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The Hot 100
The Top 100 20th Century English-speaking novels
Work | Author |
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Ulysses | James Joyce |
The Great Gatsby | F. Scott Fitzgerald |
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | James Joyce |
Lolita | Vladimir Nabokov |
Brave New World | Aldous Huxley |
The Sound and the Fury | William Faulkner |
Catch-22 | Joseph Heller |
Darkness at Noon | Arthur Koestler |
Sons and Lovers | D.H. Lawrence |
The Grapes of Wrath | John Steinbeck |
Under the Volcano | Malcolm Lowry |
The Way of All Flesh | Samuel Butler |
1984 | George Orwell |
I, Claudius | Robert Graves |
To the Lighthouse | Virginia Woolf |
An American Tragedy | Theodore Dreiser |
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter | Carson McCullers |
Slaughterhouse Five | Kurt Vonnegut |
Invisible Man | Ralph Ellison |
Native Son | Richard Wright |
Henderson and the Rain King | Saul Bellow |
Appointment to Samarra | John O'Hara |
U.S.A. (trilogy) | John Dos Passos |
Winesburg, Ohio | Sherwood Anderson |
A Passage to India | E.M. Forster |
The Wings of the Dove | Henry James |
The Ambassadors | Henry James |
Tender is the Night | F. Scott Fitzgerald |
Studs Lonigan (trilogy) | James T. Farrell |
The Good Soldier | Ford Maddox Ford |
Animal Farm | George Orwell |
The Golden Bowl | Henry James |
Sister Carrie | Theodore Dreiser |
A Handful of Dust | Evelyn Waugh |
As I Lay Dying | William Faulkner |
All the King's Men | Robert Penn Warren |
The Bridge of San Luis Rey | Thornton Wilder |
Howards End | E.M. Forster |
Go Tell It on the Mountain | James Baldwin |
The Heart of the Matter | Graham Greene |
Lord of the Flies | William Golding |
Deliverance | James Dickey |
A Dance to the Music of Time (series) | Anthony Powell |
Point Counter Point | Aldous Huxley |
The Sun Also Rises | Ernest Hemingway |
The Secret Argent | Joseph Conrad |
Nostromo | Joseph Conrad |
The Rainbow | D.H. Lawrence |
Women In Love | D.H. Lawrence |
Tropic of Cancer | Henry Miller |
The Naked and the Dead | Norman Mailer |
Portnoy's Complaint | Philip Roth |
Pale Fire | Vladimir Nabokov |
Light In August | William Faulkner |
On the Road | Jack Kerouac |
The Maltese Falcon | Dashiell Hammett |
Parade's End | Ford Madox Ford |
The Age of Innocence | Edith Wharton |
Zuleika Dobson | Max Beerbohm |
The Moviegoer | Walker Percy |
Death Comes for the Archbishop | Willa Cather |
From Here to Eternity | James Jones |
The Wapshot Chronicle | John Cheever |
The Catcher in the Rye | J.D. Salinger |
A Clockwork Orange | Anthony Burgess |
Of Human Bondage | W. Somerset Maugham |
Heart of Darkness | Joseph Conrad |
Main Street | Sinclair Lewis |
The House of Mirth | Edith Wharton |
The Alexandria Quartet | Lawrence Durrell |
The High Wind in Jamaica | Richard Hughes |
A House for Mr. Biswas | V.S. Naipaul |
The Day of the Locust | Nathanael West |
A Farewell To Arms | Ernest Hemingway |
Scoop | Evelyn Waugh |
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie | Muriel Spark |
Finnegans Wake | James Joyce |
Kim | Rudyard Kipling |
A Room With a View | E.M. Forster |
Brideshead Revisited | Evelyn Waugh |
The Adventures of Augie March | Saul Bellow |
Angle of Repose | Wallace Stegner |
A Bend in the River | V.S. Naipaul |
The Death of the Heart | Elizabeth Bowen |
Lord Jim | Joseph Conrad |
Ragtime | E.L. Doctorow |
The Old Wives' Tale | Arnold Bennett |
The Call of the Wild | Jack London |
Loving | Henry Green |
Midnight's Children | Salaman Rushdie |
Tobacco Road | Erskine Caldwell |
Ironweed | William Kennedy |
The Magus | John Fowles |
Wide Sargasso Sea | Jean Rhys |
Under the Net | Iris Murdoch |
Sophie's Choice | William Styron |
The Sheltering Sky | Paul Bowles |
The Postman Always Rings Twice | James M. Cain |
The Ginger Man | J.P. Donleavy |
The Magnificent Ambersons | Booth Tarkington |