In 2000, a board of authors and literary critics created a list for Random House of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th Century. Below is the list. Bold are the ones I've read so far and strike throughs are ones I have no intention of reading, no matter how well recieved they are....

• 1. (1922) Ulysses James Joyce
• 2. (1925) The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald
• 3. (1916) A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man James Joyce
• 4. (1955) Lolita Vladimir Nabokov
• 5. (1932) Brave New World Aldous Huxley
• 6. (1929) The Sound and the Fury William Faulkner
• 7. (1961) Catch-22 Joseph Heller
• 8. (1940) Darkness at Noon Arthur Koestler
• 9. (1913) Sons and Lovers D. H. Lawrence
• 10. (1939) The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck
• 11. (1947) Under the Volcano Malcolm Lowry
• 12. (1903) The Way of All Flesh Samuel Butler
• 13. (1949) Nineteen Eighty-Four George Orwell
• 14. (1934) I, Claudius Robert Graves
• 15. (1927) To the Lighthouse Virginia Woolf
• 16. (1925) An American Tragedy Theodore Dreiser
• 17. (1940) The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter Carson McCullers
• 18. (1969) Slaughterhouse-Five Kurt Vonnegut
• 19. (1952) Invisible Man Ralph Ellison
• 20. (1940) Native Son Richard Wright
• 21. (1959) Henderson the Rain King Saul Bellow
• 22. (1934) Appointment in Samarra John O'Hara
• 23. (1938) U.S.A. (trilogy) John Dos Passos
• 24. (1919) Winesburg, Ohio Sherwood Anderson
• 25. (1924) A Passage to India E. M. Forster
• 26. (1902) The Wings of the Dove Henry James
• 27. (1903) The Ambassadors Henry James
• 28. (1934) Tender Is the Night F. Scott Fitzgerald
• 29. (1935) Studs Lonigan (trilogy) James T. Farrell
• 30. (1915) The Good Soldier Ford Madox Ford
• 31. (1945) Animal Farm George Orwell
• 32. (1904) The Golden Bowl Henry James
• 33. (1900) Sister Carrie Theodore Dreiser
• 34. (1934) A Handful of Dust Evelyn Waugh
• 35. (1930) As I Lay Dying William Faulkner
• 36. (1946) All the King's Men Robert Penn Warren
• 37. (1927) The Bridge of San Luis Rey Thornton Wilder
• 38. (1910) Howards End E. M. Forster
• 39. (1953) Go Tell It on the Mountain James Baldwin
• 40. (1948) The Heart of the Matter Graham Greene
• 41. (1954) Lord of the Flies William Golding
• 42. (1970) Deliverance James Dickey
• 43. (1951-1975) A Dance to the Music of Time (series) Anthony Powell
• 44. (1928) Point Counter Point Aldous Huxley
• 45. (1926) The Sun Also Rises Ernest Hemingway
• 46. (1907) The Secret Agent Joseph Conrad
• 47. (1904) Nostromo Joseph Conrad
• 48. (1915) The Rainbow D. H. Lawrence
• 49. (1920) Women in Love D. H. Lawrence
• 50. (1934) Tropic of Cancer Henry Miller
• 51. (1948) The Naked and the Dead Norman Mailer
• 52. (1969) Portnoy's Complaint Philip Roth
• 53. (1962) Pale Fire Vladimir Nabokov
• 54. (1932) Light in August William Faulkner
• 55. (1957) On the Road Jack Kerouac
• 56. (1930) The Maltese Falcon Dashiell Hammett
• 57. (1924-1928) Parade's End Ford Madox Ford
• 58. (1920) The Age of Innocence Edith Wharton
• 59. (1911) Zuleika Dobson Max Beerbohm
• 60. (1961) The Moviegoer Walker Percy
• 61. (1927) Death Comes for the Archbishop Willa Cather
• 62. (1951) From Here to Eternity James Jones
• 63. (1957) The Wapshot Chronicle John Cheever
• 64. (1951) The Catcher in the Rye J. D. Salinger
• 65. (1962) A Clockwork Orange Anthony Burgess
• 66. (1915) Of Human Bondage W. Somerset Maugham
• 67. (1902) Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad
• 68. (1920) Main Street Sinclair Lewis
• 69. (1905) The House of Mirth Edith Wharton
• 70. (1957-1960) The Alexandria Quartet Lawrence Durrell
• 71. (1929) A High Wind in Jamaica Richard Hughes
• 72. (1961) A House for Mr Biswas V. S. Naipaul
• 73. (1939) The Day of the Locust Nathanael West
• 74. (1929) A Farewell to Arms Ernest Hemingway
• 75. (1938) Scoop Evelyn Waugh
• 76. (1962) The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie Muriel Spark
• 77. (1939) Finnegans Wake James Joyce
• 78. (1901) Kim Rudyard Kipling
• 79. (1908) A Room with a View E. M. Forster
• 80. (1945) Brideshead Revisited Evelyn Waugh
• 81. (1953) The Adventures of Augie March Saul Bellow
• 82. (1971) Angle of Repose Wallace Stegner
• 83. (1979) A Bend in the River V. S. Naipaul
• 84. (1938) The Death of the Heart Elizabeth Bowen
• 85. (1900) Lord Jim Joseph Conrad
• 86. (1975) Ragtime E. L. Doctorow
• 87. (1908) The Old Wives' Tale Arnold Bennett
• 88. (1903) The Call of the Wild Jack London
• 89. (1945) Loving Henry Green
• 90. (1980) Midnight's Children Salman Rushdie
• 91. (1932) Tobacco Road Erskine Caldwell
• 92. (1983) Ironweed William Kennedy
• 93. (1965) The Magus John Fowles
• 94. (1966) Wide Sargasso Sea Jean Rhys
• 95. (1954) Under the Net Iris Murdoch
• 96. (1979) Sophie's Choice William Styron
• 97. (1949) The Sheltering Sky Paul Bowles
• 98. (1934) The Postman Always Rings Twice James M. Cain
• 99. (1955) The Ginger Man J. P. Donleavy
• 100. (1918) The Magnificent Ambersons Booth Tarkington