Book awards: Radcliffe Publishing Course Top 100 Novels of the 20th Century

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Works (100)

Titles
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie	100
Main Street by Sinclair Lewis	99
Where Angels Fear to Tread by E. M. Forster	98
Rabbit, Run by John Updike	97
The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald	96
Kim by Rudyard Kipling	95
Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis	94
The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles	93
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand	92
This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald	91
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame	90
Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather	89
An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser	88
The Bostonians by Henry James	87
Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad	86
The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells	85
Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller	84
O Pioneers! by Willa Cather	83
White Noise by Don DeLillo	82
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys	81
The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer	80
The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett	79
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein	78
In Our Time by Ernest Hemingway	77
Look Homeward, Angel by Thomas Wolfe	76
Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence	75
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh	74
Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs	73
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams	72
Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier	71
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe	70
The Wings of the Dove by Henry James	69
Light in August by William Faulkner	68
A Separate Peace by John Knowles	67
Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut	66
The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe	65
Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence	64
Orlando: A Biography by Virginia Woolf	63
Tender is the Night: A Romance by F. Scott Fitzgerald	62
A Good Man is Hard to Find and Other Stories by Flannery O'Connor	61
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton	60
A Passage to India by E. M. Forster	59
Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner	58
Sophie's Choice by William Styron	57
Jazz by Toni Morrison	56
The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie	55
Franny and Zooey by J. D. Salinger	54
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote	53
Howards End by E. M. Forster	52
My Ántonia by Willa Cather	51
The Awakening by Kate Chopin	50
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess	49
Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence	48
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum	47
Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf	46
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair	45
Finnegans Wake by James Joyce	44
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand	43
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton	42
Schindler's Ark by Thomas Keneally	41
The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien	40
A Room with a View by E. M. Forster	39
All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren	38
The World According to Garp by John Irving	37
Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin	36
Portrait of a Lady by Henry James	35
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf	34
The Call of the Wild by Jack London	33
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway	32
On the Road by Jack Kerouac	31
For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway	30
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut	29
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey	28
Native Son by Richard Wright	27
Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell	26
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison	25
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison	24
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston	23
Winnie-the-Pooh by A. A. Milne	22
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad	21
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway	20
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner	19
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway	18
Animal Farm by George Orwell	17
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley	16
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller	15
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce	14
Charlotte's Web by E. B. White	13
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck	12
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov	11
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner	10
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell	9
Lord of the Flies by William Golding	8
Beloved by Toni Morrison	7
Ulysses by James Joyce	6
The Color Purple by Alice Walker	5
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee	4
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck	3
The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger	2
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald	1

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Award description

On July 21, 1998, the Radcliffe Publishing Course released its own list of the century's top 100 novels. The Radcliffe Publishing Course compiled its list at the request of the Modern Library and formally presented its list to the Modern Library's Board Chairman Christopher Cerf on July 24 in Cambridge.
"Students studying at Radcliffe today will be the leaders of the publishing industry tomorrow," said Cerf. "Their insights and observations give all of us a sneak-preview into the publishing trends of the 21st century."
The 100 Radcliffe publishing students were assigned the task of creating their own list of the 20th century's top 100 novels written in English. Like the Modern Library list, the students' lists were selected from 400 possible titles. Instructors of the course compiled and quantified the students' lists, creating the final Radcliffe Publishing Course list