List :: 100 Best Novels by Modern Library

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  #61

  Death Comes for the Archbishop

  by Willa Cather

  (2 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 323

  68 points

  "One summer evening in the year 1848, three Cardinals and a missionary Bishop from America were dining together in the gardens of a villa in the Sabine hills, overlooking Rome."

  

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  #62

  From Here to Eternity

  by James Jones

  (2 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 231

  89 points

  "When he finished packing, he walked out on to the third-floor porch of the barracks brushing the dust from his hands, a very neat and deceptively slim young man in the summer khakis that were still..."

  

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  #63

  The Wapshot Chronicle

  by John Cheever

  (2 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 235

  88 points

  "St. Botolphs was an old place, an old river town."

  

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  #64

  The Catcher in the Rye

  by J. D. Salinger

  (45 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 7

  735 points

  "If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they...

  

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  #65

  A Clockwork Orange

  by Anthony Burgess

  (20 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 59

  295 points

  "'What's it going to be then, eh?'"

  

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  #66

  Of Human Bondage

  by W. Somerset Maugham

  (1 Review)

  Overall Rank: 458

  35 points

  "The day broke grey and dull."

  

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  #67

  Heart of Darkness

  by Joseph Conrad

  (18 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 32

  382 points

  "The Nellie, a cruising yawl, swung to her anchor without a flutter of the sails, and was at rest. The flood had made, the wind was nearly calm, and being bound down the river, the only thing for it..."

  

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  #68

  Main Street

  by Sinclair Lewis

  (1 Review)

  Overall Rank: 224

  90 points

  "Chapter 1: On a hill by the Mississippi where Chippewas camped two generations ago, a girl stood in relief against the cornflower blue of Northern sky."

  

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  #69

  The House of Mirth

  by Edith Wharton

  (6 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 113

  172 points

  "Selden paused in surprise."

  

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  #70

  The Alexandria Quartet

  by Lawrence Durrell

  (2 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 445

  39 points

  "The sea is high again today, with a thrilling flush of wind."BALTHAZAR" - Landscape-toes: brown to bronze, steep skyline, low cloud, pearl ground with shadowed oyster and violet reflections...."

  

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