The Modern Library

List of titles in order of publication

A Murder is Announced Agatha Christie

Nothing Henry Green

Power Without Glory Frank Hardy

The Grand Sophy Georgette Heyer

December Bride Sam Hanna Bell

My Cousin Rachel Daphne du Maurier

The West Pier Patrick Hamilton

The Ballad of the Sad Café Carson McCullers

A Dance to the Music of Time (1951–75) Anthony Powell

The Catcher in the Rye J. D. Salinger

Invisible Man Ralph Ellison

The Old Man and the Sea Ernest Hemingway

The Natural Bernard Malamud

The Financial Expert R. K. Narayan

Wise Blood Flannery O’Connor

East of Eden John Steinbeck

The Sword of Honour Trilogy (1952–61) Evelyn Waugh

Private Life of an Indian Prince Mulk Raj Anand

Go Tell it on the Mountain James Baldwin

The Adventures of Augie March Saul Bellow

The Long Good-Bye Raymond Chandler

The Go-Between L. P. Hartley

The Echoing Grove Rosamond Lehmann

The Palm-Wine Drinkard Amos Tutuola

Lucky Jim Kingsley Amis

Lord of the Flies William Golding

The Tortoise and the Hare Elizabeth Jenkins

The Flint Anchor Sylvia Townsend Warner

The Molloy Trilogy (1955–58) Samuel Beckett

The Recognitions William Gaddis

The Talented Mr Ripley Patricia Highsmith

Lolita Vladimir Nabokov

A Legacy Sybille Bedford

Train to Pakistan Khushwant Singh

Owls Do Cry Janet Frame

On the Road Jack Kerouac

Angel Elizabeth Taylor

The Fountain Overflows Rebecca West

Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe

Anecdotes of Destiny Isak Dinesen

From the Terrace John O’Hara

Saturday Night and Sunday Morning Alan Sillitoe

Naked Lunch William Burroughs

A Heritage and its History Ivy Compton-Burnett

The Little Disturbances of Man Grace Paley

To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee

The Balkan Trilogy (1960–65) Olivia Manning

The Rabbit Quartet (1960–90) John Updike

Jeeves in the Offing P. G. Wodehouse

(US: How Right You Are, Jeeves)

Catch-22 Joseph Heller

A House for Mr Biswas V. S. Naipaul

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie Muriel Spark

Riders in the Chariot Patrick White

That’s How it Was Maureen Duffy

The Reivers William Faulkner

The Golden Notebook Doris Lessing

The Lonely Girl Edna O’Brien

(renamed Girl with Green Eyes 1964)

Ship of Fools Katherine Anne Porter

The Little Girls Elizabeth Bowen

The Spy Who Came in from the Cold John Le Carré

The Group Mary McCarthy

The Bell Jar Sylvia Plath

Herzog Saul Bellow

Heartland Wilson Harris

Last Exit to Brooklyn Hubert Selby Jr.

Memoirs of a Peon Frank Sargeson

The Interpreters Wole Soyinka

The Magus John Fowles

A Jest of God Margaret Laurence

Wide Sargasso Sea Jean Rhys

The Jewel in the Crown Paul Scott

Cotters’ England Christina Stead

(US: Dark Places of the Heart 1967)

The Confessions of Nat Turner William Styron

A Grain of Wheat Ngugi Wa Thiong’o

In the Heart of the Heart of the Country William H. Gass

The Nice and the Good Iris Murdoch

The Unfortunates B. S. Johnson

Happiness Mary Lavin

The Godfather Mario Puzo

Fifth Business Robertson Davies

Master and Commander Patrick O’Brian

The Day of the Jackal Frederick Forsyth

St Urbain’s Horseman Mordecai Richler

Black List, Section H Francis Stuart

The Optimist’s Daughter Eudora Welty

The Siege of Krishnapur J. G. Farrell

Gravity’s Rainbow Thomas Pynchon

Ragtime E. L. Doctorow

Heat and Dust Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

Changing Places David Lodge

The Lost Salt Gift of Blood Alistair MacLeod

Interview with the Vampire Anne Rice

Saville David Storey

Injury Time Beryl Bainbridge

Falconer John Cheever

A Book of Common Prayer Joan Didion

The Ice Age Margaret Drabble

Tirra Lirra by the River Jessica Anderson

Plumb Maurice Gee

The Human Factor Graham Greene

The Murderer Roy A. K. Heath

The Cement Garden Ian McEwan

The Year of the French Thomas Flanagan

From the Fifteenth District Mavis Gallant

Burger’s Daughter Nadine Gordimer

Sleepless Nights Elizabeth Hardwick

The Executioner’s Song Norman Mailer

A Bend in the River V. S. Naipaul

Earthly Powers Anthony Burgess

The Transit of Venus Shirley Hazzard

Riddley Walker Russell Hoban

Lamb Bernard MacLaverty

So Long, See You Tomorrow William Maxwell

Housekeeping Marilynne Robinson

A Confederacy of Dunces John Kennedy Toole

Puffball Fay Weldon

Lanark Alasdair Gray

Red Dragon Thomas Harris

Midnight’s Children Salman Rushdie

A Flag for Sunrise Robert Stone

On the Black Hill Bruce Chatwin

Schindler’s Ark Thomas Keneally

(US: Schindler’s List)

The Color Purple Alice Walker

A Boy’s Own Story Edmund White

Money Martin Amis

Empire of the Sun J. G. Ballard

Flaubert’s Parrot Julian Barnes

In Custody Anita Desai

The Children’s Bach Helen Garner

Nation of Fools Balraj Khanna

Machine Dreams Jayne Anne Phillips

Family and Friends Anita Brookner

Blood Meridian Cormac McCarthy

Lonesome Dove Larry McMurtry

Black Robe Brian Moore

Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit Jeanette Winterson

The Sportswriter Richard Ford

An Artist of the Floating World Kazuo Ishiguro

A Summons to Memphis Peter Taylor

A Dark-Adapted Eye Barbara Vine (Ruth Rendell)

Ellen Foster Kaye Gibbons

Double Whammy Carl Hiaasen

Misery Stephen King

Beloved Toni Morrison

In the Skin of a Lion Michael Ondaatje

The Other Garden Francis Wyndham

Oscar and Lucinda Peter Carey

Where I’m Calling From Raymond Carver

Paris Trout Pete Dexter

The Sugar Mother Elizabeth Jolley

Forty-Seventeen Frank Moorhouse

Ice-Candy-Man Bapsi Sidhwa

Breathing Lessons Anne Tyler

The Bonfire of the Vanities Tom Wolfe

The Book of Evidence John Banville

The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love Oscar Hijuelos

The Joy Luck Club Amy Tan

Possession A. S. Byatt

Age of Iron J. M. Coetzee

A Home at the End of the World Michael Cunningham

The Snapper Roddy Doyle

Get Shorty Elmore Leonard

Amongst Women John McGahern

The Great World David Malouf

Friend of My Youth Alice Munro

The Regeneration Trilogy (1991–95) Pat Barker

Wise Children Angela Carter

A Strange and Sublime Address Amit Chaudhuri

American Psycho Bret Easton Ellis

The Redundancy of Courage Timothy Mo

Mating Norman Rush

Downriver Iain Sinclair

A Thousand Acres Jane Smiley

Reading Turgenev William Trevor

Cloudstreet Tim Winton

Death and Nightingales Eugene McCabe

The Butcher Boy Patrick McCabe

The Secret History Donna Tartt

The Virgin Suicides Jeffrey Eugenides

Birdsong Sebastian Faulks

A River Sutra Gita Mehta

The Shipping News E. Annie Proulx

My Idea of Fun Will Self

A Suitable Boy Vikram Seth

Trainspotting Irvine Welsh

What a Carve Up! Jonathan Coe

(US: The Winshaw Legacy)

Captain Corelli’s Mandolin Louis de Bernières

(US: Corelli’s Mandolin)

The Folding Star Alan Hollinghurst

Original Sin P. D. James

How Late it Was, How Late James Kelman

The Tortilla Curtain T. Coraghessan Boyle

The Blue Flower Penelope Fitzgerald

A Fine Balance Rohinton Mistry

Alias Grace Margaret Atwood

Asylum Patrick McGrath

Last Orders Graham Swift

The Night in Question Tobias Wolff

Quarantine Jim Crace

Underworld Don DeLillo

Cold Mountain Charles Frazier

American Pastoral Philip Roth

The Lady From Guatemala V. S. Pritchett