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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