Lists of Bests: MomsMyJob's "Madison Public Library 100 Best Novels" http://www.listsofbests.com/list/50216 Readers' Choice When the Modern Library Board published its list of the 100 greatest English-language novels of the century in 1998, there was much debate in the media about the titles on the list and who selected them. Madison Public Library took that debate to heart and set up its own vote. The novels had to have been English language novels published in the 20th century. Here's what Madison readers chose. Sun, 06 Dec 2009 17:44:32 GMT en-us 0 50 100 50 0 To Kill a Mockingbird http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/433 <div id="position">1</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> The Catcher in the Rye http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7091 <div id="position">2</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> Nineteen Eighty-four (Penguin Modern Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/499994 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/499994"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/014118776X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by George Orwell</div> The Color Purple: Tenth Anniversary Editon http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2569351 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2569351"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0151191549.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V37866237_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alice Walker</div> The Great Gatsby (Penguin Modern Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/263780 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/263780"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141182636.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V65730790_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by F.Scott Fitzgerald</div> On the Road (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3709 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3709"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0142437255.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jack Kerouac</div> Beloved http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/78770 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/78770"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0099760118.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Toni Morrison</div> The Grapes of Wrath (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/466410 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/466410"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0143039431.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Steinbeck</div> Gone with the Wind http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2795665 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2795665"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/01x13H3RvmL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Margaret Mitchell</div> Brave New World (P.S.) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1434784 <div id="position">10</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 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13919 <div id="position">11</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> Charlotte's Web (Trophy Newbery) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1901 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1901"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0064400557.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by E. B. White</div> Invisible Man http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1822104 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1822104"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141184426.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ralph Ellison</div> Catch-22: A Novel (Simon & Schuster Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19589 <div id="position">14</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> One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3448 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3448"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141181222.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ken Kesey</div> Ulysses (Penguin Modern Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3466 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3466"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141182806.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James Joyce</div> East of Eden http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3610850 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3610850"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/118T9RBJ0AL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Steinbeck</div> Slaughterhouse 5 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2680004 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2680004"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0099800209.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Kurt Vonnegut</div> Song of Solomon http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2534083 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2534083"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0099768410.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056417714_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Toni Morrison</div> Lord of the Flies http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2364951 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2364951"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0571084834.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056456553_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Golding</div> Gravity's Rainbow http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/930664 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/930664"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0099533219.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Thomas Pynchon</div> The Hobbit: or There and Back Again http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/17109 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/17109"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0618002219.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1077844929_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by J.R.R. Tolkien</div> MY ANTONIA (VIRAGO MODERN CLASSICS) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2893614 <div id="position">23</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2893614"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/01SZ6EVHEFL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by A.S. BYATT (INTRODUCTION) WILLA CATHER</div> A Prayer for Owen Meany (Ballantine Reader's Circle) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/317221 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/317221"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0345417976.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Irving</div> The Joy Luck Club http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1739199 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1739199"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0143038095.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Amy Tan</div> A Clockwork Orange (Penguin Modern Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/64541 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/64541"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141182601.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Anthony Burgess</div> The Old Man and the Sea http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/64500 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/64500"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0099908409.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ernest Hemingway</div> The Sun Also Rises http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1233441 <div id="position">28</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> Their Eyes Were Watching God http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1284834 <div id="position">29</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1284834"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0061120065.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Zora Neale Hurston</div> The Bean Trees http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3621677 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3621677"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/01GR95BRJ2L.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Barbara Kingsolver</div> Tropic of Capricorn (Harper Perennial Modern Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2601364 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2601364"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0007204450.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Henry Miller</div> Lolita (Penguin Modern Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3460 <div id="position">32</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3460"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141182539.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V47020293_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Vladimir Nabokov</div> All the King's Men http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3949 <div id="position">33</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3949"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0156004801.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robert Penn Warren</div> To the Lighthouse (Vintage Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3565372 <div id="position">34</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3565372"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/01D2J4ZZW0L.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Virginia Woolf</div> The Handmaid's Tale: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10315 <div id="position">35</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10315"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/038549081X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Margaret Atwood</div> Deliverance http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10061 <div id="position">36</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10061"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/038531387X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1057190352_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James Dickey</div> Howards End (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics,) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3455 <div id="position">37</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3455"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/014118213X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V37202371_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by E. M. Forster</div> The Forsyte Saga (Penguin Modern Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/753247 <div id="position">38</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/753247"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141184183.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Galsworthy</div> Dune http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/12678 <div id="position">39</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/12678"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/044100590X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Frank Herbert</div> The World According to Garp (Ballantine Reader's Circle) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/83064 <div id="position">40</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/83064"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0345418018.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Irving</div> A Separate Peace http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21147 <div id="position">41</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21147"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0743253973.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Knowles</div> The Fountainhead http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/310677 <div id="position">42</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> Atlas Shrugged (Centennial Edition) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/53700 <div id="position">43</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/53700"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0452286360.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ayn Rand</div> Midnight's Children http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2649 <div id="position">44</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2649"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0140132708.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Salman Rushdie</div> Of Mice and Men (Penguin Red Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3457865 <div id="position">45</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3457865"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/01Z1N0GNASL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Steinbeck</div> The Lord of the Rings: 50th Anniversary, One Vol. Edition http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/72074 <div id="position">46</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/72074"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0618640150.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by J.R.R. Tolkien</div> Brideshead Revisited http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/808427 <div id="position">47</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/808427"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140274103.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056420539_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Evelyn Waugh</div> The Age of Innocence (Modern Library Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9326 <div id="position">48</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9326"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0375753206.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Edith Wharton</div> Native Son (Perennial Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/57190 <div id="position">49</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/57190"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/006083756X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Richard A. Wright</div> Things Fall Apart (Penguin Modern Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1736202 <div id="position">50</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1736202"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0141186887.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Chinua Achebe</div>