MIRTHby Edith Wharton 70. THE ALEXANDRIA QUARTETby Lawrence Durell 71. A HIGH WIND IN JAMAICAby Richard Hughes 72. A HOUSE FOR MR BISWASby V.S. Naipaul 73. THE DAY OF THE LOCUSTby Nathanael West 74. A FAREWELL TO ARMSby Ernest Hemingway 75. SCOOPby Evelyn Waugh 76. THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIEby Muriel Spark 77. FINNEGANS WAKEby James Joyce 78. KIMby Rudyard Kipling 79. A ROOM WITH A VIEWby E.M. Forster 80. BRIDESHEAD REVISITEDby Evelyn Waugh 81. THE ADVENTURES OF AUGIE MARCHby Saul Bellow 82. ANGLE OF REPOSEby Wallace Stegner 83. A BEND IN THE RIVERby V.S. Naipaul 84. THE DEATH OF THE HEARTby Elizabeth Bowen 85. LORD JIMby Joseph Conrad 86. RAGTIMEby E.L. Doctorow 87. THE OLD WIVES’ TALEby Arnold Bennett 88. THE CALL OF THE WILDby Jack London 89. LOVINGby Henry Green 90. MIDNIGHT’S CHILDRENby Salman Rushdie 91. TOBACCO ROADby Erskine Caldwell 92. IRONWEEDby William Kennedy 93. THE MAGUSby John Fowles 94. WIDE SARGASSO SEAby Jean Rhys 95. UNDER THE NETby Iris Murdoch 96. SOPHIE’S CHOICEby William Styron 97. THE SHELTERING SKYby Paul Bowles 98. THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICEby James M. Cain 99. THE GINGER MANby J.P. Donleavy 100. THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONSby Booth Tarkington 1. ATLAS SHRUGGEDby Ayn Rand 2. THE FOUNTAINHEADby Ayn Rand 3. BATTLEFIELD EARTHby L. Ron Hubbard 4. THE LORD OF THE RINGSby J.R.R. Tolkien 5. TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRDby Harper Lee 6. 1984by George Orwell 7. ANTHEMby Ayn Rand 8. WE THE LIVINGby Ayn Rand 9. MISSION EARTHby L. Ron Hubbard 10. FEARby L. Ron Hubbard 11. ULYSSESby James Joyce 12. CATCH-22by Joseph Heller 13. THE GREAT GATSBYby F. Scott Fitzgerald 14. DUNEby Frank Herbert 15. THE MOON IS A HARSH MISTRESSby Robert Heinlein 16. STRANGER IN A STRANGE LANDby Robert Heinlein 17. A TOWN LIKE ALICEby Nevil Shute 18. BRAVE NEW WORLDby Aldous Huxley 19. THE CATCHER IN THE RYEby J.D. Salinger 20. ANIMAL FARMby George Orwell 21. GRAVITY’S RAINBOWby Thomas Pynchon 22. THE GRAPES OF WRATHby John Steinbeck 23. SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVEby Kurt Vonnegut 24. GONE WITH THE WINDby Margaret Mitchell 25. LORD OF THE FLIESby William Golding 26. SHANEby Jack Schaefer 27. TRUSTEE FROM THE TOOLROOMby Nevil Shute 28. A PRAYER FOR OWEN MEANYby John Irving 29. THE STANDby Stephen King 30. THE FRENCH LIEUTENANT’S WOMANby John Fowles 31. BELOVEDby Toni Morrison 32. THE WORM OUROBOROSby E.R. Eddison 33. THE SOUND AND THE FURYby William Faulkner 34. LOLITAby Vladimir Nabokov 35. MOONHEARTby Charles de Lint 36. ABSALOM, ABSALOM!by William Faulkner 37. OF HUMAN BONDAGEby W. Somerset Maugham 38. WISE BLOODby Flannery O’Connor 39. UNDER THE VOLCANOby Malcolm Lowry 40. FIFTH BUSINESSby Robertson Davies 41. SOMEPLACE TO BE FLYINGby Charles de Lint 42. ON THE ROADby Jack Kerouac 43. HEART OF DARKNESSby Joseph Conrad 44. YARROWby Charles de Lint 45. AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESSby H.P. Lovecraft 46. ONE LONELY NIGHTby Mickey Spillane 47. MEMORY AND DREAMby Charles de Lint 48. TO THE LIGHTHOUSEby Virginia Woolf 49. THE MOVIEGOERby Walker Percy 50. TRADERby Charles de Lint 51. THE HITCHHIKER’S GUIDE TO THE GALAXYby Douglas Adams 52. THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTERby Carson McCullers 53. THE HANDMAID’S TALEby Margaret Atwood 54. BLOOD MERIDIANby Cormac McCarthy 55. A CLOCKWORK ORANGEby Anthony Burgess 56. ON THE BEACHby Nevil Shute 57. A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MANby James Joyce 58. GREENMANTLEby Charles de Lint 59. ENDER’S GAMEby Orson Scott Card 60. THE LITTLE COUNTRYby Charles de Lint 61. THE RECOGNITIONSby William Gaddis 62. STARSHIP TROOPERSby Robert Heinlein 63. THE SUN ALSO RISESby Ernest Hemingway 64. THE WORLD ACCORDING TO GARPby John Irving 65. SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMESby Ray Bradbury 66. THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSEby Shirley Jackson 67. AS I LAY DYINGby William Faulkner 68. TROPIC OF CANCERby Henry Miller 69. INVISIBLE MANby Ralph Ellison 70. THE WOOD WIFEby Terri Windling 71. THE MAGUSby John Fowles 72. THE DOOR INTO SUMMERby Robert Heinlein 73. ZEN AND THE ART OF MOTORCYCLE MAINTENANCEby Robert Pirsig 74. I, CLAUDIUSby Robert Graves 75. THE CALL OF THE WILDby Jack London 76. AT SWIM-TWO-BIRDSby Flann O’Brien 77. FARENHEIT 451by Ray Bradbury 78. ARROWSMITHby Sinclair Lewis 79. WATERSHIP DOWNby Richard Adams 80. NAKED LUNCHby William S. Burroughs 81. THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBERby Tom Clancy 82. GUILTY PLEASURESby Laurell K. Hamilton 83. THE PUPPET MASTERSby Robert Heinlein 84. ITby Stephen King 85. V.by Thomas Pynchon 86. DOUBLE STARby Robert Heinlein 87. CITIZEN OF THE GALAXYby Robert Heinlein 88. BRIDESHEAD REVISITEDby Evelyn Waugh 89. LIGHT IN AUGUSTby William Faulkner 90. ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO’S NESTby Ken Kesey 91. A FAREWELL TO ARMSby Ernest Hemingway 92. THE SHELTERING SKYby Paul Bowles 93. SOMETIMES A GREAT NOTIONby Ken Kesey 94. MY ANTONIAby Willa Cather 95. MULENGROby Charles de Lint 96. SUTTREEby Cormac McCarthy 97. MYTHAGO WOODby Robert Holdstock 98. ILLUSIONSby Richard Bach 99. THE CUNNING MANby Robertson Davies 100. THE SATANIC VERSESby Salman Rushdie