The Best English-Language Fiction of the Twentieth Century
A Composite List and Ranking
by Brian Kunde

INTRODUCTION
SOURCE LISTS
COMPOSITE LIST
RANKING SYSTEM
COLUMN KEY
REVIEWS
LINKS

Disqualified Works.

Note: works in this section are arranged alphabetically by author and title. It should be emphasized that quality played no part in the disqualification of any work from the combined list; had they not been excellent books they would never have made it on the source lists to begin with. Disqualification is solely a matter of these works failing to meet the criteria for qualification. Each title links to the reason for its disqualification.

K L M R App. Points Rank Author Title Date
K-067 1 Alcott, Louisa May Little Women 1868
K-047 L-108 2 Allende, Isabel House of the Spirits, The 1985
K-054 1 Brontë, Charlotte Jane Eyre 1847
L-081 1 Camus, Albert Plague, The 1947
L-138 1 Camus, Albert Rebel, The 1954
L-046 1 Camus, Albert Stranger, The 1942
R-053 1 Capote, Truman In Cold Blood 1965
K-087 1 Carson, Rachel Silent Spring, The 1962
K-100 1 Carter, Forrest Education of Little Tree, The 1976
R-050 1 Chopin, Kate Awakening, The 1899
K-077 1 Conway, Jill K. Road From Coorain, The 1989
K-045 1 Crane, Stephen Red Badge of Courage, The 1895
L-082 1 de Saint-Exupery, Antoine Little Prince, The 1943
L-057 1 Duras, Marguerite Lover, The 1972
L-126 1 Grass, Günter Tin Drum, The 1959
R-087 1 James, Henry Bostonians, The 1886
R-035 1 James, Henry Portrait of a Lady 1881
M-008 1 Koestler, Arthur Darkness at Noon 1940
L-098 1 Kundera, Milan Unbearable Lightness of Being, The 1984
L-111 1 Mann, Thomas Magic Mountain 1924
L-015 1 Marquez, Gabriel García One Hundred Years of Solitude 1970
K-051 L-146 2 McBride, James Color of Water, The 1996
K-026 1 McCourt, Frank Angela's Ashes 1996
L-116 1 Pasternak, Boris Doctor Zhivago 1958
L-088 1 Proust, Marcel Remembrance of Things Past 1960
L-043 1 Remarque, Erich Maria All Quiet on the Western Front 1929
L-068 1 Solzhenitsyn, Alexander One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich 1963
R-078 1 Stein, Gertrude Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, The 1933
K-076 1 Thompson, Hunter Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas 1971
R-085 1 Wells, H. G. War of the Worlds, The 1898

Reasons for disqualification.

1. Not from twentieth century.
2. Nonfiction.
3. Translation (not originally written in English).

1st web edition posted 2/26/99 (last updated 5/25/04).
2nd web edition posted 6/24/05 (last updated 6/24/05).
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Published by Fleabonnet Press.
The source list data is public domain.
Additional material © 1999-2005 by Brian Kunde.