List: Library Journal: Top 150 of the CenturyThe Handmaid's Tale (1986) - Margaret Atwood (11/18/1939 -) (Grade:C+) Fahrenheit 451 (1953) - Ray Bradbury (08/22/1920 -06/05/2012) (Grade:A-) A Clockwork Orange (1962) - Anthony Burgess (2/25/1917 -11/22/1993) (Grade:A) Possession: A Romance (1990) - A.S. [Antonia Susan] Byatt (8/24/1936 -) (Grade:A+) Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927) - Willa Cather (12/07/1873 -4/24/1947) (Grade:C) Heart of Darkness (1902) - Joseph Conrad (12/03/1857 -8/03/1924) (Grade:A) The Little Prince (1943) - Antoine de Saint-ExupĂ©ry (6/19/1900 -7/31/1944) (Grade:B) White Noise (1985) - Don DeLillo (11/20/1936 -) (Grade:C) The Hound of the Baskervilles (1901) - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (5/22/1859 -7/07/1930) (Grade:A+) Advise and Consent (1959) - Allen Drury (-1998) (Grade:A) Lord of the Flies (1954) - William Golding (9/19/1911 -6/19/1993) (Grade:C) Ordinary People (1976) - Judith Guest (3/29/1936 -) (Grade:A+) The Maltese Falcon (1930) - Dashiell Hammett (5/27/1894 -1/10/1961) (Grade:A+) Catch-22 (1961) - Joseph Heller (05/01/1923 -12/12/1999) (Grade:A) Dune (1965) - Frank Herbert (10/08/1920 -2/11/1986) (Grade:A+) Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937) - Zora Neale Hurston (1/07/1891 -1/28/1960) (Grade:B) From Here to Eternity (1951) - James Jones (11/06/1921 -5/09/1977) (Grade:A+) A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) - James Joyce (2/02/1882 -1/13/1941) (Grade:F) Ulysses (1922) - James Joyce (2/02/1882 -1/13/1941) (Grade:F) One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962) - Ken Kesey (9/17/1935 -11/10/2001) (Grade:A+) To Kill a Mockingbird (1960) - Harper Lee (4/28/1926 -2/19/2016) (Grade:A+) The Call of the Wild (1903) - Jack London (1876-1916) (Grade:A) Under the Volcano (1947) - Malcolm Lowry (7/28/1909 -6/26/1957) (Grade:C-) Lolita (1955) - Vladimir Nabokov (4/22/1899 -7/02/1977) (Grade:A) Animal Farm (1945) - George Orwell (06/25/1903 -1/21/1949) (Grade:A+) 1984 (1949) - George Orwell (06/25/1903 -1/21/1949) (Grade:A+) The Catcher in the Rye (1951) - J. D. Salinger (1/01/1919 -1/27/2010) (Grade:A+) One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1963) - Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn (12/11/1918 -8/03/2008) (Grade:A+) The Lord of the Rings [The Hobbit (1937), The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, The Return of the King] (1948) - J.R.R. Tolkien (01/03/1892 -09/02/1973) (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 (11/111922 -4/11/2007) (Grade:C) All the King's Men (1946) - Robert Penn Warren (4/24/1905 -9/15/1989) (Grade:A+) The Age of Innocence (1920) - Edith Wharton (1/24/1862 -8/11/1937) (Grade:A) Ethan Frome (1911) - Edith Wharton (1/24/1862 -8/11/1937) (Grade:A) 5) Beloved (1987) - Toni Morrison (2/18/1931 -8/05/2019) (Grade:F) 6) The Color Purple (1982) - Alice Walker (1944 -) (Grade:B+) 13) The Great Gatsby (1925) - F. Scott Fitzgerald (9/24/1896 -12/21/1940) (Grade:B) 15) One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) - Gabriel García Márquez (1928-) (Grade:F) 20) The Grapes of Wrath (1939) - John Steinbeck (2/27/1902 -12/20/1968) (Grade:A-) 24) The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961) - Muriel Spark (2/01/1918 -4/12/2006) (Grade:D) 26) The Old Man and the Sea (1952) - Ernest Hemingway (7/21/1899 -7/02/1961) (Grade:A+) 28) Invisible Man (1952) - Ralph Ellison (3/01/1913 -4/16/1994) (Grade:C) 30) Sophie's Choice (1979) - William Styron (6/11/1925 -11/01/2006) (Grade:C) 31) Native Son (1940) - Richard Wright (9/04/1908 -11/28/1960) (Grade:C+) 33) A Farewell to Arms (1929) - Ernest Hemingway (7/21/1899 -7/02/1961) (Grade:D) 39) On the Road (1957) - Jack Kerouac (3/12/1922 -10/21/1969) (Grade:F) 41) Brave New World (1932) - Aldous Huxley (7/26/1894 -11/22/1963) (Grade:A) 42) Angle of Repose (1971) - Wallace Stegner (1909-1993) (Grade:C) 43) All Quiet on the Western Front (1928) - Erich Maria Remarque (6/22/1898 -9/25/1970) (Grade:C) 45) The Sun Also Rises (1926) - Ernest Hemingway (7/21/1899 -7/02/1961) (Grade:C-) 46) The Stranger (1946) - Albert Camus (11/07/1913 -1/04/1960) (Grade:C+) 47) The Sound and the Fury (1929) - William Faulkner (09/25/1897 -07/06/1962) (Grade:F) 57) The Lover (1984) - Marguerite Duras (1914-1996) (Grade:F) 59) Winesburg, Ohio (1919) - Sherwood Anderson (9/13/1876 -3/08/1941) (Grade:C-) 60) To the Lighthouse (1927) - Virginia Woolf (1/25/1882 -3/28/1941) (Grade:F) 62) The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) - L. Frank Baum (5/15/1856 -5/06/1919) (Grade:A+) 63) The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (1950) - C.S. Lewis (11/29/1898 -11/22/1963) (Grade:A+) 70) I, Claudius (1934) - Robert Graves (7/24/1895 -12/07/1985) (Grade:A+) 75) A Passage to India (1924) - E.M. Forster (1/01/1879 -6/07/1970) (Grade:B) 77) The Good Soldier (1915) - Ford Maddox Ford (12/17/1873 -6/26/1939) (Grade:B-) 80) Portnoy's Complaint (1969) - Phillip Roth (3/19/1933 -5/22/2018) (Grade:F) 85) Tarzan of the Apes (1912) - Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950) (Grade:A+) 86) Sister Carrie (1900) - Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945) (Grade:F) 89) Ragtime (1975) - E.L. Doctorow (1931-) (Grade:A) 91) Of Human Bondage (1915) - W. Somerset Maugham (1/25/1874 -12/16/1965) (Grade:F) 95) Women in Love (1920) - D.H. Lawrence (9/11/1885 -3/02/1930) (Grade:F) 96) Waiting for Godot (1948) - Samuel Beckett (4/13/1906 -12/22/1989) (Grade:F) 97) The USA Trilogy: (The 42nd Parallel, 1930; Nineteen Nineteen, 1932; The Big Money, 1936) () - John Dos Passos (1/14/1896 -9/28/1970) (Grade:C) 99) A Death in the Family (1957) - James Agee (1909-1955) (Grade:C) 102) The Golden Bowl, or actually,The Turn of the Screw (in lieu of The Golden Bowl) () - Henry James (4/15/1843 -2/28/1916) (Grade:B) 103) The Golden Notebook (1962) - Doris Lessing (-) (Grade:F) 105) The Big Sleep (1939) - Raymond Chandler (7/23/1888 -3/26/1959) (Grade:A+) 107) The Ambassadors (1903) - Henry James (4/15/1843 -2/28/1916) (Grade:D) 109) Of Mice and Men (1937) - John Steinbeck (2/27/1902 -12/20/1968) (Grade:A+) 110) The Naked and the Dead (1948) - Norman Mailer (01/31/1923 -11/10/2007) (Grade:D) 113) Ironweed (1983) - William Kennedy (01/16/1928-) (Grade:A) 116) Doctor Zhivago (1956) - Boris Pasternak (02/10/1890 -5/30/1960) (Grade:B-) 119) Brideshead Revisited (1945) - Evelyn Waugh (10/28/1903 -04/10/1966) (Grade:C) 120) Breathing Lessons (1988) - Anne Tyler (10/25/1941 -) (Grade:C) 123) A Thousand Acres (1991) - Jane Smiley (9/26/1949 -) (Grade:C-) 124) A Room with a View (1908) - E.M. Forster (1/01/1879 -6/07/1970) (Grade:D) 125) Wise Blood (1952) - Flannery O'Connor (03/25/1925 -08/03/1964) (Grade:A+) 127) Wide Sargasso Sea (1966) - Jean Rhys (8/24/1890 -5/14/1979) (Grade:F-) 130) The Wapshot Chronicle (1957) - John Cheever (5/27/1912 -6/18/1982) (Grade:D) 132) Tropic of Cancer (1934) - Henry Miller (1891 -1980) (Grade:F) 133) Things Fall Apart (1958) - Chinua Achebe (11/16/1930 -3/21/2013) (Grade:A+) 136) The Moviegoer (1961) - Walker Percy (05/28/1916 -05/10/1990) (Grade:C+) 142) The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (1940) - Carson McCullers (2/19/1917 -9/29/1967) (Grade:D) 145) The End of the Affair (1951) - Graham Greene (10/02/1904 -4/03/1991) (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 (4/17/1897 -12/07/1975) (Grade:C) 150) Studs Lonigan [Young Lonigan (1932), The Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan (1934),and Judgement Day (1935)] () - James T. 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