20th Century's Greatest Hits: 100 English-Language Books of Fiction

39 books in the collection.

Must-Read

A Clockwork Orange

Anthony Burgess

First published 1962

 Cover of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Must-Read

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

James Joyce

First published 1818

 Cover of Absalom, Absalom!
Must-Read

Absalom, Absalom!

William Faulkner

First published 1936

 Cover of Always Coming Home
Must-Read

Always Coming Home

Ursula K. Le Guin

First published 1985

 Cover of An American Tragedy
Recommended

An American Tragedy

Theodore Dreiser

First published 1925

 Cover of Beloved
Must-Read

Beloved

Toni Morrison

First published 1987

 Cover of Brave New World
Must-Read

Brave New World

Aldous Huxley

First published 1932

 Cover of Count Zero
Must-Read

Count Zero

William Gibson

First published 1986

 Cover of Dhalgren
Must-Read

Dhalgren

Samuel R. Delany

First published 1975

 Cover of Dubliners
Must-Read

Dubliners

James Joyce

First published 1914

 Cover of Finnegans Wake
Must-Read

Finnegans Wake

James Joyce

First published 1928

 Cover of Gravity's Rainbow
Must-Read

Gravity's Rainbow

Thomas Pynchon

First published 1973

 Cover of Heart of Darkness
Must-Read

Heart of Darkness

Joseph Conrad

First published 1899

 Cover of Infinite Jest
Must-Read

Infinite Jest

David Foster Wallace

First published 1996

 Cover of Libra
Must-Read

Libra

Don DeLillo

First published 1988

 Cover of Lolita
Must-Read

Lolita

Vladimir Nabokov

First published 1777

 Cover of Molloy
Must-Read

Molloy

Samuel Beckett

First published 1951

 Cover of Mona Lisa Overdrive
Must-Read

Mona Lisa Overdrive

William Gibson

First published 1988

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Must-Read

Neuromancer

William Gibson

First published 1984

 Cover of Nineteen Eighty-Four
Must-Read

Nineteen Eighty-Four

George Orwell

First published 1949

 Cover of On the Road
Recommended

On the Road

Jack Kerouac

First published 1957

 Cover of Pale Fire
Must-Read

Pale Fire

Vladimir Nabokov

First published 1945

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Must-Read

Slaughterhouse-Five

Kurt Vonnegut

First published 1969

 Cover of Sun Also Rises
Must-Read

Sun Also Rises

Ernest Hemingway

First published 1926

 Cover of The Catcher in the Rye
Must-Read

The Catcher in the Rye

J.D. Salinger

First published 1945

 Cover of The Citadel of the Autarch
Must-Read

The Citadel of the Autarch

Gene Wolfe

First published 1983

 Cover of The Claw of the Conciliator
Must-Read

The Claw of the Conciliator

Gene Wolfe

First published 1981

 Cover of The Grapes of Wrath
Must-Read

The Grapes of Wrath

John Steinbeck

First published 1939

 Cover of The Great Gatsby
Must-Read

The Great Gatsby

F. Scott Fitzgerald

First published 1920

 Cover of The House of Mirth
Recommended

The House of Mirth

Edith Wharton

First published 1905

 Cover of The Man in the High Castle
Must-Read

The Man in the High Castle

Philip K. Dick

First published 1962

 Cover of The Shadow of the Torturer
Must-Read

The Shadow of the Torturer

Gene Wolfe

First published 1980

 Cover of The Sword of the Lictor
Must-Read

The Sword of the Lictor

Gene Wolfe

First published 1982

 Cover of To the Lighthouse
Must-Read

To the Lighthouse

Virginia Woolf

First published 1927

 Cover of Ulysses
Must-Read

Ulysses

James Joyce

First published 1914

 Cover of Under the Volcano
Must-Read

Under the Volcano

Malcolm Lowry

First published 1947

 Cover of Underworld
Must-Read

Underworld

Don DeLillo

First published 1997

 Cover of Winesburg, Ohio
Recommended

Winesburg, Ohio

Sherwood Anderson

First published 1919

 Cover of Wise Blood
Recommended

Wise Blood

Flannery O'Connor

First published 1952