Shannon's "Best Fiction of the 20th Century"

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This is list of the best fiction written between the years 1900 and 1999 that I have read, according to me and sometimes others. I gave these books 4 or 5 stars. See also The Best Nonfiction of the 20th Century (http://www.listsofbests.com/list/46737) and The Best Speculative Fiction of the 20th century (http://www.listsofbests.com/list/46736 ).

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  1. 1.
    Cat's Eye
    by Margaret Atwood

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  2. 2.
    The Sweet Hereafter
    by Russell Banks

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  3. 3.
    A Clockwork Orange
    by Anthony Burgess

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  4. 5.
    Wonder Boys: A Novel
    by Michael Chabon

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  5. 6.
    Brighten the Corner Where You Are: A Novel
    by Fred Chappell

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  6. 7.
    And Then There Were None : A Novel
    by Agatha Christie

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  7. 8.
    Heart of Darkness (Norton Critical Editions)
    by Joseph Conrad

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  8. 9.
    The Hours
    by Michael Cunningham

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  9. 10.
    The Church of Dead Girls
    by Stephen Dobyns

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  10. 11.
    Absalom, Absalom!: The Corrected Text (Modern Library)
    by William Faulkner

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  11. 12.
    The Great Gatsby
    by F. Scott Fitzgerald

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  12. 13.
    Howards End
    by E.M. Forster

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  13. 14.
    A Room With A View
    by E. M. Forster

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  14. 15.
    Where Angels Fear to Tread (Penguin Classics)
    by E. M. Forster

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  15. 16.
    Grendel
    by John Gardner

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  16. 17.
    Lord of the Flies
    by William Golding

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  17. 18.
    Red Dragon
    by Thomas Harris

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  18. 19.
    Silence of the Lambs
    by Thomas Harris

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  19. 20.
    Catch-22
    by Joseph Heller

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  20. 21.
    The Sun Also Rises
    by Ernest Hemingway

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  21. 22.
    Their Eyes Were Watching God
    by Zora Neale Hurston

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  22. 23.
    The Remains of the Day
    by Kazuo Ishiguro

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  23. 24.
    The Metamorphosis (Bantam Classics)
    by Franz Kafka

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  24. 26.
    The Debt to Pleasure: A Novel
    by John Lanchester

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  25. 27.
    Lady Chatterley's Lover
    by D. H. Lawrence

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  26. 28.
    To Kill a Mockingbird
    by Harper Lee

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  27. 29.
    Blood Meridian (Picador Books)
    by Cormac McCarthy

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  28. 30.
    The Things They Carried
    by Tim O'Brien

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  29. 31.
    A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories
    by Flannery O'Connor

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  30. 32.
    A Prayer for the Dying
    by Stewart O'Nan

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  31. 33.
    Animal Farm: Centennial Edition
    by George Orwell

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  32. 34.
    1984 (Signet Classics)
    by George Orwell

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  33. 35.
    The Wishbones
    by Tom Perrotta

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  34. 36.
    Housekeeping: A Novel
    by Marilynne Robinson

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  35. 37.
    The Catcher in the Rye
    by J.D. Salinger

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  36. 38.
    CivilWarLand in Bad Decline
    by George Saunders

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  37. 40.
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    The Killer Angels
    by Michael Shaara

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  38. 41.
    The Laughing Policeman
    by Maj Sjowall

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  39. 42.
    Thousand Acres
    by Jane Smiley

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  40. 43.
    The Little Prince

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  41. 44.
    East of Eden (Oprah's Book Club)
    by John Steinbeck

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  42. 45.
    Sophie's Choice
    by WILLIAM STYRON

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  43. 46.
    The Joy Luck Club
    by Amy Tan

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  44. 47.
    The Secret History
    by Donna Tartt

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  45. 48.
    The Killer Inside Me
    by Jim Thompson

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  46. 49.
    No Night Is Too Long
    by Barbara Vine

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  47. 50.
    Cat's Cradle
    by Kurt Vonnegut

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Created by Shannon on Dec 28, 2007.
 

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