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

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.

(found at: http://www.curious.org.uk/top-100-books.htm)

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1.
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 The Lord of the Rings
by J.R.R. Tolkien
  
2.
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 1984
by George Orwell
  
3.
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 Animal Farm
by George Orwell
  
4. Ulysses (Penguin Modern Classics)
by James Joyce
  
5.
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 Catch-22 (1961)
by Joseph Heller
  
6.
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 The Catcher in the Rye (1951)
by J. D. Salinger
  
7.
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 To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee
  
8.
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 One Hundred Years of Solitude
by Gabriel García Márquez
  
9. The Grapes of Wrath
by John Steinbeck
  
10. Trainspotting
by Irvine Welsh
  
11. Wild Swans
by Jung Chang
  
12.
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 THE GREAT GATSBY by F. Scott Fitzgerald  
13.
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 Lord of the Flies
by William Golding
  
14.
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 On the Road
by Jack Kerouac
  
15. Brave New World
by Aldous Huxley
  
16. The Wind in the Willows
by Kenneth Grahame
  
17. Winnie-the-Pooh
by A. A. Milne
  
18. The Color Purple
by Alice Walker
  
19. The Hobbit
by J.R.R. Tolkien
  
20.
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 The Outsider
by Albert Camus
  
21. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
by C. S. Lewis
  
22. The Trial
by Franz Kafka
  
23. Gone with the Wind
by Margaret Mitchell
  
24.
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 The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy
by Douglas Adams
  
25.
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 Midnight's Children
by Salman Rushdie
  
26. The Diary of Anne Frank
by Anne Frank
  
27. A Clockwork Orange (Penguin Modern Classics)
by Anthony Burgess
  
28. Sons and Lovers (Penguin Classics)
by D.H. Lawrence
  
29. To the Lighthouse (Annotated)
by Virginia Woolf
  
30. If This Is a Man (Everyman's Library Classics)
by Primo Levi
  
31. Lolita
by Vladimir Nabokov
  
32. The Wasp Factory
by Iain Banks
  
33. A LA Recherche Du Temps Perdu
by Marcel Proust
  
34.
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 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
by Roald Dahl
  
35. Of Mice and Men
by Jon Steinbeck
  
36. Beloved
by Toni Morrison
  
37. Possession
by Antonia S. Byatt
  
38. Heart of Darkness
by Joseph Conrad
  
39. A Passage to India
by E.M. Forster
  
40. Watership Down: A Novel
by Richard Adams
  
41. Sophie's World: A Novel About the History of Philosophy
by Jostein Gaarder
  
42. The Name of the Rose  
43. Love in the Time of Cholera
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  
44. Rebecca
by Daphne Du Maurier
  
45. The Remains of the Day
by Kazuo Ishiguro
  
46. The Unbearable Lightness of Being
by Milan Kundera
  
47. Birdsong: A Novel of Love and War
by Sebastian Faulks
  
48. Howards End (Dover Thrift Editions)
by E. M. Forster
  
49. Brideshead Revisited
by Evelyn Waugh
  
50. A Suitable Boy: A Novel (Perennial Classics)
by Vikram Seth
  
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