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. 51.
    The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
    by Douglas Adams

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  2. 52.
    The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
    by CARSON MCCULLERS

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  3. 53.
    The Handmaid's Tale: A Novel
    by Margaret Atwood

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  4. 55.
    A Clockwork Orange
    by Anthony Burgess

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  5. 56.
    On the Beach
    by Nevil Shute

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  6. 58.
    Greenmantle
    by Charles De Lint

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  7. 59.
    Ender's Game (The Ender Saga)
    by Orson S. Card

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  8. 60.
    The Little Country
    by Charles de Lint

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  9. 61.
    The Recognitions (Twentieth-Century Classics)
    by William Gaddis

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  10. 62.
    Starship Troopers
    by Robert A. Heinlein

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  11. 63.
    Sun Also Rises
    by Ernest Hemingway

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  12. 64.
    The World According to Garp
    by John Irving

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  13. 65.
    Something Wicked This Way Comes
    by Ray Bradbury

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  14. 66.
    The Haunting of Hill House
    by Shirley Jackson

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  15. 67.
    As I Lay Dying (Vintage International)
    by William Faulkner

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  16. 68.
    Tropic of Cancer
    by Henry Miller

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  17. 69.
    Invisible Man
    by Ralph Ellison

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  18. 70.
    The Wood Wife (Tor Fantasy)
    by Terri Windling

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  19. 71.
    The Magus
    by JOHN FOWLES

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  20. 72.
    The Door into Summer
    by Robert A. Heinlein

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  21. 75.
    The Call Of The Wild (Scholastic Classics)
    by Jack London

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  22. 76.
    At Swim-Two-Birds (John F. Byrne Irish Literature Series)
    by Flann O'Brien

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  23. 77.
    Fahrenheit 451
    by Ray Bradbury

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  24. 78.
    Arrowsmith (Signet Classics)
    by Sinclair Lewis

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  25. 79.
    Watership Down
    by Richard Adams

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  26. 80.
    Naked Lunch
    by William S. Burroughs

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  27. 81.
    The Hunt for Red October (Jack Ryan Novels)
    by Tom Clancy

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  28. 82.
    Guilty Pleasures (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter: Book 1)
    by Laurell K. Hamilton

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  29. 83.
    Puppet Masters
    by Robert A. Heinlein

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  30. 84.
    It (Signet Books)
    by Stephen King

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  31. 85.
    V. (Perennial Classics)
    by Thomas Pynchon

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  32. 86.
    Double Star
    by Robert A. Heinlein

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  33. 87.
    Citizen of the Galaxy
    by Robert A. Heinlein

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  34. 88.
    Brideshead Revisited (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
    by Evelyn Waugh

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  35. 89.
    Light in August
    by William Faulkner

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  36. 90.
    One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
    by Ken Kesey

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  37. 91.
    A Farewell To Arms
    by Ernest Hemingway

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  38. 92.
    The Sheltering Sky
    by Paul Bowles

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  39. 93.
    Sometimes a Great Notion
    by Ken Kesey

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  40. 94.
    My Antonia
    by Willa Cather

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  41. 95.
    Mulengro
    by Charles de Lint

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  42. 96.
    Suttree
    by Cormac Mccarthy

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  43. 97.
    Mythago Wood
    by Robert Holdstock

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  44. 98.
    Illusions
    by Richard Bach

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  45. 99.
    The Cunning Man
    by Robertson Davies

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  46. 100.
    The Satanic Verses: A Novel (Bestselling Backlist)
    by Salman Rushdie

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