List: Brothers Judd Top 100 of the 20th Century: Novels
The Wanderer or The End of Youth (1912) - Alain-Fournier (1886-1914) (Grade:A)
The Lilies of the Field (1962) - William Edmund Barrett (1900-1986) (Grade:A+)
Zuleika Dobson or An Oxford Love Story (1911) - Max Beerbohm (1872
-1956) (Grade:A)
The Exorcist (1971) - William Peter Blatty (1/07/1928
-1/12/2017) (Grade:A+)
Dandelion Wine (1957) - Ray Bradbury (08/22/1920
-06/05/2012) (Grade:A+)
Red Sky at Morning (1968) - Richard Bradford (1932-) (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+)
Double Indemnity (1935) - James M Cain (7/1/1892
-10/27/77) (Grade:A+)
The First Man (1995) - Albert Camus (11/07/1913
-1/04/1960) (Grade:A+)
The Man Who Was Thursday : A Nightmare (1908) - G. K. Chesterton (05/29/1874
-06/14/1936) (Grade:A-)
Heart of Darkness (1902) - Joseph Conrad (12/03/1857
-8/03/1924) (Grade:A)
A Mapmaker's Dream: The Meditations of Fra Mauro, Cartographer to the Court of Venice (1996) - James Cowan (-) (Grade:A+)
Deliverance (1970) - James Dickey (2/02/1923
-1/19/1997) (Grade:A+)
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1901) - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (5/22/1859
-7/07/1930) (Grade:A+)
The Witchfinder: an Amos Walker Mystery (1998) - Loren D. Estleman (1952
-) (Grade:A+)
The Roots of Heaven (1956) - Romain Gary (05/08/1914
-12/02/1980) (Grade:A+)
Ordinary People (1976) - Judith Guest (3/29/1936
-) (Grade:A+)
The Maltese Falcon (1930) - Dashiell Hammett (5/27/1894
-1/10/1961) (Grade:A+)
Bang the Drum Slowly (1956) - Mark Harris (11/19/1922
-05/30/2007) (Grade:A+)
Red Dragon (1981) - Thomas Harris (04/11/1940
-) (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+)
The Talented Mr. Ripley (1955) - Patricia Highsmith (01/19/1921
-2/04/1995) (Grade:A)
Good-Bye, Mr. Chips (1934) - James Hilton (9/09/1900
-12/20/1954) (Grade:A+)
From Here to Eternity (1951) - James Jones (11/06/1921
-5/09/1977) (Grade:A+)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962) - Ken Kesey (9/17/1935
-11/10/2001) (Grade:A+)
Flowers for Algernon (1966) - Daniel Keyes (
-8/09/1927) (Grade:A+)
Shoeless Joe (1982) - W. P. Kinsella (5/25/1935
-9/16/2026) (Grade:A+)
Barabbas (1951) - Par Lagerkvist (1891-1974) (Grade:A+)
Independent People: An Epic (1946) - Halldor Laxness (4/23/1902
-2/08/1998) (Grade:A+)
To Kill a Mockingbird (1960) - Harper Lee (4/28/1926
-2/19/2016) (Grade:A+)
Babbitt (1922) - Sinclair Lewis (2/07/1885
-1/10/1951) (Grade:A)
How Green Was My Valley (1939) - Richard Llewellyn (1906-1983) (Grade:A+)
The Call of the Wild (1903) - Jack London (1876-1916) (Grade:A)
The Galton Case (1959) - Ross MacDonald (12/13/1915
-07/11/1983) (Grade:A)
The Underground Man (1971) - Ross MacDonald (12/13/1915
-07/11/1983) (Grade:A+)
A River Runs Through It (1976) - Norman MacLean (12/23/1902
-8/02/1990) (Grade:A+)
The Fixer (1966) - Bernard Malamud (04/26/1914
-03/18/1986) (Grade:A+)
Bright Lights, Big City (1984) - Jay McInerney (1/13/1955/1955
-) (Grade:A)
The Sand Pebbles (1962) - Richard McKenna (1913-1964) (Grade:A+)
Hopeful Monsters (1990) - Nicholas Mosley (1923-) (Grade:A)
The Golden Warrior: the Story of Harold and William (1949) - Hope Muntz (08/08/1907
-1981) (Grade:A+)
Lolita (1955) - Vladimir Nabokov (4/22/1899
-7/02/1977) (Grade:A)
Master and Commander (1969) - Patrick O'Brian (12/12/1914
-01/02/2000) (Grade:A+)
Coming Up for Air (1939) - George Orwell (06/25/1903
-1/21/1949) (Grade:A+)
Cool Hand Luke (1965) - Donn Pearce (-) (Grade:A+)
True Grit (1968) - Charles McColl Portis (12/28/1933
-2/17/2020) (Grade:A+)
The Emperor's Tomb (1938) - Joseph Roth (9/02/1894
-5/27/1939) (Grade:A+)
The Radetzky March (1932) - Joseph Roth (9/02/1894
-5/27/1939) (Grade:A+)
The Catcher in the Rye (1951) - J. D. Salinger (1/01/1919
-1/27/2010) (Grade:A+)
The Killer Angels (1974) - Michael Shaara (6/23/1928
-5/05/1988) (Grade:A+)
In God We Trust : All Others Pay Cash (1966) - Jean Shepherd (7/26/1921
-10/16/1999) (Grade:A)
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1963) - Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn (12/11/1918
-8/03/2008) (Grade:A+)
The Magnificent Ambersons (1918) - Newton Booth Tarkington (07/29/1869
-05/19/1946) (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+)
The Sands of Karakorum (1953) - James Ramsey Ullman (-) (Grade:A+)
The Book of the Dun Cow (1978) - Walter M. Wangerin, Jr. (02/13/1944-) (Grade:A+)
The Aerodrome : A Love Story (1941) - Rex [Ernest] Warner (1905-1986) (Grade:A+)
All the King's Men (1946) - Robert Penn Warren (4/24/1905
-9/15/1989) (Grade:A+)
The Return of the Soldier (1918) - Rebecca West (1892-1983) (Grade:A+)
The Age of Innocence (1920) - Edith Wharton (1/24/1862
-8/11/1937) (Grade:A)
3) The Big Sleep (1939) - Raymond Chandler (7/23/1888
-3/26/1959) (Grade:A+)
4) The Chosen (1967) - Chaim Potok (1929-) (Grade:A+)
15) Of Mice and Men (1937) - John Steinbeck (2/27/1902
-12/20/1968) (Grade:A+)
18) Shane (1949) - Jack Warner Schaefer (-) (Grade:A+)
19) Franny and Zooey (1961) - J. D. Salinger (1/01/1919
-1/27/2010) (Grade:A+)
22) Empire of the Sun (1984) - J. G. Ballard (11/15/1930
-4/19/2009) (Grade:A+)
23) Mariette in Ecstasy (1991) - Ron Hansen (1947-) (Grade:A+)
27) The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) - L. Frank Baum (5/15/1856
-5/06/1919) (Grade:A+)
29) Darkness at Noon (1941) - Arthur Koestler (9/05/1905
-3/01/1983) (Grade:A+)
34) Archangel (1995) - Paul Watkins (1964-) (Grade:B-)
38) Forever Flowing (1970) - Vasily Grossman (11/29/1905
-9/14.1964) (Grade:A+)
40) Schindler's List (1982) - Thomas Keneally (-) (Grade:A)
44) Wise Blood (1952) - Flannery O'Connor (03/25/1925
-08/03/1964) (Grade:A+)
48) A Personal Matter (1969) - Kenzaburo Oe (1/31/1935
-3/03/2023) (Grade:A+)
51) All the Pretty Horses (1992) - Cormac McCarthy (07/20/1933
-06/13/2023) (Grade:A+)
54) The Old Man and the Sea (1952) - Ernest Hemingway (7/21/1899
-7/02/1961) (Grade:A+)
55) Things Fall Apart (1958) - Chinua Achebe (11/16/1930
-3/21/2013) (Grade:A+)
56) Tarzan of the Apes (1912) - Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950) (Grade:A+)
57) I, Claudius (1934) - Robert Graves (7/24/1895
-12/07/1985) (Grade:A+)
58) Fontamara (1933) - Ignazio Silone (5/01/1900
-8/22/1978) (Grade:A+)
60) Fatherland (1992) - Robert Harris (3/07/1957
-) (Grade:A+)
61) The Lathe of Heaven (1971) - Ursula K. Le Guin (10/21/1929
-1/22/2018) (Grade:A)
62) The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (1950) - C.S. Lewis (11/29/1898
-11/22/1963) (Grade:A+)
63) Katherine (1995) - Anchee Min (01/14/1957-) (Grade:A)
65) The Kid from Tomkinsville (1940) - John R. Tunis (1889-1975) (Grade:A+)
66) The Heart of the Matter (1948) - Graham Greene (10/02/1904
-4/03/1991) (Grade:A)
70) The Last Hurrah (1956) - Edwin O'Connor (1918-1968) (Grade:A+)
78) The Bridge over the River Kwai (1952) - Pierre Boulle (1912-1994) (Grade:A+)
79) The Book of Ebenezer Le Page () - G.B. Edwards (-) (Grade:A+)
80) The Searchers (1954) - Alan Le May (-) (Grade:A+)
81) The Speed Queen (1997) - Stewart O'Nan (-) (Grade:A+)
83) Appointment in Samarra (1934) - John O'Hara (1/31/1905
-4/11/1970) (Grade:A)
87) The Loved One (1948) - Evelyn Waugh (10/28/1903
-04/10/1966) (Grade:A)
91) The Princess Bride : S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure: The 'Good Parts' Version, Abridged (1973) - William Goldman (8/12/1931
-11/16/2018) (Grade:A)
100) Charlotte's Web (1952) - E. B. White (7/11/1899
-10/01/1985) (Grade:A+)
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