The 150 Best English Language Novels of the 20th Century
[TABLE][TR][TD]1.The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald[/TD][TD]2.1984, George Orwell[/TD][/TR][TR][TD]2.Catch-22, Joseph Heller[/TD][TD]4.The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck[/TD][/TR][TR][TD]5.Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov[/TD][TD]6.Animal Farm, George Orwell[/TD][/TR][TR][TD]6.Slaughterhouse Five, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.[/TD][TD]8.Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison[/TD][/TR][TR][TD]9.Ulysses, James Joyce[/TD][TD]10.The Lord of the Flies, William Golding [/TD][/TR][TR][TD]11.Catcher in the Rye, J. D. Salinger[/TD][TD]12.Brave New World, Aldous Huxley[/TD][/TR][TR][TD]13.The Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner[/TD][TD]14.Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce[/TD][/TR][TR][TD]15.To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee[/TD][TD]16.The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway[/TD][/TR][TR][TD]17.Native Son, Richard Wright[/TD][TD]18.Beloved, Toni Morrison[/TD][/TR][TR][TD]19.Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell[/TD][TD]19.To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf[/TD][/TR][TR][TD]21.The Lord of the Rings, J. R. R. Tolkien[/TD][TD]22.The Color Purple, Alice Walker[/TD][/TR][TR][TD]23.On the Road, Jack Kerouac[/TD][TD]24.The Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton[/TD][/TR][TR][TD]25.The Good Earth, Pearl S. Buck[/TD][TD]26.Charlotte's Web, E. B. White[/TD][/TR][TR][TD]26.The Hobbit, J. R. R. Tolkien[/TD][TD]28.Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury[/TD][/TR][TR][TD]29.Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier[/TD][TD]30.The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood [/TD][/TR][TR][TD]31.A Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert Heinlein[/TD][TD]32.My Antonia, Willa Cather[/TD][/TR][TR][TD]33.A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway[/TD][TD]34.A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess[/TD][/TR][TR][TD]35.I, Claudius, Robert Graves[/TD][TD]36.Ethan Frome, Edith Wharton [/TD][/TR][TR][TD]36.The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemmingway[/TD][TD]36.A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Betty Smith[/TD][/TR][TR][TD]39.Winesburg, Ohio, Sherwood Anderson[/TD][TD]40.Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora N. Hurston[/TD][/TR][TR][TD]41.The Call of the Wild, Jack London[/TD][TD]42.The World According to Garp, John Irving[/TD][/TR][TR][TD]43.A Passage to India, E. M. Forster[/TD][TD]43.The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Muriel Spark[/TD][/TR][TR][TD]45.The Good Soldier, Ford Madox Ford[/TD][TD]46.The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan[/TD][/TR][TR][TD]47.Lonesome Dove, Larry McMurtry[/TD][TD]48.One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Ken Kesey[/TD][/TR][TR][TD]49.Sister Carrie, Theodore Dreiser[/TD][TD]50.U. S. A.(trilogy), John Dos Passos[/TD][/TR][TR][TD]51.Angle of Repose, Wallace Stegner[/TD][TD]52.Sophie's Choice, William Styron[/TD][/TR][TR][TD]53.Lady Chatterley's Lover, D. H. Lawrence[/TD][TD]54.Exodus, Leon Uris[/TD][/TR][TR][TD]55.All the King's Men, Robert Penn Warren[/TD][TD]55.Rabbit Run, John Updike[/TD][/TR][TR][TD]57.The Golden Notebook, Doris Lessing[/TD][TD]57.The Jungle, Upton Sinclair[/TD][/TR][TR][TD]57.Portnoy's Complaint, Philip Roth[/TD][TD]60.The Ambassadors, Henry James[/TD][/TR][TR][TD]60.From Here to Eternity, James Jones[/TD][TD]60.Little House on the Prarie, Laura Ingalls Wilder[/TD][/TR][TR][TD]63.The Golden Bowl, Henry James[/TD][TD]64.Winnie-the-Pooh, A. A. Milne[/TD][/TR][TR][TD]65.The Bean Trees, Barbara Kingsolver[/TD][TD]66.2001 : A Space Odyssey, Arthur C. Clarke[/TD][/TR][TR][TD]67.Possession, A. S. Byatt[/TD][TD]67.Under the Volcano, Malcolm Lowry[/TD][/TR][TR][TD]69.All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria ReMarque[/TD][TD]69.Tender is the Night, F. Scott Fitzgerald[/TD][/TR][TR][TD]69.Women in Love, D. H. Lawrence[/TD][TD]72.The Fountainhead, Ayn Rand[/TD][/TR][TR][TD]73.Song of Solomon, Toni Morrison[/TD][TD]74.Stone Diaries, Carol Shields[/TD][/TR][TR][TD]75.Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck[/TD][TD]75.Roots, Alex Haley[/TD][/TR][TR][TD]77.Look Homeward, Angel, Thomas Wolfe[/TD][TD]78.Pale Horse, Pale Rider, Katherine Anne Porter[/TD][/TR][TR][TD]79.Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad[/TD][TD]79.The Maltese Falcon, Dashiell Hammett[/TD][/TR][TR][TD]79.Of Human Bondage, W. Somerset Maugham[/TD][TD]82.The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers[/TD][/TR][TR][TD]83.Darkness at Noon, Arthur Koestler[/TD][TD]84.Sons and Lovers, D. H. Lawrence[/TD][/TR][TR][TD]85.The Naked and the Dead, Norman Mailer[/TD][TD]86.Dune, Frank Herbert[/TD][/TR][TR][TD]86.A Room with a View, E. M. Forster[/TD][TD]86.The Way of All Flesh, Samuel Butler[/TD][/TR][TR][TD]86.The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Frank L. Baum[/TD][TD]90.The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe, C. S. Lewis[/TD][/TR][TR][TD]91.The Hound of the Baskervilles, Arthur Conan Doyle[/TD][TD]92.The Burger's Daughter, Nadine Gordimer[/TD][/TR][TR][TD]92.A Confederacy of Dunces, John K. Toole[/TD][TD]94.An American Tragedy, Theodore Dreiser[/TD][/TR][TR][TD]95.The Mists of Avalon, Marion Zimmer Bradley[/TD][TD]96.East of Eden, John Steinbeck[/TD][/TR][TR][TD]96.Henderson the Rain King, Saul Bellow[/TD][TD]96.Howards End, E. M. Forster[/TD][/TR][TR][TD]99.Appointment in Samarra, John O'Hara[/TD][TD]99.Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys[/TD][/TR][TR][TD]101.Cry the Beloved Country, Alan Paton[/TD][TD]102.Ragtime, E. L. Doctorow[/TD][/TR][TR][TD]103.The House of Mirth, Edith Wharton[/TD][TD]103.The Wings of a Dove, Henry James[/TD][/TR][TR][TD]105.Death Comes for the Archbishop, Willa Cather[/TD][TD]106.The Studs Lonigan Trilogy, James T. Farrell[/TD][/TR][TR][TD]107.Bastard out of Carolina, Dorothy Allison[/TD][TD]107.Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller[/TD][/TR][TR][TD]109.The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath[/TD][TD]110.As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner[/TD][/TR][TR][TD]111.The Bridge of San Luis Rey, Thornton Wilder[/TD][TD]111.A Handful of Dust, Evelyn Waugh[/TD][/TR][TR][TD]113.A Good Man is Hard to Find, Flannery O'Connor[/TD][TD]113.The Killer Angels, Michael Shaara[/TD][/TR][TR][TD]115.Go Tell it on the Mountain, James Baldwin[/TD][TD]115.The Shipping News, Annie Proulx[/TD][/TR][TR][TD]117.White Noise, Don DeLillo[/TD][TD]118.Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand[/TD][/TR][TR][TD]118.The Heart of the Matter, Graham Greene[/TD][TD]120.Deliverance, James Dickey[/TD][/TR][TR][TD]120.The Wapshot Chronicles, John Cheever[/TD][TD]122.A Dance to the Music of Time, Anthony Powell[/TD][/TR][TR][TD]122.Snow Falling Cedars, David Guterson[/TD][TD]124.Point Counter Point, Aldous Huxley[/TD][/TR][TR][TD]124.Watership Down, Richard Adams[/TD][TD]126.The Moviegoer, Walker Percy[/TD][/TR][TR][TD]126.The Red Badge of Courage, Stephen Cran[/TD][TD]128.The Secret Agent, Joseph Conrad[/TD][/TR][TR][TD]129.A Death in the Family, James Agee[/TD][TD]129.Nostromo, Joseph Conrad[/TD][/TR][TR][TD]131.Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh[/TD][TD]131.The Rainbow, Pearl S. Buck[/TD][/TR][TR][TD]133.A Prayer for Owen Meany, John Irving[/TD][TD]134.Pale Fire, Vladimir Nobokov[/TD][/TR][TR][TD]135.Ironweed, William P. Kennedy[/TD][TD]135.Light in August, William Faulkner[/TD][/TR][TR][TD]137.Where the Wild Things Are, Maurice Sendak[/TD][TD]138.Parade's End, Ford Madox Ford[/TD][/TR][TR][TD]139.Kane and Abel, Jeffrey Archer[/TD][TD]139.Zuleika Dobson, Max Beerbohm[/TD][/TR][TR][TD]141.Main Street, Sinclair Lewis[/TD][TD]142.Thousand Acres, Jane Smiley[/TD][/TR][TR][TD]143.Call it Sleep, Henry Roth[/TD][TD]144.For Whom the Bell Tolls, Ernest Hemingway[/TD][/TR][TR][TD]145.Ellen Foster, Kaye Gibbons[/TD][TD]146.The Alexandria Quartet, Lawrence Durrell[/TD][/TR][TR][TD]146.Cold Sassy Tree, Olive Ann Burns[/TD][TD]148.A High Wind in Jamaica, Richard Hughes[/TD][/TR][TR][TD]148.The Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro[/TD][TD]150.The Godfather, Mario Puzo[/TD][/TR][/TABLE]
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