Лист с оригинального сайта, с рейтингjv профессионалов (работников этой самой Modern Library)
http://www.modernlibrary.com/top-100/100-best-novels/Выделенное - это я прочитал. Так что есть чего почитать, однозначно.
Board's list Reader's list
2. THE GREAT GATS by F. Scott Fitzgerald 2. THE FOUNTAINHEAD by Ayn Rand
4. LOLITA by Vladimir Nabokov 4. THE LORD OF THE RINGS by J.R.R. Tolkien
5. BRAVE NEW WORLD by Aldous Huxley 5. TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD by Harper Lee
7. CATCH-22 by Joseph Heller 7. ANTHEM by Ayn Rand
8. DARKNESS AT NOON by Arthur Koestler 8. WE THE LIVING by Ayn Rand
10. THE GRAPES OF WRATH by John Steinbeck 10. FEAR by L. Ron Hubbard
13. 1984 by George Orwell 13. THE GREAT GATS by by F. Scott Fitzgerald
14. I, CLAUDIUS by Robert Graves 14. DUNE by Frank Herbert
15. TO THE LIGHTHOUSE by Virginia Woolf 15. THE MOON IS A HARSH MISTRESS by Robert Heinlein
16. AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY by Theodore Dreiser 16. STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND by Robert Heinlein
20. NATIVE SON by Richard Wright 20. ANIMAL FARM by George Orwell
21. HENDERSON THE RAIN KING by Saul Bellow 21. GRAVITY’S RAINBOW by Thomas Pynchon
22. APPOINTMENT IN SAMARRA by John O’Hara 22. THE GRAPES OF WRATH by John Steinbeck
25. A PASSAGE TO INDIA by E.M. Forster 25. LORD OF THE FLIES by William Golding
27. THE AMBASSADORS by Henry James 27. TRUSTEE FROM THE TOOLROOM by Nevil Shute
29. THE STUDS LONIGAN TRILOGY by James T. Farrell 29. THE STAND by Stephen King
30. THE GOOD SOLDIER by Ford Madox Ford 30. THE FRENCH LIEUTENANT’S WOMAN by John Fowles
31. ANIMAL FARM by George Orwell 31. BELOVED by Toni Morrison
32. THE GOLDEN BOWL by Henry James 32. THE WORM OUROBOROS by E.R. Eddison
34. A HANDFUL OF DUST by Evelyn Waugh 34. LOLITA by Vladimir Nabokov
38. HOWARDS END by E.M. Forster 38. WISE BLOOD by Flannery O’Connor
40. THE HEART OF THE MATTER by Graham Greene 40. FIFTH BUSINESS by Robertson Davies
41. LORD OF THE FLIES by William Golding 41. SOMEPLACE TO BE FLYING by Charles de Lint
44. POINT COUNTER POINT by Aldous Huxley 44. YARROW by Charles de Lint
50. TROPIC OF CANCER by Henry Miller 50. TRADER by Charles de Lint
53. PALE FIRE by Vladimir Nabokov 53. THE HANDMAID’S TALE by Margaret Atwood
55. ON THE ROAD by Jack Kerouac 55. A CLOCKWORK ORANGE by Anthony Burgess
56. THE MALTESE FALCON by Dashiell Hammett 56. ON THE BEACH by Nevil Shute
60. THE MOVIEGOER by Walker Percy 60. THE LITTLE COUNTRY by Charles de Lint
61. DEATH COMES FOR THE ARCHBISHOP by Willa Cather 61. THE RECOGNITIONS by William Gaddis
63. THE WAPSHOT CHRONICLES by John Cheever 63. THE SUN ALSO RISES by Ernest Hemingway
65. A CLOCKWORK ORANGE by Anthony Burgess 65. SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES by Ray Bradbury
70. THE ALEXANDRIA QUARTET by Lawrence Durell 70. THE WOOD WIFE by Terri Windling
73. THE DAY OF THE LOCUST by Nathanael West 73. ZEN AND THE ART OF MOTORCYCLE MAINTENANCE
by Robert Pirsig
74. A FAREWELL TO ARMS by Ernest Hemingway 74. I, CLAUDIUS by Robert Graves
76. THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE by Muriel Spark 76. AT SWIM-TWO-BIRDS by Flann O’Brien
80. BRIDESHEAD REVISITED by Evelyn Waugh 80. NAKED LUNCH by William S. Burroughs
81. THE ADVENTURES OF AUGIE MARCH by Saul Bellow 81. THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER by Tom Clancy
82. ANGLE OF REPOSE by Wallace Stegner 82. GUILTY PLEASURES by Laurell K. Hamilton
83. A BEND IN THE RIVER by V.S. Naipaul 83. THE PUPPET MASTERS by Robert Heinlein
84. THE DEATH OF THE HEART by Elizabeth Bowen 84. IT by Stephen King
91. TOBACCO ROAD by Erskine Caldwell 91. A FAREWELL TO ARMS by Ernest Hemingway
92. IRONWEED by William Kennedy 92. THE SHELTERING SKY by Paul Bowles
95. UNDER THE NET by Iris Murdoch 95. MULENGRO by Charles de Lint
97. THE SHELTERING SKY by Paul Bowles 97. MYTHAGO WOOD by Robert Holdstock
99. THE GINGER MAN by J.P. Donleavy 99. THE CUNNING MAN by Robertson Davies