The 150 Best English Language Novels of the 20th Century

Several sources have compiled lists of what they consider to be the best novels of this century. As you might expect, these lists have varied greatly, sparking controversy and dissension from almost everyone.
The Friendswood library has consolidated four sources' lists: Harvard Bookstore's Top 100 Recommended Titles, Modern Library's 100 Best Novels, Koen Book Distributors' Top 100 Books of the Past Century, and Library Journal's 150 20th-century Most Influential Fiction. Our list includes only English-language books written in the 1900's.
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1.The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald	2.1984, George Orwell
2.Catch-22, Joseph Heller	4.The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck
5.Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov	6.Animal Farm, George Orwell
6.Slaughterhouse Five, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.	8.Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison
9.Ulysses, James Joyce	10.The Lord of the Flies, William Golding
11.Catcher in the Rye, J. D. Salinger	12.Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
13.The Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner	14.Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce
15.To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee	16.The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway
17.Native Son, Richard Wright	18.Beloved, Toni Morrison
19.Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell	19.To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf
21.The Lord of the Rings, J. R. R. Tolkien	22.The Color Purple, Alice Walker
23.On the Road, Jack Kerouac	24.The Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton
25.The Good Earth, Pearl S. Buck	26.Charlotte's Web, E. B. White
26.The Hobbit, J. R. R. Tolkien	28.Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury
29.Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier	30.The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood
31.A Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert Heinlein	32.My Antonia, Willa Cather
33.A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway	34.A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess
35.I, Claudius, Robert Graves	36.Ethan Frome, Edith Wharton
36.The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemmingway	36.A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Betty Smith
39.Winesburg, Ohio, Sherwood Anderson	40.Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora N. Hurston
41.The Call of the Wild, Jack London	42.The World According to Garp, John Irving
43.A Passage to India, E. M. Forster	43.The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Muriel Spark
45.The Good Soldier, Ford Madox Ford	46.The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan
47.Lonesome Dove, Larry McMurtry	48.One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Ken Kesey
49.Sister Carrie, Theodore Dreiser	50.U. S. A.(trilogy), John Dos Passos
51.Angle of Repose, Wallace Stegner	52.Sophie's Choice, William Styron
53.Lady Chatterley's Lover, D. H. Lawrence	54.Exodus, Leon Uris
55.All the King's Men, Robert Penn Warren	55.Rabbit Run, John Updike
57.The Golden Notebook, Doris Lessing	57.The Jungle, Upton Sinclair
57.Portnoy's Complaint, Philip Roth	60.The Ambassadors, Henry James
60.From Here to Eternity, James Jones	60.Little House on the Prarie, Laura Ingalls Wilder
63.The Golden Bowl, Henry James	64.Winnie-the-Pooh, A. A. Milne
65.The Bean Trees, Barbara Kingsolver	66.2001 : A Space Odyssey, Arthur C. Clarke
67.Possession, A. S. Byatt	67.Under the Volcano, Malcolm Lowry
69.All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria ReMarque	69.Tender is the Night, F. Scott Fitzgerald
69.Women in Love, D. H. Lawrence	72.The Fountainhead, Ayn Rand
73.Song of Solomon, Toni Morrison	74.Stone Diaries, Carol Shields
75.Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck	75.Roots, Alex Haley
77.Look Homeward, Angel, Thomas Wolfe	78.Pale Horse, Pale Rider, Katherine Anne Porter
79.Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad	79.The Maltese Falcon, Dashiell Hammett
79.Of Human Bondage, W. Somerset Maugham	82.The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers
83.Darkness at Noon, Arthur Koestler	84.Sons and Lovers, D. H. Lawrence
85.The Naked and the Dead, Norman Mailer	86.Dune, Frank Herbert
86.A Room with a View, E. M. Forster	86.The Way of All Flesh, Samuel Butler
86.The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Frank L. Baum	90.The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe, C. S. Lewis
91.The Hound of the Baskervilles, Arthur Conan Doyle	92.The Burger's Daughter, Nadine Gordimer
92.A Confederacy of Dunces, John K. Toole	94.An American Tragedy, Theodore Dreiser
95.The Mists of Avalon, Marion Zimmer Bradley	96.East of Eden, John Steinbeck
96.Henderson the Rain King, Saul Bellow	96.Howards End, E. M. Forster
99.Appointment in Samarra, John O'Hara	99.Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys
101.Cry the Beloved Country, Alan Paton	102.Ragtime, E. L. Doctorow
103.The House of Mirth, Edith Wharton	103.The Wings of a Dove, Henry James
105.Death Comes for the Archbishop, Willa Cather	106.The Studs Lonigan Trilogy, James T. Farrell
107.Bastard out of Carolina, Dorothy Allison	107.Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller
109.The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath	110.As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner
111.The Bridge of San Luis Rey, Thornton Wilder	111.A Handful of Dust, Evelyn Waugh
113.A Good Man is Hard to Find, Flannery O'Connor	113.The Killer Angels, Michael Shaara
115.Go Tell it on the Mountain, James Baldwin	115.The Shipping News, Annie Proulx
117.White Noise, Don DeLillo	118.Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand
118.The Heart of the Matter, Graham Greene	120.Deliverance, James Dickey
120.The Wapshot Chronicles, John Cheever	122.A Dance to the Music of Time, Anthony Powell
122.Snow Falling Cedars, David Guterson	124.Point Counter Point, Aldous Huxley
124.Watership Down, Richard Adams	126.The Moviegoer, Walker Percy
126.The Red Badge of Courage, Stephen Cran	128.The Secret Agent, Joseph Conrad
129.A Death in the Family, James Agee	129.Nostromo, Joseph Conrad
131.Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh	131.The Rainbow, Pearl S. Buck
133.A Prayer for Owen Meany, John Irving	134.Pale Fire, Vladimir Nobokov
135.Ironweed, William P. Kennedy	135.Light in August, William Faulkner
137.Where the Wild Things Are, Maurice Sendak	138.Parade's End, Ford Madox Ford
139.Kane and Abel, Jeffrey Archer	139.Zuleika Dobson, Max Beerbohm
141.Main Street, Sinclair Lewis	142.Thousand Acres, Jane Smiley
143.Call it Sleep, Henry Roth	144.For Whom the Bell Tolls, Ernest Hemingway
145.Ellen Foster, Kaye Gibbons	146.The Alexandria Quartet, Lawrence Durrell
146.Cold Sassy Tree, Olive Ann Burns	148.A High Wind in Jamaica, Richard Hughes
148.The Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro	150.The Godfather, Mario Puzo