MomsMyJob's "Madison Public Library 100 Best Novels"

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Readers’ Choice

When the Modern Library Board published its list of the 100 greatest English-language novels of the century in 1998, there was much debate in the media about the titles on the list and who selected them. Madison Public Library took that debate to heart and set up its own vote. The novels had to have been English language novels published in the 20th century. Here’s what Madison readers chose.

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  1. 1.
    To Kill a Mockingbird
    by Harper Lee
  2. 2.
    The Catcher in the Rye
    by J. D. Salinger
  3. 3.
    Nineteen Eighty-Four (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by George Orwell
  4. 4.
    The Color Purple: Tenth Anniversary Editon
    by Alice Walker
  5. 5.
    The Great Gatsby (Modern Classics (Penguin))
    by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  6. 6.
    On the Road (Penguin Classics)
    by Jack Kerouac
  7. 7.
    Beloved
    by Toni Morrison
  8. 8.
    The Grapes of Wrath
    by John Steinbeck
  9. 9.
    Gone with the Wind
    by Margaret Mitchell
  10. 10.
    Brave New World
    by Aldous Huxley
  11. 11.
    Animal Farm
    by George Orwell
  12. 12.
    Charlotte's Web (Trophy Newbery)
    by E. B. White
  13. 13.
    Invisible Man (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Ralph Ellison
  14. 14.
    Catch-22: A Novel (Simon & Schuster Classics)
    by Joseph Heller
  15. 15.
    One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Penguin Classics)
    by Ken Kesey
  16. 16.
    Ulysses (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by James Joyce
  17. 17.
    East of Eden
    by John Steinbeck
  18. 18.
    Slaughterhouse-Five: A Duty-Dance with Death
    by Kurt Vonnegut
  19. 19.
    Song of Solomon
    by Toni Morrison
  20. 20.
    Lord of The Flies
    by William Golding
  21. 21.
    Gravity's Rainbow
    by Thomas Pynchon
  22. 22.
    The Hobbit: or There and Back Again
    by J.R.R. Tolkien
  23. 23.
    MY ANTONIA (VIRAGO MODERN CLASSICS)
    by A.S. BYATT (INTRODUCTION) WILLA CATHER
  24. 24.
  25. 25.
    The Joy Luck Club
    by Amy Tan
  26. 26.
    A Clockwork Orange (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Anthony Burgess
  27. 27.
    The Old Man and the Sea
    by Ernest Hemingway
  28. 28.
    The Sun Also Rises
    by Ernest Hemingway
  29. 29.
    Their Eyes Were Watching God
    by Zora Neale Hurston
  30. 30.
    The Bean Trees
    by Barbara Kingsolver
  31. 31.
    Tropic of Capricorn (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)
    by Henry Miller
  32. 32.
    Lolita (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Vladimir Nabokov
  33. 33.
    All the King's Men
    by Robert Penn Warren
  34. 34.
    To the Lighthouse (Vintage Classics)
    by Virginia Woolf
  35. 35.
    The Handmaid's Tale
    by Margaret Atwood
  36. 36.
    Deliverance
    by James Dickey
  37. 37.
    Howards End (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
    by E. M. Forster
  38. 38.
    The Forsyte Saga (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by John Galsworthy
  39. 39.
    Dune
    by Frank Herbert
  40. 40.
  41. 41.
    A Separate Peace
    by John Knowles
  42. 42.
    The Fountainhead
    by Ayn Rand
  43. 43.
    Atlas Shrugged (Centennial Edition)
    by Ayn Rand
  44. 44.
    Midnight's Children
    by Salman Rushdie
  45. 45.
    Of Mice and Men. John Steinbeck (Read Red)
    by John Steinbeck
  46. 46.
    The Lord of the Rings: 50th Anniversary, One Vol. Edition
    by J.R.R. Tolkien
  47. 47.
    Brideshead Revisited
    by Evelyn Waugh
  48. 48.
    The Age of Innocence (Modern Library Classics)
    by Edith Wharton
  49. 49.
    Native Son (Perennial Classics)
    by Richard A. Wright
  50. 50.
    Things Fall Apart (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Chinua Achebe

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