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Most Influential Novels of the 20th Century

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  1. 1.
    A Clockwork Orange
    by Anthony Burgess

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    Ulysses
    by James Joyce

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    The Great Gatsby
    by F. Scott Fitzgerald

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    Lolita
    by Vladimir Nabokov

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    BRAVE NEW WORLD by Aldous Huxley

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    THE SOUND AND THE FURY
    by William Faulkner

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    Catch 22
    by Joseph Heller

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    Darkness at Noon
    by Arthur Koestler

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

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    The Grapes of Wrath (Penguin Classics)
    by John Steinbeck

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    Under the Volcano: A Novel (Perennial Classics)
    by Malcolm Lowry

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  13. 13.
    The Way of All Flesh (Giant Thrifts)
    by Samuel Butler

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    George Orwell's 1984
    by George Orwell

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    I, Claudius
    by Robert Graves

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    To the Lighthouse
    by Virginia Woolf

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    Dreiser American Tragedy (Library of America)
    by Theodore Dreiser

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  18. 18.
    The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
    by Carson McCullers

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    Slaughterhouse 5
    by Kurt Vonnegut

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  20. 20.
    Invisible Man: A Novel
    by Ralph Ellison

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    Native Son
    by Richard Wright

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    Henderson the Rain King (Penguin Classics)
    by Saul Bellow

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    APPOINTMENT IN SAMARRA
    by John O'Hara

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    Winesburg, Ohio
    by Sherwood Anderson

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    A Passage to India
    by E.M. Forster

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  26. 27.
    Wings of the Dove (Signet Classics (Paperback))
    by Henry James

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    The Ambassadors
    by Henry James

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    Tender Is the Night
    by F. Scott Fitzgerald

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    The Good Soldier
    by Ford Madox Ford

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    Animal Farm
    by George Orwell

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    The Golden Bowl (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Henry James

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    Sister Carrie, Third Edition (Norton Critical Edition)
    by Theodore Dreiser

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  33. 35.
    A Handful of Dust (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
    by Evelyn Waugh

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    As I Lay Dying
    by William Faulkner

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    All the King's Men
    by Robert Penn Warren

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  36. 38.
    Bridge of San Luis Rey: A Novel
    by Thornton Wilder

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    Go Tell It on the Mountain
    by James Baldwin

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    Lord of the Flies

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    Deliverance
    by James Dickey

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  40. 43.
    A Dance to the Music of Time
    by Anthony Powell

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    Point Counter Point (British Literature)
    by Aldous Huxley

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  42. 45.
    Sun Also Rises (Scribner Classics)
    by Ernest Hemingway

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    The Secret Agent (Penguin Popular Classics)
    by Joseph Conrad

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    The Rainbow
    by D.H. Lawrence

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  45. 48.
    Nostromo
    by Joseph Conrad

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  46. 49.
    Women in Love (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by D. H. Lawrence

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  47. 50.
    Tropic of Cancer
    by Henry Miller

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Created by Caryn on Jun 30, 2006.
 

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Corrections — 1 year ago

Changed it from some guy’s critical analysis of The Handmaid’s Tale to the book itself. Also changed ”The Heart is a Lonley Hunter” to the correctly spelled version.