List: Library Journal: Top 150 of the CenturyThe Handmaid's Tale (1986) - Margaret Atwood (1939-) (Grade:C+) Fahrenheit 451 (1953) - Ray Bradbury (08/22/1920-06/05/2012) (Grade:A-) A Clockwork Orange (1962) - Anthony Burgess (1917-1993) (Grade:A) Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927) - Willa Cather (1873-1947) (Grade:C) Heart of Darkness (1902) - Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) (Grade:A) ![]() ![]() Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937) - Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960) (Grade:B) ![]() A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) - James Joyce (1882-1941) (Grade:F) Ulysses (1922) - James Joyce (1882-1941) (Grade:F) ![]() ![]() The Call of the Wild (1903) - Jack London (1876-1916) (Grade:A) ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Johnny Got His Gun (1939) - Dalton Trumbo (1905-1976) (Grade:F) Rabbit, Run (1960) - John Updike (March 18, 1932-01/27/2009) (Grade:C) Slaughterhouse-Five (1969) - Kurt Vonnegut (1922-) (Grade:C) Ethan Frome (1911) - Edith Wharton (1862-1937) (Grade:A) 2) ![]() 5) Beloved (1987) - Toni Morrison (1931-) (Grade:F) 6) The Color Purple (1982) - Alice Walker (1944-) (Grade:B+) 9) Lord of the Flies (1954) - William Golding (1911-1993) (Grade:C) 10) Catch-22 (1961) - Joseph Heller (1923-1999) (Grade:A) 13) The Great Gatsby (1925) - F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) (Grade:B) 15) One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) - Gabriel García Márquez (1928-) (Grade:F) 17) Lolita (1955) - Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977) (Grade:A) 20) The Grapes of Wrath (1939) - John Steinbeck (1902-1968) (Grade:A-) 24) The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961) - Muriel Spark (1918-) (Grade:D) 26) ![]() 28) Invisible Man (1952) - Ralph Ellison (1914-1994) (Grade:C) 30) Sophie's Choice (1979) - William Styron (1925-) (Grade:C) 31) Native Son (1940) - Richard Wright (1908-1960) (Grade:C+) 33) A Farewell to Arms (1929) - Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) (Grade:D) 37) The Age of Innocence (1920) - Edith Wharton (1862-1937) (Grade:A) 39) On the Road (1957) - Jack Kerouac (1922-1969) (Grade:F) 41) Brave New World (1932) - Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) (Grade:A) 42) Angle of Repose (1971) - Wallace Stegner (1909-1993) (Grade:C) 43) All Quiet on the Western Front (1928) - Erich Maria Remarque (1898-1970) (Grade:C) 45) The Sun Also Rises (1926) - Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) (Grade:C-) 46) The Stranger (1946) - Albert Camus (1913-1960) (Grade:C+) 47) The Sound and the Fury (1929) - William Faulkner (1897-1962) (Grade:F) 48) ![]() 57) The Lover (1984) - Marguerite Duras (1914-1996) (Grade:F) 59) Winesburg, Ohio (1919) - Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941) (Grade:C-) 60) To the Lighthouse (1927) - Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) (Grade:F) 62) ![]() 63) ![]() 70) ![]() 74) Advise and Consent (1959) - Allen Drury (-1998) (Grade:A) 75) A Passage to India (1924) - E.M. Forster (1879-1970) (Grade:B) 77) The Good Soldier (1915) - Ford Maddox Ford (12/17/1873-1939) (Grade:B-) 80) Portnoy's Complaint (1969) - Phillip Roth (-) (Grade:F) 82) The Little Prince (1943) - Antoine de Saint Exupery (1900-1944) (Grade:B) 85) ![]() 86) Sister Carrie (1900) - Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945) (Grade:F) 89) Ragtime (1975) - E.L. Doctorow (1931-) (Grade:A) 90) ![]() 91) Of Human Bondage (1915) - W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) (Grade:F) 94) ![]() 95) Women in Love (1920) - D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930) (Grade:F) 96) Waiting for Godot (1948) - Samuel Beckett (1906-1989) (Grade:F) 97) The USA Trilogy: (The 42nd Parallel, 1930; Nineteen Nineteen, 1932; The Big Money, 1936) () - John Dos Passos (1896-1970) (Grade:C) 99) A Death in the Family (1957) - James Agee (1909-1955) (Grade:C) 101) ![]() 102) The Golden Bowl, or actually,The Turn of the Screw (in lieu of The Golden Bowl) () - Henry James (1843-1916) (Grade:B) 103) The Golden Notebook (1962) - Doris Lessing (-) (Grade:F) 105) ![]() 107) The Ambassadors (1903) - Henry James (1843-1916) (Grade:D) 109) ![]() 110) The Naked and the Dead (1948) - Norman Mailer (01/31/1923-) (Grade:D) 113) Ironweed (1983) - William Kennedy (01/16/1928-) (Grade:A) 116) Doctor Zhivago (1956) - Boris Pasternak (02/10/1890-1960) (Grade:B-) 119) Brideshead Revisited (1945) - Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966) (Grade:C) 120) Breathing Lessons (1988) - Anne Tyler (1941-) (Grade:C) 123) A Thousand Acres (1991) - Jane Smiley (-) (Grade:C-) 124) A Room with a View (1908) - E.M. Forster (1879-1970) (Grade:D) 125) ![]() 127) Wide Sargasso Sea (1966) - Jean Rhys (1890-1979) (Grade:F-) 128) White Noise (1985) - Don DeLillo (-) (Grade:C) 130) The Wapshot Chronicle (1957) - John Cheever (1912-1982) (Grade:D) 131) Under the Volcano (1947) - Malcolm Lowry (1909-1957) (Grade:C-) 132) Tropic of Cancer (1934) - Henry Miller (1891-1980) (Grade:F) 133) ![]() 136) The Moviegoer (1961) - Walker Percy (1916-1990) (Grade:C+) 142) The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (1940) - Carson McCullers (1917-1967) (Grade:D) 145) The End of the Affair (1951) - Graham Greene (1904-1991) (Grade:B+) 146) The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother (1996) - James McBride (-) (Grade:B) 147) The Caine Mutiny (1951) - Herman Wouk (1915-) (Grade:D+) 148) The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1927) - Thornton Wilder (1897-1975) (Grade:C) 150) Studs Lonigan [Young Lonigan (1932), The Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan (1934),and Judgement Day (1935)] () - James T. Farrell (1904-1979) (Grade:D) |
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