List :: 100 Best Novels by Modern Library

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  #41

  Lord of the Flies

  by William Golding

  (43 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 20

  537 points

  "The boy with fair hair lowered himself down the last few feet of rock and began to pick his way toward the lagoon."

  

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  #42

  Deliverance

  by James Dickey

  (2 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 361

  59 points

  "Before: It unrolled slowly, forced to show its colors, curling and snapping back whenever one of us turned loose. The whole land was very tense until we put our four steins on its corners and laid..."

  

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  #43

  A Dance to the Music of Time

  by Anthony Powell

  (2 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 159

  127 points

  "The men at work at the corner of the street had made a kind of a camp for themselves, where, marked out by tripods hung with red hurricane-lamps, an abyss in the road led down to a network of..."

  

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  #44

  Point Counter Point

  by Aldous Huxley

  (2 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 366

  57 points

  "'You won't be late?'"

  

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  #45

  The Sun Also Rises

  by Ernest Hemingway

  (22 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 42

  335 points

  "Robert Cohn was once middleweight boxing champion of Princeton."

  

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  #46

  The Secret Agent

  by Joseph Conrad

  (3 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 373

  55 points

  "Mr. Verloc, going out in the morning, left his shop nominally in charge of his brother-in-law. It could be done, because there was very little business at any time, and practically none at all..."

  

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  #47

  Nostromo

  by Joseph Conrad

  (5 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 112

  173 points

  "In the time of Spanish rule, and for many years afterwards, the town of Sulaco—the luxuriant beauty of the orange gardens bears witness to its antiquity—had never been commercially anything more..."

  

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  #48

  The Rainbow

  by D. H. Lawrence

  (2 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 158

  128 points

  "The Brangwens had lived for generations on the Marsh Farm, in the meadows where the Erewash twisted sluggishly through alder trees, separating Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire."

  

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  #49

  Women in Love

  by D. H. Lawrence

  (5 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 79

  226 points

  "Ursula and Gudrun Brangwen sat one morning in the window-bay of their father’s house in Beldover, working and talking. Ursula was stitching a piece of brightly-coloured embroidery, and Gudrun was..."

  

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  #50

  Tropic of Cancer

  by Henry Miller

  (8 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 130

  151 points

  "I am living at the Villa Borghese."

  

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