The Bloom Boxall Great Fiction List--Read 'Em Or Else Vol. III: 1900-1999

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I cross-referenced Harold Bloom’s Western Canon with the Peter Boxall "1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die" (2006 and 2008 versions, inclusive) to come up with this Must-Read list to end all Must-Read lists. It will be split into three volumes by century. PLEASE DON’T ADD OR DELETE ANYTHING. Create your own, or adopt mine and leave me a comment if I have omitted something. Please remember that Bloom is hopelessly stuffy (H. G. Wells is "serious" literature and Jules Verne isn’t; Waugh’s political satire is worthwhile and "Brideshead Revisited" is fluff) and that his "canon" doesn’t include anything from the past 20 years or so. Boxall’s lists are almost entirely comprised of novels.

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  1. 51.
    The Waves (Annotated)
    by Virginia Woolf

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  2. 52.
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    The Radetzky March
    by Joseph Roth

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  3. 53.
    Brave New World (P.S.)
    by Aldous Huxley

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  4. 54.
    Journey to the End of the Night (New Directions Paperbook)
    by Louis-Ferdinand Celine

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  5. 56.
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    Man's Fate
    by Andre Malraux

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  6. 57.
    Call It Sleep: A Novel
    by Henry Roth

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  7. 58.
    Miss Lonelyhearts
    by Nathanael West

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  8. 59.
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    The Street of Crocodiles and Other Stories
    by Bruno Schulz

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  9. 60.
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    Tender Is The Night
    by Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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  10. 61.
    Absalom, Absalom!
    by William Faulkner

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  11. 62.
    War with the Newts (European Classics)
    by Karel Capek

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  12. 63.
    In Parenthesis (New York Review Books)
    by David Jones

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  13. 64.
    Their Eyes Were Watching God
    by Zora Neale Hurston

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  14. 65.
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    Murphy
    by Samuel Beckett

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  15. 66.
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  16. 68.
    Nausea
    by Jean-Paul Sartre

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  17. 69.
    Finnegans Wake
    by James Joyce

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  18. 70.
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    THE GRAPES OF WRATH
    by John Steinbeck

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  19. 71.
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    Party Going
    by Henry Green

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  20. 72.
    Native Son
    by Richard Wright

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  21. 73.
    For Whom the Bell Tolls (Scribner Classics)
    by Ernest Hemingway

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  22. 74.
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    The Hamlet
    by William Faulkner

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  24. 76.
    Go Down, Moses
    by William Faulkner

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  25. 77.
    The Glass Bead Game: (Magister Ludi) A Novel
    by Hermann Hesse

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  26. 78.
    Conversations in Sicily
    by Elio Vittorini

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  27. 79.
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    Loving
    by Henry Green

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  28. 80.
    The Bridge on the Drina (Phoenix Fiction Series)
    by Ivo Andric

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  29. 81.
    Death of Virgil
    by Hermann Broch

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  30. 82.
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    Under the Volcano
    by Malcolm Lowry

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  31. 83.
    Mann: Doctor Faustus (Landmarks of World Literature)
    by Michael Beddow

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  32. 84.
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    In the Heart of the Seas
    by S.Y. Agnon

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  33. 85.
    Nineteen Eighty-four
    by George Orwell

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  34. 86.
    The Kingdom of This World: A Novel
    by Alejo Carpentier

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  36. 88.
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    The Labyrinth of Solitude: Life and Thought in Mexico
    by Octavio Paz

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  37. 89.
    The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt
    by Albert Camus

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  38. 90.
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    The Catcher in the Rye
    by JD Salinger

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  39. 91.
    The Hive
    by Camilo Jose Cela Conde

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  40. 92.
    Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable (Everyman's Library)
    by Samuel Beckett

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  41. 93.
    Memoirs of Hadrian
    by Marguerite Yourcenar

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  42. 94.
    Wise Blood: A Novel
    by Flannery O'Connor

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  43. 95.
    The Old Man and the Sea
    by Ernest Hemingway

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  44. 96.
    The Adventures of Augie March (Penguin Classics)
    by Saul Bellow

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  45. 97.
    Invisible Man
    by Ralph Ellison

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  46. 98.
    The Lost Steps
    by Alejo Carpentier

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  47. 99.
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    Watt
    by Samuel Beckett

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  48. 100.
    I'm Not Stiller (Swiss Literature)
    by Max Frisch

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