Top Ten Novels of the Modernist Period

(roughly 1900-1940—in chronological order)

1) Howard’s End by E.M. Forester (1910)

2) My Ánotonia by Willa Cather (1918)

3) The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (1920)

4) Ulysses by James Joyce (1922)

5) The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1925)

6) Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (1925)

7) The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway (1926)

8) Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D.H. Lawrence (1928)

9) As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner (1930)

10) The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (1939)

Note: these are all novels written in the English language—foreign languages may come later

Note #2: this list just includes novels—another list may be coming

Note#3: no more than one work by an author