MomsMyJob's "Madison Public Library 100 Best Novels"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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To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee
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The Catcher in the Rye
by J.D. Salinger
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Nineteen Eighty-four (Penguin Modern Classics)
by George Orwell
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The Color Purple: Tenth Anniversary Editon
by Alice Walker
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The Great Gatsby (Penguin Modern Classics)
by F.Scott Fitzgerald
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On the Road (Penguin Classics)
by Jack Kerouac
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Beloved
by Toni Morrison
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The Grapes of Wrath (Penguin Classics)
by John Steinbeck
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Gone with the Wind
by Margaret Mitchell
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Brave New World (P.S.)
by Aldous Huxley
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Animal Farm
by George Orwell
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Charlotte's Web (Trophy Newbery)
by E. B. White
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Invisible Man
by Ralph Ellison
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Catch-22: A Novel (Simon & Schuster Classics)
by Joseph Heller
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Penguin Classics)
by Ken Kesey
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Ulysses (Penguin Modern Classics)
by James Joyce
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East of Eden
by John Steinbeck
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Slaughterhouse 5
by Kurt Vonnegut
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Song of Solomon
by Toni Morrison
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Lord of the Flies
by William Golding
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Gravity's Rainbow
by Thomas Pynchon
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The Hobbit: or There and Back Again
by J.R.R. Tolkien
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MY ANTONIA (VIRAGO MODERN CLASSICS)
by A.S. BYATT (INTRODUCTION) WILLA CATHER
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A Prayer for Owen Meany (Ballantine Reader's Circle)
by John Irving
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The Joy Luck Club
by Amy Tan
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A Clockwork Orange (Penguin Modern Classics)
by Anthony Burgess
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The Old Man and the Sea
by Ernest Hemingway
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The Sun Also Rises
by Ernest Hemingway
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
by Zora Neale Hurston
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The Bean Trees
by Barbara Kingsolver
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Tropic of Capricorn (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)
by Henry Miller
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Lolita (Penguin Modern Classics)
by Vladimir Nabokov
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All the King's Men
by Robert Penn Warren
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To the Lighthouse (Vintage Classics)
by Virginia Woolf
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The Handmaid's Tale: A Novel
by Margaret Atwood
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Deliverance
by James Dickey
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Howards End (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics,)
by E. M. Forster
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The Forsyte Saga (Penguin Modern Classics)
by John Galsworthy
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Dune
by Frank Herbert
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The World According to Garp (Ballantine Reader's Circle)
by John Irving
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A Separate Peace
by John Knowles
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The Fountainhead
by Ayn Rand
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Atlas Shrugged (Centennial Edition)
by Ayn Rand
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Midnight's Children
by Salman Rushdie
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Of Mice and Men (Penguin Red Classics)
by John Steinbeck
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The Lord of the Rings: 50th Anniversary, One Vol. Edition
by J.R.R. Tolkien
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Brideshead Revisited
by Evelyn Waugh
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The Age of Innocence (Modern Library Classics)
by Edith Wharton
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Native Son (Perennial Classics)
by Richard A. Wright
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Things Fall Apart (Penguin Modern Classics)
by Chinua Achebe
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