Lists of Bests: Random House Modern Library's (Readers List)100 Greatest Novels of the 20th Century http://www.listsofbests.com/list/19 The readers' poll for the best novels published in the English language since 1900 opened on July 20, 1998 and closed on October 20, 1998, with 217,520 votes cast. Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:24:40 GMT en-us 0 50 100 50 0 Atlas Shrugged http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/14003 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/14003"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0452011876.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ayn Rand</div> The Fountainhead http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/310677 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/310677"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0452286379.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ayn Rand</div> Battlefield Earth http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/32685 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/32685"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1592120075.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1131660023_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by L. Ron Hubbard</div> The Lord of the Rings (50th Anniversary Edition) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/17295 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/17295"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0618517650.01-A1L7PF5CNT23PC._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by J.R.R. Tolkien</div> 1984 (Signet Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13902 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13902"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0451524934.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by George Orwell</div> Anthem http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13624 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13624"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0451191137.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ayn Rand</div> To Kill a Mockingbird http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/433 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/433"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/006017322X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Harper Lee</div> We the Living http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13618 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13618"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0451187849.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ayn Rand</div> The Invaders Plan (Mission Earth Series) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/65010 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/65010"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1592120229.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1104932549_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by L. Ron Hubbard</div> Fear http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3734789 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3734789"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/01GW5TJTKDL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by L.Ron Hubbard</div> Ulysses (Vintage International) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18652 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18652"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0679722769.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James Joyce</div> Catch 22 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19372 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19372"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0684833395.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1114049981_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joseph Heller</div> The Great Gatsby (Scribner Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19350 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19350"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0684830426.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1114068357_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by F. Scott Fitzgerald</div> Dune (Dune Chronicles, Book 1) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/12832 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/12832"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0441172717.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Frank Herbert</div> The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6520 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6520"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0312863551.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056430967_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robert A. Heinlein</div> Stranger in a Strange Land http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/12882 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/12882"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0441790348.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robert A. Heinlein</div> A Town Like Alice http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7621 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7621"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0345353749.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Nevil Shute</div> Brave New World http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1283 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1283"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060929871.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Aldous Huxley</div> The Catcher in the Rye http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7092 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7092"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0316769487.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div> Animal Farm http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13919 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13919"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0451526341.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by George Orwell</div> Gravity's Rainbow (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2805 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2805"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0140188592.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Thomas Pynchon</div> Grapes of Wrath, The (20th Century Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2788 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2788"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0140186409.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Steinbeck</div> Slaughterhouse-Five http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/12379 <div id="position">23</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/12379"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0440180295.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by KURT VONNEGUT</div> Gone with the Wind http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/967922 <div id="position">24</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> Lord of the Flies http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11596 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11596"><img src="http://ec3.images-amazon.com/images/P/0399501487.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V64005039_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Golding</div> Shane http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/15702 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/15702"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0553271105.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by JACK SCHAEFER</div> Trustee from the Toolroom http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1038584 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1038584"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1842323016.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Nevil Shute</div> A Prayer for Owen Meany http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7640 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7640"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0345361792.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Irving</div> The Stand (Modern Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/14963 <div id="position">29</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/14963"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0517219018.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056449805_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Stephen King</div> The French Lieutenant's Woman http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6962 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6962"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0316291161.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1134525547_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Fowles</div> Beloved http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/14098 <div id="position">31</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> The Worm Ouroboros http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2040427 <div id="position">32</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2040427"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/159360081X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V56790937_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by E.R. Eddison</div> The Sound and the Fury http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18742 <div id="position">33</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18742"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679732241.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Faulkner</div> Lolita http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18659 <div id="position">34</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18659"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0679723161.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1123304346_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Vladimir Nabokov</div> Moonheart http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6653 <div id="position">35</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6653"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0312890044.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Charles de Lint</div> Absalom, Absalom! (Vintage International) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18740 <div id="position">36</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18740"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0679732187.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by WILLIAM FAULKNER</div> Of Human Bondage (Bantam Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/15610 <div id="position">37</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/15610"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/055321392X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by W. Somerset Maugham</div> Wise Blood: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/8546 <div id="position">38</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/8546"><img src="http://ec3.images-amazon.com/images/P/0374505845.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056438166_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Flannery O'Connor</div> Under the Volcano: A Novel (Perennial Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1431 <div id="position">39</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1431"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060955228.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Malcolm Lowry</div> Fifth Business (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/58393 <div id="position">40</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/58393"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141186151.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V59602568_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robertson Davies</div> Someplace To Be Flying (Newford) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/25417 <div id="position">41</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/25417"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0812551583.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Charles de Lint</div> On the Road http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2525 <div id="position">42</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> Heart of Darkness (Penguin Modern Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3458 <div id="position">43</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3458"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141182431.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joseph Conrad</div> Yarrow http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6524 <div id="position">44</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6524"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0312863934.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Charles De Lint</div> H.P. Lovecraft Omnibus Vol 1: "At the Mountains of Madness" and Other Novels of Terror http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/16488 <div id="position">45</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/16488"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0586063226.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by H.P. Lovecraft</div> One Lonely Night (Mike Hammer Series) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1539148 <div id="position">46</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mickey Spillane</div> Memory and Dream http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/25361 <div id="position">47</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/25361"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0812534077.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Charles De Lint</div> To the Lighthouse http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4172 <div id="position">48</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4172"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0156907399.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056422718_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Virginia Woolf</div> The Moviegoer http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9043 <div id="position">49</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9043"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375701966.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Walker Percy</div> Trader (Trader) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/65016 <div id="position">50</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/65016"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0812551575.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Charles De Lint</div>