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100 Best Novels of the 20th Century
The Radcliffe Publishing Course compiled this list in 7/98 according to www.randomhouse.com/modernlibrary/100rivallist.html.*

1. The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald) (Buy it!)
2. The Catcher in the Rye (J. D. Salinger) (Buy it!)
3. The Grapes of Wrath: John Steinbeck Centennial Edition (1902-2002) (John Steinbeck) (Buy it!)
4. To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee) Buy it!)
5. The Color Purple (Alice Walker) (Buy it!)
6. Ulysses (James Joyce) (Buy it!)
7. Beloved (Toni Morrison) (Buy it!)
8. Lord of the Flies (William Golding) (Buy it!)
9. 1984 : Centennial Ed. (George Orwell) (Buy it!)
10 The Sound and the Fury (Vintage International) (William Faulkner) (Buy it!)
11 Lolita (Vintage International) (Vladimir Nabokov) (Buy it!)
12 Of Mice and Men (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century) (John Steinbeck) (Buy it!)
13 Charlotte's Web (E. B. White) (Buy it!)

14 A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man (Penguin Classics) (James Joyce) (Buy it!)
15 Catch 22 (Joseph Heller) (Buy it!)
16 Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)(Buy it!)
17 Animal Farm (George Orwell) (Buy it!)
18 Sun Also Rises (Ernest Hemingway) (Buy it!)
19 As I Lay Dying (Vintage International) (William Faulkner) (Buy it!)
20 Farewell To Arms (Ernest Hemingway) (Buy it!)
21 Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad) (Buy it!)
22 Winnie-The-Pooh (A. A. Milne) (Buy it!)
23 Their Eyes Were Watching God (Zora Neale Hurston) (Buy it!)
24 Invisible Man (Ralph Ellison) (Buy it!)
25 Song of Solomon (Oprah's Book Club (Paperback)) (Toni Morrison) (Buy it!)
26 Gone with the Wind (Margaret Mitchell) (Buy it!)
27 Native Son (Perennial Classics) (Richard Wright) (Buy it!)
28 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Ken Kesey) (Buy it!)
29 Slaughterhouse-Five (Kurt Vonnegut) (Buy it!)
30 For Whom the Bell Tolls (Ernest Hemingway) (Buy it!)
31 On the Road (Jack Kerouac) (Buy it!)
32 The Old Man and The Sea (Ernest Hemingway) (Buy it!)
33 The Call of the Wild (Jack London) (Buy it!)
34 To the Lighthouse (Virginia Woolf) (Buy it!)
35 The Portrait of a Lady (Penguin Classics) (Henry James) (Buy it!)
36 Go Tell It on the Mountain (James Baldwin) (Buy it!)
37 The World According to Garp (John Irving) (Buy it!)
38 All the King's Men (Harvest Book) (Robert Penn Warren) (Buy it!)
39 A Room with a View (Classic) (E. M. Forster) (Buy it!)
40 The Lord of the Rings (50th Anniversary Edition) (J. R. R. Tolkien) (Buy it!)
41 Schindler's List (Thomas Keneally) (Buy it!)
42 The Age of Innocence (The Modern Library Classics) (Edith Wharton) (Buy it!)
43 The Fountainhead (Ayn Rand) (Buy it!)
44 Finnegans Wake (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) (James Joyce) (Buy it!)
45 The Jungle : The Uncensored Original Edition (Upton Sinclair) (Buy it!)
46 Mrs. Dalloway (Virginia Woolf) (Buy it!)
47 The Wonderful Wizard of Oz : 100th Anniversary Ed. (Books of Wonder) (L. Frank Baum) (Buy it!)
48 Lady Chatterley's Lover (D. H. Lawrence) (Buy it!)
49 A Clockwork Orange (Norton Paperback Fiction) (Anthony Burgess) (Buy it!)
50 Awakening (Kate Chopin) (Buy it!)
51 My Ántonia (Willa Cather) (Buy it!)
52 Howards End (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) (E. M. Forster) (Buy it!)
53 In Cold Blood (Truman Capote) (Buy it!)
54 Franny and Zooey (J.D. Salinger) (Buy it!)
55 The Satanic Verses (Salman Rushdie) (Buy it!)
56 Jazz (Toni Morrison) (Buy it!)
57 Sophie's Choice (William Styron) (Buy it!)
58 Absalom, Absalom! (Vintage International) (William Faulkner) (Buy it!)
59 A Passage to India (E. M. Forster) (Buy it!)
60 Ethan Frome (Enriched Classics) (Edith Wharton) (Buy it!)
61 A Good Man Is Hard to Find (actual title available here is: A Good Man is Hard to Find and Other Stories)(Flannery O'Connor) (Buy it!)
62 Tender is the Night (F. Scott Fitzgerald) (Buy it!)
63 Orlando (Virginia Woolf) (Buy it!)
64 Sons and Lovers (D. H. Lawrence) (Buy it!)
65 The Bonfire of the Vanities (Tom Wolfe) Buy it!)
66 Cat's Cradle (Kurt Vonnegut) (Buy it!)
67 A Separate Peace (John Knowles) (Buy it!)
68 Light in August (Vintage International) (William Faulkner) (Buy it!)
69 The Wings of the Dove (The Modern Library Classics) (Henry James) (Buy it!)
70 Things Fall Apart: A Novel (Chinua Achebe) (Buy it!)
71 Rebecca (Daphne du Maurier) (Buy it!)
72 The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams) (Buy it!)
73 Naked Lunch (William S. Burroughs) (Buy it!)
74 Brideshead Revisited (Evelyn Waugh) (Buy it!)
75 Women in Love (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) (D. H. Lawrence) (Buy it!)
76 Look Homeward, Angel (Thomas Wolfe) (Buy it!)
77 In Our Time (Ernest Hemingway) (Buy it!)
78 The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (Gertrude Stein) (Buy it!)
79 The Maltese Falcon (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard) (Dashiell Hammett) (Buy it!)
80 The Naked and the Dead : 50th Anniversary Edition (Norman Mailer) (Buy it!)
81 Wide Sargasso Sea (Norton Paperback Fiction) (Jean Rhys) (Buy it!)
82 White Noise (Contemporary American Fiction) (Don DeLillo) (Buy it!)
83 O Pioneers! (Vintage Classics) (Willa Cather) (Buy it!)
84 Tropic of Cancer (Henry Miller) (Buy it!)
85 The War of the Worlds (H. G. Wells) (Buy it!)
86 Lord Jim (Joseph Conrad) (Buy it!)
87 The Bostonians (Oxford World's Classics) (Henry James) (Buy it!)
88 An American Tragedy (Signet Classics (Paperback)) (Theodore Dreiser) (Buy it!)
89 Death Comes for the Archbishop (Vintage Classics) (Willa Cather) (Buy it!)
90 The Wind in the Willows (Kenneth Grahame) (Buy it!)
91 This Side Of Paradise (F. Scott Fitzgerald) (Buy it!)
92 Atlas Shrugged (Ayn Rand) (Buy it!)
93 The French Lieutenant's Woman (John Fowles) (Buy it!)
94 Babbitt (Sinclair Lewis) (Buy it!)
95 Kim (Penguin Classics) (Rudyard Kipling) (Buy it!)
96 The Beautiful And The Damned (F. Scott Fitzgerald) (Buy it!)
97 Rabbit, Run (John Updike) (Buy it!)
98 Where Angels Fear to Tread (E. M. Forster) (Buy it!)
99 Main Street (Signet Classics (Paperback)) (Sinclair Lewis) (Buy it!)
100 Midnight's Children (Salman Rushdie) (Buy it!)

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