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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To the Lighthouse
by Virginia Woolf
16,614 members
248 reviews
3.9
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The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
68,009 members
1,105 reviews
3.9
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Heart of Darkness
by Joseph Conrad
22,378 members
367 reviews
½ 3.6
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
by James Joyce
20,315 members
201 reviews
½ 3.7
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The Grapes of Wrath
by John Steinbeck
32,506 members
458 reviews
4.1
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A Passage to India
by E. M. Forster
11,835 members
130 reviews
3.8
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The French Lieutenant's Woman
by John Fowles
6,333 members
104 reviews
3.8
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Dubliners
by James Joyce
18,718 members
217 reviews
3.9
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Ulysses
by James Joyce
22,890 members
329 reviews
4
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Brave New World
by Aldous Huxley
51,216 members
742 reviews
3.9
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Slaughterhouse-Five
by Kurt Vonnegut
42,158 members
667 reviews
4.1
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Midnight's Children
by Salman Rushdie
13,344 members
239 reviews
4
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Winesburg, Ohio
by Sherwood Anderson
5,706 members
118 reviews
3.8
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Nineteen Eighty-Four
by George Orwell
77,313 members
1,223 reviews
4.2
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J R
by William Gaddis
1,293 members
18 reviews
4.2
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Under the Volcano
by Malcolm Lowry
4,189 members
81 reviews
3.8
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Catch-22
by Joseph Heller
38,284 members
504 reviews
4.1
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A Clockwork Orange
by Anthony Burgess
24,776 members
376 reviews
4
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On the Road
by Jack Kerouac
26,881 members
369 reviews
½ 3.6
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The Recognitions
by William Gaddis
2,074 members
35 reviews
½ 4.3
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The Tunnel
by William H. Gass
848 members
10 reviews
4.1
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The Sound and the Fury
by William Faulkner
16,471 members
221 reviews
4
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Beloved
by Toni Morrison
21,572 members
396 reviews
3.9
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Infinite Jest
by David Foster Wallace
12,559 members
236 reviews
4.2
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Gravity's Rainbow
by Thomas Pynchon
10,334 members
137 reviews
4.1
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What We Talk about When We Talk about Love
by Raymond Carver
3,631 members
58 reviews
4.1
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
by Zora Neale Hurston
17,960 members
328 reviews
4
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Underworld
by Don DeLillo
7,689 members
82 reviews
3.9
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The Golden Notebook
by Doris Lessing
5,164 members
87 reviews
½ 3.6
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An American Tragedy
by Theodore Dreiser
3,826 members
47 reviews
3.9
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Absalom, Absalom!
by William Faulkner
7,335 members
104 reviews
4.1
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Lolita
by Vladimir Nabokov
30,414 members
536 reviews
4.1
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The Day of the Locust
by Nathanael West
1,779 members
47 reviews
½ 3.6
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Pale Fire
by Vladimir Nabokov
7,555 members
131 reviews
4.2
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The Sun Also Rises
by Ernest Hemingway
21,956 members
320 reviews
3.8
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The Man in the High Castle
by Philip K. Dick
12,969 members
337 reviews
½ 3.7
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Tropic of Cancer
by Henry Miller
8,473 members
125 reviews
½ 3.6
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The Naked and the Dead
by Norman Mailer
3,994 members
44 reviews
3.9
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Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable
by Samuel Beckett
2,906 members
26 reviews
4.2
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U.S.A.
by John Dos Passos
1,413 members
14 reviews
4
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Finnegans Wake
by James Joyce
5,047 members
54 reviews
3.9
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The New York Trilogy
by Paul Auster
9,443 members
154 reviews
3.9
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The Ambassadors
by Henry James
3,796 members
42 reviews
½ 3.7
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Libra
by Don DeLillo
3,523 members
40 reviews
3.8
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Waiting for the Barbarians
by J. M. Coetzee
4,140 members
75 reviews
4
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Invisible Man
by Ralph Ellison
15,398 members
199 reviews
4
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Neuromancer Trilogy: Neuromancer, Count Zero, Mona Lisa Overdrive
by William Gibson
286 members
4.2
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The Catcher in the Rye
by J. D. Salinger
66,523 members
1,049 reviews
3.8
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In the Heart of the Heart of the Country & Other Stories
by William H. Gass
670 members
8 reviews
4
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Tours of the Black Clock
by Steve Erickson
306 members
4 reviews
3.8
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Darconville's Cat
by Alexander Theroux
365 members
12 reviews
½ 4.5
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Dhalgren
by Samuel R. Delany
3,517 members
74 reviews
3.8
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Mulligan Stew
by Gilbert Sorrentino
361 members
3 reviews
4
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Nightwood
by Djuna Barnes
2,963 members
57 reviews
½ 3.5
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The Sot-Weed Factor
by John Barth
2,010 members
37 reviews
4.2
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Sixty Stories
by Donald Barthelme
1,570 members
15 reviews
4.1
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Double or Nothing
by Raymond Federman
104 members
1 review
4
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Blood Meridian
by Cormac McCarthy
10,675 members
256 reviews
4.2
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The House of Mirth
by Edith Wharton
9,304 members
192 reviews
4
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Riddley Walker
by Russell Hoban
1,283 members
23 reviews
4.2
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Wise Blood
by Flannery O'Connor
3,657 members
113 reviews
3.8
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Genoa: A Telling of Wonders
by Paul Metcalf
85 members
4 reviews
4
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The Age of Wire and String
by Ben Marcus
438 members
15 reviews
½ 3.7
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Easy Travel to Other Planets
by Ted Mooney
181 members
2 reviews
3.8
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The Franchiser
by Stanley Elkin
154 members
3 reviews
½ 3.7
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Going Native
by Stephen Wright
354 members
9 reviews
½ 3.5
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Take It or Leave It
by Raymond Federman
69 members
1 review
3.8
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Up
by Ronald Sukenick
40 members
3 reviews
3.2
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Women in Love
by D. H. Lawrence
6,711 members
49 reviews
½ 3.6
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The Book of the New Sun
by Gene Wolfe
594 members
9 reviews
4.2
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Three Novels: The Soft Machine, Nova Express, the Wild Boys
by William S. Burroughs
178 members
½ 3.7
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American Psycho
by Bret Easton Ellis
13,067 members
275 reviews
½ 3.7
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The Sheltering Sky
by Paul Bowles
4,144 members
76 reviews
3.8
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Native Son
by Richard Wright
7,350 members
94 reviews
3.9
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Housekeeping
by Marilynne Robinson
6,049 members
203 reviews
3.9
76
At Swim-Two-Birds
by Flann O'Brien
3,126 members
63 reviews
3.9
77
More Than Human
by Theodore Sturgeon
2,884 members
68 reviews
3.9
78
Red Harvest
by Dashiell Hammett
2,883 members
85 reviews
3.9
79
The Shadow of the Torturer
by Gene Wolfe
2,515 members
83 reviews
3.8
80
Always Coming Home
by Ursula K. Le Guin
1,973 members
20 reviews
3.9
81
Cane
by Jean Toomer
1,330 members
10 reviews
3.8
82
1919
by John Dos Passos
974 members
9 reviews
3.9
83
The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop.
by Robert Coover
693 members
16 reviews
½ 3.7
84
Omensetter's Luck
by William H. Gass
680 members
14 reviews
4
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The Public Burning
by Robert Coover
645 members
7 reviews
3.8
86
Pricksongs & Descants: Fictions
by Robert Coover
622 members
10 reviews
½ 3.6
87
The Making of Americans
by Gertrude Stein
430 members
3 reviews
3.2
88
You Bright & Risen Angels
by William T. Vollmann
397 members
3 reviews
4
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The Rifles
by William T. Vollmann
287 members
6 reviews
3.9
90
In Memoriam to Identity
by Kathy Acker
275 members
4 reviews
½ 3.5
91
Hogg
by Samuel R. Delany
259 members
8 reviews
½ 3.3
92
The Cannibal
by John Hawkes
248 members
5 reviews
½ 3.3
93
Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down
by Ishmael Reed
235 members
2 reviews
½ 3.7
94
Lookout Cartridge
by Joseph McElroy
150 members
2 reviews
3.8
95
Tlooth
by Harry Mathews
149 members
4 reviews
½ 3.7
97
Creamy and Delicious; Eat My Words (in other words)
by Steve Katz
12 members
½ 3.3
98
The Four Elements Tetralogy
by Rikki Ducornet
1 member
99
Crash
by J. G. Ballard
3,358 members
76 reviews
½ 3.5
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Skinny Legs and All
by Tom Robbins
4,279 members
45 reviews
4