99 Best Novels of the 20th Century

(Selected by publishers and readers)

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Anderson, Sherwood - Winesburg, Ohio
Baldwin, James - Go Tell It on the Mountain
Bellow, Saul - The Adventures of Augie March
Bellow, Saul - Henderson, the Rain King
Beerbohm, Max - Zuleika Dobson
Bowen, Elizabeth - The Death of the Heart
Bowles, Paul - The Sheltering Sky
Bradbury, Ray - Fahrenheit 451
Burgess, Anthony - A Clockwork Orange
Butler, Samuel - The Way of All Flesh
Cain, James M. - The Postman Always Rings Twice
Caldwell, Erskine - Tobacco Road
Cather, Willa - Death Comes for the Archbishop
Cheever, John - The Wapshot Chronicle
Conrad, Joseph - Heart of Darkness
Conrad, Joseph - Lord Jim
Conrad, Joseph - Nostromo
Conrad, Joseph - The Secret Agent
Dickey, James - Deliverance
Doctorow, E. L - Ragtime
Donleavy, J. P. - The Ginger Man
Dreiser, Theodore - Sister Carrie
Ellison, Ralph - Invisible Man
Faulkner, William - As I Lay Dying
Faulkner, William - Light in August
William Faulkner - The Sound and the Fury
Fitzgerald, F. Scott - The Great Gatsby
Fitzgerald, F. Scott - Tender is the Night
Ford, Ford Madox - The Good Soldier
Ford, Ford Madox - Parade's End
Forster, E. M. - Howards End
Forster, E. M. - A Passage to India
Forster, E. M. - A Room with a View
Fowles, John - The Magus
Hughes, Richard - A High Wind in Jamaica
Huxley, Aldous - Point Counter Point
Golding, William - Lord of the Flies
Graves, Robert - I, Claudius
Green, Henry - Loving; Living; Party Going
Greene, Graham - The Heart of the Matter
Hammett, Dashiell - The Maltese Falcon
Heller, Joseph - Catch-22
Hemingway, Ernest - A Farewell to Arms
Hemingway, Ernest - The Sun Also Rises
Huxley, Aldous - Brave New World
James, Henry - The Ambassadors
James, Henry - The Golden Bowl
James, Henry - The Wings of the Dove
Jones, James - From Here to Eternity
Joyce, James - Finnegan's Wake
Joyce, James - A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Joyce, James - Ulysses
Kennedy, William - Ironweed
Keroucac, Jack - On the Road
Kesey, Ken - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Koestler, Arthur - Darkness at Noon
Kipling, Rudyard - Kim
Lawrence, D. H - The Rainbow
Lawrence, D. H. - Sons and Lovers
Lee, Harper - To Kill a Mockingbird
London, Jack - The Call of the Wild
Lowry, Malcolm - Under the Volcano
McCullers, Carson - The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
Mailer, Norman - The Naked and the Dead
Maugham, Somerset - Of Human Bondage
Mitchell, Margaret - Gone with the Wind
Murdoch, Iris - Under the Net
Nabokov, Vladimir - Lolita
Nabokov, Vladimir - Pale Fire
Naipaul, V. S. - A Bend in the River
Naipaul, V. S. - A House for Mr. Biswas
O'Hara, John - Appointment in Samarra
Orwell, George - Animal Farm
Orwell, George - 1984
Percy, Walker - The Moviegoer
Pirsig, Robert - Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Roth, Philip - Portnoy's Complaint
Rushdie, Salman - Midnight's Children
Salinger, J. D. - The Catcher in the Rye
Shute, Nevil - Town like Alice
Spark, Muriel - The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Stegner, Wallace - Angle of Repose
Styron, William - Sophie's Choice
Tarkington, Booth - The Magnificent Ambersons
Vonnegut, Kurt - Slaughterhouse-Five
Warren, Robert Penn - All the King's Men
Waugh, Evelyn - Brideshead Revisited
Waugh, Evelyn - A Handful of Dust
Waugh, Evelyn - Scoop
West, Nathanel - The Day of the Locust
Wharton, Edith - The Age of Innocence
Wharton, Edith - The House of Mirth
Wilder, Thornton - The Bridge of San Luis Rey
Wright, Richard - Native Son
Woolf, Virginia - To the Lighthouse