Book awards: Larry McCaffery's 20th Century Greatest Hits

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Hogg: A Novel by Samuel R. Delany100
In Memoriam to Identity by Kathy Acker99
Tours of the Black Clock by Steve Erickson98
Easy Travel to Other Planets by Ted Mooney97
An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser96
Look Homeward, Angel by Thomas Wolfe95
Mulligan Stew: A Novel by Gilbert Sorrentino94
More Than Human by Theodore Sturgeon93
Waiting for the Barbarians by J. M. Coetzee92
Creamy and delicious; eat my words (in other words) by Steve Katz91
The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop. by Robert Coover90
The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer89
You Bright & Risen Angels by William Vollmann88
Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson87
Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down by Ishmael Reed86
Up by Ronald Sukenick85
Darconville's Cat by Alexander Theroux84
The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles83
Omensetter's Luck (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) by William H. Gass82
The Tunnel by William H. Gass81
Ironweed by William Kennedy80.3
Billy Phelan's Greatest Game by William Kennedy80.2
Legs by William Kennedy80.1
An Albany Trio by William Kennedy80
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess79
Sword & Citadel: The Second Half of 'The Book of the New Sun' by Gene Wolfe78.2
Shadow & Claw: The First Half of 'The Book of the New Sun' by Gene Wolfe78.1
The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles77
American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis76
The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick75
Pricksongs & Descants: Fictions by Robert Coover74
Tlooth by Harry Mathews73
The Age of Wire and String: Stories (American Literature (Dalkey Archive)) by Ben Marcus72
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace71
Skinny Legs and All by Tom Robbins70
The Locked Room (New York Trilogy) by Paul Auster69.3
Ghosts by Paul Auster69.2
City of Glass by Paul Auster69.1
The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster69
The Franchiser by Stanley Elkin68
Portrait of an artist with twenty-six horses by William Eastlake67.3
The bronc people by William Eastlake67.2
Go in Beauty by William Eastlake67.1
Lyric of the Circle Heart: The Bowman Family Trilogy (American Literature Series) by William Eastlake67
Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban66
The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton65
Cane by Jean Toomer64
Dubliners by James Joyce63
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond Carver62
Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett61
The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger60
The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing59
The Big Money by John Dos Passos58.3
1919 by John Dos Passos58.2
The 42nd Parallel by John Dos Passos58.1
U.S.A. by John Dos Passos58
Always Coming Home by Ursula K. Le Guin57
Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor56
Libra by Don DeLillo55
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut54
Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson53
Nightwood by Djuna Barnes52
The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West51
Native Son by Richard Wright50
The Cannibal by John Hawkes49
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy48
At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O'Brien47
Double or Nothing by Raymond Federman46
A Passage to India by E. M. Forster45
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley44
Genoa: A Telling of Wonders by Paul Metcalf43
The Sot-Weed Factor by John Barth42
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie41
Crash by J. G. Ballard40
Lookout Cartridge by Joseph McElroy39
On the Road by Jack Kerouac38
Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller37
Mona Lisa Overdrive by William Gibson36.3
Count Zero by William Gibson36.2
Neuromancer by William Gibson36.1
The Jade Cabinet (American Literature (Dalkey Archive)) by Rikki Ducornet35.4
The Fountains of Neptune (American Literature (Dalkey Archive)) by Rikki Ducornet35.3
Entering Fire by Rikki Ducornet35.2
The Stain: A Novel by Rikki Ducornet35.1
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck34
Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delany33
Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner32
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston31
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell30
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller29
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad28
The Recognitions by William Gaddis27
The Rifles (Seven Dreams) by William Vollmann26
Sixty Stories by Donald Barthelme25
Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence24
The Ambassadors by Henry James23
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald22
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce21
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway20
Underworld by Don DeLillo19
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison18
JR by William Gaddis17
In the Heart of the Heart of the Country & Other Stories (Nonpareil Books, #21) by William H. Gass16
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf15
Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry14
Going Native by Stephen Wright13
Beloved by Toni Morrison12
Take It or Leave It by Raymond Federman11
Finnegans Wake by James Joyce10
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov9
The Ticket That Exploded by William S. Burroughs8.3
Nova Express by William S. Burroughs8.2
The Soft Machine by William S. Burroughs8.1
The Making of Americans by Gertrude Stein7
Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable by Samuel Beckett6
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner5
The Public Burning by Robert Coover4
Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon3
Ulysses by James Joyce2
Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov1

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Critic, editor, and professor Larry McCaffery's top 100 English-language books of the 20th century.

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