immaculatechaos's "150 Best English Language Books of the 20th Century (Friendswood Library)"

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List Source: http://www.friendswood.lib.tx.us/bookinfo/frpubtop150.htm

The original list has Pearl S. Buck’s "The Rainbow", but I chose to use D.H. Lawrence’s "The Rainbow".

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  2. 2.
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    Catch-22
    by Joseph Heller
  3. 3.
    Lolita, 50th Anniversary Edition
    by Vladimir Nabokov
  4. 4.
    Slaughter-House Five
    by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
  5. 5.
    Ulysses
    by James Joyce
  6. 6.
    The Catcher in the Rye
    by J. D. Salinger
  7. 7.
    The Sound and the Fury: The Corrected Text
    by William Faulkner
  8. 8.
    To Kill a Mockingbird: 50th Anniversary Edition
    by Harper Lee
  9. 9.
    Native Son
    by Richard Wright
  10. 10.
    Gone With the Wind
    by Margaret Mitchell
  11. 11.
    1984
    by George Orwell
  12. 12.
    A Clockwork Orange (Norton Critical Editions)
    by Anthony Burgess
  13. 13.
    "A Confederacy of Dunces"
    by John Kennedy Toole
  14. 14.
    A Death in the Family (Penguin Classics)
    by James Agee
  15. 15.
    ?
    2001: A Space Odyssey
    by Arthur C. Clarke
  16. 16.
    A Farewell to Arms
    by Ernest Hemingway
  18. 18.
    A Handful of Dust (Everyman's Library)
    by Evelyn Waugh
  19. 19.
    A High Wind in Jamaica (New York Review Books Classics)
    by Richard Hughes
  20. 20.
    ?
  21. 21.
    A Prayer for Owen Meany (Modern Library)
    by John Irving
  22. 22.
    Stranger in a Strange Land
    by Robert A. Heinlein
  23. 23.
    A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (P.S.)
    by Betty Smith
  24. 24.
    All Quiet on the Western Front
    by Erich Maria Remarque
  25. 25.
    All The King's Men
    by Robert Penn Warren
  26. 26.
    An American Tragedy (Signet Classics)
    by Theodore Dreiser
  27. 27.
    Angle of Repose (Contemporary American Fiction)
    by Wallace Stegner
  28. 28.
    Animal Farm: Centennial Edition
    by George Orwell
  29. 29.
    Appointment in Samarra: A Novel
    by John O'Hara
  30. 30.
    As I Lay Dying (Modern Library)
    by William Faulkner
  31. 31.
    Atlas Shrugged
    by Ayn Rand
  32. 32.
    Balthazar (Alexandria Quartet)
    by Lawrence Durrell
  33. 33.
    Bastard out of Carolina: (Plume Essential Edition)
    by Dorothy Allison
  34. 34.
    Beloved (Everyman's Library)
    by Toni Morrison
  35. 35.
    Brave New World
    by Aldous Huxley
  36. 36.
    Brideshead Revisited
    by Evelyn Waugh
  37. 37.
    Call It Sleep: A Novel
    by Henry Roth
  38. 38.
    Charlotte's Web
    by E. B. White
  39. 39.
    Clea (Alexandria Quartet)
    by Lawrence Durrell
  40. 40.
    Cold Sassy Tree
    by Olive Ann Burns
  41. 41.
    Cry, the Beloved Country
    by Alan Paton
  42. 42.
    A Dance to the Music of Time: First Movement
    by Anthony Powell
  43. 43.
    Darkness at Noon
    by Arthur Koestler
  44. 44.
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    Death Comes for the Archbishop
    by Willa Cather
  45. 45.
    Deliverance
    by James Dickey
  46. 46.
    Dune, 40th Anniversary Edition (Dune Chronicles, Book 1)
    by Frank Herbert
  47. 47.
    East of Eden
    by John Steinbeck
  48. 48.
    Ellen Foster (Oprah's Book Club (Pb))
    by Kaye Gibbons
  49. 49.
    Ethan Frome (Penguin Classics)
    by Edith Wharton
  50. 50.
    For Whom the Bell Tolls
    by Ernest Hemingway

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Created by immaculatechaos on Feb 22, 2011.
 

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Lisa Loranc

still around — 1 year ago

I complied this list years ago when I worked at the Friendswood Library. I am gratified to see that it is still around and that people find it useful.

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