Book awards: St. Mark's additional 100 best English language novels of the XX century

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All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy — not in English Common Knowledge
Ask the Dust by John Fante — not in English Common Knowledge
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein — not in English Common Knowledge
Bastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison — not in English Common Knowledge
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath — not in English Common Knowledge
Beloved by Toni Morrison
The Bone People by Keri Hulme — not in English Common Knowledge
The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe — not in English Common Knowledge
Bright Lights, Big City by Jay McInerney — not in English Common Knowledge
The Butcher Boy by Patrick McCabe — not in English Common Knowledge
Cain's Book by Alexander Trocchi — not in English Common Knowledge
Call it Sleep by Henry Roth — not in English Common Knowledge
Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration by David Wojnarowicz — not in English Common Knowledge
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole — not in English Common Knowledge
Crash by J. G. Ballard — not in English Common Knowledge
A Death in the Family by James Agee — not in English Common Knowledge
The Deptford Trilogy by Robertson Davies — not in English Common Knowledge
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick — not in English Common Knowledge
Dog Soldiers by Robert Stone — not in English Common Knowledge
Einstein's Dreams by Alan Lightman — not in English Common Knowledge
The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje — not in English Common Knowledge
The Famished Road by Ben Okri — not in English Common Knowledge
A Fan's Notes by Frederick Exley — not in English Common Knowledge
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson — not in English Common Knowledge
Fiskadoro by Denis Johnson — not in English Common Knowledge
Flaubert's Parrot by Julian Barnes — not in English Common Knowledge
The Floating Opera by John Barth — not in English Common Knowledge
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand — not in English Common Knowledge
G. by John Berger — not in English Common Knowledge
Galatea 2.2 by Richard Powers — not in English Common Knowledge
Geek Love by Katherine Dunn — not in English Common Knowledge
Going After Cacciato by Tim O'Brien — not in English Common Knowledge
The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing — not in English Common Knowledge
The Golden Spur by Dawn Powell — not in English Common Knowledge
Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon — not in English Common Knowledge
The Group by Mary McCarthy — not in English Common Knowledge
Guided Tours of Hell: Novellas by Francine Prose — not in English Common Knowledge
Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner — not in English Common Knowledge
How German is it by Walter Abish — not in English Common Knowledge
The Ice Storm by Rick Moody
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote — not in English Common Knowledge
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace — not in English Common Knowledge
Jitterbug Perfume by Tom Robbins — not in English Common Knowledge
The Journalist by Harry Mathews — not in English Common Knowledge
July's People by Nadine Gordimer — not in English Common Knowledge
The Killer Inside Me by Jim Thompson — not in English Common Knowledge
The Kitchen God's Wife by Amy Tan — not in English Common Knowledge
The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler — not in English Common Knowledge
Look Homeward, Angel by Thomas Wolfe — not in English Common Knowledge
The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien — not in English Common Knowledge
Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis — not in English Common Knowledge
The Man with the Golden Arm by Nelson Algren — not in English Common Knowledge
Manchild in the Promised Land by Claude Brown — not in English Common Knowledge
A Map of the World by Jane Hamilton — not in English Common Knowledge
Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer by Steven Millhauser — not in English Common Knowledge
Mating by Norman Rush — not in English Common Knowledge
Money: a suicide note by Martin Amis — not in English Common Knowledge
My Sister's Hand in Mine: The Collected Works of Jane Bowles by Jane Bowles — not in English Common Knowledge
Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs — not in English Common Knowledge
Neuromancer by William Gibson — not in English Common Knowledge
The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster — not in English Common Knowledge
Nightwood by Djuna Barnes — not in English Common Knowledge
Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen — not in English Common Knowledge
The Painted Bird by Jerzy Kosiński — not in English Common Knowledge
Play it as it Lays by Joan Didion — not in English Common Knowledge
Possession: A Romance by A. S. Byatt — not in English Common Knowledge
Post Office by Charles Bukowski — not in English Common Knowledge
The quantity theory of insanity by Will Self — not in English Common Knowledge
Rabbit, Run by John Updike — not in English Common Knowledge
The Recognitions by William Gaddis — not in English Common Knowledge
Regeneration by Pat Barker — not in English Common Knowledge
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro — not in English Common Knowledge
The Secret History by Donna Tartt — not in English Common Knowledge
The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx — not in English Common Knowledge
So Long, See You Tomorrow by William Maxwell — not in English Common Knowledge
Sometimes a Great Notion by Ken Kesey — not in English Common Knowledge
A Sport and a Pastime by James Salter — not in English Common Knowledge
The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields — not in English Common Knowledge
Stop-Time: A Memoir by Frank Conroy — not in English Common Knowledge
A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth — not in English Common Knowledge
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston — not in English Common Knowledge
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe — not in English Common Knowledge
The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien — not in English Common Knowledge
This Boy's Life by Tobias Wolff — not in English Common Knowledge
A Thousand Acres: A Novel by Jane Smiley — not in English Common Knowledge
Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable by Samuel Beckett — not in English Common Knowledge
Tintin in the New World: A Romance by Frederic Tuten — not in English Common Knowledge
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee — not in English Common Knowledge
Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh — not in English Common Knowledge
Waiting for the Barbarians by J. M. Coetzee — not in English Common Knowledge
What Makes Sammy Run? by Budd Schulberg
White Noise by Don DeLillo — not in English Common Knowledge
Who Will Run the Frog Hospital by Lorrie Moore
Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor — not in English Common Knowledge
Wittgenstein's Mistress by David Markson — not in English Common Knowledge
The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts by Maxine Hong Kingston — not in English Common Knowledge
The World According to Garp by John Irving — not in English Common Knowledge
Written on the Body by Jeanette Winterson — not in English Common Knowledge
You Bright & Risen Angels by William T. Vollmann — not in English Common Knowledge
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values by Robert M. Pirsig — not in English Common Knowledge

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