100 Years, 100 Novels

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NPR’s Dick Meyer posts his own version of the top 100 novels of the century.

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  1. 1.

  2. 2.
    The Great Gatsby
    by F. Scott Fitzgerald

  3. 3.
    The Catcher in the Rye
    by J. D. Salinger

  4. 4.
    Heart of Darkness (Norton Critical Editions)
    by Joseph Conrad

  5. 5.
    Brave New World
    by Aldous Huxley

  6. 6.
    The Grapes of Wrath (Centennial Edition)
    by John Steinbeck

  7. 7.
    ?
    Angle of Repose
    by Wallace Stegner

  8. 8.
    Lolita (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
    by Vladimir Nabokov

  9. 9.
    Humboldt's Gift (Penguin Classics)
    by Saul Bellow

  10. 10.
    A Passage to India (Penguin Classics)
    by E. M. Forster

  11. 11.
    To the Lighthouse (Annotated)
    by Virginia Woolf

  12. 13.
    The Untouchable
    by John Banville

  13. 14.
    To Kill a Mockingbird
    by Harper Lee

  14. 15.
    Rabbit at Rest
    by John Updike

  15. 16.
    All the King's Men [ALL THE KINGS MEN HARVEST/E]
    by Robert Penn(Author) ; Blotner, Joseph(Foreword by) Warren

  16. 17.
    American Pastoral
    by Philip Roth

  17. 18.
    Beloved
    by Toni Morrison

  18. 19.
    The Remains of the Day
    by Kazuo Ishiguro

  19. 20.
    Of Human Bondage (Signet Classics)
    by W. Somerset Maugham

  20. 21.
    Light in August (The Corrected Text)
    by William Faulkner

  21. 23.
    The Sun Also Rises
    by Ernest Hemingway

  22. 24.
    A Lesson Before Dying (Five Star)
    by Ernest J. Gaines

  23. 25.
    Rabbit, Run
    by John Updike

  24. 26.
    Babbitt (Signet Classics)
    by Sinclair Lewis

  25. 27.
    The Moviegoer
    by Walker Percy

  26. 28.
    The Jungle (Enriched Classics)
    by Upton Sinclair

  27. 29.
    The Bell Jar
    by Sylvia/ McCullough, Frances (FRW) Plath

  28. 30.
    Midnight's Children: A Novel
    by Salman Rushdie

  29. 31.
    All the Pretty Horses (The Border Trilogy, Book 1)
    by Cormac McCarthy

  30. 32.
    The Sportswriter: Bascombe Trilogy (1)
    by Richard Ford

  31. 34.
    Sons and Lovers (Modern Library Classics)
    by D.H. Lawrence

  32. 35.
    Aloft
    by Chang-rae Lee

  33. 36.
    Appointment in Samarra: A Novel
    by John O'Hara

  34. 37.
    Atonement
    by Ian McEwan

  35. 38.
    So Long, See You Tomorrow
    by William Maxwell

  36. 39.
    Winesburg, Ohio (Signet Classics)
    by Sherwood Anderson

  37. 40.
    Lucky Jim (Penguin Classics)
    by Kingsley Amis

  38. 41.
    The Forsyte Saga (Oxford World's Classics)
    by John Galsworthy

  39. 42.
    Franny and Zooey
    by J. D. Salinger

  40. 43.
    A Soldier of the Great War
    by Mark Helprin

  41. 44.
    The Big Sleep
    by Raymond Chandler

  42. 45.
    Animal Farm
    by George Orwell

  43. 46.
    Charlotte's Web
    by E. B. White

  44. 47.
    The Good Soldier (Barnes & Noble Classics Series)
    by Ford Madox Ford

  45. 48.
    The Secret Sharer
    by Joseph Conrad

  46. 49.

  47. 50.
    ?
    The Day of the Locust
    by Nathanael West

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