Lists of Bests: Madison Public Library 100 Best Novels (Readers' Choice) http://www.listsofbests.com/list/6839 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, 15 Nov 2009 01:51:17 GMT en-us 0 50 100 50 0 To Kill a Mockingbird http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/12917 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/12917"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0446310786.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></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 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18453 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18453"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679417397.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1141070924_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by George Orwell</div> The Color Purple http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1434416 <div id="position">4</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alice Walker</div> The Great Gatsby http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21233 <div id="position">5</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> 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/28911 <div id="position">7</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> 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/967922 <div id="position">9</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> Brave New World http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1283 <div id="position">10</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> Animal Farm: Centennial Edition http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/968557 <div id="position">11</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> Charlotte's Web http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/344864 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/344864"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0064410935.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by E. B. White</div> Invisible Man http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/124497 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/124497"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0739322079.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ralph Ellison</div> Catch-22 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1434529 <div id="position">14</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></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 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/970318 <div id="position">16</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> East of Eden http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3554 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3554"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0142000655.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Steinbeck</div> Slaughterhouse-Five http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/961898 <div id="position">18</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> Song of Solomon http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/56284 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/56284"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/140003342X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Toni Morrison</div> Lord of the Flies (50th Anniversary Edition) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11617 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11617"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0399529209.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Golding</div> Gravity's Rainbow http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3014 <div id="position">21</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 Hobbit http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5189 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5189"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0261103288.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V46992936_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by J.R.R. Tolkien</div> My Antonia http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/968281 <div id="position">23</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/968281"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1583485090.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Willa Cather</div> A Prayer for Owen Meany (Modern Library) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18602 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18602"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679642595.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Irving</div> The Joy Luck Club: A Novel (Vintage Contemporaries) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1107454 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1107454"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/067972768X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1057192800_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Amy Tan</div> A Clockwork Orange http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10850 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10850"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0393312836.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Anthony Burgess</div> Old Man And The Sea (Scribner Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19353 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19353"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0684830493.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056465507_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ernest Hemingway</div> Sun Also Rises (Scribner Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/74862 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/74862"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0684830515.01._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: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1759 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1759"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0061097314.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056414734_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Barbara Kingsolver</div> Tropic of Capricorn http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24210 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24210"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0802151825.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1122575010_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Henry Miller</div> Lolita http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/39275 <div id="position">32</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> All the King's Men http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1002254 <div id="position">33</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1002254"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/015101163X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robert Penn Warren</div> To the Lighthouse (Annotated) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1007836 <div id="position">34</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> The Handmaid's Tale (Everyman's Library) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/713466 <div id="position">35</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/713466"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0307264602.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Margaret Atwood</div> Deliverance http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1434679 <div id="position">36</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James Dickey</div> Howards End (Dover Thrift Editions) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1076271 <div id="position">37</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 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, 40th Anniversary Edition (Dune Chronicles, Book 1) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/962380 <div id="position">39</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/962380"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0441013597.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1122692856_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Frank Herbert</div> The World According to Garp (Modern Library) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/309647 <div id="position">40</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/309647"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679603069.01._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 (Centennial Edition Hardcover) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/972195 <div id="position">42</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ayn Rand</div> Atlas Shrugged http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/14003 <div id="position">43</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> Midnight's Children: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/972555 <div id="position">44</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/972555"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0812976533.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1136584770_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Salman Rushdie</div> Of Mice and Men: (Centennial Edition) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/319314 <div id="position">45</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/319314"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0142000671.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Steinbeck</div> The Lord of the Rings http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/17254 <div id="position">46</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/17254"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0618346244.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by J.R.R. Tolkien</div> Brideshead Revisited http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7169 <div id="position">47</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> The Age of Innocence (Oxford World's Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/500281 <div id="position">48</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> 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 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1002919 <div id="position">50</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Chinua Achebe</div>