St. Mark's additional 100 best English language novels of the XX century

100 Works 734,926 Books 13,444 Reviews 4.0
Work
How German Is It (1982) by Walter Abish
Things Fall Apart (1958) by Chinua Achebe
A Death in the Family (1957) by James Agee
The Man with the Golden Arm (1949) by Nelson Algren
Bastard Out of Carolina (1992) by Dorothy Allison
Lucky Jim (1954) by Kingsley Amis
Money: A Suicide Note (1984) by Martin Amis
The New York Trilogy (1985) by Paul Auster
Crash (1973) by J. G. Ballard
Regeneration (1991) by Pat Barker
Nightwood (1936) by Djuna Barnes
Flaubert's Parrot (1984) by Julian Barnes
The Floating Opera (1956) by John Barth
Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable (1951) by Samuel Beckett
G. (1972) by John Berger
My Sister's Hand in Mine: The Collected Works of Jane Bowles (1966) by Jane Bowles
Hotel du Lac (1984) by Anita Brookner
Manchild in the Promised Land (1965) by Claude Brown
Post Office (1971) by Charles Bukowski
Naked Lunch (1962) by William S. Burroughs
Possession (1990) by A.S. Byatt
In Cold Blood (1965) by Truman Capote
The Long Goodbye (1953) by Raymond Chandler
Waiting for the Barbarians (1980) by J. M. Coetzee
Stop-Time: A Memoir (1967) by Frank Conroy
The Deptford Trilogy (1970) by Robertson Davies
White Noise (1984) by Don DeLillo
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968) by Philip K. Dick
Play It As It Lays (1970) by Joan Didion
Out of Africa (1937) by Isak Dinesen
Geek Love (1989) by Katherine Dunn
A Fan's Notes (1968) by Frederick Exley
Ask the Dust (1939) by John Fante
The Recognitions (1955) by William Gaddis
Neuromancer (1984) by William Gibson
July's People (1981) by Nadine Gordimer
A Map of the World (1994) by Jane Hamilton
The Bone People (1984) by Keri Hulme
Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937) by Zora Neale Hurston
The World According to Garp (1978) by John Irving
The Remains of the Day (1989) by Kazuo Ishiguro
Fiskadoro (1985) by Denis Johnson
Sometimes a Great Notion (1964) by Ken Kesey
The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts (1975) by Maxine Hong Kingston
The Painted Bird (1965) by Jerzy Kosiński
To Kill a Mockingbird (1960) by Harper Lee
The Golden Notebook (1962) by Doris Lessing
Einstein's Dreams (1992) by Alan Lightman
Wittgenstein's Mistress (1988) by David Markson
The Journalist (1994) by Harry Mathews
So Long, See You Tomorrow (1979) by William Maxwell
The Butcher Boy (1992) by Patrick McCabe
All the Pretty Horses (1992) by Cormac McCarthy
The Group (1963) by Mary McCarthy
Bright Lights, Big City (1984) by Jay McInerney
Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer (1996) by Steven Millhauser
The Ice Storm (1994) by Rick Moody
Who Will Run the Frog Hospital? (1994) by Lorrie Moore
Beloved (1987) by Toni Morrison
The Third Policeman (1967) by Flann O'Brien
Going After Cacciato (1978) by Tim O'Brien
Wise Blood (1952) by Flannery O'Connor
The Famished Road (1991) by Ben Okri
The English Patient (1992) by Michael Ondaatje
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values (1974) by Robert M. Pirsig
The Bell Jar (1963) by Sylvia Plath
The Golden Spur (1962) by Dawn Powell
Galatea 2.2 (1995) by Richard Powers
Guided Tours of Hell: Novellas (1997) by Francine Prose
The Shipping News (1993) by E. Annie Proulx
Gravity's Rainbow (1973) by Thomas Pynchon
The Fountainhead (1943) by Ayn Rand
Jitterbug Perfume (1984) by Tom Robbins
Call It Sleep (1934) by Henry Roth
Mating (1991) by Norman Rush
A Sport and a Pastime (1967) by James Salter
What Makes Sammy Run? (1941) by Budd Schulberg
The Quantity Theory of Insanity (1991) by Will Self
A Suitable Boy (1993) by Vikram Seth
The Stone Diaries (1993) by Carol Shields
A Thousand Acres (1991) by Jane Smiley
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (1933) by Gertrude Stein
Dog Soldiers (1974) by Robert Stone
The Kitchen God's Wife (1991) by Amy Tan
The Secret History (1992) by Donna Tartt
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1971) by Hunter S. Thompson
The Killer Inside Me (1952) by Jim Thompson
The Lord of the Rings (1954) by J. R. R. Tolkien
A Confederacy of Dunces (1980) by John Kennedy Toole
Cain's Book (1960) by Alexander Trocchi
Tintin in the New World: A Romance (1993) by Frederic Tuten
Rabbit, Run (1960) by John Updike
You Bright & Risen Angels (1987) by William T. Vollmann
Infinite Jest (1996) by David Foster Wallace
Trainspotting (1993) by Irvine Welsh
Written on the Body (1992) by Jeanette Winterson
Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration (1991) by David Wojnarowicz
Look Homeward, Angel (1929) by Thomas Wolfe
The Bonfire of the Vanities (1987) by Tom Wolfe
This Boy's Life (1989) by Tobias Wolff

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