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From Wikipedia: “Modern Library's 100 Best Novels is a list of the best English-language novels of the 20th century as selected by the Modern Library, an American publishing company owned by Random House.”

The Board's/Editors' List was compiled in 1998. Meanwhile, the Reader's List was solicited and completed in 1999.

NOTE: KLAS has a subject code for these books: “MLC;” = “Literature - Modern Library's Choice 100”

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http://www.modernlibrary.com/top-100/100-best-novels/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_Library_100_Best_Novels

Deals with a single day–June 16, 1904–in the life of Leopold Bloom, a Dublin advertising salesman. The stream-of-consciousness style and the use of interior monologues expose the personalities of the characters. Strong language and explicit descriptions of sex. 1922.

AVAILABLE FORMATS:

• DB 19994 - Read by Alexander Scourby. Reading time: 30 hours, 43 minutes.
• BR 10287 - 7 volumes.

A satire set in a future technocratic society in which people are rigidly classified by the state and kept happy by a government-administered drug. When two bureaucrats, Lenina and Bernard, travel to a “savage” reservation, they “rescue” a woman and her adult son, abandoned long ago, and return them to civilization. For senior high and older readers.

AVAILABLE FORMATS:

• DB 47108 - Read by James Delotel. Reading time: 8 hours, 35 minutes.

• BR 11922 - 1 volume.

Dagny Taggart, manager of a transcontinental railroad, opposes John Galt and others who relinquish control over their enterprises in exchange for security through government regulations. Espouses the clear-cut social values of the author's philosophy of objectivism within a fictional story line. Thirty-fifth anniversary edition with new introduction in 1992. Some strong language. 1957.

AVAILABLE FORMATS:

• DB 51074 - Read by Michael Scherer. Reading time: 58 hours, 4 minutes.

Deals with a single day–June 16, 1904–in the life of Leopold Bloom, a Dublin advertising salesman. The stream-of-consciousness style and the use of interior monologues expose the personalities of the characters. Strong language and explicit descriptions of sex. 1922.

AVAILABLE FORMATS:

• DB 19994 - Read by Alexander Scourby. Reading time: 30 hours, 43 minutes.
• BR 10287 - 7 volumes.