Random House Modern Library's (Readers List)100 Greatest Novels of the 20th Century

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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

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    The Fountainhead
    by Ayn Rand

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  3. 3.
    Battlefield Earth
    by L. Ron Hubbard

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  4. 4.
    The Lord of the Rings (50th Anniversary Edition)
    by J.R.R. Tolkien

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  5. 5.
    1984 (Signet Classics)
    by George Orwell

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  6. 6.
    Anthem
    by Ayn Rand

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  7. 7.
    To Kill a Mockingbird
    by Harper Lee

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  8. 8.
    We the Living
    by Ayn Rand

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  9. 9.
    The Invaders Plan (Mission Earth Series)
    by L. Ron Hubbard

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  10. 10.
    Fear
    by L.Ron Hubbard

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  11. 11.
    Ulysses (Vintage International)
    by James Joyce

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  12. 12.
    Catch 22
    by Joseph Heller

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  13. 13.
    The Great Gatsby (Scribner Classics)
    by F. Scott Fitzgerald

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  14. 14.
    Dune (Dune Chronicles, Book 1)
    by Frank Herbert

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  15. 15.
    The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
    by Robert A. Heinlein

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  16. 16.
    Stranger in a Strange Land
    by Robert A. Heinlein

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  17. 17.
    A Town Like Alice
    by Nevil Shute

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  18. 18.
    Brave New World
    by Aldous Huxley

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  19. 19.
    The Catcher in the Rye

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  20. 20.
    Animal Farm
    by George Orwell

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  21. 21.
    Gravity's Rainbow (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
    by Thomas Pynchon

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  22. 22.
    Grapes of Wrath, The (20th Century Classics)
    by John Steinbeck

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  23. 23.
    Slaughterhouse-Five
    by KURT VONNEGUT

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  24. 24.
    Gone with the Wind
    by Margaret Mitchell

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  25. 25.
    Lord of the Flies
    by William Golding

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  26. 26.
    Shane
    by JACK SCHAEFER

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  27. 27.
    Trustee from the Toolroom
    by Nevil Shute

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  28. 28.
    A Prayer for Owen Meany
    by John Irving

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  29. 29.
    The Stand (Modern Classics)
    by Stephen King

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  30. 30.
    The French Lieutenant's Woman
    by John Fowles

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  31. 31.
    Beloved
    by Toni Morrison

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  32. 32.
    The Worm Ouroboros
    by E.R. Eddison

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  33. 33.
    The Sound and the Fury
    by William Faulkner

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  34. 34.
    Lolita
    by Vladimir Nabokov

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  35. 35.
    Moonheart
    by Charles de Lint

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  36. 36.
    Absalom, Absalom! (Vintage International)
    by WILLIAM FAULKNER

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  37. 37.
    Of Human Bondage (Bantam Classics)
    by W. Somerset Maugham

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  38. 38.
    Wise Blood: A Novel
    by Flannery O'Connor

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  39. 39.
    Under the Volcano: A Novel (Perennial Classics)
    by Malcolm Lowry

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  40. 40.
    Fifth Business (Penguin Classics)
    by Robertson Davies

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  41. 41.
    Someplace To Be Flying (Newford)
    by Charles de Lint

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  42. 42.
    On the Road
    by Jack Kerouac

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  43. 43.
    Heart of Darkness (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Joseph Conrad

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  44. 44.
    Yarrow
    by Charles De Lint

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    One Lonely Night (Mike Hammer Series)
    by Mickey Spillane

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  46. 47.
    Memory and Dream
    by Charles De Lint

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  47. 48.
    To the Lighthouse
    by Virginia Woolf

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  48. 49.
    The Moviegoer
    by Walker Percy

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  49. 50.
    Trader (Trader)
    by Charles De Lint

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Randolph

Untitled — 1 year 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.


yeah the list isn't very good — 2 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


Top 10 — 2 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!