The Best 20th Century Novels
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Woolf, Virginia |
To the Lighthouse |
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Joyce, James |
Ulysses |
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Proust, Marcel |
Remembrance of Things Past |
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Pynchon, Thomas |
Gravity's Rainbow |
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5 |
Murakami, Haruki |
Kafka on the Shore |
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6 |
Winterson, Jeanette |
The Passion |
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7 |
Durrell, Lawrence |
The Alexandria Quartet |
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8 |
Fuentes, Carlos |
Terra Nostra |
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Coetzee, J. M. |
Disgrace |
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10 |
Kafka, Franz |
The Trial |
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11 |
Auster, Paul |
New York Trilogy |
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12 |
Williams, Joy |
The Quick and the Dead |
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13 |
Lively, Penelope |
Moon Tiger |
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14 |
Rushdie, Salman |
Midnight's Children |
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15 |
Byatt, A.S. |
Possession |
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16 |
Calvino, Italo |
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler |
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17 |
Woolf, Virginia |
Mrs. Dalloway |
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18 |
Pynchon, Thomas |
V |
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19 |
Coetzee, J. M. |
The Life and Times of Michael K |
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20 |
Joyce, James |
Portrait of the Artist |
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21 |
Patchett, Ann |
Bel Canto |
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22 |
Winterson, Jeanette |
Sexing the Cherry |
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23 |
Cather, Willa |
My Antonia |
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24 |
Bowles, Paul |
The Sheltering Sky |
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25 |
Shields, Carol |
The Stone Diaries |
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26 |
Erickson, Steve |
Arc D'x |
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27 |
Hazzard, Shirley |
The Great Fire |
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28 |
Grass, Gunter |
The Tin Drum |
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29 |
Murakami, Haruki |
The Wind-up Bird Chronicle |
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30 |
Wharton, Edith |
The Age of Innocence |
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31 |
Lee, Harper |
To Kill a Mockingbird |
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32 |
Eco, Umberto |
The Name of the Rose |
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33 |
Atwood, Margaret |
The Handmaid's Tale |
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34 |
Murdoch, Iris |
Bruno's Dream |
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35 |
Garcia Marquez, Gabriel |
One Hundred Years of Solitude |
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36 |
Fitzgerald, Penelope |
The Blue Flower |
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37 |
Barth, John |
The Sotweed Factor |
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38 |
Kafka, Franz |
The Castle |
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39 |
Pasternak, Boris |
Doctor Zhivago |
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40 |
Gaddis, William |
JR |
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41 |
Ishiguro, Kazuo |
Remains of the Day |
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42 |
Conrad, Joseph |
Victory |
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43 |
McEwan, Ian |
Amsterdam |
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44 |
Nabakov, Vladimir |
Pale Fire |
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45 |
Robinson, Marilynn |
Housekeeping |
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46 |
Burgess, Anthony |
Enderby |
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47 |
McCullers, Carson |
The Ballad of Sad Café |
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48 |
Morrison, Tony |
Beloved |
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49 |
Anderson, Sherwood |
Winesburg Ohio |
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50 |
Ellison, Ralph Waldo |
Invisible Man |
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51 |
Allende, Isabel |
House of the Spirits |
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52 |
Faulkner, William |
The Sound and the Fury |
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53 |
Stein, Gertrude |
Three Lives |
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54 |
Allison, Dorothy |
Bastard Out of Carolina |
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55 |
Drabble, Margaret |
Realms of Gold |
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56 |
Abe, Kobo |
The Box Man |
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57 |
Lessing, Doris |
The Golden Notebook |
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58 |
Lowry, Malcolm |
Under the Volcano |
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59 |
Stead, Christina |
The Man Who Loved Children |
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60 |
Wright, Richard |
Native Son |
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61 |
Enchi, Fumiko |
The Waiting Years |
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Duras, Marguerite |
The Lover |
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63 |
Acker, Kathy |
In Memorium to Identity |
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64 |
O'Brien, Edna |
Country Girls - Trilogy |
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65 |
Lawrence, D.H. |
The Rainbow |
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66 |
Oates, Joyce Carol |
We Were the Mulvaneys |
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67 |
Mahfuz, Najib |
The Thief and the Dogs |
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68 |
Wolf, Christa |
Cassandra |
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69 |
Mann, Thomas |
The Magic Mountain |
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70 |
Brookner, Anita |
Hotel du Lac |
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71 |
Celine, Louis Ferdinand |
Journey to the End of the Night |
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72 |
Le Guin, Ursula K. |
The Left Hand of Darkness |
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73 |
Faulkner, William |
Absalom, Absalom! |
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74 |
Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer |
Heat and Dust |
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75 |
Camus, Albert |
The Stranger |
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76 |
Paley, Grace |
The Little Disturbances of Man |
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77 |
Kundera, Milan |
The Unbearable Lightness of Being |
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78 |
Naipaul, V.S. |
A House for Mr. Biswas |
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79 |
Hemingway, Ernest |
The Old Man and the Sea |
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80 |
Achebe, Chinua |
Things Fall Apart |
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81 |
Coover, Robert |
The Public Burning |
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82 |
Cortazar, Julio |
Hopscotch |
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83 |
Glasgow, Ellen |
Virginia |
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84 |
Percy, Walker |
The Moviegoer |
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85 |
McCarthy, Cormac |
Blood Meridian |
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86 |
Mishima, Yukio |
Forbidden Colours |
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87 |
Spark, Muriel |
Momenti Mori |
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88 |
Tan. Amy |
The Kitchen God's Wife |
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89 |
DeLillo, Don |
Underworld |
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90 |
Plath, Sylvia |
The Bell Jar |
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91 |
Rhys, Jean |
The Wide Sargasso Sea |
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92 |
Barnes, Djuna |
Nightwood |
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93 |
Rossi, Christina Peri |
The Ship of Fools |
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94 |
Fitzgerald, F. Scott |
The Great Gatsby |
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95 |
Chiyo, Uno |
Confessions of Love |
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96 |
Forster, E.M. |
A Passage to India |
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97 |
Gas, William H. |
In the Heart of the Country |
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98 |
Yourcenar, Marguerite |
The Memoirs of Hadrian |
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99 |
Jelinek, Elfriede |
The Piano Teacher |
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100 |
Hurston, Zora Neal |
Their Eyes Were Watching God |
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