Statistics for Modern Library's 100 Best Novels

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Author	Book	% Correct
George Orwell	Nineteen Eighty-Four	90%
F. Scott Fitzgerald	The Great Gatsby	88%
John Steinbeck	The Grapes of Wrath	74%
George Orwell	Animal Farm	73%
J. D. Salinger	The Catcher in the Rye	72%
James Joyce	Ulysses	70%
Vladimir Nabokov	Lolita	66%
Aldous Huxley	Brave New World	64%
Joseph Heller	Catch-22	60%
Jack Kerouac	On the Road	57%
Joseph Conrad	Heart of Darkness	55%
William Golding	Lord of the Flies	49%
Kurt Vonnegut	Slaughterhouse-Five	49%
Jack London	The Call of the Wild	40%
Anthony Burgess	A Clockwork Orange	34%
Ernest Hemingway	A Farewell to Arms	34%
Virginia Woolf	To the Lighthouse	33%
James Joyce	A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man	32%
William Faulkner	The Sound and the Fury	32%
Ernest Hemingway	The Sun Also Rises	31%
D. H. Lawrence	Sons and Lovers	28%
James Joyce	Finnegans Wake	27%
Ralph Ellison	Invisible Man	27%
William Faulkner	As I Lay Dying	26%
E. M. Forster	A Passage to India	25%
Rudyard Kipling	Kim	25%
Evelyn Waugh	Brideshead Revisited	24%
Salman Rushdie	Midnight's Children	24%
E. M. Forster	A Room with a View	23%
Dashiell Hammett	The Maltese Falcon	20%
Henry Miller	Tropic of Cancer	19%
Joseph Conrad	Lord Jim	18%
F. Scott Fitzgerald	Tender is the Night	18%
Robert Graves	I, Claudius	17%
Philip Roth	Portnoy's Complaint	17%
Edith Wharton	The Age of Innocence	17%
E. M. Forster	Howards End	16%
D. H. Lawrence	Women in Love	16%
Vladimir Nabokov	Pale Fire	15%
Carson McCullers	The Heart is a Lonely Hunter	15%
Richard Wright	Native Son	14%
D. H. Lawrence	The Rainbow	14%
Robert Penn Warren	All The King's Men	13%
Joseph Conrad	Nostromo	13%
Henry James	The Ambassadors	13%
Norman Mailer	The Naked and the Dead	13%
Theodore Dreiser	An American Tragedy	12%
William Faulkner	Light in August	12%
W. Somerset Maugham	Of Human Bondage	12%
E. L. Doctorow	Ragtime	12%
Theodore Dreiser	Sister Carrie	12%
William Styron	Sophie's Choice	12%
Muriel Spark	The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie	12%
Jean Rhys	Wide Sargasso Sea	12%
Arthur Koestler	Darkness at Noon	11%
James Baldwin	Go Tell It on the Mountain	11%
Evelyn Waugh	Scoop	11%
Edith Wharton	The House of Mirth	11%
Malcolm Lowry	Under the Volcano	11%
John Dos Passos	U.S.A. Trilogy	11%
Willa Cather	Death Comes for the Archbishop	10%
Sinclair Lewis	Main Street	10%
Henry James	The Golden Bowl	10%
Ford Madox Ford	The Good Soldier	10%
Joseph Conrad	The Secret Agent	10%
Henry James	The Wings of the Dove	10%
V. S. Naipaul	A Bend in the River	9%
V. S. Naipaul	A House For Mr. Biswas	9%
James Dickey	Deliverance	9%
John Fowles	The Magus	9%
Evelyn Waugh	A Handful of Dust	8%
James Jones	From Here to Eternity	8%
Ford Madox Ford	Parade's End	8%
Saul Bellow	The Adventures of Augie March	8%
Nathanael West	The Day of the Locust	8%
Graham Greene	The Heart of the Matter	8%
Booth Tarkington	The Magnificent Ambersons	8%
James M. Cain	The Postman Always Rings Twice	8%
Samuel Butler	The Way of all Flesh	8%
Sherwood Anderson	Winesburg, Ohio	8%
Saul Bellow	Henderson the Rain King	7%
William Kennedy	Ironweed	7%
Aldous Huxley	Point Counter Point	7%
Thornton Wilder	The Bridge of San Luis Rey	7%
Walker Percy	The Moviegoer	7%
Paul Bowles	The Sheltering Sky	7%
Erskine Caldwell	Tobacco Road	7%
Wallace Stegner	Angle of Repose	6%
John O'Hara	Appointment In Samarra	6%
Henry Green	Loving	6%
Lawrence Durrell	The Alexandria Quartet	6%
J. P. Donleavy	The Ginger Man	6%
Iris Murdoch	Under the Net	6%
Max Beerbohm	Zuleika Dobson	6%
Richard Hughes	A High Wind In Jamaica	5%
James T. Farrell	Studs Lonigan	5%
Elizabeth Bowen	The Death of the Heart	5%
Arnold Bennett	The Old Wives' Tale	5%
John Cheever	The Wapshot Chronicle	5%
Anthony Powell	A Question of Upbringing	4%