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. Appended to each title is a link to the cause of its disqualification.

K L M R App. Author Title Date Cause
K-067 1 Alcott, Louisa May Little Women 1868 1
K-047 L-108 2 Allende, Isabel House of the Spirits, The 1985 3
K-054 1 Brontë, Charlotte Jane Eyre 1847 1
L-081 1 Camus, Albert Plague, The 1947 3
L-138 1 Camus, Albert Rebel, The 1954 3
L-046 1 Camus, Albert Stranger, The 1942 3
R-053 1 Capote, Truman In Cold Blood 1965 2
K-087 1 Carson, Rachel Silent Spring, The 1962 2
K-100 1 Carter, Forrest Education of Little Tree, The 1976 2
R-050 1 Chopin, Kate Awakening, The 1899 1
K-077 1 Conway, Jill K. Road From Coorain, The 1989 2
K-045 1 Crane, Stephen Red Badge of Courage, The 1895 1
L-082 1 de Saint-Exupéry, Antoine Little Prince, The 1943 3
L-057 1 Duras, Marguerite Lover, The 1972 3
L-126 1 Grass, Günter Tin Drum, The 1959 3
R-077 1 Hemingway, Ernest In Our Time 1925 4
R-087 1 James, Henry Bostonians, The 1886 1
R-035 1 James, Henry Portrait of a Lady, The 1881 1
M-008 1 Koestler, Arthur Darkness at Noon 1940 3
L-098 1 Kundera, Milan Unbearable Lightness of Being, The 1984 3
L-111 1 Mann, Thomas Magic Mountain, The 1924 3
L-015 1 Márquez, Gabriel García One Hundred Years of Solitude 1970 3
K-051 L-146 2 McBride, James Color of Water, The 1996 2
K-026 1 McCourt, Frank Angela's Ashes 1996 2
L-116 1 Pasternak, Boris Doctor Zhivago 1958 3
L-088 1 Proust, Marcel Remembrance of Things Past 1960 3
L-043 1 Remarque, Erich Maria All Quiet on the Western Front 1929 3
L-068 1 Solzhenitsyn, Alexander One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich 1963 3
R-078 1 Stein, Gertrude Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, The 1933 2
K-076 1 Thompson, Hunter Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas 1972 2
R-085 1 Wells, H. G. War of the Worlds, The 1898 1
L-140 1 Wilson, Colin Outsider, The 1956 2

Reasons for disqualification.

1. Not from twentieth century.
2. Nonfiction.
3. Translation (not originally written in English).
4. Collection, not a novel.

1st web edition posted 2/26/99 (last updated 5/25/04).
2nd web edition posted 6/24/05 (last updated 12/13/13).
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Published by Fleabonnet Press.
The source list data is public domain.
Additional material © 1999-2013 by Brian Kunde.