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

Radcliffe Publishing Course list.

K LM R App. Points Rank Author Title Date
K-003 L-013 M-002 R-001 4 385 001 Fitzgerald, F. Scott Great Gatsby, The 1925
K-002 L-002 M-064 R-002 4 334 009 Salinger, J. D. Catcher in the Rye, The 1951
K-004 L-020 M-010 R-003 4 367 004 Steinbeck, John Grapes of Wrath, The 1939
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-018 L-044 M-001 R-006 4 335 006 Joyce, James Ulysses 1922
K-009 L-005 R-007 3 282 017 Morrison, Toni Beloved 1987
K-012 L-009 M-041 R-008 4 334 008 Golding, William Lord of the Flies 1954
K-006 L-007 M-013 R-009 4 369 002 Orwell, George Nineteen Eighty Four 1949
K-030 L-047 M-006 R-010 4 311 013 Faulkner, William Sound and the Fury, The 1929
K-031 L-017 M-004 R-011 4 341 005 Nabokov, Vladimir Lolita 1955
K-046 L-109 R-012 3 136 045 Steinbeck, John Of Mice and Men 1937
K-032 L-012 R-013 3 246 024 White, E. B. Charlotte's Web 1952
K-041 L-053 M-003 R-014 4 293 015 Joyce, James Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, A 1916
K-005 L-010 M-007 R-015 4 367 003 Heller, Joseph Catch-22 1961
K-024 L-041 M-005 R-016 4 318 011 Huxley, Aldous Brave New World 1932
K-013 L-008 M-031 R-017 4 335 007 Orwell, George Animal Farm 1945
K-019 L-045 M-045 R-018 4 277 018 Hemingway, Ernest Sun Also Rises, The 1926
M-035 R-019 2 148 040 Faulkner, William As I Lay Dying 1930
K-057 L-033 M-074 R-020 4 220 026 Hemingway, Ernest Farewell to Arms, A 1929
L-092 M-067 R-021 3 123 052 Conrad, Joseph Heart of Darkness 1902
L-034 R-022 2 146 043 Milne, A. A. Winnie the Pooh 1926
K-011 L-078 R-023 3 191 028 Hurston, Zora Neale Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937
K-016 L-028 M-019 R-024 4 317 012 Ellison, Ralph Invisible Man 1952
L-050 R-025 2 127 051 Morrison, Toni Song of Solomon 1977
K-007 L-004 R-026 3 266 020 Mitchell, Margaret Gone With the Wind 1936
K-056 L-031 M-020 R-027 4 270 019 Wright, Richard Native Son 1940
K-095 L-023 R-028 3 157 037 Kesey, Ken One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest 1962
K-020 L-014 M-018 R-029 4 323 010 Vonnegut, Kurt, Jr. Slaughterhouse Five 1969
K-068 R-030 2 104 060 Hemingway, Ernest For Whom the Bell Tolls 1940
K-023 L-039 M-055 R-031 4 256 021 Kerouac, Jack On the Road 1957
K-055 L-026 R-032 3 190 029 Hemingway, Ernest Old Man and the Sea, The 1952
K-042 L-067 M-088 R-033 4 174 032 London, Jack Call of the Wild, The 1903
K-039 L-060 M-015 R-034 4 256 022 Woolf, Virginia To the Lighthouse 1927
R-035 1 disc James, Henry Portrait of a Lady, The 1881
M-039 R-036 2 127 049 Baldwin, James Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953
K-038 L-061 R-037 3 167 034 Irving, John World According to Garp, The 1978
L-094 M-036 R-038 3 135 046 Warren, Robert Penn All the King's Men 1946
K-061 L-124 M-079 R-039 4 101 062 Forster, E. M. Room With a View, A 1908
K-010 L-003 R-040 3 250 023 Tolkien, J. R. R. Lord of the Rings 1956
R-041 1 060 100 Keneally, Thomas Schindler's List 1982
K-035 L-037 M-058 R-042 4 232 025 Wharton, Edith Age of Innocence, The 1920
K-082 L-065 R-043 3 113 058 Rand, Ayn Fountainhead, The 1943
M-077 R-044 2 081 073 Joyce, James Finnegans Wake 1939
L-035 R-045 2 122 054 Sinclair, Upton Jungle, The 1906
R-046 1 055 107 Woolf, Virginia Mrs. Dalloway 1925
L-062 R-047 2 093 065 Baum, L. Frank Wonderful Wizard of Oz, The 1900
L-027 R-048 2 127 050 Lawrence, D. H. Lady Chatterley's Lover 1928
K-049 L-058 M-065 R-049 4 183 031 Burgess, Anthony Clockwork Orange, A 1962
R-050 1 disc Chopin, Kate Awakening, The 1899
K-034 L-025 R-051 3 193 027 Cather, Willa My Antonia 1918
K-084 M-038 R-052 3 129 047 Forster, E. M. Howard's End 1910
R-053 1 disc Capote, Truman In Cold Blood 1965
R-054 1 047 116 Salinger, J. D. Franny and Zooey 1961
R-055 1 046 118 Rushdie, Salman Satanic Verses, The 1988
R-056 1 045 120 Morrison, Toni Jazz 1992
L-030 M-096 R-057 3 120 056 Styron, William Sophie's Choice 1979
R-058 1 043 124 Faulkner, William Absalom, Absalom! 1936
L-075 M-025 R-059 3 144 044 Forster, E. M. Passage to India, A 1924
K-025 L-056 R-060 3 162 035 Wharton, Edith Ethan Frome 1911
L-087 R-061 2 054 108 O'Connor, Flannery Good Man is Hard to Find, A 1955
K-066 M-028 R-062 3 147 042 Fitzgerald, F. Scott Tender is the Night 1934
R-063 1 038 130 Woolf, Virginia Orlando 1928
M-009 R-064 2 129 048 Lawrence, D. H. Sons and Lovers 1913
R-065 1 036 134 Wolfe, Tom Bonfire of the Vanities 1987
L-118 R-066 2 018 164 Vonnegut, Kurt, Jr. Cat's Cradle 1963
R-067 1 034 136 Knowles, John Separate Peace, A 1959
M-054 R-068 2 080 074 Faulkner, William Light in August 1932
M-026 R-069 2 107 059 James, Henry Wings of the Dove, The 1902
L-133 R-070 2 -001 203 Achebe, Chinua Things Fall Apart 1959
K-028 L-019 R-071 3 185 030 Du Maurier, Daphne Rebecca 1938
R-072 1 029 148 Adams, Douglas Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The 1979
K-085 R-073 2 044 121 Burroughs, William S. Naked Lunch 1959
L-119 M-080 R-074 3 030 144 Waugh, Evelyn Brideshead Revisited 1945
L-095 M-049 R-075 3 084 070 Lawrence, D. H. Women in Love 1920
L-054 R-076 2 072 080 Wolfe, Thomas Look Homeward, Angel 1929
R-077 1 024 158 Hemingway, Ernest In Our Time 1925
R-078 1 disc Stein, Gertrude Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, The 1933
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-053 L-127 M-094 R-081 4 049 113 Rhys, Jean Wide Sargasso Sea 1966
K-063 L-128 R-082 3 130 143 DeLillo, Don White Noise 1985
R-083 1 018 165 Cather, Willa O Pioneers! 1913
L-132 M-050 R-084 3 037 131 Miller, Henry Tropic of Cancer 1934
R-085 1 disc Wells, H. G. War of the Worlds, The 1898
M-085 R-086 2 031 140 Conrad, Joseph Lord Jim 1900
R-087 1 disc James, Henry Bostonians, The 1886
M-016 R-088 2 098 063 Dreiser, Theodore American Tragedy, An 1925
L-117 M-061 R-089 3 036 133 Cather, Willa Death Comes for the Archbishop 1927
L-079 R-090 2 033 137 Graham, Kenneth Wind in the Willows, The 1908
R-091 1 010 184 Fitzgerald, F. Scott This Side of Paradise 1920
K-040 R-092 2 070 083 Rand, Ayn Atlas Shrugged 1957
R-093 1 008 187 Fowles, John French Lieutenant's Woman, The 1969
L-093 R-094 2 015 171 Lewis, Sinclair Babbit 1922
M-078 R-095 2 029 147 Kipling, Rudyard Kim 1901
R-096 1 005 191 Fitzgerald, F. Scott Beautiful and Damned, The 1922
K-092 L-038 R-097 3 076 078 Updike, John Rabbit, Run 1960
R-098 1 003 196 Forster, E. M. Where Angels Fear to Tread 1905
K-096 M-068 R-099 3 040 127 Lewis, Sinclair Main Street 1920
M-090 R-100 2 012 177 Rushdie, Salman Midnight's Children 1981

1st web edition posted 2/26/99 (last updated 5/25/04).
2nd web edition posted 6/24/05 (last updated 12/4/13).
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