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

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.

(found at: http://www.ludlowpress.com/st.mark%27sbookshop.htm)

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1. How German Is It?
by Walter Abish
  
2. Things Fall Apart (Modern Critical Interpretations Series)
by Chinua Achebe
  
3. A Death in the Family
by James Agee
  
4. The Man with the Golden Arm (50th anniv.)
by Nelson Algren
  
5. Bastard Out of Carolina (Essential Edition): (Plume Essential Edition)
by Dorothy Allison
  
6. Lucky Jim (TV tie-in) (Penguin Classics)
by Kingsley Amis
  
7. Money
by Martin Amis
  
8. The New York Trilogy: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) (Penguin Classics Deluxe Editio)
by Paul Auster
  
9. Crash: A Novel
by J. G. Ballard
  
10. Regeneration
by Pat Barker
  
11. Nightwood
by Djuna Barnes
  
12. Flaubert's Parrot
by Julian Barnes
  
13. The Floating Opera and The End of the Road
by John Barth
  
14.
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 Samuel Beckett: Molloy/Malone Dies/the Unnamable (Calderbooks)
by Samuel Beckett
  
15. G
by John Berger
  
16. My Sister's Hand in Mine: The Collected Works of Jane Bowles
by Jane Bowles
  
17. Hotel Du Lac
by Anita Brookner
  
18. Manchild in the Promised Land
by Claude Brown
  
19. post office: A Novel
by Charles Bukowski
  
20. Naked Lunch: The Restored Text
by William S. Burroughs
  
21. Possession A. S.. Byatt
by A S BYATT
  
22. In Cold Blood
by Truman Capote
  
23. The Long Goodbye
by Raymond Chandler
  
24. Waiting for the Barbarians (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)
by J. M. Coetzee
  
25. Stop-Time: A Memoir
by Frank Conroy
  
26. The Deptford Trilogy
by Robertson Davies
  
27. White Noise Critical: Text and Criticism (Viking Critical Library)
by Don DeLillo
  
28. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
by Philip K. Dick
  
29. Play It As It Lays: A Novel
by Joan Didion
  
30. Out of Africa (Modern Library)
by Isak Dinesen
  
31. Geek Love: A Novel
by Katherine Dunn
  
32.
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 A Fan's Notes
by Frederick Exley
  
33. Ask the Dust
by John Fante
  
34. The Recognitions (Twentieth-Century Classics)
by William Gaddis
  
35. Neuromancer
by William Gibson
  
36. July's People
by Nadine Gordimer
  
37. A Map of the World (Oprah's Book Club)
by Jane Hamilton
  
38. The Bone People: A Novel
by Keri Hulme
  
39. Their Eyes Were Watching God
by Zora Neale Hurston
  
40. The World According to Garp
by John Irving
  
41. The Remains of the Day
by Kazuo Ishiguro
  
42. Fiskadoro
by Denis Johnson
  
43. Sometimes a Great Notion (Penguin Classics)
by Ken Kesey
  
44. The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts
by Maxine Hong Kingston
  
45. The Painted Bird
by Jerzy N. Kosinski
  
46. To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee
  
47. The Golden Notebook: Perennial Classics edition (Perennial Classics)
by Doris Lessing
  
48. Einstein's Dreams
by Alan Lightman
  
49. Wittgenstein's Mistress (Reissue)
by David Markson
  
50.
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 The Journalist: A Novel
by Harry Mathews
  
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Created by K McQuage on Jun 20, 2008.