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100 Years, 100 Novels

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

(found at: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=103869541&ft=1&f=1032)

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1. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Penguin Classics)
by James Joyce
  
2. The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  
3. The Catcher in the Rye
by J.D. Salinger
  
4. Heart of Darkness (Norton Critical Editions)
by Joseph Conrad
  
5. Brave New World (P.S.)
by Aldous Huxley
  
6. The Grapes of Wrath (Centennial Edition)
by John Steinbeck
  
7.
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 Angle of Repose
by Wallace Stegner
  
8. Lolita (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
by Vladimir Nabokov
  
9.
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 Humboldt's Gift
by Saul Bellow
  
10. A Passage to India (Penguin Classics)
by E.M. Forster
  
11. To the Lighthouse (Annotated)
by Virginia Woolf
  
12. U.S.A.: The 42nd Parallel / 1919 / The Big Money (Library of America)
by John Dos Passos
  
13. The Untouchable
by John Banville
  
14. To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee
  
15. Rabbit at Rest
by John Updike
  
16. All the King's Men [ALL THE KINGS MEN HARVEST/E]
by Robert Penn(Author) ; Blotner, Joseph(Foreword by) Warren
  
17. American Pastoral
by Philip Roth
  
18. Beloved
by Toni Morrison
  
19. The Remains of the Day
by Kazuo Ishiguro
  
20. Of Human Bondage (Signet Classics)
by W. Somerset Maugham
  
21. Light in August
by William Faulkner
  
22. My Antonia (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (Barnes & Noble Classics)
by Willa Cather
  
23. The Sun Also Rises
by Ernest Hemingway
  
24. A Lesson Before Dying (Five Star)
by Ernest J. Gaines
  
25. Rabbit, Run
by John Updike
  
26. Babbitt (Signet Classics)
by Sinclair Lewis
  
27. The Moviegoer
by Walker Percy
  
28. The Jungle (Enriched Classics)
by Upton Sinclair
  
29. The Bell Jar
by Sylvia/ McCullough, Frances (FRW) Plath
  
30. Midnight's Children: A Novel
by Salman Rushdie
  
31. All the Pretty Horses (Vintage International)
by Cormac Mccarthy
  
32. The Sportswriter
by Richard Ford
  
33. The Lay of the Land (Vintage Contemporaries)
by Richard Ford
  
34. Sons and Lovers (Modern Library Classics)
by D.H. Lawrence
  
35. Aloft
by Chang-Rae Lee
  
36. Appointment in Samarra: A Novel
by John O'Hara
  
37. Atonement (MTI)
by Ian Mcewan
  
38. So Long, See You Tomorrow
by William Maxwell
  
39. Winesburg, Ohio (Signet Classics (Paperback))
by Sherwood Anderson
  
40. Lucky Jim (Penguin Classics)
by Kingsley Amis
  
41. The Forsyte Saga (Oxford World's Classics)
by John Galsworthy
  
42. Franny and Zooey
by J.D. Salinger
  
43. A Soldier of the Great War
by Mark Helprin
  
44. The Big Sleep
by Raymond Chandler
  
45. Animal Farm
by George Orwell
  
46. Charlotte's Web
by E. B. White
  
47.
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 The Good Soldier (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (B&N Classics Trade Paper)
by Ford Maddox Ford
  
48. The Secret Sharer
by Joseph Conrad
  
49. Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West (Modern Library)
by Cormac Mccarthy
  
50.
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 The Day of the Locust
by Nathanael West
  
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Created by K McQuage on May 07, 2009.