St. Mark's Bookstore's "Additional 100 Best English Language Novels of the 20th Century"

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The St. Mark’s Bookshop in New York City has made a selection of novels to augment the Modern Library List of 100 Best English Language Novels of the 20th Century. The list includes only authors omitted from the Modern Library list and each author is limited to one title. The selection is based on customer sales over the last 20 years.

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  1. 1.
    How German Is It?
    by Walter Abish

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  2. 2.
    Things Fall Apart (Modern Critical Interpretations Series)
    by Chinua Achebe

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  3. 3.
    A Death in the Family
    by James Agee

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  4. 4.
    The Man with the Golden Arm (50th anniv.)
    by Nelson Algren

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  5. 6.
    Lucky Jim (TV tie-in) (Penguin Classics)
    by Kingsley Amis

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  6. 7.
    Money
    by Martin Amis

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  7. 9.
    Crash: A Novel
    by J. G. Ballard

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  8. 10.
    Regeneration
    by Pat Barker

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  9. 11.
    Nightwood
    by Djuna Barnes

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  10. 12.
    Flaubert's Parrot
    by Julian Barnes

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  11. 13.
    The Floating Opera and The End of the Road
    by John Barth

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  13. 15.
    G
    by John Berger

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  15. 17.
    Hotel Du Lac
    by Anita Brookner

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  16. 18.
    Manchild in the Promised Land
    by Claude Brown

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  17. 19.
    post office: A Novel
    by Charles Bukowski

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  18. 20.
    Naked Lunch: The Restored Text
    by William S. Burroughs

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  19. 21.
    Possession A. S.. Byatt
    by A S BYATT

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  20. 22.
    In Cold Blood
    by Truman Capote

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  21. 23.
    The Long Goodbye
    by Raymond Chandler

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  22. 25.
    Stop-Time: A Memoir
    by Frank Conroy

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  23. 26.
    The Deptford Trilogy
    by Robertson Davies

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  24. 28.
    Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
    by Philip K. Dick

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  25. 29.
    Play It As It Lays: A Novel
    by Joan Didion

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  26. 30.
    Out of Africa (Modern Library)
    by Isak Dinesen

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  27. 31.
    Geek Love: A Novel
    by Katherine Dunn

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  28. 32.
    ?
    A Fan's Notes
    by Frederick Exley

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  29. 33.
    Ask the Dust
    by John Fante

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  30. 34.
    The Recognitions (Twentieth-Century Classics)
    by William Gaddis

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  31. 35.
    Neuromancer
    by William Gibson

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  32. 36.
    July's People
    by Nadine Gordimer

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  33. 37.
    A Map of the World (Oprah's Book Club)
    by Jane Hamilton

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  34. 38.
    The Bone People: A Novel
    by Keri Hulme

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  35. 39.
    Their Eyes Were Watching God
    by Zora Neale Hurston

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  36. 40.
    The World According to Garp
    by John Irving

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  37. 41.
    The Remains of the Day
    by Kazuo Ishiguro

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  38. 42.
    Fiskadoro
    by Denis Johnson

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  39. 43.
    Sometimes a Great Notion (Penguin Classics)
    by Ken Kesey

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  40. 44.
    The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts
    by Maxine Hong Kingston

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  41. 45.
    The Painted Bird
    by Jerzy N. Kosinski

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  42. 46.
    To Kill a Mockingbird
    by Harper Lee

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  43. 48.
    Einstein's Dreams
    by Alan Lightman

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  44. 49.
    Wittgenstein's Mistress (Reissue)
    by David Markson

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  45. 50.
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    The Journalist: A Novel
    by Harry Mathews

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