Category
page 1Modernist novels

The Old Man and the Sea
1952 short novel by Ernest Hemingway, written between December 1950 and February 1951

The Great Gatsby
1925 novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Ulysses
1922 novel by James Joyce

The Metamorphosis
novella by Franz Kafka

The Master and Margarita
novel by Mikhail Bulgakov

The Trial
1925 novel by Franz Kafka
For Whom the Bell Tolls
1940 novel by Ernest Hemingway
In Search of Lost Time
novel sequence by Marcel Proust

Heart of Darkness
1899 novella by Joseph Conrad
A Farewell to Arms
1929 novel by Ernest Hemingway
The Sun Also Rises
novel by Ernest Hemingway

Lady Chatterley's Lover
novel by D. H. Lawrence
The Castle
novel by Franz Kafka

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
1918 autobiographical artist's novel and bildungsroman by James Joyce

The Magic Mountain
1924 novel by Thomas Mann

Death in Venice
1912 novella by Thomas Mann

To the Lighthouse
1927 novel by Virginia Woolf

The Sound and the Fury
1929 novel by William Faulkner

Mrs Dalloway
1925 novel by Virginia Woolf

Finnegans Wake
1939 novel by James Joyce

Lord Jim
1900 novel by Joseph Conrad

Hunger
1890 novel by Knut Hamsun
The Man Without Qualities
novel by Robert Musil

Tender Is the Night
1934 novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Counterfeiters
1925 novel by André Gide

Doctor Faustus
1947 novel by Thomas Mann

Sons and Lovers
1913 novel by D. H. Lawrence

As I Lay Dying
novel by William Faulkner
Orlando: A Biography
1928 novel by Virginia Woolf

Berlin Alexanderplatz
novel by Alfred Döblin

Light in August
novel by William Faulkner

A Passage to India
1924 novel by E. M. Forster

Nostromo
Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard (1904) is a novel by Joseph Conrad, set in the fictitious South American republic of "Costaguana". First serialized in monthly installments of ''T.P.'s Weekly'', in 1998 it was ranked 47th on the Modern Library 100 Best Novels in 20th-century English. It is often considered Conrad's best work of long fiction, and F. Scott Fitzgerald famously said, "I'd rather have written Nostromo than any other novel."

The Waves
novel by Virginia Woolf (1931)

Absalom, Absalom!
1936 novel by William Faulkner
Joseph and His Brothers
1923-1943 novel tetralogy by Thomas Mann
The Book of Disquiet
posthumous fragmentary modernist prose work by Fernando Pessoa; composed 1913–1934, first published 1982; attributed within Pessoa's heteronymic system to semi-heteronym Bernardo Soares

This Side of Paradise
1920 novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Manhattan Transfer
1925 novel by John Dos Passos

Pan
novel by Knut Hamsun

Mist
1914 novel by Miguel de Unamuno

The Beautiful and Damned
1922 novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Zeno's Conscience
1923 novel by Italo Svevo

Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon
1958 novel by Jorge Amado

Mysteries
novel by Knut Hamsun

Women in Love
novel by D. H. Lawrence
U.S.A.
series of novels written by John Dos Passos

The Rainbow
1915 novel by D.H. Lawrence
Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands
1966 novel by Jorge Amado

The Good Soldier
1915 novel by Ford Madox Ford
The Life of Klim Samgin
novel by Maxim Gorky

Their Eyes Were Watching God
1937 novel by Zora Neale Hurston

The Sleepwalkers
novel by Hermann Broch

Invitation to a Beheading
novel by Vladimir Nabokov

The Day of the Locust
1939 novel by Nathanael West

The Other Side
1909 novel by Alfred Kubin

The Promise
2021 novel by Damon Galgut

Between the Acts
final novel by Virginia Woolf

Will O' the Wisp
1931 novel by Pierre Drieu La Rochelle

Murphy
1938 novel by Samuel Beckett