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The 100 best 20th century novels in English

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Ulysses (Oxford World's Classics)
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Ulysses (Oxford World's Classics) - James Joyce
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The Great Gatsby
People who added this item 48 Average listal rating (30 ratings) 8.2 IMDB Rating 0
The Great Gatsby - F.Scott Fitzgerald
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Penguin Classics)
People who added this item 40 Average listal rating (16 ratings) 7.4 IMDB Rating 0
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Penguin Classics)... - James Joyce
Lolita (Penguin Classics)
People who added this item 107 Average listal rating (55 ratings) 8.1 IMDB Rating 0
Lolita (Penguin Classics) - Vladimir Nabokov
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Brave New World
People who added this item 29 Average listal rating (20 ratings) 7.5 IMDB Rating 0
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
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The Sound and the Fury
People who added this item 8 Average listal rating (6 ratings) 8.8 IMDB Rating 0
The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner
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Darkness at Noon
People who added this item 21 Average listal rating (7 ratings) 8.3 IMDB Rating 0
Darkness at Noon - Arthur Koestler
Catch-22
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Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
Sons and Lovers (Penguin Classics)
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Sons and Lovers (Penguin Classics) - D.H. Lawrence
The Grapes of Wrath
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The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
Under the Volcano (Penguin Modern Classics)
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Under the Volcano (Penguin Modern Classics) - Malcolm Lowry
The Way of All Flesh (English Library)
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The Way of All Flesh (English Library) - Samuel Butler
Nineteen Eighty-Four
People who added this item 267 Average listal rating (163 ratings) 8.6 IMDB Rating 0
Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell
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I, Claudius (Penguin Classics)
People who added this item 3 Average listal rating (1 ratings) 9 IMDB Rating 0
I, Claudius (Penguin Classics) - Robert Graves
To the Lighthouse
People who added this item 105 Average listal rating (47 ratings) 7.7 IMDB Rating 0
To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf
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An American Tragedy
People who added this item 37 Average listal rating (12 ratings) 7.5 IMDB Rating 0
An American Tragedy - Theodore Dreiser
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
People who added this item 20 Average listal rating (8 ratings) 7.3 IMDB Rating 0
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter - Carson McCullers
Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel (Modern Library 100 Best Novels)
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Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel (Modern Library 100 Best Novels)... - Kurt Vonnegut
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Invisible Man
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Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison
Native Son
People who added this item 21 Average listal rating (7 ratings) 8.9 IMDB Rating 0
Native Son - Richard Wright_IV
Henderson the Rain King
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Henderson the Rain King - Saul Bellow
Appointment in Samarra: A Novel
People who added this item 14 Average listal rating (5 ratings) 7.2 IMDB Rating 0
Appointment in Samarra: A Novel - John O'Hara_II
U.S.A. (Twentieth Century Classics)
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U.S.A. (Twentieth Century Classics) - John Dos Passos
Winesburg, Ohio (Signet classics)
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Winesburg, Ohio (Signet classics) - Sherwood Anderson
A Passage to India
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A Passage to India - E.M. Forster
The Wings of the Dove (Classics)
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The Wings of the Dove (Classics) - Henry James
The Ambassadors (Penguin Modern Classics)
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The Ambassadors (Penguin Modern Classics) - Henry James
Tender is the Night: A Romance (Penguin Modern Classics)
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Tender is the Night: A Romance (Penguin Modern Classics)... - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Studs Lonigan (Trilogy)
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Studs Lonigan (Trilogy) - James T. Farrell
The Good Soldier: A Tale of Passion
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The Good Soldier: A Tale of Passion - Ford Madox Ford
Animal Farm: A Fairy Story
People who added this item 82 Average listal rating (51 ratings) 8.5 IMDB Rating 0
Animal Farm: A Fairy Story - George Orwell
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The Golden Bowl (Oxford World's Classics)
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The Golden Bowl (Oxford World's Classics) - Henry James
Sister Carrie
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Sister Carrie - Theodore Dreiser
A Handful of Dust (Penguin Modern Classics)
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A Handful of Dust (Penguin Modern Classics) - Evelyn Waugh
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As I Lay Dying
People who added this item 22 Average listal rating (9 ratings) 8.7 IMDB Rating 0
As I Lay Dying - William Faulkner
All the King's Men
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All the King's Men - Robert Penn Warren
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
People who added this item 16 Average listal rating (6 ratings) 7.5 IMDB Rating 0
The Bridge of San Luis Rey - Thornton Wilder
Howards End
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Howards End - David Lodge,E.M. Forster
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Go Tell it on the Mountain (Penguin Modern Classics)
People who added this item 12 Average listal rating (4 ratings) 6.3 IMDB Rating 0
Go Tell it on the Mountain (Penguin Modern Classics)... - James Baldwin
The Heart of the Matter (Twentieth Century Classics)
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The Heart of the Matter (Twentieth Century Classics)... - Graham Greene_I
Lord of the Flies
People who added this item 570 Average listal rating (464 ratings) 7.4 IMDB Rating 0
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
Deliverance
People who added this item 10 Average listal rating (3 ratings) 8.7 IMDB Rating 0
Deliverance - James Dickey
A Dance to the Music of Time: First Movement
People who added this item 10 Average listal rating (2 ratings) 8.5 IMDB Rating 0
A Dance to the Music of Time: First Movement - Anthony Powell_II
Point Counter Point (British Literature)
People who added this item 5 Average listal rating (1 ratings) 9 IMDB Rating 0
Point Counter Point (British Literature) - Aldous Huxley
The Sun Also Rises
People who added this item 14 Average listal rating (10 ratings) 7.4 IMDB Rating 0
The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway
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The Secret Agent
People who added this item 16 Average listal rating (6 ratings) 8 IMDB Rating 0
The Secret Agent - Joseph Conrad
Nostromo
People who added this item 13 Average listal rating (5 ratings) 6.4 IMDB Rating 0
Nostromo - Joseph Conrad
The Rainbow
People who added this item 12 Average listal rating (2 ratings) 4.5 IMDB Rating 0
The Rainbow - D. H. Lawrence
Women in Love (Penguin Modern Classics)
People who added this item 17 Average listal rating (5 ratings) 7.4 IMDB Rating 0
Women in Love (Penguin Modern Classics) - D. H. Lawrence
Tropic of Cancer
People who added this item 24 Average listal rating (8 ratings) 8.4 IMDB Rating 0
Tropic of Cancer - Henry Miller
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A group of selected librarians and literary critics published this list in August 1998

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