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).
- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Ulysses by James Joyce
- Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
- Nineteen Eighty Four by George Orwell
- The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
- The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
- Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
- Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
- The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
- Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
- Beloved by Toni Morrison
- Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
- The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
- To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
- On the Road by Jack Kerouac
- As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
- A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
- Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
- Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
- Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner
- Native Son by Richard Wright
- The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
- Lord of the Flies by William Golding
- Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
- Animal Farm by George Orwell
- For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
- Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
- The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
- The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien
- Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
- A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
- All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
- The Color Purple by Alice Walker
- The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
- Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
- Rabbit, Run by John Updike
- An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
- A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
- Charlotte's Web by E. B. White
- The Call of the Wild by Jack London
- In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
- My Antonia by Willa Cather
- The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
- Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence
- Light in August by William Faulkner
- Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad
- Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
- Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
- Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
- Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence
- Go Tell it on the Mountain by James Baldwin
- Howards End by E. M. Forster
- Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
- Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
- Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
- Sophie's Choice by William Styron
- The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
- The Naked Dead by Norman Mailer
- The World According to Garp by John Irving
- White Noise by Don DeLillo
- Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
- A Room With a View by E.M. Forster
- Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
- Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
- Look Homeward, Angel by Thomas Wolfe
- Orlando: A Biography by Virginia Woolf
- The Awakening by Kate Chopin
- The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
- The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
- Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather
- Kim by Rudyard Kipling
- Naked Lunch by William Burroughs
- Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells
- A Good Man Is Hard to Find by Flannery O'Connor
- Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis
- Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe
- Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
- Main Street by Sinclair Lewis
- Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
- The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles
- Winnie the Pooh by A. A. Milne
- In Our Time by Ernest Hemingway
- Schindler's List by Thomas Keneally
- The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
- A Separate Peace by John Knowles
- Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
- Jazz by Toni Morrison
- The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein
- Wings of the Dove by Henry James
- Franny and Zooey by J. D. Salinger
- The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- O Pioneers! by Willa Cather
- The Bostonians by Henry James
- This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Where Angels Fear to Tread by E. M. Forster
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