Larry McCaffery's "20th Century's Greatest Hits: 100 English Language Books of Fiction"

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McCaffery teaches American literature at San Diego State University. This is exactly the type of list that I find especially valuable, because prepared by someone who clearly has a broad literary knowledge and critical appreciation, and has the boldness to draw upon all of it. It’s so rare to find someone who’ll bring "genre" and underground literature into comparison with the received canon. [Webmaster’s note: this list was suggested by a user, and the wide range of authors on here makes it a pretty interesting list.]

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  1. 1.
    Pale Fire
    by Vladimir Nabokov

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  2. 2.
    Ulysses (Vintage International)
    by James Joyce

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  3. 3.
    Gravity's Rainbow (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
    by Thomas Pynchon

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  4. 4.
    The Public Burning
    by Robert Coover

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  5. 5.
    The Sound and the Fury
    by William Faulkner

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  6. 8.
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    Three Novels: The Soft Machine, Nova Express, the Wild Boys
    by William S. Burroughs

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  7. 9.
    Lolita
    by Vladimir Nabokov

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  8. 10.
    Finnegans Wake (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
    by James Joyce

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  9. 11.
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    Take It or Leave It
    by Raymond Federman

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  10. 12.
    Beloved
    by Toni Morrison

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  11. 13.
    Going Native
    by Stephen Wright

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  12. 14.
    Under the Volcano: A Novel (Perennial Classics)
    by Malcolm Lowry

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  13. 15.
    To the Lighthouse
    by Virginia Woolf

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  14. 17.
    JR (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
    by William Gaddis

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  15. 18.
    Invisible Man
    by Ralph Ellison

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  16. 19.
    Underworld: A Novel
    by Don DeLillo

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  17. 20.
    Sun Also Rises
    by Ernest Hemingway

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  18. 22.
    The Great Gatsby (Scribner Classics)
    by F. Scott Fitzgerald

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  19. 23.
    The Ambassadors (Penguin Classics)
    by Henry James

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  21. 25.
    Sixty Stories
    by Donald Barthelme

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  22. 26.
    The Rifles (Seven Dreams)
    by William Vollmann

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  23. 27.
    The Recognitions (Twentieth-Century Classics)
    by William Gaddis

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  24. 28.
    Heart of Darkness (Hesperus Classics)
    by Joseph Conrad

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  25. 29.
    Catch 22
    by Joseph Heller

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  26. 30.
    1984 (Signet Classics)
    by George Orwell

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  27. 31.
    Their Eyes Were Watching God
    by Zora Neale Hurston

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  28. 32.
    Absalom, Absalom! (Vintage International)
    by WILLIAM FAULKNER

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  29. 33.
    Dhalgren
    by Samuel R. Delany

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  30. 34.
    Grapes of Wrath, The (20th Century Classics)
    by John Steinbeck

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  31. 35.
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    The Four Elements Tetrology
    by Rikki Ducornet

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  32. 36.
    Neuromancer
    by William Gibson

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  33. 37.
    Tropic of Cancer
    by Henry Miller

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  34. 38.
    On the Road
    by Jack Kerouac

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  35. 39.
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    Lookout Cartridge
    by Joseph McElroy

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  36. 40.
    Crash: A Novel
    by J. G. Ballard

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  37. 41.
    Midnight's Children (Everyman's Library)
    by Salman Rushdie

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  38. 42.
    The Sot-Weed Factor (The Anchor Literary Library)
    by John Barth

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  39. 43.
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    Genoa: A Telling of Wonders
    by Paul Metcalf

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  40. 44.
    Brave New World
    by Aldous Huxley

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  41. 45.
    A Passage to India
    by E. M. Forster

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    Double or nothing;: A real fictitious discourse
    by Raymond Federman

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  43. 47.
    At Swim-Two-Birds (John F. Byrne Irish Literature Series)
    by Flann O'Brien

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  44. 49.
    The Cannibal
    by John Hawkes

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  45. 50.
    Native Son
    by Richard Wright

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One the best classes... — 2 years ago

I have ever taken. Larry made me think about (post) modernism/meta-fiction in a whole new way. I had zero appreciation for forms like the graphic novel.. etc… and he made it all relevant and real for me. And meeting Federman in class was a life changer.