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
  2. 2.
    1984
    by George Orwell
  3. 3.
    Animal Farm
    by George Orwell
  4. 4.
    Ulysses (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by James Joyce
  5. 5.
    Catch-22 (1961)
    by Joseph Heller
  6. 6.
    The Catcher in the Rye (1951)
    by J. D. Salinger
  7. 7.
    To Kill a Mockingbird
    by Harper Lee
  8. 8.
    One Hundred Years of Solitude
    by Gabriel García Márquez
  9. 9.
    The Grapes of Wrath
    by John Steinbeck
  10. 10.
    Trainspotting
    by Irvine Welsh
  11. 11.
    Wild Swans
    by Jung Chang
  12. 12.
  13. 13.
    Lord of the Flies
    by William Golding
  14. 14.
    On the Road
    by Jack Kerouac
  15. 15.
    Brave New World
    by Aldous Huxley
  16. 16.
    The Wind in the Willows
    by Kenneth Grahame
  17. 17.
    Winnie-the-Pooh
    by A. A. Milne
  18. 18.
    The Color Purple
    by Alice Walker
  19. 19.
    The Hobbit
    by J.R.R. Tolkien
  20. 20.
    The Outsider
    by Albert Camus
  21. 21.
    The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
    by C. S. Lewis
  22. 22.
    The Trial: A New Translation Based on the Restored Text
    by Franz Kafka
  23. 23.
    Gone with the Wind
    by Margaret Mitchell
  24. 24.
    The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy
    by Douglas Adams
  25. 25.
    Midnight's Children
    by Salman Rushdie
  26. 26.
    The Diary Of Anne Frank
    by Anne Frank
  27. 27.
    A Clockwork Orange (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Anthony Burgess
  28. 28.
    Sons and Lovers (Penguin Classics)
    by D. H. Lawrence
  29. 29.
    To the Lighthouse (Annotated)
    by Virginia Woolf
  30. 30.
    If This Is a Man (Everyman's Library Classics)
    by Primo Levi
  31. 31.
    Lolita
    by Vladimir Nabokov
  32. 32.
    The Wasp Factory
    by Iain Banks
  33. 33.
    A LA Recherche Du Temps Perdu (French Edition)
    by Marcel Proust
  34. 34.
    Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
    by Roald Dahl
  35. 35.
    Of Mice and Men
    by Jon Steinbeck
  36. 36.
    Beloved
    by Toni Morrison
  37. 37.
    Possession (French Edition)
    by Antonia S. Byatt
  38. 38.
    Heart of Darkness
    by Joseph Conrad
  39. 39.
  40. 40.
    Watership Down: A Novel
    by Richard Adams
  42. 42.
    The Name of the Rose

  43. 43.
    Love in the Time of Cholera
    by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  44. 44.
    Rebecca
    by Daphne Du Maurier
  45. 45.
    Remains of the Day
    by Kazuo Ishiguro
  46. 46.
    The Unbearable Lightness of Being
    by Milan Kundera
  47. 47.
    Birdsong: A Novel of Love and War
    by Sebastian Faulks
  48. 48.
    Howards End (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by E. M. Forster
  49. 49.
    Brideshead Revisited
    by Evelyn Waugh
  50. 50.
    A Suitable Boy: A Novel (Modern Classics)
    by Vikram Seth

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Comments

droidman

Untitled — 2 years ago

this list is a real mishmash of the high and the low, including a couple titles that are just plain trash.

Sep 14, 02:10PM | 0 comments | Reply to this

klagregory

Category — 6 years ago

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

Feb 01, 10:17AM | 1 comment | Reply to this



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