Radcliffe Publishing Course Top 100 of 20th century
Submitted by vacman on Tue, 12/12/2006 - 12:02
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- 1. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- 2. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
- The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
- 4. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
- The Color Purple by Alice Walker
- 6. Ulysses by James Joyce
- Beloved by Toni Morrison
- 8. The Lord of the Flies by William Golding
- 9. 1984 by George Orwell
- The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
- 11. Lolita by Vladmir Nabokov
- 12. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
- Charlotte's Web by E.B. White
- 14. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
- 15. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
- 16. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
- 17. Animal Farm by George Orwell
- 18. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
- 19. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
- 20. A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
- 21. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
- Winnie-the-Pooh by A.A. Milne
- Their Eyes are Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
- Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
- Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
- Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
- Native Son by Richard Wright
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
- 29. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
- For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
- 31. On the Road by Jack Kerouac
- 32. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
- The Call of the Wild by Jack London
- To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
- Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
- Go Tell it on the Mountain by James Baldwin
- The World According to Garp by John Irving
- All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren
- A Room with a View by E.M. Forster
- 40. The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
- Schindler's List by Thomas Keneally
- The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
- The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
- Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
- The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
- Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
- The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
- Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence
- 49. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
- The Awakening by Kate Chopin
- My Antonia by Willa Cather
- Howards End by E.M. Forster
- In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
- 54. Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger
- The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
- Jazz by Toni Morrison
- Sophie's Choice by William Styron
- Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner
- A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
- Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
- A Good Man Is Hard to Find by Flannery O'Connor
- 62. Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Orlando by Virginia Woolf
- Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence
- Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe
- Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
- A Separate Peace by John Knowles
- Light in August by William Faulkner
- The Wings of the Dove by Henry James
- Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
- Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
- 72. A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
- 73. Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs
- Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
- Women in Love by D.H. Lawrence
- Look Homeward, Angel by Thomas Wolfe
- In Our Time by Ernest Hemingway
- The Autobiography of Alice B. Tokias by Gertrude Stein
- The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
- The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer
- Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
- White Noise by Don DeLillo
- O Pioneers! by Willa Cather
- Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
- 85. The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
- 86. Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad
- The Bostonians by Henry James
- An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
- Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather
- The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
- This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- 92. Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
- The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles
- 94. Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis
- Kim by Rudyard Kipling
- The Beautiful and the Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Rabbit, Run by John Updike
- Where Angels Fear to Tread by E.M. Forster
- Main Street by Sinclair Lewis
- Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
Total: 29. This is a much better list than the Modern Library one (especially since it did not list 'To Kill a Mocking Bird' which is a top 10 in almost everyone's top 10 of 20th century list). Although I do not plan to read all of these, it makes a great reference when looking for the next book to read.