These are the top 100 novels of the the 20th century,
According to the Radcliffe Publishing Course
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The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
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The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger
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The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck
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To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
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The Color Purple, Alice Walker
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Ulysses, James Joyce
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Beloved, Toni Morrison
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The Lord of the Flies, William Golding
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1984, George Orwell
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The Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner
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Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
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Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck
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Charlotte's Web, E.B. White
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce
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Catch-22, Joseph Heller
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Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
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Animal Farm, George Orwell
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The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway
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As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner
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A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway
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Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
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Winnie-the-Pooh, A.A. Milne
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Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston
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Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison
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Song of Solomon, Toni Morrison
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Gone With the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
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Native Son, Richard Wright
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Ken Kesey
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Slaughterhouse Five, Kurt Vonnegut
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For Whom the Bell Tolls, Ernest Hemingway
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On the Road, Jack Kerouac
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The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway
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The Call of the Wild, Jack London
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To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf
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The Portrait of a Lady, Henry James
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Go Tell It on the Mountain, James Baldwin
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The World According to Garp, John Irving
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All the King's Men, Robert Penn Warren
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A Room With a View, E.M. Forster
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The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien
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Schindler's List, Thomas Keneally
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The Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton
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The Fountainhead, Ayn Rand
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Finnegans Wake, James Joyce
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The Jungle, Upton Sinclair
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Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf
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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Frank Baum
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Lady Chatterley's Lover, D.H. Lawrence
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A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess
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The Awakening, Kate Chopin
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My Antonia, Willa Cather
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Howards End, E.M. Forster
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In Cold Blood, Truman Capote
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Franny and Zooey, J.D. Salinger
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Satanic Verses, Salman Rushdie
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Jazz, Toni Morrison
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Sophie's Choice, William Styron
- Absalom, Absalom, William Faulkner
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A Passage to India, E.M. Forster
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Ethan Frome, Edith Wharton
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A Good Man Is Hard to Find, Flannery O'Connor
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Tender Is the Night, F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Orlando, Virginia Woolf
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Sons and Lovers, D.H. Lawrence
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The Bonfire of the Vanities, Tom Wolfe
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Cat's Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut
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A Separate Peace, John Knowles
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Light in August, William Faulkner
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The Wings of the Dove, Henry James
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Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe
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Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier
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A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
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Naked Lunch, William S. Burroughs
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Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
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Women in Love, D.H. Lawrence
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Look Homeward, Angel, Thomas Wolfe
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In Our Time, Ernest Hemingway
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The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, Gertrude Stein
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The Maltese Falcon, Dashiell Hammett
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The Naked and the Dead, Norman Mailer
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Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys
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White Noise, Don DeLillo
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O Pioneers, Willa Cather
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Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller
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The War of the Worlds, H.G. Wells
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Lord Jim, Joseph Conrad
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The Bostonians, Henry James
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An American Tragedy, Theodore Dreiser
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Death Comes for the Archbishop, Willa Cather
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The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame
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This Side of Paradise, F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand
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The French Lieutenant's Woman, John Fowles
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Babbitt, Sinclair Lewis
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Kim, Rudyard Kipling
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The Beautiful and the Damned, F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Rabbit, Run, John Updike
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Where Angels Fear to Tread, E.M. Forster
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Main Street, Sinclair Lewis
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Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie