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. 51.
    Crossing to Safety (Modern Library Classics)
    by Wallace Earle Stegner

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  2. 52.
    Felicias's Journey
    by William Trevor

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  3. 53.
    Ironweed
    by William J. Kennedy

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  4. 54.
    Lonesome Dove: A Novel (Simon & Schuster Classics)
    by Larry McMurtry

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  5. 55.
    The Spy Who Came in From the Cold

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  6. 56.
    In the Lake of the Woods
    by Tim O'Brien

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  7. 57.
    A Coffin for Dimitrios
    by Eric Ambler

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  8. 58.
    Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
    by Robert M. Pirsig

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  9. 59.
    The Caine Mutiny: A Novel
    by Herman Wouk

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  10. 60.
    The Killer Angels
    by Michael Shaara

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  11. 61.
    The Human Factor
    by Graham Greene

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  12. 62.
    Tarzan of the Apes
    by Edgar Rice Burroughs

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  13. 63.
    Paris Trout (Contemporary American Fiction)
    by Pete Dexter

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  14. 65.
    The Killer Inside Me
    by Jim Thompson

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  15. 66.
    The English Patient
    by Michael Ondaatje

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  16. 67.
    Portnoy's Complaint
    by Philip Roth

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  17. 68.
    Fabulous Small Jews
    by Joseph Epstein

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  18. 69.
    Tender is the Night
    by F. Scott Fitzgerald

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  19. 70.
    Roscoe
    by William Kennedy

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  20. 71.
    Charming Billy
    by Alice Mcdermott

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  21. 73.
    The Razor's Edge
    by W. Somerset Maugham

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  22. 74.
    Lying Awake
    by Mark Salzman

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  23. 75.
    A Confederacy of Dunces (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by John Kennedy Toole

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  24. 76.
    One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Penguin Classics)
    by Ken Kesey

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  25. 77.
    Light Years
    by James Salter

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  26. 78.
    Black Dogs
    by Ian McEwan

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  27. 79.
    Spartina
    by John Casey

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  28. 80.
    A Fan's Notes
    by Frederick Exley

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  29. 81.
    Scoop
    by Evelyn Waugh

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  30. 82.
    The Blood of the Lamb: A Novel
    by Peter De Vries

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  31. 83.
    Empire Falls
    by RICHARD RUSSO

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  32. 84.
    The Maltese Falcon
    by Dashiell Hammett

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  33. 85.
    Double Indemnity
    by James M. Cain

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  34. 86.
    The Sunlight Dialogues
    by John Gardner

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  35. 87.
    The Ginger Man
    by J. P. Donleavy

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  36. 88.
    Seize the Day (Penguin Classics)
    by Saul Bellow

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  37. 89.
    Rabbit Is Rich
    by John Updike

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  38. 90.
    Deliverance
    by James Dickey

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  39. 91.
    The Bird Artist: A Novel
    by Howard Norman

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  40. 92.
    Pnin (Everyman's Library Classics & Contemporary Classics)
    by Vladimir Nabokov

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  41. 93.
    City Boy
    by Herman Wouk

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  42. 94.
    Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
    by John le Carre

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  43. 95.
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    Advise and Consent
    by Allen Drury

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  44. 96.
    A Man in Full
    by Tom Wolfe

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  45. 97.
    Sophie's Choice (Modern Library)
    by William Styron

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  46. 98.
    Breakfast of Champions
    by Kurt Vonnegut

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  47. 99.
    The Godfather
    by Mario Puzo

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  48. 100.
    A Rumor of War
    by Philip Caputo

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