sefs240's "The 100 Best Novels of the 20th Century"

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This was compiled by combining several other "definitive" lists (Modern Library, Radcliffe, Western Canon, etc). I tried to incorporate as many educated opinions as possible in constructing this list. Please remember that these are 20th century, English-language novels only, with the exceptions of Heart of Darkness (originally published in 1899) and Darkness at Noon (originally published in German). I included these two because most other lists did.

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  1. 51.
    Sister Carrie (Norton Critical Editions)
    by Theodore Dreiser

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  2. 52.
    The Secret Agent (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Joseph Conrad

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  3. 53.
    Things Fall Apart: A Novel
    by Chinua Achebe

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  4. 54.
    Winesburg, Ohio (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Sherwood Anderson

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  5. 55.
    The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
    by Carson McCullers

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  6. 56.
    A Handful of Dust
    by Evelyn Waugh

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  7. 57.
    Absalom, Absalom!: The Corrected Text (Modern Library)
    by William Faulkner

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  8. 58.
    Kim
    by Rudyard Kipling

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  9. 59.
    A Room with a View
    by Edward, Morgan Forster

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  10. 60.
    All the King's Men
    by Robert Penn Warren

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  11. 61.
    Appointment in Samarra: A Novel
    by John O'Hara

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  12. 62.
    Main Street (Modern Library)
    by Sinclair Lewis

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  13. 63.
    Tropic of Cancer: With an Introduction by Louise Desalvo
    by Henry Miller

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  14. 64.
    Death Comes for the Archbishop
    by Willa Cather

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  15. 66.
    The Day of the Locust
    by Nathanael West

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  16. 67.
    The Rainbow: Cambridge Lawrence Edition (Penguin Classics)
    by D. H. Lawrence

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  17. 68.
    Old Man And The Sea (Scribner Classics)
    by Ernest Hemingway

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  18. 69.
    Midnight's Children: A Novel
    by Salman Rushdie

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  19. 70.
    Adventures of Augie March, The (50th Anniv. Edition)
    by Saul Bellow

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  20. 71.
    The Magus
    by John Fowles

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  21. 72.
    Their Eyes Were Watching God
    by Zora Neale Hurston

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  22. 73.
    The Way of All Flesh
    by Samuel Butler

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  23. 76.
    Parade's End
    by Ford Madox Ford

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  24. 77.
    Bridge of San Luis Rey: A Novel
    by Thornton Wilder

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  25. 78.
    Of Human Bondage (Signet Classics)
    by W. Somerset Maugham

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  26. 79.
    Portnoy's Complaint
    by Philip Roth

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  27. 80.
    The Old Wives' Tale (Penguin Classics)
    by Arnold Bennett

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  28. 82.
    The Maltese Falcon (Crime Masterworks)
    by Dashiell Hammett

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  29. 83.
    The Moviegoer
    by Walker Percy

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  30. 84.
    The Call of the Wild (Aladdin Classics)
    by Jack London

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  31. 85.
    Gone With the Wind
    by Margaret Mitchell

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  32. 86.
    Ragtime: A Novel
    by E.L. Doctorow

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  33. 87.
    Darkness at Noon: A Novel
    by Arthur Koestler

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  34. 88.
    Justine (Alexandria Quartet)
    by Lawrence Durrell

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  36. 90.
    The Lord of the Rings
    by J.R.R. Tolkien

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  37. 91.
    A Bend in the River
    by V. S. Naipaul

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  39. 93.
    The Naked and the Dead: 50th Anniversary Edition
    by Norman Mailer

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  40. 94.
    Wise Blood: A Novel
    by Flannery O'Connor

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  41. 95.
    The Sheltering Sky (P.S.)
    by Paul Bowles

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  42. 96.
    Herzog (Penguin Classics)
    by Saul Bellow

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  43. 97.
    Ethan Frome (Penguin Classics)
    by Edith Wharton

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  44. 98.
    Under the Net
    by Iris Murdoch

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  45. 99.
    The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (Perennial Classics)
    by Muriel Spark

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  46. 100.
    Wide Sargasso Sea (Penguin Student Editions)
    by Jean Rhys

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