List: Anthony Burgess : 99 Best Modern Novels (1934-84)Finnegan's Wake (1939) - James Joyce (1882-1941) (Grade:F)  1984 (1949) - George Orwell (06/25/1903-1949) (Grade:A+)The Gormenghast Novels : Titus Groan (1946), Gormenghast (1950), Titus Alone (1959) (1959) - Mervyn Laurence Peake (1911-1968) (Grade:B+) A Dance to the Music of Time (1951-1975) - Anthony Powell (1905-2000) (Grade:B-) The Aerodrome : A Love Story (1941) - Rex [Ernest] Warner (1905-1986) (Grade:A+)1944) The Horses Mouth (1944) - Joyce Cary (1888-1957) (Grade:D) 1945) Brideshead Revisited (1945) - Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966) (Grade:C) 1947) Under the Volcano (1947) - Malcolm Lowry (1909-1957) (Grade:C-) 1948) The Heart of the Matter (1948) - Graham Greene (1904-1991) (Grade:A) 1948) The Naked and the Dead (1948) - Norman Mailer (01/31/1923-) (Grade:D) 1949) Ape and Essence (1948) - Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) (Grade:B) 1951) The Catcher in the Rye (1951) - J. D. Salinger (1919-) (Grade:A+)1951) The Caine Mutiny (1951) - Herman Wouk (1915-) (Grade:D+) 1952) Invisible Man (1952) - Ralph Ellison (1914-1994) (Grade:C) 1952) The Old Man and the Sea (1952) - Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) (Grade:A+)1952) Wise Blood (1952) - Flannery O'Connor (1925-1968) (Grade:A+)1961) Catch-22 (1961) - Joseph Heller (1923-1999) (Grade:A) 1962) The Golden Notebook (1962) - Doris Lessing (-) (Grade:F) 1962) Pale Fire (1962) - Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977) (Grade:B) 1964) The Spire (1964) - William Golding (1911-1993) (Grade:C+) 1966) The Last Gentleman (1966) - Walker Percy (1916-1990) (Grade:B) 1969) Portnoy's Complaint (1969) - Phillip Roth (-) (Grade:F) 1977) Staying On (1977) - Paul Scott (1920-1978) (Grade:A-) 1979) A Bend in the River (1979) - V.S. Naipaul (1932-) (Grade:C) 1979) Sophie's Choice (1979) - William Styron (1925-) (Grade:C) 1980) A Confederacy of Dunces (1980) - John Kennedy Toole (1937-1969) (Grade:B-) |
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