Random House Modern Library's "100 Best Books of the 20th Century: Fiction (Reader's List)"

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The readers’ poll for the best novels published in the English language since 1900 opened on July 20, 1998 and closed on October 20, 1998, with 217,520 votes cast.

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  1. 1.
    Atlas Shrugged
    by Ayn Rand
  2. 2.
    The Fountainhead
    by Ayn Rand
  3. 3.
    Battlefield Earth
    by L. Ron Hubbard
  4. 4.
    The Lord of the Rings (50th Anniversary Edition)
    by J.R.R. Tolkien
  5. 5.
    1984 (Signet Classics)
    by George Orwell
  6. 6.
    Anthem
    by Ayn Rand
  7. 7.
    To Kill a Mockingbird
    by Harper Lee
  8. 8.
    We the Living
    by Ayn Rand
  9. 9.
    The Invaders Plan (Mission Earth)
    by L. Ron Hubbard
  10. 10.
    Fear
    by L.Ron Hubbard
  11. 11.
    Ulysses
    by James Joyce
  12. 12.
    Catch-22
    by Joseph Heller
  13. 13.
    The Great Gatsby (Scribner Classics)
    by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  14. 14.
    Dune (Dune Chronicles, Book 1)
    by Frank Herbert
  15. 15.
    The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
    by Robert A. Heinlein
  16. 16.
    Stranger in a Strange Land
    by Robert A. Heinlein
  17. 17.
    A Town Like Alice
    by Nevil Shute
  18. 18.
    Brave New World
    by Aldous Huxley
  19. 19.
    The Catcher in the Rye
    by J.D. Salinger
  20. 20.
    Animal Farm
    by George Orwell
  21. 21.
    Gravity's Rainbow (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin)
    by Thomas Pynchon
  22. 22.
    The Grapes of Wrath (20th Century Classics)
    by John Steinbeck
  23. 23.
    Slaughterhouse-Five
    by Kurt Vonnegut
  24. 24.
    Gone with the Wind
    by Margaret Mitchell
  25. 25.
    Lord of the Flies
    by William Golding
  26. 26.
    Shane
    by Jack Schaefer
  27. 27.
    Trustee from the Toolroom
    by Nevil Shute
  28. 28.
    A Prayer for Owen Meany
    by John Irving
  29. 29.
    The Stand (Modern Classics)
    by Stephen King
  30. 30.
    The French Lieutenant's Woman
    by John Fowles
  31. 31.
    Beloved
    by Toni Morrison
  32. 32.
    The Worm Ouroboros
    by E.R. Eddison
  33. 33.
    The Sound and the Fury: The Corrected Text
    by William Faulkner
  34. 34.
    Lolita, 50th Anniversary Edition
    by Vladimir Nabokov
  35. 35.
    Moonheart
    by Charles de Lint
  36. 36.
    Absalom, Absalom! The Corrected Text
    by William Faulkner
  37. 37.
    Of Human Bondage (Bantam Classics)
    by W. Somerset Maugham
  38. 38.
    Wise Blood: A Novel
    by Flannery O'Connor
  39. 39.
    Under the Volcano: A Novel (Perennial Classics)
    by Malcolm Lowry
  40. 40.
    Fifth Business (Penguin Classics)
    by Robertson Davies
  41. 41.
    Someplace To Be Flying (Newford)
    by Charles de Lint
  42. 42.
    On the Road
    by Jack Kerouac
  43. 43.
    Heart of Darkness (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Joseph Conrad
  44. 44.
    Yarrow
    by Charles de Lint
  46. 46.
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    One Lonely Night (Mike Hammer Series)
    by Mickey Spillane
  47. 47.
    Memory and Dream
    by Charles De Lint
  48. 48.
    To the Lighthouse
    by Virginia Woolf
  49. 49.
    The Moviegoer
    by Walker Percy
  50. 50.
    Trader (Trader)
    by Charles De Lint

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Comments

MARK

Untitled — 5 years ago

what about horror? i know not everyone likes it but some of them seem to be read but everyone and lots of movies are based on books from way back not like nowadays when the movie and book come at the same time.

Aug 11, 03:04PM | 0 comments | Reply to this

Jason

yeah the list isn't very good — 6 years ago

it seems kind of like a random selection of the best selling works of the last 15 years, more than a “best of” for the 20th century

Apr 25, 09:51AM | 1 comment | Reply to this

chambon

Top 10 — 6 years ago

7 of the top 10 fictional works of the 20th century have been written by either Ayn Rand or L. Ron Hubbard? Wow, that’s amazing!

Jan 02, 07:19PM | 1 comment | Reply to this



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