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Larry McCaffery's 20th Century Greatest Hits: 100 English-Language Books

Based on bookaward: Larry McCaffery's 20th Century Greatest Hits

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Rank Title Author Added CK Order

1

The Great Gatsby

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

72,609 members

1,176 reviews

3.8

7 Members: hipdeep, roby72, thecoroner, cej1027, ahef1963, mspixieears, ManWithAnAgenda,robertx

2

To the Lighthouse

by Virginia Woolf

17,698 members

271 reviews

3.9

5 Members: roby72, thecoroner, ahef1963, mspixieears, ManWithAnAgenda

3

The French Lieutenant's Woman

6,563 members

108 reviews

3.8

5 Members: aprille, absurdeist, roby72, thecoroner, ahef1963

4

Heart of Darkness

by Joseph Conrad

23,724 members

390 reviews

½ 3.6

6 Members: roby72, thecoroner, cej1027, ahef1963, mspixieears, ManWithAnAgenda

5

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

21,326 members

217 reviews

½ 3.7

6 Members: absurdeist, roby72, thecoroner, ahef1963, mspixieears, ManWithAnAgenda

6

19,796 members

228 reviews

3.9

6 Members: aprille, roby72, thecoroner, ahef1963, mspixieears, ManWithAnAgenda

7

Midnight's Children

by Salman Rushdie

13,975 members

245 reviews

4

5 Members: aprille, roby72, thecoroner, ahef1963, mspixieears

8

The Grapes of Wrath

by John Steinbeck

34,503 members

478 reviews

4.1

5 Members: absurdeist, roby72, thecoroner, cej1027, ManWithAnAgenda

9

A Passage to India

by E. M. Forster

12,519 members

142 reviews

3.8

5 Members: roby72, thecoroner, ahef1963, mspixieears, ManWithAnAgenda

10

by William Gaddis

1,387 members

19 reviews

4.2

4 Members: aprille, absurdeist, roby72, thecoroner

11

24,226 members

379 reviews

4

4 Members: roby72, thecoroner, ahef1963, mspixieears,absurdeist ,robertx

12

Brave New World

by Aldous Huxley

54,190 members

774 reviews

3.9

5 Members: roby72, thecoroner, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

13

by William H. Gass

913 members

11 reviews

4.1

3 Members: aprille, absurdeist, robertx

14

A Clockwork Orange

by Anthony Burgess

25,997 members

389 reviews

4

5 Members: absurdeist, roby72, thecoroner, ahef1963, mspixieears

15

Slaughterhouse-Five

by Kurt Vonnegut

44,220 members

709 reviews

4.1

5 Members: hipdeep, roby72, ahef1963, mspixieears, ManWithAnAgenda,thecoroner

16

Winesburg, Ohio

by Sherwood Anderson

5,961 members

121 reviews

3.8

4 Members: hipdeep, roby72, thecoroner, ManWithAnAgenda

17

What We Talk about When We Talk about Love

by Raymond Carver

3,879 members

61 reviews

4.1

3 Members: aprille, blackdove07, ManWithAnAgenda

18

by George Orwell

82,454 members

1,276 reviews

4.2

4 Members: roby72, ahef1963, mspixieears, ManWithAnAgenda

19

8,004 members

85 reviews

3.9

4 Members: aprille, absurdeist, roby72, thecoroner

20

Under the Volcano

by Malcolm Lowry

4,429 members

89 reviews

3.8

3 Members: absurdeist, roby72, thecoroner

21

by Joseph Heller

40,185 members

529 reviews

4.1

4 Members: hipdeep, roby72, thecoroner, ahef1963

22

by Jack Kerouac

28,022 members

387 reviews

½ 3.6

4 Members: roby72, thecoroner, ahef1963, mspixieears

23

The Recognitions

by William Gaddis

2,231 members

36 reviews

½ 4.3

3 Members: absurdeist, roby72, thecoroner

24

Waiting for the Barbarians

by J. M. Coetzee

4,387 members

78 reviews

4

4 Members: aprille, absurdeist, roby72, ahef1963

25

The Sound and the Fury

by William Faulkner

17,368 members

226 reviews

4

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, ahef1963

26

by Toni Morrison

23,016 members

409 reviews

3.9

3 Members: roby72, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

27

The Sun Also Rises

by Ernest Hemingway

23,054 members

339 reviews

3.8

3 Members: aprille, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

28

The Man in the High Castle

by Philip K. Dick

13,903 members

359 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: aprille, absurdeist, ManWithAnAgenda

29

by David Foster Wallace

13,264 members

244 reviews

4.2

3 Members: absurdeist, roby72, thecoroner

30

Tropic of Cancer

by Henry Miller

8,856 members

131 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: aprille, roby72, thecoroner

31

The Naked and the Dead

by Norman Mailer

4,151 members

47 reviews

3.9

3 Members: aprille, roby72, thecoroner

32

Gravity's Rainbow

by Thomas Pynchon

10,811 members

141 reviews

4.1

3 Members: absurdeist, roby72, thecoroner

33

by John Dos Passos

1,482 members

15 reviews

4

3 Members: aprille, roby72, thecoroner

34

Their Eyes Were Watching God

by Zora Neale Hurston

19,254 members

348 reviews

4

2 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963

35

5,357 members

60 reviews

3.9

4 Members: aprille, roby72, thecoroner, ahef1963,absurdeist

36

The Ambassadors

3,993 members

43 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: aprille, roby72, thecoroner

37

3,703 members

39 reviews

3.8

3 Members: aprille, absurdeist, roby72

38

The Golden Notebook

by Doris Lessing

5,414 members

93 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: roby72, thecoroner

39

An American Tragedy

by Theodore Dreiser

4,014 members

48 reviews

3.9

3 Members: absurdeist, roby72, thecoroner

40

Absalom, Absalom!

by William Faulkner

7,714 members

107 reviews

4.1

2 Members: roby72, thecoroner

41

by Vladimir Nabokov

31,848 members

565 reviews

4.1

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, ManWithAnAgenda,cej1027

42

Neuromancer Trilogy: Neuromancer, Count Zero, Mona Lisa Overdrive

by William Gibson

436 members

4.2

2 Members: aprille, hipdeep

43

The Day of the Locust

by Nathanael West

1,868 members

49 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: absurdeist, ManWithAnAgenda

44

by Vladimir Nabokov

7,969 members

140 reviews

4.2

2 Members: roby72, thecoroner

45

In the Heart of the Heart of the Country & Other Stories

by William H. Gass

728 members

8 reviews

3.9

2 Members: aprille, hipdeep

46

Tours of the Black Clock

by Steve Erickson

328 members

4 reviews

3.8

2 Members: aprille, absurdeist

47

Darconville's Cat

by Alexander Theroux

388 members

12 reviews

½ 4.4

2 Members: aprille, absurdeist

48

by Samuel R. Delany

3,761 members

74 reviews

3.8

2 Members: aprille, absurdeist

49

by Gilbert Sorrentino

392 members

3 reviews

4

2 Members: aprille, absurdeist

50

Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable

by Samuel Beckett

3,055 members

28 reviews

4.2

2 Members: roby72, thecoroner

51

by Djuna Barnes

3,145 members

58 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: aprille, mspixieears

52

The Sot-Weed Factor

2,112 members

40 reviews

4.2

2 Members: aprille, absurdeist

53

by Donald Barthelme

1,652 members

15 reviews

4.1

2 Members: aprille, absurdeist

54

The House of Mirth

by Edith Wharton

9,751 members

204 reviews

4

2 Members: roby72, ahef1963

55

Double or Nothing

by Raymond Federman

113 members

1 review

3.9

2 Members: aprille, absurdeist

56

by Cormac McCarthy

11,677 members

274 reviews

4.2

2 Members: aprille, absurdeist

57

by Flannery O'Connor

3,883 members

112 reviews

3.8

2 Members: absurdeist, ahef1963

58

by Russell Hoban

1,347 members

25 reviews

4.2

2 Members: aprille, absurdeist

59

The New York Trilogy

9,881 members

155 reviews

3.9

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, ahef1963,ManWithAnAgenda

60

Genoa: A Telling of Wonders

by Paul Metcalf

95 members

4 reviews

4.1

2 Members: aprille, absurdeist

61

The Age of Wire and String

455 members

15 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: aprille, absurdeist

62

Easy Travel to Other Planets

188 members

2 reviews

3.8

2 Members: aprille, absurdeist

63

by Stanley Elkin

166 members

3 reviews

3.8

2 Members: aprille, absurdeist

64

by Stephen Wright

371 members

9 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: aprille, absurdeist

65

Take It or Leave It

by Raymond Federman

75 members

1 review

3.8

2 Members: aprille, absurdeist

66

by Ronald Sukenick

44 members

3 reviews

3.2

2 Members: aprille, absurdeist

67

by Ralph Ellison

16,267 members

212 reviews

4

2 Members: roby72, thecoroner

68

The Book of the New Sun

640 members

9 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: aprille, roby72

69

Three Novels: The Soft Machine, Nova Express, the Wild Boys

by William S. Burroughs

182 members

½ 3.7

2 Members: aprille, roby72

70

by J. G. Ballard

3,562 members

77 reviews

½ 3.5

3 Members: aprille, thecoroner, ahef1963,absurdeist

71

The Catcher in the Rye

by J. D. Salinger

69,845 members

1,086 reviews

3.8

4 Members: roby72, thecoroner, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda,hipdeep ,absurdeist ,cej1027

72

American Psycho

by Bret Easton Ellis

13,991 members

290 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: aprille, ManWithAnAgenda,absurdeist

73

The Sheltering Sky

4,334 members

79 reviews

3.8

2 Members: aprille, absurdeist,ManWithAnAgenda

74

by Marilynne Robinson

6,395 members

214 reviews

3.9

Member: ahef1963

75

by D. H. Lawrence

6,690 members

54 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: thecoroner

76

At Swim-Two-Birds

by Flann O'Brien

3,287 members

63 reviews

3.9

Member: aprille

77

More Than Human

by Theodore Sturgeon

3,046 members

73 reviews

3.9

Member: aprille

78

The Shadow of the Torturer

2,702 members

90 reviews

3.8

Member: aprille

79

Always Coming Home

by Ursula K. Le Guin

2,150 members

22 reviews

3.9

Member: aprille

80

1,422 members

11 reviews

3.8

Member: aprille

81

by John Dos Passos

1,067 members

9 reviews

4

Member: aprille

82

The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop.

by Robert Coover

729 members

15 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: aprille

83

Omensetter's Luck

by William H. Gass

718 members

14 reviews

4

Member: aprille

84

The Public Burning

by Robert Coover

676 members

7 reviews

3.8

Member: aprille

85

Pricksongs & Descants: Fictions

by Robert Coover

653 members

10 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: aprille

86

The Making of Americans

by Gertrude Stein

447 members

3 reviews

3.1

Member: aprille

87

You Bright & Risen Angels

by William T. Vollmann

419 members

4 reviews

4

Member: aprille

88

by William T. Vollmann

309 members

5 reviews

3.9

Member: aprille

89

In Memoriam to Identity

290 members

5 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: aprille

90

by Samuel R. Delany

278 members

9 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: aprille

91

267 members

5 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: aprille

92

Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down

by Ishmael Reed

254 members

2 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: aprille

93

Lookout Cartridge

by Joseph McElroy

160 members

2 reviews

3.8

Member: aprille

94

by Harry Mathews

161 members

4 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: aprille

95

Lyric of the Circle Heart: The Bowman Family Trilogy (American Literature Series)

by William Eastlake

28 members

3.8

Member: aprille

96

Creamy and Delicious; Eat My Words (in other words)

14 members

3.2

Member: aprille

97

The Four Elements Tetralogy

by Rikki Ducornet

1 member

Member: aprille

98

by Richard Wright

7,778 members

102 reviews

4

99

by Dashiell Hammett

3,030 members

89 reviews

3.8

100

Skinny Legs and All

4,381 members

46 reviews

4

Member: aprille,absurdeist

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