Lists of Bests: sefs240's "The 100 Best Novels of the 20th Century" http://www.listsofbests.com/list/48903 This was compiled by combining several other "definitive" lists (Modern Library, Radcliffe, Western Canon, etc). I tried to incorporate as many educated opinions as possible in constructing this list. Please remember that these are 20th century, English-language novels only, with the exceptions of Heart of Darkness (originally published in 1899) and Darkness at Noon (originally published in German). I included these two because most other lists did. Sat, 28 Nov 2009 06:49:13 GMT en-us 0 50 100 50 0 Ulysses http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/970318 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/970318"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1404336877.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James Joyce</div> The Sound and the Fury http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18742 <div id="position">2</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/39275 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/39275"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0739322060.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Vladimir Nabokov</div> The Great Gatsby http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21233 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21233"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0743273567.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by F. Scott Fitzgerald</div> To the Lighthouse (Annotated) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1007836 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1007836"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0156030470.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1119999750_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Virginia Woolf</div> Nineteen Eighty-four http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/499993 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/499993"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140126716.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by George Orwell</div> A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3716 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3716"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0142437344.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James Joyce</div> Invisible Man: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/962378 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/962378"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375507914.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V44539344_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ralph Ellison</div> The Ambassadors http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2905877 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2905877"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/018Ap%2BoeqiL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Henry James</div> The Sun Also Rises http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1233441 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1233441"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0743297334.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ernest Hemingway</div> The Grapes of Wrath (Centennial Edition) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3555 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3555"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0142000663.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Steinbeck</div> Native Son http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1221663 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1221663"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000E3CRHW.01-A1KD1XFHXZAGYA._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Richard Wright</div> A Passage to India (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/163250 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/163250"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/014144116X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by E.M. Forster</div> Sons and Lovers (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/776474 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/776474"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141441445.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by D.H. Lawrence</div> The Catcher in the Rye http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7091 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7091"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0316769177.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by J.D. Salinger</div> Catch-22: A Novel (Simon & Schuster Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19589 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19589"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0684865130.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joseph Heller</div> Women in Love: Cambridge Lawrence Edition http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2577080 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2577080"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141441542.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by D.H. Lawrence</div> Pale Fire (Everyman's Library (Cloth)) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18442 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18442"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679410775.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056464691_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Vladimir Nabokov</div> The Good Soldier (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (B&N Classics Trade Paper) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1216092 <div id="position">19</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ford Maddox Ford</div> Brave New World (P.S.) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1434784 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1434784"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060850523.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Aldous Huxley</div> Animal Farm: Centennial Edition http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/968557 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/968557"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0452284244.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by George Orwell</div> Heart of Darkness (Norton Critical Editions) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/165785 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/165785"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0393926362.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joseph Conrad</div> As I Lay Dying: The Corrected Text (Modern Library) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/8918 <div id="position">23</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/8918"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375504524.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Faulkner</div> A Farewell to Arms (Scribner Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/56513 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/56513"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0684837889.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ernest Hemingway</div> Under the Volcano: A Novel (P.S.) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2053361 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2053361"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0061120154.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V45129663_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Malcolm Lowry</div> Finnegans Wake (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3451 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3451"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141181265.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James Joyce</div> Slaughterhouse-Five http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/961898 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/961898"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0385333846.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V44910329_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Kurt Vonnegut</div> On the Road (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/961415 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/961415"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140283293.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jack Kerouac</div> Gravity's Rainbow http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3014 <div id="position">29</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3014"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140283382.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Thomas Pynchon</div> The Heart of the Matter http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2336535 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2336535"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0099478420.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Graham Greene</div> Lord of the Flies : (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century) (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1467065 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1467065"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140283331.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Golding</div> The Wings of the Dove (Modern Library Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/25549 <div id="position">32</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/25549"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0812967194.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Henry James</div> USA Trilogy: The 42nd Parallel, Nineteen Nineteen, and The Big Money http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3514964 <div id="position">33</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Dos Passos</div> Howards End (Dover Thrift Editions) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1076271 <div id="position">34</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1076271"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0486424545.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by E. M. Forster</div> The Golden Bowl (Penguin Modern Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/367873 <div id="position">35</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/367873"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141186240.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Henry James</div> Tender is the Night http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3498444 <div id="position">36</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3498444"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/01Ja%2BWo8aVL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by F. Scott Fitzgerald</div> Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2813021 <div id="position">37</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2813021"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/01oAjYdQUoL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joseph Conrad</div> Dubliners (Oxford World's Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/113983 <div id="position">38</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/113983"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0192839993.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James Joyce</div> A Clockwork Orange (Essential.penguin) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/49951 <div id="position">39</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/49951"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/014027409X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Anthony Burgess</div> The Age of Innocence (Oxford World's Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/500281 <div id="position">40</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/500281"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0192806629.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Edith Wharton</div> Light in August http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18744 <div id="position">41</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18744"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679732268.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Faulkner</div> Lord Jim: A Tale (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3216345 <div id="position">42</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3216345"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/01I7FCQmdML.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joseph Conrad</div> Go Tell It on the Mountain http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/741066 <div id="position">43</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/741066"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0385334575.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1113633744_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James Baldwin</div> Dreiser American Tragedy (Library of America) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/581471 <div id="position">44</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/581471"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1931082316.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Theodore Dreiser</div> Brideshead Revisited http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7169 <div id="position">45</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7169"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0316926345.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Evelyn Waugh</div> Mrs. Dalloway http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3816 <div id="position">46</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3816"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0151009988.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Virginia Woolf</div> The Crying of Lot 49 (Perennial Fiction Library) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2020142 <div id="position">47</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2020142"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/006091307X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Thomas Pynchon</div> Beloved http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/28911 <div id="position">48</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/28911"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1400033411.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Toni Morrison</div> Henderson the Rain King (Penguin Modern Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2889007 <div id="position">49</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2889007"><img src="http://g-ec2.images-amazon.com/images/I/11wTr7LzlOL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Saul Bellow</div> The House of Mirth http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1345006 <div id="position">50</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1345006"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1844082938.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Edith Wharton</div>