Waterstone Books's "100 Best 20th Century Books"

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Here’s the top 100 according to a survey carried out by "Waterstone’s Books":http://www.waterstones.com/waterstonesweb/home.do and Channel 4 Television, in the UK.

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  1. 1.
    The Lord of the Rings
    by J.R.R. Tolkien

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  2. 2.
    1984
    by George Orwell

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  3. 3.
    Animal Farm
    by George Orwell

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  4. 4.
    Ulysses (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by James Joyce

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  5. 5.
    CATCH-22
    by Joseph Heller

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  6. 6.
    The Catcher in the Rye
    by J. D. Salinger

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  7. 7.
    To Kill a Mockingbird
    by Harper Lee

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  8. 8.
    One Hundred Years of Solitude
    by Gabriel García Márquez

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  9. 9.
    The Grapes of Wrath
    by John Steinbeck

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  10. 10.
    Trainspotting
    by Irvine Welsh

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  11. 11.
    Wild Swans
    by Jung Chang

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  13. 13.
    Lord of the Flies
    by William Golding

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  14. 14.
    On the Road
    by Jack Kerouac

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  15. 15.
    Brave New World
    by Aldous Huxley

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  16. 16.
    The Wind in the Willows
    by Kenneth Grahame

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  17. 17.
    Winnie-the-Pooh
    by A. A. Milne

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  18. 18.
    The Color Purple
    by Alice Walker

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  19. 19.
    The Hobbit
    by J.R.R. Tolkien

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  20. 20.
    The Outsider
    by Albert Camus

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  21. 21.
    The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
    by C. S. Lewis

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  22. 22.
    The Trial
    by Franz Kafka

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  23. 23.
    Gone with the Wind
    by Margaret Mitchell

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  24. 24.
    The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy
    by Douglas Adams

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  25. 25.
    Midnight's Children
    by Salman Rushdie

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  26. 26.
    The Diary of Anne Frank
    by Anne Frank

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  27. 27.
    A Clockwork Orange (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Anthony Burgess

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  28. 28.
    Sons and Lovers (Penguin Classics)
    by D.H. Lawrence

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  29. 29.
    To the Lighthouse (Annotated)
    by Virginia Woolf

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  30. 30.
    If This Is a Man (Everyman's Library Classics)
    by Primo Levi

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  31. 31.
    Lolita
    by Vladimir Nabokov

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  32. 32.
    The Wasp Factory
    by Iain Banks

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  33. 33.
    A LA Recherche Du Temps Perdu
    by Marcel Proust

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  34. 34.
    Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
    by Roald Dahl

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  35. 35.
    Of Mice and Men
    by Jon Steinbeck

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  36. 36.
    Beloved
    by Toni Morrison

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  37. 37.
    Possession
    by Antonia S. Byatt

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  38. 38.
    Heart of Darkness
    by Joseph Conrad

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  39. 39.
    A Passage to India
    by E.M. Forster

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  40. 40.
    Watership Down: A Novel
    by Richard Adams

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  41. 41.
    Sophie's World: A Novel About the History of Philosophy
    by Jostein Gaarder

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  42. 42.
    The Name of the Rose

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  43. 43.
    Love in the Time of Cholera
    by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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  44. 44.
    Rebecca
    by Daphne Du Maurier

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  45. 45.
    The Remains of the Day
    by Kazuo Ishiguro

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  46. 46.
    The Unbearable Lightness of Being
    by Milan Kundera

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  47. 47.
    Birdsong: A Novel of Love and War
    by Sebastian Faulks

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  48. 48.
    Howards End (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by E. M. Forster

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  49. 49.
    Brideshead Revisited
    by Evelyn Waugh

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  50. 50.
    A Suitable Boy: A Novel (Perennial Classics)
    by Vikram Seth

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Comments

klagregory
Nashville

Category — 1 year ago

How can this be a list of the best novels since there are several works of nonfiction included?