Author and Book Data Comparisons

F. Scott Fitzgerald
United States
1896—1940
2938
2. The Great Gatsby28. Tender Is the Night
George Orwell
India
1903—1950
4642
13. 1984 (Nineteen Eighty-Four)31. Animal Farm
J. D. Salinger
United States
1919—2010
32
64. The Catcher in the Rye
Vladimir Nabokov
Russia
1899—1977
5663
4. Lolita53. Pale Fire
Jack Kerouac
United States
1922—1969
35
55. On the Road
Aldous Huxley
United Kingdom
1894—1963
3834
5. Brave New World44. Point Counter Point
William Golding
United Kingdom
1911—1993
43
41. Lord of the Flies
Joseph Conrad
Russia
1857—1924
45474350
67. Heart of Darkness47. Nostromo85. Lord Jim46. The Secret Agent
Anthony Burgess
United Kingdom
1917—1993
45
65. A Clockwork Orange
James Joyce
Ireland
1882—1941
405734
1. Ulysses77. Finnegans Wake3. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
John Steinbeck
United States
1902—1968
37
10. The Grapes of Wrath
Joseph Heller
United States
1923—1999
38
7. Catch-22
Kurt Vonnegut
United States
1922—2007
47
18. Slaughterhouse-Five
Salman Rushdie
India
1947—2013
34
90. Midnight's Children
Ernest Hemingway
United States
1899—1961
2730
45. The Sun Also Rises74. A Farewell to Arms
Jack London
United States
1876—1916
27
88. The Call of the Wild
Ralph Ellison
United States
1914—1994
38
19. Invisible Man
Evelyn Waugh
United Kingdom
1903—1966
423135
80. Brideshead Revisited34. A Handful of Dust75. Scoop (novel)
William Faulkner
United States
1897—1962
333532
35. As I Lay Dying (novel)54. Light in August6. The Sound and the Fury
Ford Madox Ford
United Kingdom
1873—1939
7742
57. Parade's End30. The Good Soldier
Edith Wharton
United States
1862—1937
5843
58. The Age of Innocence69. The House of Mirth
E. M. Forster
United Kingdom
1879—1970
4531
25. A Passage to India38. Howards End
Henry Miller
United States
1891—1980
43
50. Tropic of Cancer (novel)
Robert Penn Warren
United States
1905—1989
41
36. All the King's Men
Virginia Woolf
United Kingdom
1882—1941
45
15. To the Lighthouse
E. M. Forster
United Kingdom
1879—1970
29
79. A Room with a View
Jean Rhys
Dominica
1890—1979
76
94. Wide Sargasso Sea
D. H. Lawrence
United Kingdom
1885—1930
283530
9. Sons and Lovers49. Women in Love48. The Rainbow
William Styron
United States
1925—2006
54
96. Sophie's Choice (novel)
Richard Wright
United States
1908—1960
32
20. Native Son
W. Somerset Maugham
France
1874—1965
41
66. Of Human Bondage
Philip Roth
United States
1933—2013
36
52. Portnoy's Complaint
Robert Graves
United Kingdom
1895—1985
39
14. I, Claudius
Arthur Koestler
Austria-hungary
1905—1983
35
8. Darkness at Noon
Carson McCullers
United States
1917—1967
23
17. The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
Rudyard Kipling
India
1865—1936
36
78. Kim (novel)
Dashiell Hammett
United States
1894—1961
36
56. The Maltese Falcon (novel)
Theodore Dreiser
United States
1871—1945
5429
16. An American Tragedy33. Sister Carrie
Muriel Spark
United Kingdom
1918—2006
43
76. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (novel)
E. L. Doctorow
United States
1931—2013
44
86. Ragtime (novel)
John Fowles
United Kingdom
1926—2005
39
93. The Magus (novel)
Thornton Wilder
United States
1897—1975
30
37. The Bridge of San Luis Rey
James Baldwin
United States
1924—1987
29
39. Go Tell It on the Mountain (novel)
Anthony Powell
United Kingdom
1905—2000
70
43. A Dance to the Music of Time
Sherwood Anderson
United States
1876—1941
43
24. Winesburg, Ohio (novel)
Graham Greene
United Kingdom
1904—1991
44
40. The Heart of the Matter
Malcolm Lowry
United Kingdom
1909—1957
38
11. Under the Volcano
Norman Mailer
United States
1923—2007
25
51. The Naked and the Dead
Nathanael West
United States
1903—1940
36
73. The Day of the Locust
Paul Bowles
United States
1910—1999
39
97. The Sheltering Sky
Henry James
United States
1843—1916
596160
26. The Wings of the Dove32. The Golden Bowl27. The Ambassadors
John O'Hara
United States
1905—1970
29
22. Appointment in Samarra
Walker Percy
United States
1916—1990
45
60. The Moviegoer
V. S. Naipaul
Trinidad And Tobago
1932—2013
4729
83. A Bend in the River72. A House for Mr. Biswas
Saul Bellow
Canada
1915—2005
3844
81. The Adventures of Augie March21. Henderson the Rain King
John Dos Passos
United States
1896—1970
40
23. U.S.A. trilogy
Sinclair Lewis
United States
1885—1951
35
68. Main Street (novel)
Samuel Butler
United Kingdom
1835—1902
68
12. The Way of All Flesh
James Dickey
United States
1923—1997
47
42. Deliverance (novel)
J. P. Donleavy
United States
1926—2013
29
99. The Ginger Man
Lawrence Durrell
India
1912—1990
48
70. The Alexandria Quartet
Wallace Stegner
United States
1909—1993
62
82. Angle of Repose (novel)
Willa Cather
United States
1873—1947
54
61. Death Comes for the Archbishop
Booth Tarkington
United States
1869—1946
49
100. The Magnificent Ambersons
James Jones
United States
1921—1977
30
62. From Here to Eternity (novel)
Erskine Caldwell
United States
1903—1987
29
91. Tobacco Road (novel)
Iris Murdoch
Ireland
1919—1999
35
95. Under the Net
James M. Cain
United States
1892—1977
42
98. The Postman Always Rings Twice (novel)
Max Beerbohm
United Kingdom
1872—1956
39
59. Zuleika Dobson
James T. Farrell
United States
1904—1979
31
29. The Studs Lonigan Trilogy (Studs Lonigan)
Richard Hughes
United Kingdom
1900—1976
29
71. A High Wind in Jamaica (novel)
Elizabeth Bowen
Ireland
1899—1973
39
84. The Death of the Heart
Henry Green
United Kingdom
1905—1973
40
89. Loving
John Cheever
United States
1912—1982
45
63. The Wapshot Chronicle
Arnold Bennett
United Kingdom
1867—1931
41
87. The Old Wives' Tale
William Kennedy
United States
1928—2013
55
92. Ironweed (novel)