Larry McCaffery's 20th Century Greatest Hits: 100 English-Language Books

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Larry McCaffery's 20th Century Greatest Hits
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The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
82,589 members
1,299 reviews
3.8
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Heart of Darkness
by Joseph Conrad
26,247 members
432 reviews
½ 3.6
7 Members
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The Grapes of Wrath
by John Steinbeck
38,947 members
516 reviews
4.1
7 Members
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4
To the Lighthouse
by Virginia Woolf
20,315 members
312 reviews
3.9
5 Members
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A Passage to India
by E. M. Forster
13,908 members
167 reviews
3.8
6 Members
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The French Lieutenant's Woman
by John Fowles
7,067 members
109 reviews
3.8
5 Members
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
by James Joyce
23,462 members
251 reviews
½ 3.7
6 Members
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Brave New World
by Aldous Huxley
61,274 members
865 reviews
3.9
6 Members
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A Clockwork Orange
by Anthony Burgess
28,555 members
414 reviews
4
6 Members
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J R
by William Gaddis
1,607 members
20 reviews
4.1
4 Members
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Slaughterhouse-Five
by Kurt Vonnegut
49,136 members
774 reviews
4.1
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Nineteen Eighty-Four
by George Orwell
93,885 members
1,446 reviews
4.2
5 Members
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13
The Tunnel
by William H. Gass
1,112 members
11 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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Catch-22
by Joseph Heller
44,203 members
578 reviews
4.1
5 Members
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15
Dubliners
by James Joyce
22,040 members
261 reviews
3.9
5 Members
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Ulysses
by James Joyce
27,356 members
374 reviews
4
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On the Road
by Jack Kerouac
30,596 members
423 reviews
½ 3.6
5 Members
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The Sun Also Rises
by Ernest Hemingway
25,575 members
371 reviews
3.8
4 Members
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19
Midnight's Children
by Salman Rushdie
15,474 members
269 reviews
4
4 Members
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Winesburg, Ohio
by Sherwood Anderson
6,525 members
136 reviews
3.8
4 Members
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21
The Man in the High Castle
by Philip K. Dick
15,956 members
399 reviews
½ 3.7
4 Members
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Underworld
by Don DeLillo
8,759 members
89 reviews
3.9
4 Members
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Under the Volcano
by Malcolm Lowry
4,981 members
101 reviews
3.8
3 Members
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
by Zora Neale Hurston
22,194 members
384 reviews
4
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The Golden Notebook
by Doris Lessing
5,971 members
99 reviews
½ 3.6
3 Members
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The Recognitions
by William Gaddis
2,597 members
34 reviews
½ 4.3
3 Members
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Waiting for the barbarians
by J. M. Coetzee
4,874 members
83 reviews
4
4 Members
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28
Absalom, Absalom!
by William Faulkner
8,595 members
115 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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The Sound and the Fury
by William Faulkner
19,421 members
247 reviews
4
3 Members
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Lolita
by Vladimir Nabokov
35,140 members
632 reviews
4.1
4 Members
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Beloved
by Toni Morrison
26,406 members
447 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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Neuromancer Trilogy: Neuromancer, Count Zero, Mona Lisa Overdrive
by William Gibson
306 members
4.2
3 Members
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33
Tropic of Cancer
by Henry Miller
9,792 members
146 reviews
½ 3.6
3 Members
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34
The Naked and the Dead
by Norman Mailer
4,524 members
49 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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Infinite Jest
by David Foster Wallace
14,958 members
269 reviews
4.2
3 Members
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Gravity's Rainbow
by Thomas Pynchon
12,088 members
155 reviews
4
3 Members
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What We Talk About When We Talk About Love: Stories
by Raymond Carver
4,361 members
71 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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U.S.A.
by John Dos Passos
1,707 members
14 reviews
4
3 Members
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Finnegans Wake
by James Joyce
5,987 members
64 reviews
3.9
4 Members
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The Ambassadors
by Henry James
4,411 members
50 reviews
½ 3.7
3 Members
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41
Libra
by Don DeLillo
4,097 members
45 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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Wise Blood
by Flannery O'Connor
4,364 members
124 reviews
3.8
3 Members
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An American Tragedy
by Theodore Dreiser
4,382 members
52 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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American Psycho
by Bret Easton Ellis
16,050 members
334 reviews
½ 3.7
3 Members
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The Catcher in the Rye
by J. D. Salinger
76,898 members
1,192 reviews
3.8
5 Members
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46
The Day of the Locust
by Nathanael West
2,070 members
57 reviews
½ 3.6
2 Members
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Pale Fire
by Vladimir Nabokov
8,982 members
158 reviews
4.2
2 Members
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Tours of the Black Clock
by Steve Erickson
351 members
4 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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Darconville's Cat
by Alexander Theroux
435 members
14 reviews
½ 4.4
2 Members
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50
Dhalgren
by Samuel R. Delany
4,179 members
80 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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51
Mulligan Stew
by Gilbert Sorrentino
449 members
3 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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Nightwood
by Djuna Barnes
3,560 members
66 reviews
½ 3.4
2 Members
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The Sot-Weed Factor
by John Barth
2,347 members
42 reviews
4.2
2 Members
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Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable
by Samuel Beckett
3,354 members
30 reviews
4.2
2 Members
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Sixty Stories
by Donald Barthelme
1,795 members
16 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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Blood Meridian
by Cormac McCarthy
14,009 members
323 reviews
4.2
2 Members
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The Sheltering Sky
by Paul Bowles
4,748 members
89 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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Double or Nothing
by Raymond Federman
127 members
1 review
3.8
2 Members
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The House of Mirth
by Edith Wharton
10,717 members
213 reviews
4
2 Members
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Riddley Walker
by Russell Hoban
1,480 members
28 reviews
4.2
2 Members
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Housekeeping
by Marilynne Robinson
7,064 members
235 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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Genoa: A Telling of Wonders
by Paul Metcalf
108 members
4 reviews
4.2
2 Members
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The Age of Wire and String
by Ben Marcus
503 members
15 reviews
½ 3.6
2 Members
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64
The New York Trilogy
by Paul Auster
10,801 members
174 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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Easy Travel to Other Planets
by Ted Mooney
202 members
3 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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66
The franchiser
by Stanley Elkin
189 members
3 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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More Than Human
by Theodore Sturgeon
3,354 members
83 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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Going Native
by Stephen Wright
410 members
9 reviews
½ 3.5
2 Members
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69
Take It or Leave It
by Raymond Federman
82 members
1 review
½ 3.7
2 Members
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Always Coming Home
by Ursula K. Le Guin
2,503 members
22 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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71
Up
by Ronald Sukenick
48 members
3 reviews
3.1
2 Members
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72
The Book of the New Sun
by Gene Wolfe
749 members
11 reviews
4.2
2 Members
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73
Three Novels: The Soft Machine, Nova Express, the Wild Boys
by William S. Burroughs
193 members
½ 3.7
2 Members
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Invisible Man
by Ralph Ellison
18,345 members
230 reviews
4
2 Members
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75
Crash: A Novel
by J. G. Ballard
3,940 members
86 reviews
½ 3.5
3 Members
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In the Heart of the Heart of the Country & Other Stories
by William H. Gass
871 members
8 reviews
3.9
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77
At Swim-Two-Birds
by Flann O'Brien
3,629 members
74 reviews
3.9
Member
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78
Women in Love
by D. H. Lawrence
7,617 members
57 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
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79
The Shadow of the Torturer
by Gene Wolfe
3,077 members
96 reviews
3.8
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80
Cane
by Jean Toomer
1,611 members
15 reviews
3.8
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81
1919
by John Dos Passos
1,180 members
14 reviews
3.9
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82
The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop.
by Robert Coover
848 members
16 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
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83
Omensetter's Luck
by William H. Gass
870 members
18 reviews
4
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84
The Public Burning
by Robert Coover
789 members
9 reviews
3.9
Member
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85
Pricksongs & Descants: Fictions
by Robert Coover
721 members
9 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
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86
The Making of Americans
by Gertrude Stein
526 members
5 reviews
3.2
Member
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87
You Bright and Risen Angels
by William T. Vollmann
464 members
5 reviews
4
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88
The Rifles
by William T. Vollmann
339 members
5 reviews
4
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89
In Memoriam to Identity
by Kathy Acker
312 members
7 reviews
½ 3.5
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90
Hogg
by Samuel R. Delany
335 members
10 reviews
½ 3.3
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91
The Cannibal
by John Hawkes
307 members
5 reviews
½ 3.4
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92
Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down
by Ishmael Reed
295 members
2 reviews
½ 3.7
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93
Lookout Cartridge
by Joseph McElroy
176 members
2 reviews
½ 3.7
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94
Tlooth
by Harry Mathews
180 members
4 reviews
3.8
Member
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96
Creamy and Delicious; Eat My Words (in other words)
by Steve Katz
13 members
3.2
Member
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97
The Four Elements Tetralogy
by Rikki Ducornet
1 member
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98
Neuromancer
by William Gibson
25,909 members
417 reviews
3.9
99
Native Son
by Richard Wright
8,733 members
112 reviews
4
100
Mona Lisa Overdrive
by William Gibson
8,019 members
64 reviews
3.8