The official Centre 100 List was determined by four committees of arts experts in the Centre College community. The committees used the criteria of impact and artistic merit in each category. The Web List shows results to date from our online poll. After you've looked at the lists, brush up on your trivia with our Fun Facts.

 
CENTRE 100 LIST

  1. Ulysses (James Joyce)
  2. Absalom, Absalom! (William Faulkner)
  3. To the Lighthouse (Virginia Woolf)
  4. The Wings of the Dove (Henry James)
  5. The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
  6. A Passage to India (E. M. Forster)
  7. Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad)
  8. A Farewell to Arms (Ernest Hemingway)
  9. Women in Love (D. H. Lawrence)
  10. Invisible Man (Ralph Ellison)
  11. The House of Mirth (Edith Wharton)
  12. All the King's Men (Robert Penn Warren)
  13. Sister Carrie (Theodore Dreiser)
  14. My Antonia (Willa Cather)
  15. Babbitt (Sinclair Lewis)
  16. Beloved (Toni Morrison)
  17. Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov)
  18. The Good Soldier (Ford Madox Ford)
  19. 1984 (George Orwell)
  20. Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
  21. Their Eyes Were Watching God
    (Zora Neale Hurston)
  22. A Handful of Dust (Evelyn Waugh)
  23. A Word Child (Iris Murdoch)
  24. Things Fall Apart (Chinua Achebe)
  25. Gaudy Night (Dorothy Sayers)

 
WEB LIST (Online Poll Results as of 11/18/99)

  1. To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
  2. The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)
  3. The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)
  4. Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
  5. The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
  6. Ulysses (James Joyce)
  7. Lord of the Flies (William Golding)
  8. The Sun Also Rises (Ernest Hemingway)
  9. Invisible Man (Ralph Ellison)
  10. To the Lighthouse (Virginia Woolf)
  11. Gone with the Wind (Margaret Mitchell)
  12. Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad)
  13. On the Road (Jack Kerouac)
  14. A Separate Piece (John Knowles)
  15. Of Mice and Men (John Steinbeck)
  16. Slaughterhouse Five (Kurt Vonnegut)
  17. Beloved (Toni Morrison)
  18. Snow Falling on Cedars (David Guterson)
  19. Absalom, Absalom! (William Faulkner)
  20. Native Son (Richard Wright)
  21. Animal Farm (George Orwell)
  22. Cold Mountain (Charles Frazier)
  23. Hawaii (James A. Michener)
  24. Lonesome Dove (Larry McMurtry)
  25. Ordinary People (Judith Guest)

 

 
CENTRE 100 LIST

  1. Pablo Picasso
  2. Henri Matisse
  3. Claude Monet
  4. Wassily Kandinksy
  5. Marcel Duchamp
  6. Jackson Pollock
  7. Constantin Brancusi
  8. Henry Moore
  9. Piet Mondrian
  10. Andy Warhol
  11. Joan Miró
  12. Willem de Kooning
  13. Alexander Calder
  14. Edward Hopper
  15. Marc Chagall
  16. Georgia O'Keeffe
  17. Edvard Munch
  18. Ansel Adams
  19. Isamu Noguchi
  20. Andrew Wyeth
  21. Dale Chihuly
  22. Ernst Kirchner
  23. Lucian Freud
  24. Richard Serra
  25. Louise Bourgeois

 
WEB LIST (Online Poll Results as of 11/18/99)

  1. Pablo Picasso
  2. Salvador Dali
  3. Henri Matisse
  4. Andy Warhol
  5. Jackson Pollock
  6. Georgia O'Keeffe
  7. Norman Rockwell
  8. Ansel Adams
  9. Frank Lloyd Wright
  10. Marc Chagall
  11. Auguste Rodin
  12. Jasper Johns
  13. Claude Monet
  14. Edward Hopper
  15. Joan Miró
  16. Wassily Kandinksy
  17. Thomas Hart Benton
  18. Roy Lichtenstein
  19. Henry Moore
  20. Robert Rauschenberg
  21. Alexander Calder
  22. Grant Wood
  23. Marcel Duchamp
  24. Keith Haring
  25. Jack Kellam

 

 
CENTRE 100 LIST

  1. Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, 1941)
  2. The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola, 1972)
  3. Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock, 1954)
  4. Star Wars (George Lucas, 1977)
  5. The Wizard of Oz (Victor Fleming, 1939)
  6. Casablanca (Michael Curtiz, 1942)
  7. Schindler's List (Steven Spielberg, 1993)
  8. Gone With the Wind (Victor Fleming, 1939)
  9. Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock, 1960)
  10. It's a Wonderful Life (Frank Capra, 1939)
  11. Singin' in the Rain
    (Gene Kelly & Stanley Donen, 1952)
  12. Gold Rush (Charlie Chaplin, 1925)
  13. The Seventh Seal (Ingmar Bergman, 1957)
  14. The Graduate (Mike Nichols, 1967)
  15. Doctor Zhivago (David Lean, 1965)
  16. 8 1/2 (Federico Fellini, 1963)
  17. The Grapes of Wrath (John Ford, 1940)
  18. On the Waterfront (Elia Kazan, 1954)
  19. Stagecoach (John Ford, 1939)
  20. Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese, 1976)
  21. Seven Samurai (Akira Kurosawa, 1954)
  22. Some Like It Hot (Billy Wilder, 1959)
  23. Duck Soup (Leo McCarey, 1933)
  24. 2001: A Space Odyssey
    (Stanley Kubrick, 1968)
  25. Dead Poets Society (Peter Weir, 1989)

 
WEB LIST (Online Poll Results as of 11/18/99)

  1. Gone With the Wind (Victor Fleming, 1939)
  2. Forrest Gump (Robert Zemeckis, 1994)
  3. Saving Private Ryan
    (Steven Spielberg,1998)
  4. Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, 1941)
  5. Schindler's List (Steven Spielberg, 1993)
  6. Star Wars (George Lucas, 1977)
  7. Braveheart (Mel Gibson, 1995)
  8. Titanic (James Cameron, 1997)
  9. Casablanca (Michael Curtiz, 1942)
  10. Dead Poets Society (Peter Weir, 1989)
  11. The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola, 1972)
  12. Platoon (Oliver Stone, 1986)
  13. Dances with Wolves (Kevin Costner, 1990)
  14. Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino, 1994)
  15. It's a Wonderful Life (Frank Capra, 1946)
  16. The Wizard of Oz (Victor Fleming, 1939)
  17. The Birth of a Nation (D.W. Griffith, 1915)
  18. Ben-Hur (William Wyler, 1959)
  19. Apocalypse Now
    (Francis Ford Coppola, 1979)
  20. Giant (George Stevens, 1956)
  21. Doctor Zhivago (David Lean, 1965)
  22. On the Waterfront (Elia Kazan, 1954)
  23. Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese, 1976)
  24. To Kill a Mockingbird
    (Robert Mulligan, 1962)
  25. Farris Bueller's Day Off
    (John Hughes, 1986)

 

 

 
CENTRE 100 LIST

  1. The Beatles
  2. Elvis Presley
  3. George Gershwin
  4. Louis Armstrong
  5. Frank Sinatra
  6. Bob Dylan
  7. Igor Stravinsky
  8. Duke Ellington
  9. Miles Davis
  10. Leonard Bernstein
  11. Billie Holiday
  12. Jimi Hendrix
  13. Hank Williams
  14. Rodgers and Hammerstein
  15. Bill Monroe
  16. Les Paul and Mary Ford
  17. Led Zeppellin
  18. Richard Strauss
  19. Ella Fitzgerald
  20. Aaron Copland
  21. Muddy Waters
  22. Count Basie
  23. John Philip Sousa
  24. Wynton Marsalis
  25. Barbra Streisand

 
WEB LIST (Online Poll Results as of 11/18/99)

  1. The Beatles
  2. Elvis Presley
  3. Bob Dylan
  4. Jimi Hendrix
  5. Frank Sinatra
  6. Rodgers and Hammerstein
  7. Led Zeppellin
  8. George Gershwin
  9. Aaron Copland
  10. The Rolling Stones
  11. Louis Armstrong
  12. Grateful Dead
  13. Elton John
  14. Miles Davis
  15. The Doors
  16. Duke Ellington
  17. B.B. King
  18. Pink Floyd
  19. Leonard Bernstein
  20. Joan Baez
  21. Nirvana
  22. Billie Holiday
  23. Ella Fitzgerald
  24. Hank Williams
  25. Michael Jackson