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

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