On July 21, 1998, the Radcliffe Publishing Course released its own list of the century's top 100 novels. The Radcliffe Publishing Course compiled its list at the request of the Modern Library and formally presented its list to the Modern Library's Board Chairman Christopher Cerf on July 24 in Cambridge.

• Character: 100 twentieth century works written in English, ranked, limited to fiction (including children's fiction).
• Bias: Academic, reflecting the tastes of the students in the course, presumably colored by scholastic reading requirements.
• Flaws: Inclusion errors (admits non-fictional and 19th century works into its canon).

1. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
2. Ulysses by James Joyce
3. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
4. Nineteen Eighty Four by George Orwell
5. The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
6. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
7. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
8. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
9. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
10. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
11. Beloved by Toni Morrison
12. Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
13. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
14. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
15. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
16. On the Road by Jack Kerouac
17. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
18. A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
19. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
20. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
21. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
22. Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner
23. Native Son by Richard Wright
24. The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
25. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
26. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
27. Animal Farm by George Orwell
28. For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
29. Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
30. The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
31. The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien
32. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
33. A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
34. All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren
35. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
36. The Color Purple by Alice Walker
37. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
38. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
39. Rabbit, Run by John Updike
40. An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
41. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
42. Charlotte's Web by E. B. White
43. The Call of the Wild by Jack London
44. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
45. My Antonia by Willa Cather
46. The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
47. Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence
48. Light in August by William Faulkner
49. Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad
50. Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
51. Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence
52. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
53. Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
54. Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence
55. Go Tell it on the Mountain by James Baldwin
56. Howards End by E. M. Forster
57. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
58. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
59. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
60. Sophie's Choice by William Styron
61. The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
62. The Naked Dead by Norman Mailer
63. The World According to Garp by John Irving
64. White Noise by Don DeLillo
65. Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
66. A Room With a View by E.M. Forster
67. Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
68. Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
69. Look Homeward, Angel by Thomas Wolfe
70. Orlando: A Biography by Virginia Woolf
71. The Awakening by Kate Chopin
72. The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
73. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
74. Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather
75. Kim by Rudyard Kipling
76. Naked Lunch by William Burroughs
77. Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
78. War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells
79. A Good Man Is Hard to Find by Flannery O'Connor
80. Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis
81. Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe
82. Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
83. Main Street by Sinclair Lewis
84. Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
85. The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles
86. Winnie the Pooh by A. A. Milne
87. In Our Time by Ernest Hemingway
88. Schindler's List by Thomas Keneally
89. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
90. A Separate Peace by John Knowles
91. Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
92. Jazz by Toni Morrison
93. The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein
94. Wings of the Dove by Henry James
95. Franny and Zooey by J. D. Salinger
96. The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald
97. O Pioneers! by Willa Cather
98. The Bostonians by Henry James
99. This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald
100. Where Angels Fear to Tread by E. M. Forster

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1. https://www.librarything.com
2. https://web.stanford.edu