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

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.
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 Sister Carrie (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (Barnes & Noble Classics)
by Theodore Dreiser
  
2.
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 Conrad, Joseph-Lord Jim  
3.
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 None but the Brave
by Arthur Schnitzler
  
4.
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 Kim
by Rudyard Kipling
  
5. Wings of the Dove (Signet Classics (Paperback))
by Henry James
  
6. The Immoralist (Penguin Classics)
by Andre Gide
  
7.
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 The Ambassadors
by Henry James
  
8. The Golden Bowl (Oxford World's Classics)
by Henry James
  
9.
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 Nostromo
by Joseph Conrad
  
10. The House of Mirth (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
by Edith Wharton
  
11.
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 O Jovem Törless (The Confusions of Young Törless)
by Robert Musil
  
12. The Forsyte Saga : The Man of Property and In Chancery
by John Galsworthy
  
13. The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad  
14.
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 Mother
by Maxim Gorky
  
15.
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 The Old Wives' Tale
by Arnold Bennett
  
16. Tono-Bungay (Penguin Classics)
by H.G. Wells
  
17. The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
by Rainer Maria Rilke
  
18. Three Lives
by Gertrude Stein
  
19. Howards End (Dover Thrift Editions)
by E. M. Forster
  
20.
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 Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton  
21. Sons and Lovers (Modern Library Classics)
by D.H. Lawrence
  
22.
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 The Rainbow
by D.H. Lawrence
  
23.
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 The Good Soldier (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (B&N Classics Trade Paper)
by Ford Maddox Ford
  
24.
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 A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
by James Joyce
  
25. Women in Love: Cambridge Lawrence Edition
by D.H. Lawrence
  
26.
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 The Age of Innocence
by Edith Wharton
  
27. Ulysses
by James Joyce
  
28.
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 Lewis, Sinclair-Babbitt  
29. Kristin Lavransdatter: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
by Sigrid Undset
  
30. Zeno's Conscience: A Novel
by Italo Svevo
  
31.
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 A Passage to India by E.M. Forster  
32. Cane
by Jean Toomer
  
33.
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 Mann, Thomas-The Magic Mountain  
34.
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 Billy Budd, Foretopman
by Herman Melville
  
35.
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 The Professor’s House
by Willa Cather
  
36.
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 The Trial
by Franz Kafka,
  
37. The Great Gatsby (Penguin Popular Classics)
by F.Scott Fitzgerald
  
38.
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 Mrs. Dalloway
by Virginia Woolf
  
39.
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 The Making of Americans
by Gertrude Stein
  
40.
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 The Castle
by Franz Kafka
  
41. The Sun Also Rises
by Ernest Hemingway
  
42.
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 Gesammelte Werke, Band 1 - Amerika
by Franz Kafka
  
43. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf  
44.
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 Remembrance of Things Past (7 volumes)
by Marcel Proust
  
45.
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 Ford, Ford Maddox-Parade's End  
46.
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 Orlando: A Biography
by Virginia Woolf
  
47. Berlin Alexanderplatz: The Story Of Franz Biberkopf (Continuum Impacts)
by Alfred Doblin
  
48.
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 Hemingway, Ernest-A Farewell To Arms  
49. Vile Bodies
by Evelyn Waugh
  
50.
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 A Handful Of Dust
by Evelyn Waugh
  
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Created by jillelvish on Oct 09, 2008.