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. 51.
    The Sheltering Sky
    by Paul Bowles

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  2. 52.
    The Sound and the Fury
    by William Faulkner

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  3. 53.
    The Book of Ruth
    by Jane Hamilton

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  4. 54.
    A Farewell To Arms
    by Ernest Hemingway

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  5. 55.
    For Whom the Bell Tolls
    by Ernest Hemingway

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  6. 56.
    From Here to Eternity
    by James Jones

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  8. 58.
    Sometimes a Great Notion (Penguin Classics)
    by Ken Kesey

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  9. 59.
    Animal Dreams
    by Barbara Kingsolver

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  10. 60.
    Being There (Black Swan S.)
    by Jerzy Kosinski

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  11. 61.
    The Left Hand of Darkness
    by Ursula K.Le Guin

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  12. 62.
    Martha Quest: A Novel (Perennial Classics)
    by Doris Lessing

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  13. 63.
    The Four-Gated City (The Children of Violence, Book 5)
    by Doris Lessing

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  14. 64.
    The Call of the Wild (Aladdin Classics)
    by Jack London

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  15. 65.
    All the Pretty Horses (UK edition)
    by Cormac Mccarthy

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  16. 66.
    Lonesome Dove : A Novel
    by Larry McMurtry

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  17. 67.
    Hawaii
    by James A. Michener

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  18. 68.
    Tropic of Cancer (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)
    by Henry Miller

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  19. 69.
    Interview with the Vampire (Vampire Chronicles)
    by Anne Rice

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  20. 70.
    The Jungle (Modern Library Classics)
    by Upton Sinclair

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  21. 71.
    Angle of Repose (Modern Library)
    by Wallace Stegner

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  22. 72.
    Rabbit, Run
    by John Updike

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  23. 73.
    Trinity
    by Leon Uris

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  24. 74.
    Breakfast of Champions
    by Kurt Vonnegut

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  25. 75.
    The Temple of My Familiar
    by Alice Walker

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  26. 76.
    Go Tell It on the Mountain (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by James Baldwin

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  27. 77.
    Fahrenheit 451
    by Ray Bradbury

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  28. 78.
    The Good Earth (Enriched Classics)
    by Pearl S. Buck

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  29. 79.
    Ender's Game (The Ender Saga)
    by Orson S. Card

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  30. 80.
    2001: A Space Odyssey
    by Arthur C. Clarke

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  31. 81.
    Heart of Darkness (Penguin Classics)
    by Joseph Conrad

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  32. 82.
    Fifth Business
    by Robertson Davies

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  33. 83.
    Ragtime
    by E.L. Doctorow

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  34. 84.
    The Maltese Falcon
    by Dashiell Hammett

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  35. 85.
    Stones from the River
    by Ursula Hegi

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  36. 86.
    Ironweed
    by William Kennedy

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  37. 87.
    The Stand
    by Stephen King

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  38. 88.
    Sons and Lovers (Penguin Classics)
    by D.H. Lawrence

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  39. 89.
    The Spy Who Came in From the Cold

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  40. 90.
    Babbitt (Modern Library Classics)
    by Sinclair Lewis

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  41. 91.
    Of Human Bondage (Modern Library Classics)
    by W. Somerset Maugham

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  42. 92.
    The Enigma of Arrival
    by V.S. Naipaul

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  43. 93.
    The Shell Seekers
    by Rosamunde Pilcher

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  44. 94.
    The Bell Jar
    by Sylvia Plath

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  45. 95.
    Housekeeping
    by Marilynne Robinson

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  46. 96.
    My Life As a Man (Vintage International)
    by Philip Roth

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  47. 97.
    A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Perennial Classics)
    by Betty Smith

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  48. 98.
    Sophie's Choice (Vintage Classics)
    by William Styron

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  49. 99.
    Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
    by Anne Tyler

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  50. 100.
    Bastard out of Carolina (Contemporary Fiction, Plume)
    by Dorothy Allison

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