The Modern Library's 100 Greatest Novels of the 20th Century

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Below is the best 100 novels of the 20th century as determined by the editors of Random House's Modern Library division.

Note that the list is actually ordered, from the very best book of the 20th century to the 100th best. Finally, who knows? Maybe something list-worthy was published as the century came to a close -- this list was compiled in the Spring of 1998.

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by James Joyce

Amazon readers say:

"If a book is a meal, this is Thanksgiving."
"Incomprehensible masterpiece."
"Perspective and patience."
"Exhaustive, exhausting, rewarding."

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This book also appears on Joyce Carol Oates' 10 Favorite Books
 
 
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by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Amazon readers say:

"A glittering reflection of a darkening America."
"A poetic novel that captures the essence of the jazz age."
"A masterpiece uncomfortably stuck between generations."
"The quintessential American novel."

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This book also appears on A New Yorker's Favorite Books about London... and New York
 
 
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by James Joyce

Amazon says:
"A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" portrays Stephen Dedalus's Dublin childhood and youth, providing an oblique self-portrait of the young James Joyce. At its center are questions of origin and source, authority and authorship, and the relationship of an artist to his family, culture, and race. Exuberantly inventive, this coming-of-age story is a tour de force of style and technique.

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This book also appears on Penguin Classics: The 100 Most Popular Titles
 
 
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by Vladimir Nabokov

Amazon readers say:

"Nabokov is my rock star idol."
"Lush, unforgettable prose."
"The intriguing tour-de-force of a pedophile."
"Sick perversion and/or tragic... but great literature."

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This book also appears on 10 Books That'll Make You Wish Your Flight Would Never End
 
 
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by Aldous Huxley

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by William Faulkner

Amazon readers say:

"True greatness lies underneath the showboating."
"Even modernist Southern writers know how to spin a yarn."
"Stream of consciousness that tells a tale."
"Magnificient masterpiece."

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This book also appears on Joyce Carol Oates' 10 Favorite Books
 
 
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by Joseph Heller

Amazon says:
There was a time when reading Joseph Heller's classic satire on the murderous insanity of war was nothing less than a rite of passage. Echoes of Yossarian, the wise-ass bombardier who was too smart to die but not smart enough to find a way out of his predicament, could be heard throughout the counterculture. As a result, it's impossible not to consider "Catch-22" to be something of a period piece. But 40 years on, the novel's undiminished strength is its looking-glass logic. Again and again, Heller's characters demonstrate that what is commonly held to be good, is bad; what is sensible, is nonsense. It's an utterly serious and sad, but damn funny book.

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This book also appears on A Large Handful of Novels About World War Two
 
 
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by D.H. Lawrence

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by John Steinbeck

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by Malcolm Lowry

Amazon readers say:

"Coming to terms with the devil."
"Intense story of a triangular relationship."
"Fatalistic brilliance."
"Beautiful surface, mysterious depths."

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by Samuel Butler

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by George Orwell

Amazon readers say:

"Startling view of a future world."
"Entertaining but ominous political satire."
"A dark phophency that came true!"
"Some classics are overrated. This is not one of them."

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This book also appears on Stephen King's 10 Favorite Books
 
 
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by Robert Graves

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onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/to_amazon/The_Modern_Librarys_100_Greatest_Novels_of_the_20th_Century/15_To_the_Lighthouse');" onMouseOver="window.status='http://amazon.com/dp/0156907399'; return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;">

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by Virginia Woolf, introduction by Eudora Welty

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by Theodore Dreiser

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by Carson McCullers

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by Ralph Ellison

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by Richard A. Wright

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by Saul Bellow

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by John O'Hara

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by John Dos Passos

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by Sherwood Anderson

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by E.M. Forster

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by Henry James

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by Henry James

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by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Amazon readers say:

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This book also appears on Ed Bomze's Favorite Fiction
 
 
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by James T. Farrell

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This book also appears on Penguin Classics: The Midwest
 
 
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by Ford Madox Ford

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This book also appears on Book Club Recommendations from the Union Square Reading Group
 
 
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by George Orwell

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by Henry James

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by Theodore Dreiser

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by Evelyn Waugh

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by William Faulkner

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by Robert Penn Warren

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This book also appears on Must-Reads From the Panelists of Flaming Politics
 
 
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by Thornton Wilder

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by E. M. Forster

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