Looking for something to read? Here's a list of the top 100 novels of the 1900s in English.
- Ulysses, by James Joyce
- The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, by James Joyce
- Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov
- Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley
- The Sound and the Fury, by William Faulkner
- Catch-22, by Joseph Heller
- Darkness at Noon, by Arthur Koestler
- Sons and Lovers, by D. H. Lawrence
- The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck
- Under the Volcano, by Malcolm Lowry
- The Way of All Flesh, by Samuel Butler
- 1984, by George Orwell
- I, Claudius, by Robert Graves
- To the Lighthouse, by Virginia Woolf
- An American Tragedy, by Theodore Dreiser
- The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, by Carson McCullers
- Slaughterhouse Five, by Kurt Vonnegut
- Invisible Man, by Ralph Ellison
- Native Son, by Richard Wright
- Henderson the Rain King, by Saul Bellow
- Appointment in Samarra, by John O' Hara
- U.S.A." (trilogy), John Dos Passos
- Winesburg, Ohio, by Sherwood Anderson
- A Passage to India, by E. M. Forster
- The Wings of the Dove, by Henry James
- The Ambassadors, by Henry James
- Tender Is the Night, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- The Studs Lonigan Trilogy, by James T. Farrell
- The Good Soldier, by Ford Madox Ford
- Animal Farm, by George Orwell
- The Golden Bowl, by Henry James
- Sister Carrie, by Theodore Dreiser
- A Handful of Dust, by Evelyn Waugh
- As I Lay Dying, by William Faulkner
- All the King's Men, by Robert Penn Warren
- The Bridge of San Luis Rey, by Thornton Wilder
- Howards End, by E. M. Forster
- Go Tell It on the Mountain, by James Baldwin
- The Heart of the Matter, by Graham Greene
- Lord of the Flies, by William Golding
- Deliverance, by James Dickey
- A Dance to the Music of Time", Anthony Powell
- Point Counter Point, by Aldous Huxley
- The Sun Also Rises, by Ernest Hemingway
- The Secret Agent, by Joseph Conrad
- Nostromo, by Joseph Conrad
- The Rainbow, by D. H. Lawrence
- Women in Love, by D. H. Lawrence
- Tropic of Cancer, by Henry Miller
- The Naked and the Dead, by Norman Mailer
- Portnoy's Complaint, by Philip Roth
- Pale Fire, by Vladimir Nabokov
- Light in August, by William Faulkner
- On the Road, by Jack Kerouac
- The Maltese Falcon, by Dashiell Hammett
- Parade's End, by Ford Madox Ford
- The Age of Innocence, by Edith Wharton
- Zuleika Dobson, by Max Beerbohm
- The Moviegoer, by Walker Percy
- Death Comes to the Archbishop, by Willa Cather
- From Here to Eternity, by James Jones
- The Wapshot Chronicles, by John Cheever
- The Catcher in the Rye, by J. D. Salinger
- A Clockwork Orange, by Anthony Burgess
- Of Human Bondage, by W. Somerset Maugham
- Heart of Darkness, by Joseph Conrad
- Main Street, by Sinclair Lewis
- The House of Mirth, by Edith Wharton
- The Alexandria Quartet, by Lawrence Durrell
- A High Wind in Jamaica, by Richard Hughes
- A House for Ms. Biswas, by V. S. Naipaul
- The Day of the Locust, by Nathaniel West
- A Farewell to Arms, by Ernest Hemingway
- Scoop, by Evelyn Waugh
- The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, by Muriel Spark
- Finnegans Wake, by James Joyce
- Kim, by Rudyard Kipling
- A Room With a View, by E. M. Forster
- Brideshead Revisited, by Evelyn Waugh
- The Adventures of Augie March, by Saul Bellow
- Angle of Repose, by Wallace Stegner
- A Bend in the River, by V. S. Naipaul
- The Death of the Heart, by Elizabeth Bowen
- Lord Jim, by Joseph Conrad
- Ragtime, by E. L. Doctorow
- The Old Wives' Tale, by Arnold Bennett
- The Call of the Wild, by Jack London
- Loving, by Henry Green
- Midnight's Children, by Salman Rushdie
- Tobacco Road, by Erskine Caldwell
- Ironweed, by William Kennedy
- The Magus, by John Fowles
- Wide Sargasso Sea, by Jean Rhys
- Under the Net, by Iris Murdoch
- Sophie's Choice, by William Styron
- The Sheltering Sky, by Paul Bowles
- The Postman Always Rings Twice, by James M. Cain
- The Ginger Man, by J. P. Donleavy
- The Magnificent Ambersons, by Booth Tarkington