Lists of Bests: Shannon's "Best Fiction of the 20th Century"

Send to Printer Shannon's "Best Fiction of the 20th Century" 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.		Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood
	2.		The Sweet Hereafter by Russell Banks
	3.		A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
	4.		Breakfast at Tiffany's: A Short Novel and Three Stories (Modern Library) by Truman Capote
	5.		Wonder Boys: A Novel by Michael Chabon
	6.		Brighten the Corner Where You Are: A Novel by Fred Chappell
	7.		And Then There Were None : A Novel by Agatha Christie
	8.		Heart of Darkness (Norton Critical Editions) by Joseph Conrad
	9.		The Hours by Michael Cunningham
	10.		The Church of Dead Girls by Stephen Dobyns
	11.		Absalom, Absalom!: The Corrected Text (Modern Library) by William Faulkner
	12.		The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
	13.	?	Howards End by E.M. Forster
	14.		A Room With A View by E. M. Forster
	15.		Where Angels Fear to Tread (Penguin Classics) by E. M. Forster
	16.		Grendel by John Gardner
	17.		Lord of the Flies by William Golding
	18.		Red Dragon by Thomas Harris
	19.		Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris
	20.		Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
	21.		The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
	22.		Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
	23.		The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
	24.		The Metamorphosis (Bantam Classics) by Franz Kafka
	25.		One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: (Great Books edition) (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century) by Ken Kesey
	26.		The Debt to Pleasure: A Novel by John Lanchester
	27.		Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence
	28.		To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
	29.		Blood Meridian (Picador Books) by Cormac McCarthy
	30.	?	The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
	31.		A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories by Flannery O'Connor
	32.		A Prayer for the Dying by Stewart O'Nan
	33.		Animal Farm: Centennial Edition by George Orwell
	34.		1984 (Signet Classics) by George Orwell
	35.		The Wishbones by Tom Perrotta
	36.		Housekeeping: A Novel by Marilynne Robinson
	37.		The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
	38.		CivilWarLand in Bad Decline by George Saunders
	39.	?	The Raj Quartet: The Jewel in the Crown/the Day of the Scorpion/the Towers of Silence/a Division of the Spoils by Paul Scott
	40.	?	The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara
	41.		The Laughing Policeman by Maj Sjowall
	42.		Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley
	43.		The Little Prince
	44.		East of Eden (Oprah's Book Club) by John Steinbeck
	45.		Sophie's Choice by WILLIAM STYRON
	46.		The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
	47.		The Secret History by Donna Tartt
	48.		The Killer Inside Me by Jim Thompson
	49.		No Night Is Too Long by Barbara Vine
	50.		Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
This is Shannon's list. Only Shannon can edit it. You can make your own version of this list. Created by Shannon on Dec 28, 2007.