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Most Influential Novels of the 20th Century

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1. A Clockwork Orange
by Anthony Burgess
  
2. Ulysses
by James Joyce
  
3. The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  
4. Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (James Joyce Archive)
by James Joyce
  
5. Lolita
by Vladimir Nabokov
  
6.
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 BRAVE NEW WORLD by Aldous Huxley  
7.
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 THE SOUND AND THE FURY
by William Faulkner
  
8. Catch 22
by Joseph Heller
  
9. Darkness at Noon
by Arthur Koestler
  
10. Sons and Lovers (Modern Library Classics)
by D.H. Lawrence
  
11. The Grapes of Wrath (Penguin Classics)
by John Steinbeck
  
12. Under the Volcano: A Novel (Perennial Classics)
by Malcolm Lowry
  
13. The Way of All Flesh (Giant Thrifts)
by Samuel Butler
  
14.
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 George Orwell's 1984
by George Orwell
  
15. I, Claudius
by Robert Graves
  
16.
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 To the Lighthouse
by Virginia Woolf
  
17. Dreiser American Tragedy (Library of America)
by Theodore Dreiser
  
18. The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
by Carson McCullers
  
19.
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 Slaughterhouse 5
by Kurt Vonnegut
  
20. Invisible Man: A Novel
by Ralph Ellison
  
21. Native Son
by Richard Wright
  
22. Henderson the Rain King (Penguin Classics)
by Saul Bellow
  
23.
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 APPOINTMENT IN SAMARRA
by John O'Hara
  
24. U.S.A.: The 42nd Parallel / 1919 / The Big Money (Library of America)
by John Dos Passos
  
25. Winesburg, Ohio
by Sherwood Anderson
  
26. A Passage to India
by E.M. Forster
  
27. Wings of the Dove (Signet Classics (Paperback))
by Henry James
  
28.
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 The Ambassadors
by Henry James
  
29. Tender Is the Night
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  
30.
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 Studs Lonigan: A Trilogy Comprising Young Lonigan, the Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan, and Judgement Day
by James T. Farrell
  
31.
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 The Good Soldier
by Ford Madox Ford
  
32. Animal Farm
by George Orwell
  
33. The Golden Bowl (Oxford World's Classics)
by Henry James
  
34. Sister Carrie, Third Edition (Norton Critical Edition)
by Theodore Dreiser
  
35. A Handful of Dust (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
by Evelyn Waugh
  
36. As I Lay Dying
by William Faulkner
  
37. All the King's Men
by Robert Penn Warren
  
38. Bridge of San Luis Rey: A Novel
by Thornton Wilder
  
39. Go Tell It on the Mountain
by James Baldwin
  
40. The Heart of the Matter: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) (Penguin Classics Deluxe Editio)
by Graham Greene
  
41. Lord of the Flies  
42.
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 Deliverance
by James Dickey
  
43. A Dance to the Music of Time
by Anthony Powell
  
44. Point Counter Point (British Literature)
by Aldous Huxley
  
45. Sun Also Rises (Scribner Classics)
by Ernest Hemingway
  
46. The Secret Agent (Penguin Popular Classics)
by Joseph Conrad
  
47.
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 The Rainbow
by D.H. Lawrence
  
48. Nostromo
by Joseph Conrad
  
49. Women in Love (Dover Thrift Editions)
by D. H. Lawrence
  
50. Tropic of Cancer
by Henry Miller
  
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