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Larry McCaffery's 20th Century Greatest Hits
Book awards: Larry McCaffery's 20th Century Greatest Hits
Book awards by cover
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Works (120)
Titles
Hogg: A Novel
by
Samuel R. Delany
100
In Memoriam to Identity
by
Kathy Acker
99
Tours of the Black Clock
by
Steve Erickson
98
Easy Travel to Other Planets
by
Ted Mooney
97
An American Tragedy
by
Theodore Dreiser
96
Look Homeward, Angel
by
Thomas Wolfe
95
Mulligan Stew: A Novel
by
Gilbert Sorrentino
94
More Than Human
by
Theodore Sturgeon
93
Waiting for the Barbarians
by
J. M. Coetzee
92
Creamy and delicious; eat my words (in other words)
by
Steve Katz
91
The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop.
by
Robert Coover
90
The Naked and the Dead
by
Norman Mailer
89
You Bright & Risen Angels
by
William Vollmann
88
Winesburg, Ohio
by
Sherwood Anderson
87
Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down
by
Ishmael Reed
86
Up
by
Ronald Sukenick
85
Darconville's Cat
by
Alexander Theroux
84
The Sheltering Sky
by
Paul Bowles
83
Omensetter's Luck (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
by
William H. Gass
82
The Tunnel
by
William H. Gass
81
Ironweed
by
William Kennedy
80.3
Billy Phelan's Greatest Game
by
William Kennedy
80.2
Legs
by
William Kennedy
80.1
An Albany Trio
by
William Kennedy
80
A Clockwork Orange
by
Anthony Burgess
79
Sword & Citadel: The Second Half of 'The Book of the New Sun'
by
Gene Wolfe
78.2
Shadow & Claw: The First Half of 'The Book of the New Sun'
by
Gene Wolfe
78.1
The French Lieutenant's Woman
by
John Fowles
77
American Psycho
by
Bret Easton Ellis
76
The Man in the High Castle
by
Philip K. Dick
75
Pricksongs & Descants: Fictions
by
Robert Coover
74
Tlooth
by
Harry Mathews
73
The Age of Wire and String: Stories (American Literature (Dalkey Archive))
by
Ben Marcus
72
Infinite Jest
by
David Foster Wallace
71
Skinny Legs and All
by
Tom Robbins
70
The Locked Room (New York Trilogy)
by
Paul Auster
69.3
Ghosts
by
Paul Auster
69.2
City of Glass
by
Paul Auster
69.1
The New York Trilogy
by
Paul Auster
69
The Franchiser
by
Stanley Elkin
68
Portrait of an artist with twenty-six horses
by
William Eastlake
67.3
The bronc people
by
William Eastlake
67.2
Go in Beauty
by
William Eastlake
67.1
Lyric of the Circle Heart: The Bowman Family Trilogy (American Literature Series)
by
William Eastlake
67
Riddley Walker
by
Russell Hoban
66
The House of Mirth
by
Edith Wharton
65
Cane
by
Jean Toomer
64
Dubliners
by
James Joyce
63
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
by
Raymond Carver
62
Red Harvest
by
Dashiell Hammett
61
The Catcher in the Rye
by
J. D. Salinger
60
The Golden Notebook
by
Doris Lessing
59
The Big Money
by
John Dos Passos
58.3
1919
by
John Dos Passos
58.2
The 42nd Parallel
by
John Dos Passos
58.1
U.S.A.
by
John Dos Passos
58
Always Coming Home
by
Ursula K. Le Guin
57
Wise Blood
by
Flannery O'Connor
56
Libra
by
Don DeLillo
55
Slaughterhouse-Five
by
Kurt Vonnegut
54
Housekeeping
by
Marilynne Robinson
53
Nightwood
by
Djuna Barnes
52
The Day of the Locust
by
Nathanael West
51
Native Son
by
Richard Wright
50
The Cannibal
by
John Hawkes
49
Blood Meridian
by
Cormac McCarthy
48
At Swim-Two-Birds
by
Flann O'Brien
47
Double or Nothing
by
Raymond Federman
46
A Passage to India
by
E. M. Forster
45
Brave New World
by
Aldous Huxley
44
Genoa: A Telling of Wonders
by
Paul Metcalf
43
The Sot-Weed Factor
by
John Barth
42
Midnight's Children
by
Salman Rushdie
41
Crash
by
J. G. Ballard
40
Lookout Cartridge
by
Joseph McElroy
39
On the Road
by
Jack Kerouac
38
Tropic of Cancer
by
Henry Miller
37
Mona Lisa Overdrive
by
William Gibson
36.3
Count Zero
by
William Gibson
36.2
Neuromancer
by
William Gibson
36.1
The Jade Cabinet (American Literature (Dalkey Archive))
by
Rikki Ducornet
35.4
The Fountains of Neptune (American Literature (Dalkey Archive))
by
Rikki Ducornet
35.3
Entering Fire
by
Rikki Ducornet
35.2
The Stain: A Novel
by
Rikki Ducornet
35.1
The Grapes of Wrath
by
John Steinbeck
34
Dhalgren
by
Samuel R. Delany
33
Absalom, Absalom!
by
William Faulkner
32
Their Eyes Were Watching God
by
Zora Neale Hurston
31
Nineteen Eighty-Four
by
George Orwell
30
Catch-22
by
Joseph Heller
29
Heart of Darkness
by
Joseph Conrad
28
The Recognitions
by
William Gaddis
27
The Rifles (Seven Dreams)
by
William Vollmann
26
Sixty Stories
by
Donald Barthelme
25
Women in Love
by
D. H. Lawrence
24
The Ambassadors
by
Henry James
23
The Great Gatsby
by
F. Scott Fitzgerald
22
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
by
James Joyce
21
The Sun Also Rises
by
Ernest Hemingway
20
Underworld
by
Don DeLillo
19
Invisible Man
by
Ralph Ellison
18
JR
by
William Gaddis
17
In the Heart of the Heart of the Country & Other Stories (Nonpareil Books, #21)
by
William H. Gass
16
To the Lighthouse
by
Virginia Woolf
15
Under the Volcano
by
Malcolm Lowry
14
Going Native
by
Stephen Wright
13
Beloved
by
Toni Morrison
12
Take It or Leave It
by
Raymond Federman
11
Finnegans Wake
by
James Joyce
10
Lolita
by
Vladimir Nabokov
9
The Ticket That Exploded
by
William S. Burroughs
8.3
Nova Express
by
William S. Burroughs
8.2
The Soft Machine
by
William S. Burroughs
8.1
The Making of Americans
by
Gertrude Stein
7
Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable
by
Samuel Beckett
6
The Sound and the Fury
by
William Faulkner
5
The Public Burning
by
Robert Coover
4
Gravity's Rainbow
by
Thomas Pynchon
3
Ulysses
by
James Joyce
2
Pale Fire
by
Vladimir Nabokov
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Animal Farm
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Book awards authors (86)
Kathy Acker
Sherwood Anderson
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J. G. Ballard
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Samuel Beckett
Paul Bowles
Anthony Burgess
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Raymond Carver
J. M. Coetzee
Joseph Conrad
Robert Coover
Samuel R. Delany
Don DeLillo
Philip K. Dick
Theodore Dreiser
Rikki Ducornet
William Eastlake
Stanley Elkin
Bret Easton Ellis
Ralph Ellison
Steve Erickson
William Faulkner
Raymond Federman
F. Scott Fitzgerald
E. M. Forster
John Fowles
William Gaddis
William H. Gass
William Gibson
Ursula K. Le Guin
Dashiell Hammett
John Hawkes
Joseph Heller
Ernest Hemingway
Russell Hoban
Zora Neale Hurston
Aldous Huxley
Henry James
James Joyce
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William Kennedy
Jack Kerouac
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Doris Lessing
Malcolm Lowry
Norman Mailer
Ben Marcus
Harry Mathews
Cormac McCarthy
Joseph McElroy
Paul Metcalf
Henry Miller
Ted Mooney
Toni Morrison
Vladimir Nabokov
Flann O'Brien
Flannery O'Connor
George Orwell
John Dos Passos
Thomas Pynchon
Ishmael Reed
Tom Robbins
Marilynne Robinson
Salman Rushdie
J. D. Salinger
Gilbert Sorrentino
John Steinbeck
Gertrude Stein
Theodore Sturgeon
Ronald Sukenick
Alexander Theroux
Jean Toomer
William T. Vollmann
Kurt Vonnegut
David Foster Wallace
Nathanael West
Edith Wharton
Gene Wolfe
Thomas Wolfe
Virginia Woolf
Richard Wright
Stephen Wright
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Critic, editor, and professor Larry McCaffery's top 100 English-language books of the 20th century.
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