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 Abish Walter
  2. 2.
  3. 3.
    A Death in the Family
    by James Agee
  5. 5.
    Bastard out of Carolina: (Plume Essential Edition)
    by Dorothy Allison
  6. 6.
    Lucky Jim
    by Kingsley Amis
  7. 7.
    Money
    by Martin Amis
  8. 8.
    The New York Trilogy (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
    by Paul Auster
  9. 9.
    Crash: A Novel
    by J. G. Ballard
  10. 10.
    Regeneration
    by Pat Barker
  11. 11.
    Nightwood (New Edition)
    by Djuna Barnes
  12. 12.
    Flaubert's Parrot
    by Julian Barnes
  13. 13.
    The Floating Opera and The End of the Road
    by John Barth
  14. 14.
    Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable
    by Samuel Beckett
  15. 15.
    G
    by John Berger
  16. 16.
  17. 17.
    Hotel Du Lac
    by Anita Brookner
  18. 18.
    Manchild in the Promised Land
    by Claude Brown
  19. 19.
    post office: A Novel
    by Charles Bukowski
  20. 20.
    Naked Lunch: The Restored Text
    by William S. Burroughs
  21. 21.
    Possession A. S.. Byatt
    by A S BYATT
  22. 22.
    In Cold Blood
    by Truman Capote
  23. 23.
    The Long Goodbye
    by Raymond Chandler
  25. 25.
    Stop-Time: A Memoir
    by Frank Conroy
  26. 26.
    The Deptford Trilogy
    by Robertson Davies
  27. 27.
  28. 28.
    Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
    by Philip K. Dick
  29. 29.
    Play It As It Lays: A Novel
    by Joan Didion
  30. 30.
    Out of Africa (Modern Library of the World's Best Books)
    by Isak Dinesen
  31. 31.
    Geek Love: A Novel
    by Katherine Dunn
  32. 32.
    ?
    A Fan's Notes
    by Frederick Exley
  33. 33.
    Ask the Dust
    by John Fante
  34. 34.
    The Recognitions (Penguin Classics)
    by William Gaddis
  35. 35.
    Neuromancer
    by William Gibson
  36. 36.
    July's People
    by Nadine Gordimer
  37. 37.
    A Map of the World (Oprah's Book Club)
    by Jane Hamilton
  38. 38.
    The Bone People: A Novel
    by Keri Hulme
  39. 39.
    Their Eyes Were Watching God
    by Zora Neale Hurston
  40. 40.
    The World According to Garp
    by John Irving
  41. 41.
    The Remains of the Day
    by Kazuo Ishiguro
  42. 42.
    Fiskadoro
    by Denis Johnson
  43. 43.
    Sometimes a Great Notion (Penguin Classics)
    by Ken Kesey
  44. 44.
    The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts
    by Maxine Hong Kingston
  45. 45.
    The Painted Bird
    by Jerzy Kosinski
  46. 46.
    To Kill a Mockingbird
    by Harper Lee
  47. 47.
    The Golden Notebook: Perennial Classics edition
    by Doris Lessing
  48. 48.
    Einstein's Dreams
    by Alan Lightman
  49. 49.
    Wittgenstein's Mistress (Reissue)
    by David Markson
  50. 50.
    ?
    The Journalist: A Novel
    by Harry Mathews

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