Lists of Bests: The Radcliffe Publishing Course's "100 Best Novels of the 20th Century" http://www.listsofbests.com/list/110 On July 21, 1998, the Radcliffe Publishing Course compiled and released its own list of the century's top 100 novels to counter the "Modern Library's own top 100 novels" list. (As a student at RPC in the Summer of 1997, I participated in the creation of this list. In case anyone is curious, here is the method by which the list was created: all of the students in the course that year - reasonably intelligent kids who'd just finished undergrad degrees, primarily English majors, but there were a couple of older students and a few from other disciplines - were asked to submit a list of their 10 favorite works of fiction. These were all compiled and the 100 which appeared most often among the submitted favorites ended up on this list. And I think some of the books may have shown up if they received even 2 or 3 votes, because there were simply not that many students. So, basically, it's a reflection of the top-of-mind tastes (and sometimes the elitist bravado) of fresh-out-of-college English majors heading into the publishing industry. There was no discussion or debate about the merits of including any of the books over others. It was just a compilation of the favorites we submitted. I still think it's an interesting list, but I do think it's relevant to take into consideration how it came to be.) Thu, 31 May 2012 14:59:46 GMT en-us 0 50 100 50 0 The Great Gatsby http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21233 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21233"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41eiFf1x23L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by F. Scott Fitzgerald</div> The Catcher in the Rye http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7092 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7092"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51namOub2kL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by J.D. Salinger</div> The Grapes of Wrath (20th Century Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2788 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2788"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41KQ6R5GZBL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Steinbeck</div> To Kill a Mockingbird http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/12917 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/12917"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51pgummMKjL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Harper Lee</div> The Color Purple http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18026 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18026"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51ETpSbMfqL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alice Walker</div> Ulysses http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18652 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18652"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51iEK3J3hNL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James Joyce</div> Beloved http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/14098 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/14098"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0452280621.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Toni Morrison</div> Lord of the Flies http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11596 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11596"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/512xcMfoVjL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Golding</div> Nineteen Eighty-Four (Penguin Modern Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/499994 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/499994"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/511ZjE6%2BebL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by George Orwell</div> The Sound and the Fury: The Corrected Text http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18742 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18742"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51--Odn0keL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Faulkner</div> Lolita, 50th Anniversary Edition http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18659 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18659"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41gMT3BaWiL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Vladimir Nabokov</div> Of Mice and Men (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2742 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2742"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0140177396.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Steinbeck</div> Charlotte's Web http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/233355 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/233355"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000COQCTM.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by E. B. White</div> A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Signet classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/71421 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/71421"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51JV0D47T6L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James Joyce</div> Catch-22 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19372 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19372"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51eW-wH1K-L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joseph Heller</div> Brave New World http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1283 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1283"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41JP2Y4awLL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Aldous Huxley</div> Animal Farm http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13919 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13919"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51w-rPGvWcL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by George Orwell</div> The Sun Also Rises http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19227 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19227"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51YECFM808L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ernest Hemingway</div> As I Lay Dying: The Corrected Text http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18743 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18743"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51kYh38zHWL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Faulkner</div> A Farewell To Arms http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19234 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19234"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/514omBy1BgL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ernest Hemingway</div> Heart of Darkness (Hesperus Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/33081 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/33081"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41x6LtZ3RBL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joseph Conrad</div> Winnie-the-Pooh (Pooh Original Edition) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3096 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3096"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51YoPrWZYfL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by A. A. Milne</div> Their Eyes Were Watching God http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1316 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1316"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0060931418.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Zora Neale Hurston</div> Invisible Man http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18757 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18757"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41BPEBYp8FL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ralph Ellison</div> Song of Solomon (Oprah's Book Club) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/14009 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/14009"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0452260116.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056444941_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Toni Morrison</div> Gone with the Wind http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/967922 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/967922"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0446675539.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Margaret Mitchell</div> Native Son http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1168 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1168"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41JWCZZ215L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Richard Wright</div> One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13580 <div id="position">29</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13580"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0451163966.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ken Kesey</div> Slaughterhouse-Five http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/12379 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/12379"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/4120yizU-2L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Kurt Vonnegut</div> For Whom the Bell Tolls http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19248 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19248"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0684803356.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ernest Hemingway</div> On the Road http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2525 <div id="position">32</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2525"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140042598.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1131418748_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jack Kerouac</div> The Old Man and The Sea http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19230 <div id="position">33</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ernest Hemingway</div> The Call Of The Wild (Scholastic Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/49341 <div id="position">34</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/49341"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0439227143.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jack London</div> To the Lighthouse http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4172 <div id="position">35</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4172"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51l-vSYoj0L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Virginia Woolf</div> The Portrait of a Lady (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3518 <div id="position">36</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3518"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41bSZh6ckCL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Henry James</div> Go Tell It on the Mountain http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/12548 <div id="position">37</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/12548"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0440330076.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James Baldwin</div> The World According to Garp http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7653 <div id="position">38</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7653"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51VEM3QVnQL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Irving</div> All the King's Men http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3949 <div id="position">39</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3949"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51xtZwzHNBL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robert Penn Warren</div> A Room With a View http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1001708 <div id="position">40</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1001708"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0735105928.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by E. M. Forster</div> The Lord of the Rings: 50th Anniversary, One Vol. Edition http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/72074 <div id="position">41</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/72074"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/31%2BFYqwLcmL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by J.R.R. Tolkien</div> Schindler's List http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18184 <div id="position">42</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18184"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51QMAB5CJRL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Thomas Keneally</div> The Age of Innocence (Modern Library Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9326 <div id="position">43</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9326"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41AtecP0M1L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Edith Wharton</div> The Fountainhead http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13626 <div id="position">44</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13626"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0451191153.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1138672769_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ayn Rand</div> Finnegans Wake (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3451 <div id="position">45</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3451"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51ZWM2BWY0L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James Joyce</div> The Jungle: The Uncensored Original Edition http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/33726 <div id="position">46</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/33726"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51WTdUgRFIL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Upton Sinclair</div> Mrs. Dalloway http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4141 <div id="position">47</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4141"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51bRU2Gs9%2BL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Virginia Woolf</div> The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Oxford World's Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/330509 <div id="position">48</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/330509"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0192839306.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by L. Frank Baum</div> Lady Chatterley's Lover (Bantam Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/15580 <div id="position">49</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/15580"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51FPNw975XL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by D.H. Lawrence</div> A Clockwork Orange http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10850 <div id="position">50</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10850"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41tViXbqjLL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Anthony Burgess</div> The Awakening http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9491 <div id="position">51</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9491"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/4171NNSRJAL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Kate Chopin</div>