Top 15 Novels of this Century


© Joanne Reid

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
Chapter by chapter outline of the novel.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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.

3.

Catch-22

Joseph Heller

Also chosen as the number 5 top book of the 20th century in a survey of 25,000 people by Waterstone's booksellers.

4.

The Grapes of Wrath (1939)

 John Steinbeck

Also chosen as the number 9 top book of the 20th century in a survey of 25,000 people by Waterstone's booksellers.

5.

Lolita

Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977)

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.

7.

Slaughterhouse Five (1969)

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

8.

Invisible Man

Ralph Ellison (1914-1994)

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.

10.

The Lord of the Flies

William Golding (1911-1993)

11.

Catcher in the Rye

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.

12.

Brave New World

Aldous Huxley (1894-1963)

13.

The Sound and the Fury

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