"Celebrate the Freedom to Read"

#1 Ulysses by James Joyce
#2 The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
#4 Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
#5 Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
#7 Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
#9 Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence
#10 The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
#13 1984 by George Orwell
#14 I, Claudius by Robert Graves
#16 An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
#18 Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
#19 Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
#20 Native Son by Richard Wright
#22 Appointment in Samarra by John O'Hara
#29 Studs Lonigan by James T. Farrell
#33 Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser
#35 As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
#36 All The King's Men by Robert Penn Warren
#39 Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
#41 Lord of the Flies by William Golding
#42 Deliverance by James Dickey
#44 Point Counter Point by Aldous Huxley
#45 The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
#48 The Rainbow by D.H. Lawrence
#49 Women in Love by D.H. Lawrence
#50 Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
#51 The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer
#52 Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth
#62 From Here to Eternity by James Jones
#64 The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
#65 A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
#74 A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
#88 The Call of the Wild by Jack London
#96 Sophie's Choice by William Styron

This list appeared in American Libraries, September 1998.