(juried, not voted on). Awful list: Lawrence, Dreiser, and Kerouac, but not Barth, Gaddis, and Pynchon.
1. Ulysses, James Joyce
2. The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
3. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce
4. Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
5. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
6. The Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner
7. Catch-22, Joseph Heller
8. Darkness at Noon, Arthur Koestler
9. Sons and Lovers, D. H. Lawrence
10. The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck
11. Under the Volcano, Malcolm Lowry
12. The Way of All Flesh, Samuel Butler
13. 1984, George Orwell
14. I, Claudius, Robert Graves
15. To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf
16. An American Tragedy, Theodore Dreiser
17. The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers
18. Slaughterhouse Five, Kurt Vonnegut
19. Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison
20. Native Son, Richard Wright
21. Henderson the Rain King, Saul Bellow
22. Appointment in Samarra, John O' Hara
23. U.S.A. (trilogy), John Dos Passos
24. Winesburg, Ohio, Sherwood Anderson
25. A Passage to India, E. M. Forster
26. The Wings of the Dove, Henry James
27. The Ambassadors, Henry James
28. Tender Is the Night, F. Scott Fitzgerald
29. The Studs Lonigan Trilogy, James T. Farrell
30. The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford
31. Animal Farm, George Orwell
32. The Golden Bowl, Henry James
33. Sister Carrie, Theodore Dreiser
34. A Handful of Dust, Evelyn Waugh
35. As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner
36. All the King's Men, Robert Penn Warren
37. The Bridge of San Luis Rey, Thornton Wilder
38. Howards End, E. M. Forster
39. Go Tell It on the Mountain, James Baldwin
40. The Heart of the Matter, Graham Greene
41. Lord of the Flies, William Golding
42. Deliverance, James Dickey
43. A Dance to the Music of Time (series), Anthony Powell
44. Point Counter Point, Aldous Huxley
45. The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway
46. The Secret Agent, Joseph Conrad
47. Nostromo, Joseph Conrad
48. The Rainbow, D. H. Lawrence
49. Women in Love, D. H. Lawrence
50. Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller
51. The Naked and the Dead, Norman Mailer
52. Portnoy's Complaint, Philip Roth
53. Pale Fire, Vladimir Nabokov
54. Light in August, William Faulkner
55. On the Road, Jack Kerouac
56. The Maltese Falcon, Dashiell Hammett
57. Parade's End, Ford Madox Ford
58. The Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton
59. Zuleika Dobson, Max Beerbohm
60. The Moviegoer, Walker Percy
61. Death Comes to the Archbishop, Willa Cather
62. From Here to Eternity, James Jones
63. The Wapshot Chronicles, John Cheever
64. The Catcher in the Rye, J. D. Salinger
65. A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess
66. Of Human Bondage, W. Somerset Maugham
67. Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
68. Main Street, Sinclair Lewis
69. The House of Mirth, Edith Wharton
70. The Alexandria Quartet, Lawrence Durrell
71. A High Wind in Jamaica, Richard Hughes
72. A House for Ms. Biswas, V. S. Naipaul
73. The Day of the Locust, Nathaniel West
74. A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway
75. Scoop, Evelyn Waugh
76. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Muriel Spark
77. Finnegans Wake, James Joyce
78. Kim, Rudyard Kipling
79. A Room With a View, E. M. Forster
80. Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
81. The Adventures of Augie March, Saul Bellow
82. Angle of Repose, Wallace Stegner
83. A Bend in the River, V. S. Naipaul
84. The Death of the Heart, Elizabeth Bowen
85. Lord Jim, Joseph Conrad
86. Ragtime, E. L. Doctorow
87. The Old Wives' Tale, Arnold Bennett
88. The Call of the Wild, Jack London
89. Loving, Henry Green
90. Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie
91. Tobacco Road, Erskine Caldwell
92. Ironweed, William Kennedy
93. The Magus, John Fowles
94. Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys
95. Under the Net, Iris Murdoch
96. Sophie's Choice, William Styron
97. The Sheltering Sky, Paul Bowles
98. The Postman Always Rings Twice, James M. Cain
99. The Ginger Man, J. P. Donleavy
100. The Magnificent Ambersons, Booth Tarkington
100 20th-century Anglophone novels--not better, not worse, not overlapping the Modern Library. Books--that do something well, and that something does not make me want to toss my cookies. I've read most, but included a few on the basis of informed opinion. I am obviously a prisoner of my old DWEM training, but at least this list includes lotsa genre stuff. Obviously, we're not done: I don't know enough about romance and fantasy, nor can I tell you which Elmore Leonard book to read first.
1. Brian Aldiss, The Helliconia Trilogy
2. Isaac Asimov, The Foundation Trilogy
3. James Baldwin, Another Country
4. John Barth, The Sot-Weed Factor
5. ---, Letters
6. ---, The Tidewater Tales
7. Saul Bellow, The Victim
8. ---, Herzog
9. Alfred Bester, The Stars My Destination
10. John Brunner, The Whole Man
11. ---, Stand on Zanzibar
12. Anthony Burgess, The Doctor Is Sick
13. ---, M/F
14. ---, Earthly Powers
15. John Horne Burns, The Gallery
16. William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch
17. Octavia Butler, Mind of My Mind
18. G.K. Chesterton, The Man Who Was Thursday
19. Richard Condon, The Manchurian Candidate
20. ---, Mile High
21. Robert Coover, The Universal Baseball Association
22. ---, The Public Burning
23. Robertson Davies, The Deptford Trilogy
24. Samuel R. Delany, Stars in My Pocket like Grains of Sand
25. Nigel Dennis, Cards of Identity
26. Philip K. Dick, Ubik
27. Thomas M. Disch, Camp Concentration
28. ---, The Businessman, a Tale of Terror
29. Greg Egan, Permutation City
30. James Ellroy, American Tabloid
31. William Gaddis, The Recognitions
32. ---, JR
33. ---, A Frolic of His Own
34. Amitrav Ghosh, The Calcutta Chromosome
35. William Gibson, Neuromancer
36. William Goldman, Boys and Girls Together
37. Kathleen Ann Goonan, The Bones of Time
38. Graham Greene, The Power and the Glory
39. ---, The End of the Affair
40. Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land
41. Joseph Heller, Something Happened
42. Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God
43. Philip Kerr, A Philosophical Investigation
44. Ken Kesey, Sometimes a Great Notion
45. Thomas King, Green Grass, Running Water
46. Dean Koontz, Midnight
47. Jerzy Kosinsky, Being There
48. R.A. Lafferty, Fourth Mansions
49. Dave Langford, The Leaky Establishment
50. A.J. Langguth, Jesus Christs
51. Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
52. ---, The Lathe of Heaven
53. --- The Dispossessed
54. Doris Lessing. The Golden Notebook
55. John D. MacDonald, The Deep Blue Good-Bye
56. Ross Macdonald, The Chill
57. Bernard Malamud, The Natural
58. ---, The Assistant
59. Barry N. Malzberg, Herovit's World
60. Frank McAuliffe, The Commissions of Augustus Mandrell
61. Ed McBain, Ice
62. Wright Morris, The Huge Season
63. Iris Murdoch, A Severed Head
64. Flann O'Brien, At Swim-Two-Birds
65. Flannery O'Connor, Wise Blood
66. Patrick O'Leary, Door Number Three
67. Robert B. Parker, Promised Land
68. Pohl & Kornbluth, The Space Merchants
69. Mario Puzo, The Godfather
70. Thomas Pynchon, V.
71. ---, The Crying of Lot 49
72. ---, Gravity's Rainbow
73. ---, Mason & Dixon
74. Ishmael Reed, Mumbo-Jumbo
75. ---, Flight to Canada
76. Luke Rhinehart, The Dice Man
77. Alan Rodgers, Bone Music
78. Fr. Rolfe, Hadrian VII
79. Philip Roth, The Great American Novel
80. ---, The Human Stain
81. Tom Sharpe, The Great Pursuit
82. Shea & Wilson, Illuminatus!
83. Robert Sheckley, Dimension of Miracles
84. Robert Silverberg, Dying Inside
85. Dan Simmons, Carrion Comfort
86. John Sladek, The Muller-Fokker Effect
87. Gilbert Sorrentino, Mulligan Stew
88. Muriel Spark, Loitering with Intent
89. Neil Stephenson, Cryptonomicon
90. Peter Straub, The Blue Rose Trilogy
91. ---, Mr. X
92. Theodore Sturgeon, More than Human
93. J.R.R. Tolkien, Lord of the Rings
94. Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions
95. Evelyn Waugh, Decline and Fall
96. Donald E. Westlake, Dancing Aztecs
97. Thornton Wilder, Heaven's My Destination
98. Angus Wilson, Anglo-Saxon Attitudes
99. Gene Wolfe, The Book of the New Sun
100. Roger Zelazny, A Night in the Lonesome October