Library Journal's Most Influential Fiction of the 20th Century

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Compiled by Library Journal Magazine and appeared in their November 15, 1998 issue.

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  1. 1.
    To Kill a Mockingbird: 50th Anniversary Edition
    by Harper Lee

  2. 2.
    The Catcher in the Rye
    by J. D. Salinger

  3. 3.
    The Lord of the Rings: 50th Anniversary, One Vol. Edition
    by J.R.R. Tolkien

  4. 4.
    Gone with the Wind
    by Margaret Mitchell

  5. 5.
    Beloved (Everyman's Library)
    by Toni Morrison

  6. 6.
    The Color Purple
    by Alice Walker

  7. 7.
    Nineteen Eighty-Four
    by George Orwell

  8. 8.
    Catch-22
    by Joseph Heller

  9. 9.
    The Good Earth (Enriched Classics)
    by Pearl S. Buck

  10. 10.
    Charlotte's Web
    by E. B. White

  11. 11.
    The Great Gatsby
    by F. Scott Fitzgerald

  12. 12.
    One Hundred Years of Solitude (P.S.)
    by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  13. 13.
    Lonesome Dove: A Novel
    by Larry McMurtry

  14. 14.
    Lolita, 50th Anniversary Edition
    by Vladimir Nabokov

  15. 15.
    Fahrenheit 451
    by Ray Bradbury

  16. 16.
    Rebecca
    by Daphne du Maurier

  17. 17.
    The Grapes of Wrath
    by John Steinbeck

  18. 18.
    A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
    by Betty Smith

  19. 19.
    The Hobbit
    by J.R.R. Tolkien

  20. 20.
    One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Penguin Classics)
    by Ken Kesey

  21. 21.
    The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie: A Novel (P.S.)
    by Muriel Spark

  22. 22.
    My Antonia
    by Willa Cather

  23. 23.
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    The Old Man and The Sea
    by Ernest Hemingway

  24. 24.
    Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel
    by Kurt Vonnegut

  25. 25.
    Lord of the Flies
    by William Golding

  26. 26.
    Animal Farm: Centennial Edition
    by George Orwell

  27. 27.
    Lady Chatterley's Lover
    by D.H. Lawrence

  28. 28.
    Invisible Man
    by Ralph Ellison

  29. 29.
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    EXODUS, LEON URIS, 1984
    by LEON URIS EXODUS

  30. 30.
    Sophies Choice
    by William Styron

  31. 31.
    Native Son (Perennial Classics)

  32. 32.
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    Little House on the Prarie
    by Laura Ingalls Wilder

  33. 33.
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    Farwell to Arms
    by Ernest Hemingway

  34. 34.
    Winnie the Pooh
    by A.A. Milne

  35. 35.
    The Jungle (Enriched Classics)
    by Upton Sinclair

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  37. 37.
    The Age of Innocence
    by Edith Wharton

  38. 38.
    Rabbit, Run
    by John Updike

  39. 39.
    On the Road (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)
    by Jack Kerouac

  40. 40.
    Stranger in a Strange Land
    by Robert A. Heinlein

  41. 41.
    Brave New World
    by Aldous Huxley

  42. 42.
    Angle of Repose (Contemporary American Fiction)
    by Wallace Stegner

  43. 43.
    All Quiet on the Western Front
    by Erich Maria Remarque

  44. 44.
    Ulysses
    by James Joyce

  45. 45.
    The Sun Also Rises
    by Ernest Hemingway

  46. 46.
    The Stranger (Everyman's Library)
    by Albert Camus

  47. 47.
    The Sound and the Fury: The Corrected Text
    by William Faulkner

  48. 48.
    Possession
    by A.S. Byatt

  49. 49.
    Winesburg, Ohio (Signet Classics)
    by Sherwood Anderson

  50. 50.
    The Stone Diaries: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
    by Carol Shields

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Untitled — 1 year ago

I suspect #87 is supposed to be the collection of stories by Flannery O’Connor.




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