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

Works Appearing in Three Sources.

K LM R App. Points Rank Author Title Date
K-001 L-001 R-004 3 297 014 Lee, Harper To Kill a Mockingbird 1960
K-008 L-006 R-005 3 284 016 Walker, Alice Color Purple, The 1982
K-009 L-005 R-007 3 282 017 Morrison, Toni Beloved 1987
K-007 L-004 R-026 3 266 020 Mitchell, Margaret Gone With the Wind 1936
K-010 L-003 R-040 3 250 023 Tolkien, J. R. R. Lord of the Rings 1956
K-032 L-012 R-013 3 246 024 White, E. B. Charlotte's Web 1952
K-034 L-025 R-051 3 193 027 Cather, Willa My Antonia 1918
K-011 L-078 R-023 3 191 028 Hurston, Zora Neale Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937
K-055 L-026 R-032 3 190 029 Hemingway, Ernest Old Man and the Sea, The 1952
K-028 L-019 R-071 3 185 030 Du Maurier, Daphne Rebecca 1938
K-038 L-061 R-037 3 167 034 Irving, John World According to Garp, The 1978
K-025 L-056 R-060 3 162 035 Wharton, Edith Ethan Frome 1911
K-095 L-023 R-028 3 157 037 Kesey, Ken One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest 1962
K-066 M-028 R-062 3 147 042 Fitzgerald, F. Scott Tender is the Night 1934
L-075 M-025 R-059 3 144 044 Forster, E. M. Passage to India, A 1924
K-046 L-109 R-012 3 136 045 Steinbeck, John Of Mice and Men 1937
L-094 M-036 R-038 3 135 046 Warren, Robert Penn All the King's Men 1946
K-084 M-038 R-052 3 129 047 Forster, E. M. Howard's End 1910
L-092 M-067 R-021 3 123 052 Conrad, Joseph Heart of Darkness 1902
K-097 L-070 M-014 3 122 053 Graves, Robert I, Claudius 1934
L-030 M-096 R-057 3 120 056 Styron, William Sophie's Choice 1979
K-082 L-065 R-043 3 113 058 Rand, Ayn Fountainhead, The 1943
L-095 M-049 R-075 3 084 070 Lawrence, D. H. Women in Love 1920
K-092 L-038 R-097 3 076 078 Updike, John Rabbit, Run 1960
L-101 M-056 R-079 3 067 090 Hammett, Dashiell Maltese Falcon, The 1930
L-110 M-051 R-080 3 062 096 Mailer, Norman Naked and the Dead, The 1948
K-096 M-068 R-099 3 040 127 Lewis, Sinclair Main Street 1920
L-132 M-050 R-084 3 037 131 Miller, Henry Tropic of Cancer 1934
L-117 M-061 R-089 3 036 133 Cather, Willa Death Comes for the Archbishop 1927
K-063 L-128 R-082 3 030 143 DeLillo, Don White Noise 1985
L-119 M-080 R-074 3 030 144 Waugh, Evelyn Brideshead Revisited 1945

1st web edition posted 2/26/99 (last updated 5/25/04).
2nd web edition posted 6/24/05 (last updated 3/26/13).
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Published by Fleabonnet Press.
The source list data is public domain.
Additional material © 1999-2013 by Brian Kunde.