num_pages: 288
description: This list of 194 books published since 1950 represent titles considered the best by the compilers. There are familiar names - Naipaul, Updike , Bellow and Nabokov - and more surprising ones such as Mario Puzo and Thomas Harris.
language: English
title: The Modern Library
titlecomplete: The Modern Library
genres: Writing, Ireland, Books About Books, Reference, Nonfiction, Language, Literature, Classics, Literary Fiction, Literary Criticism
ratings_count: 145
publisher: Picador