Retrospective of 20th- and 21st-century literature

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A retrospective of important or influential novels from 1900-2020
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
by Zora Neale Hurston
22,368 members
387 reviews
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The Sun Also Rises
by Ernest Hemingway
25,743 members
374 reviews
3.8
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Brave New World
by Aldous Huxley
61,607 members
869 reviews
3.9
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The House of Mirth
by Edith Wharton
10,761 members
212 reviews
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Siddhartha
by Hermann Hesse
31,438 members
420 reviews
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Sons and Lovers
by D. H. Lawrence
10,442 members
104 reviews
½ 3.6
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Good Morning, Midnight
by Jean Rhys
1,656 members
41 reviews
½ 3.7
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The Metamorphosis [novella]
by Franz Kafka
15,245 members
278 reviews
3.9
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To the Lighthouse
by Virginia Woolf
20,349 members
312 reviews
3.9
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Swann's Way
by Marcel Proust
12,967 members
206 reviews
4.2
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Tender Is the Night
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
14,580 members
195 reviews
½ 3.7
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A Passage to India
by E. M. Forster
13,901 members
167 reviews
3.8
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The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
by Carson McCullers
11,988 members
272 reviews
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The Magic Mountain
by Thomas Mann
11,247 members
195 reviews
4.2
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The Jungle
by Upton Sinclair
13,322 members
146 reviews
3.8
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Ulysses
by James Joyce
27,496 members
377 reviews
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The Grapes of Wrath
by John Steinbeck
39,212 members
519 reviews
4.1
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My Ántonia
by Willa Cather
15,254 members
310 reviews
3.9
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The Good Earth
by Pearl S. Buck
15,331 members
290 reviews
4
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Rebecca
by Daphne Du Maurier
23,987 members
687 reviews
4.2
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The Sound and the Fury
by William Faulkner
19,555 members
247 reviews
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The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
83,022 members
1,304 reviews
3.8
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The Good Soldier
by Ford Madox Ford
5,322 members
121 reviews
3.8
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Howards End
by E. M. Forster
9,675 members
144 reviews
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The Trial
by Franz Kafka
22,900 members
269 reviews
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Gone with the Wind
by Margaret Mitchell
26,079 members
477 reviews
½ 4.3
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Nausea
by Jean-Paul Sartre
11,520 members
102 reviews
½ 3.7
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The Hobbit
by J. R. R. Tolkien
107,673 members
1,301 reviews
½ 4.3
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Naked Lunch
by William S. Burroughs
7,581 members
73 reviews
½ 3.5
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The Left Hand of Darkness
by Ursula K. Le Guin
18,952 members
457 reviews
4.1
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Atlas Shrugged
by Ayn Rand
24,674 members
429 reviews
½ 3.7
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The Bell Jar
by Sylvia Plath
32,749 members
560 reviews
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Invisible Man
by Ralph Ellison
18,442 members
231 reviews
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On the Road
by Jack Kerouac
30,471 members
425 reviews
½ 3.6
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The Razor's Edge
by W. Somerset Maugham
6,942 members
129 reviews
4.1
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One Hundred Years of Solitude
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
50,211 members
783 reviews
4.2
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The Stranger
by Albert Camus
40,935 members
581 reviews
3.9
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Franny and Zooey
by J. D. Salinger
16,172 members
196 reviews
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A House for Mr Biswas
by V. S. Naipaul
3,867 members
73 reviews
3.8
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
by Hunter S. Thompson
15,709 members
212 reviews
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The End of the Affair
by Graham Greene
7,248 members
192 reviews
3.9
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Lolita
by Vladimir Nabokov
35,337 members
636 reviews
4.1
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In Cold Blood
by Truman Capote
26,918 members
518 reviews
4.1
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Slaughterhouse-Five
by Kurt Vonnegut
49,267 members
779 reviews
4.1
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
by Ken Kesey
26,761 members
319 reviews
4.1
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The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
by John le Carré
9,884 members
270 reviews
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To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee
90,148 members
1,559 reviews
½ 4.4
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Lord of the Flies
by William Golding
57,454 members
818 reviews
½ 3.7
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A Clockwork Orange
by Anthony Burgess
28,712 members
416 reviews
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Watership Down
by Richard Adams
27,994 members
515 reviews
4.2
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Giovanni's Room
by James Baldwin
7,707 members
178 reviews
4.2
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Catch-22
by Joseph Heller
44,412 members
578 reviews
4.1
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The Old Man and the Sea
by Ernest Hemingway
35,472 members
562 reviews
3.8
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Love in a Cold Climate
by Nancy Mitford
1,862 members
49 reviews
3.8
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The Godfather
by Mario Puzo
12,697 members
198 reviews
4.2
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The Little Prince
by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
53,216 members
874 reviews
4.2
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
by Betty Smith
18,468 members
482 reviews
½ 4.3
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East of Eden
by John Steinbeck
27,474 members
481 reviews
½ 4.4
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Rabbit, Run
by John Updike
6,672 members
124 reviews
½ 3.6
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All the King's Men
by Robert Penn Warren
8,117 members
133 reviews
4.1
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The Color Purple
by Alice Walker
22,627 members
369 reviews
4.1
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The House of the Spirits
by Isabel Allende
15,610 members
282 reviews
4.1
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American Psycho
by Bret Easton Ellis
16,173 members
337 reviews
½ 3.7
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Rubyfruit Jungle
by Rita Mae Brown
3,588 members
72 reviews
½ 3.7
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Gravity's Rainbow
by Thomas Pynchon
12,140 members
155 reviews
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Sophie's Choice
by William Styron
6,575 members
91 reviews
4.1
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Tales of the City
by Armistead Maupin
5,403 members
113 reviews
3.9
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The Handmaid's Tale
by Margaret Atwood
48,475 members
1,237 reviews
4.1
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A Prayer for Owen Meany
by John Irving
19,382 members
348 reviews
4.2
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Beloved
by Toni Morrison
26,621 members
447 reviews
3.9
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Skinny Legs and All
by Tom Robbins
4,607 members
48 reviews
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Crossing to Safety
by Wallace Earle Stegner
4,743 members
158 reviews
4.2
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being
by Milan Kundera
24,922 members
306 reviews
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Midnight's Children
by Salman Rushdie
15,564 members
270 reviews
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Lonesome Dove
by Larry McMurtry
10,572 members
284 reviews
½ 4.6
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The Joy Luck Club
by Amy Tan
19,332 members
220 reviews
3.9
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White Noise
by Don DeLillo
12,422 members
182 reviews
3.8
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Possession
by A. S. Byatt
14,275 members
314 reviews
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Blood Meridian
by Cormac McCarthy
14,125 members
327 reviews
4.2
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The Bonfire of the Vanities
by Tom Wolfe
9,734 members
142 reviews
3.8
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The Prince of Tides
by Pat Conroy
6,391 members
114 reviews
4.1
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VALIS
by Philip K. Dick
4,997 members
82 reviews
3.9
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Geek Love
by Katherine Dunn
6,661 members
169 reviews
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The Lover
by Marguerite Duras
6,102 members
167 reviews
½ 3.7
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Foucault's Pendulum
by Umberto Eco
19,200 members
275 reviews
3.9
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Neuromancer
by William Gibson
26,030 members
418 reviews
3.9
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The Stand: The Complete and Uncut Edition
by Stephen King
16,647 members
315 reviews
4.2
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The English Patient
by Michael Ondaatje
12,585 members
189 reviews
3.9
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The Shipping News
by Annie Proulx
14,363 members
276 reviews
3.9
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Interview with the Vampire
by Anne Rice
25,630 members
363 reviews
3.8
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Cloud Atlas
by David Mitchell
19,671 members
716 reviews
4.1
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Bel Canto
by Ann Patchett
14,474 members
483 reviews
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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: A Novel
by Haruki Murakami
19,685 members
405 reviews
4.2
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The God of Small Things
by Arundhati Roy
21,701 members
405 reviews
3.9
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Gilead
by Marilynne Robinson
13,470 members
418 reviews
3.9
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The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
by Michael Chabon
20,422 members
429 reviews
4.2
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The Fortress of Solitude
by Jonathan Lethem
4,249 members
70 reviews
3.9
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The Savage Detectives
by Roberto Bolaño
6,190 members
138 reviews
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Everything Is Illuminated
by Jonathan Safran Foer
15,061 members
279 reviews
3.8
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
by Mark Haddon
47,943 members
1,396 reviews
3.9
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