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. 51.
    The Day of the Locust (Signet Classic)
    by Nathanael West

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  2. 52.
    Nightwood
    by Djuna Barnes

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  3. 53.
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    Housekeeping
    by Marilynne Robinson

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  4. 54.
    Slaughterhouse-Five
    by KURT VONNEGUT

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  5. 55.
    Libra (Contemporary American Fiction)
    by Don DeLillo

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  6. 56.
    Wise Blood: A Novel
    by Flannery O'Connor

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  7. 57.
    Always Coming Home (California Fiction)
    by Ursula K. Le Guin

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  8. 60.
    The Catcher in the Rye

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  9. 61.
    The Maltese Falcon (Crime Masterworks)
    by Dashiell Hammett

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  10. 62.
    What We Talk About When We Talk About Love: Stories
    by Raymond Carver

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  11. 63.
    Dubliners (Twentieth-Century Classics)
    by James Joyce

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  12. 64.
    Cane
    by Jean Toomer

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  13. 65.
    The House of Mirth (Signet Classics)
    by Edith Wharton

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  14. 66.
    Riddley Walker
    by Russell Hoban

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  15. 68.
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    The Franchiser (Nonpareil Book.)
    by Stanley Elkin

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  17. 70.
    Skinny Legs and All
    by Tom Robbins

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  18. 71.
    Infinite Jest: A Novel
    by David Foster Wallace

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  19. 73.
    Tlooth (American Literature (Dalkey Archive))
    by Harry Mathews

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  20. 74.
    Pricksongs & Descants: Fictions
    by Robert Coover

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  21. 75.
    The Man in the High Castle
    by Philip K. Dick

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  22. 76.
    American Psycho
    by Bret Easton Ellis

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  23. 77.
    The French Lieutenant's Woman
    by John Fowles

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  24. 79.
    A Clockwork Orange
    by Anthony Burgess

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  25. 80.
    An Albany Trio
    by William Kennedy

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  26. 81.
    The Tunnel
    by William H. Gass

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  27. 82.
    Omensetter's Luck (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
    by William H. Gass

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  28. 83.
    The Sheltering Sky
    by Paul Bowles

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  29. 84.
    Darconville's Cat
    by Alexander Theroux

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  30. 85.
    Up
    by Ronald Sukenick

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  31. 86.
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    Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down
    by Ishmael Reed

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  32. 87.
    Winesburg, Ohio (Bantam Classic)
    by SHERWOOD ANDERSON

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  33. 88.
    You Bright and Risen Angels (Contemporary American fiction)
    by William Vollmann

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  34. 89.
    The Naked and the Dead: 50th Anniversary Edition
    by Norman Mailer

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  36. 91.
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    Creamy and Delicious
    by Steve Katz

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  37. 92.
    Waiting for the Barbarians
    by J.M. Coetzee

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  38. 93.
    More Than Human
    by Theodore Sturgeon

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  39. 94.
    Mulligan Stew: A Novel
    by Gilbert Sorrentino

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  40. 95.
    Look Homeward, Angel
    by Thomas Wolfe

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  41. 96.
    An American Tragedy (Signet Classics (Paperback))
    by Theodore Dreiser

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  42. 97.
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    Easy Travel to Other Planets
    by Ted Mooney

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  43. 98.
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    Tours of the Black Clock
    by Steve Erickson

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  44. 99.
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    In Memoriam To Identity
    by Kathy Acker

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  45. 100.
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    Hogg
    by Samuel R. Delany

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