List :: 100 Best Novels by Modern Library

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  #11

  Under the Volcano

  by Malcolm Lowry

  (5 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 95

  199 points

  "Two mountain chains traverse the republic roughly from north to south, forming between them a number of valleys and plateaus."

  

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  #12

  The Way of All Flesh

  by Samuel Butler

  (3 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 234

  89 points

  "When I was a small boy at the beginning of the century I remember an old man who wore knee-breeches and worsted stockings, and who used to hobble about the street of our village with the help of a..."

  

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  #13

  Nineteen Eighty-Four

  by George Orwell

  (69 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 3

  946 points

  "It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen."

  

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  #14

  I, Claudius

  by Robert Graves

  (6 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 129

  151 points

  "I, Tiberius Claudius Drusus Nero Germanicus This-that-and-the-other (for I shall not trouble you yet with all my titles) who was once, and not so long ago either, known to my friends and relatives..."

  

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  #15

  To the Lighthouse

  by Virginia Woolf

  (14 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 14

  642 points

  "Yes, of course, if it's fine tomorrow," said Mrs. Ramsay. "But you'll have to be up with the lark," she added.

  

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  #16

  An American Tragedy

  by Theodore Dreiser

  (4 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 108

  179 points

  "Dusk - of a summer night."

  

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  #17

  The Heart is A Lonely Hunter

  by Carson McCullers

  (8 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 104

  181 points

  "In the town there were two mutes, and they were always together."

  

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  #18

  Slaughterhouse-Five

  by Kurt Vonnegut

  (29 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 34

  358 points

  "All this happened, more or less."

  

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  #19

  Invisible Man

  by Ralph Ellison

  (16 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 15

  640 points

  "I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywood-movie ectoplasms. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids—...

  

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  #20

  Native Son

  by Richard Wright

  (6 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 39

  348 points

  "Brrrrrrriiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinng! An alarm clock clanged in the dark and silent room."

  

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