Lists of Bests: Modern Library http://www.listsofbests.com/list/8926 Most Influential Novels of the 20th Century Sun, 15 Nov 2009 19:14:59 GMT en-us 0 50 100 50 0 A Clockwork Orange http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10850 <div id="position">1</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> Ulysses http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/970318 <div id="position">2</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 Great Gatsby http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21233 <div id="position">3</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> Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (James Joyce Archive) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/948513 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/948513"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0815312784.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James Joyce</div> Lolita http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/39275 <div id="position">5</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> BRAVE NEW WORLD by Aldous Huxley http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/619540 <div id="position">6</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> THE SOUND AND THE FURY http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1599427 <div id="position">7</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Faulkner</div> Catch 22 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/618616 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/618616"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000B770YG.01-A2BR5SAJRAPPA1._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1125353268_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joseph Heller</div> Darkness at Noon http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/76009 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/76009"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0099424916.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Arthur Koestler</div> Sons and Lovers (Modern Library Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/64940 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/64940"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375753737.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by D.H. Lawrence</div> The Grapes of Wrath (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/466410 <div id="position">11</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> Under the Volcano: A Novel (Perennial Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1431 <div id="position">12</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> The Way of All Flesh (Giant Thrifts) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1166181 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1166181"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0486434664.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Samuel Butler</div> George Orwell's 1984 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/962088 <div id="position">14</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by George Orwell</div> I, Claudius http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/327521 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/327521"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000EBA258.01-A1KD1XFHXZAGYA._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robert Graves</div> To the Lighthouse http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/619574 <div id="position">16</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Virginia Woolf</div> Dreiser American Tragedy (Library of America) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/581471 <div id="position">17</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> The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2337777 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2337777"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0618084746.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Carson McCullers</div> Slaughterhouse 5 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/88566 <div id="position">19</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Kurt Vonnegut</div> Invisible Man: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/962378 <div id="position">20</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> Native Son http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1221663 <div id="position">21</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> Henderson the Rain King (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2811 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2811"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140189424.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Saul Bellow</div> APPOINTMENT IN SAMARRA http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/619597 <div id="position">23</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John O'Hara</div> U.S.A.: The 42nd Parallel / 1919 / The Big Money (Library of America) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/33684 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/33684"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1883011140.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V60062379_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Dos Passos</div> Winesburg, Ohio http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1222064 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1222064"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1404339566.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sherwood Anderson</div> A Passage to India http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1001705 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1001705"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/184046027X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by E.M. Forster</div> Wings of the Dove (Signet Classics (Paperback)) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/968257 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/968257"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0451527283.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1138677751_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Henry James</div> The Ambassadors http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/619620 <div id="position">28</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Henry James</div> Tender Is the Night http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19354 <div id="position">29</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19354"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0684830507.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1122554716_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by F. Scott Fitzgerald</div> Studs Lonigan: A Trilogy Comprising Young Lonigan, the Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan, and Judgement Day http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1639037 <div id="position">30</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James T. Farrell</div> The Good Soldier http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/619636 <div id="position">31</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ford Madox Ford</div> Animal Farm http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/61893 <div id="position">32</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/61893"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0786184779.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by George Orwell</div> The Golden Bowl (Oxford World's Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1079315 <div id="position">33</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1079315"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0192835424.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1110473524_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Henry James</div> Sister Carrie, Third Edition (Norton Critical Edition) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/581472 <div id="position">34</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/581472"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0393927733.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1138665546_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Theodore Dreiser</div> A Handful of Dust (Everyman's Library (Cloth)) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/8794 <div id="position">35</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/8794"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375414207.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Evelyn Waugh</div> As I Lay Dying http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/938150 <div id="position">36</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/938150"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000EEAU1G.01-AM0TBPF72AOXR._SCTHUMBZZZ_V43396484_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Faulkner</div> All the King's Men http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1002254 <div id="position">37</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> Bridge of San Luis Rey: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/293865 <div id="position">38</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/293865"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060580615.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Thornton Wilder</div> Go Tell It on the Mountain http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/741066 <div id="position">39</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> The Heart of the Matter: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) (Penguin Classics Deluxe Editio) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/510865 <div id="position">40</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/510865"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0142437999.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1083831978_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Graham Greene</div> Lord of the Flies http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/57842 <div id="position">41</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/57842"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0307281701.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div> Deliverance http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1395333 <div id="position">42</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James Dickey</div> A Dance to the Music of Time http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1499261 <div id="position">43</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1499261"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0749391588.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Anthony Powell</div> Point Counter Point (British Literature) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/64949 <div id="position">44</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/64949"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1564781313.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Aldous Huxley</div> Sun Also Rises (Scribner Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/74862 <div id="position">45</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> The Secret Agent (Penguin Popular Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1639070 <div id="position">46</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1639070"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0140620567.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joseph Conrad</div> The Rainbow http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/619705 <div id="position">47</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by D.H. Lawrence</div> Nostromo http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/71323 <div id="position">48</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/71323"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0521313651.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joseph Conrad</div> Women in Love (Dover Thrift Editions) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1079405 <div id="position">49</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1079405"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0486424588.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by D. H. Lawrence</div> Tropic of Cancer http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24058 <div id="position">50</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24058"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0802131786.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1126634353_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Henry Miller</div>