List: The Hungry Mind Review's 100 Best 20th Century Books
The Education of Henry Adams : An Autobiography (1918) - Henry Brooks Adams (1838-1918) (Grade:B+)
The Sheltering Sky (1949) - Paul Bowles (1910-1999) (Grade:D)
Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927) - Willa Cather (1873-1947) (Grade:C)
Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937) - Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960) (Grade:B)
The Wings of the Dove (1902) - Henry James (1843-1916) (Grade:D)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962) - Ken Kesey (1935-) (Grade:A+)The Winged Seed: A Remembrance (1995) - Li-Young Lee (1957-) (Grade:D-)
To Kill a Mockingbird (1960) - Harper Lee (1926-) (Grade:A+)Babbitt (1922) - Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951) (Grade:A)
Slaughterhouse-Five (1969) - Kurt Vonnegut (1922-) (Grade:C)
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (1965) - Malcolm X (1925-1965) (Grade:A+)Winesburg, Ohio (1919) - Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941) (Grade:C-)
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969) - Maya Angelou (1928-) (Grade:B)
Go Tell it on the Mountain (1953) - James Baldwin (1922-1987) (Grade:B)
The Stories of John Cheever (1975) - John Cheever (1912-1982) (Grade:C+)
White Noise (1985) - Don DeLillo (-) (Grade:C)
The USA Trilogy: (The 42nd Parallel, 1930; Nineteen Nineteen, 1932; The Big Money, 1936) () - John Dos Passos (1896-1970) (Grade:C)
An American Tragedy (1925) - Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945) (Grade:F)
Invisible Man (1952) - Ralph Ellison (1914-1994) (Grade:C)
As I Lay Dying (1930) - William Faulkner (1897-1962) (Grade:F)
The Sound and the Fury (1929) - William Faulkner (1897-1962) (Grade:F)
The Great Gatsby (1925) - F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) (Grade:B)
Catch-22 (1961) - Joseph Heller (1923-1999) (Grade:A)
The Sun Also Rises (1926) - Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) (Grade:C-)
On the Road (1957) - Jack Kerouac (1922-1969) (Grade:F)
The Painted Bird (1965) - Jerzy Kosinski (1933-1991) (Grade:C)
The Naked and the Dead (1948) - Norman Mailer (01/31/1923-) (Grade:D)
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (1940) - Carson McCullers (1917-1967) (Grade:D)
Tropic of Cancer (1934) - Henry Miller (1891-1980) (Grade:F)
Beloved (1987) - Toni Morrison (1931-) (Grade:F)
Jazz (1992) - Toni Morrison (1931-) (Grade:D)
Lolita (1955) - Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977) (Grade:A)
The Moviegoer (1961) - Walker Percy (1916-1990) (Grade:C+)
Portnoy's Complaint (1969) - Phillip Roth (-) (Grade:F)
The Catcher in the Rye (1951) - J. D. Salinger (1919-) (Grade:A+)The Grapes of Wrath (1939) - John Steinbeck (1902-1968) (Grade:A-)
Sophie's Choice (1979) - William Styron (1925-) (Grade:C)
Rabbit, Run (1960) - John Updike (March 18, 1932-) (Grade:C)
The Color Purple (1982) - Alice Walker (1944-) (Grade:B+)
All the King's Men (1946) - Robert Penn Warren (1905-1989) (Grade:A+)The Day of the Locust (1939) - Nathanael West (1902-1940) (Grade:C-)
Native Son (1940) - Richard Wright (1908-1960) (Grade:C+)
