This list comes from the top 150 list which is taken from the Harvard Bookstore's Top 100 Recommended Titles, Modern Library's 100 Best Novels, Koen Book Distributors' top 100 Books of the Past Century, and Library Journal's 150 20th-century Most Influential Fiction.
Over the next few weeks, I am going to work through the list. This may be the summer for reading these classics of the century. Or at least starting to read your way through them.
1.The Great
Gatsby
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2.1984 (1949) George Orwell (1903-1950) Also chosen as the number 2 top book of the 20th century in a survey of 25,000 people by Waterstone's booksellers. |
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3.Also chosen as the number 5 top book of the 20th century in a survey of 25,000 people by Waterstone's booksellers. |
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4.The Grapes of Wrath (1939) Also chosen as the number 9 top book of the 20th century in a survey of 25,000 people by Waterstone's booksellers. |
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5.Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977) |
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6. (see number 2)Animal Farm (1946) George Orwell Also chosen as the number 3 top book of the 20th century in a survey of 25,000 people by Waterstone's booksellers. |
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7.Slaughterhouse Five (1969) |
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8.Ralph Ellison (1914-1994) |
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9.Ulysses (full text) James Joyce (1882-1941) Also chosen as the number 4 top book of the 20th century in a survey of 25,000 people by Waterstone's booksellers. |
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10.William Golding (1911-1993) |
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11.J. D. Salinger (1919-) Also chosen as the number 6 top book of the 20th century in a survey of 25,000 people by Waterstone's booksellers. |
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12.Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) |
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