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Top 100 Novels of the 20th Century

100 items · 2026-06-19

  1. 1

    Ulysses

  2. 2

    In Search of Lost Time

  3. 3

    One Hundred Years of Solitude

  4. 4

    The Great Gatsby

  5. 5

    To the Lighthouse

  6. 6

    Mrs Dalloway

  7. 7

    The Sound and the Fury

  8. 8

    Absalom, Absalom!

  9. 9

    Lolita

  10. 10

    Pale Fire

  11. 11

    Beloved

  12. 12

    Song of Solomon

  13. 13

    Invisible Man

  14. 14

    The Catcher in the Rye

  15. 15

    1984

  16. 16

    Animal Farm

  17. 17

    Brave New World

  18. 18

    The Stranger

  19. 19

    The Plague

  20. 20

    Nausea

  21. 21

    Things Fall Apart

  22. 22

    Heart of Darkness

  23. 23

    The Sun Also Rises

  24. 24

    For Whom the Bell Tolls

  25. 25

    The Old Man and the Sea

  26. 26

    Catch-22

  27. 27

    Slaughterhouse-Five

  28. 28

    Gravity's Rainbow

  29. 29

    The Crying of Lot 49

  30. 30

    Infinite Jest

  31. 31

    Blood Meridian

  32. 32

    The Road

  33. 33

    All the Pretty Horses

  34. 34

    The Sheltering Sky

  35. 35

    On the Road

  36. 36

    Naked Lunch

  37. 37

    Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

  38. 38

    American Psycho

  39. 39

    The Master and Margarita

  40. 40

    Doctor Zhivago

  41. 41

    One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

  42. 42

    The Gulag Archipelago

  43. 43

    The Tin Drum

  44. 44

    The Trial

  45. 45

    The Castle

  46. 46

    The Metamorphosis

  47. 47

    The Magic Mountain

  48. 48

    Buddenbrooks

  49. 49

    Death in Venice

  50. 50

    The Bell Jar

  51. 51

    Wide Sargasso Sea

  52. 52

    Midnight's Children

  53. 53

    The Satanic Verses

  54. 54

    Disgrace

  55. 55

    Life & Times of Michael K

  56. 56

    Waiting for the Barbarians

  57. 57

    The God of Small Things

  58. 58

    A Suitable Boy

  59. 59

    Half of a Yellow Sun

  60. 60

    Things Fall Apart (#21)

  61. 61

    The Remains of the Day

  62. 62

    Never Let Me Go

  63. 63

    Atonement

  64. 64

    The Handmaid's Tale

  65. 65

    The Blind Assassin

  66. 66

    The English Patient

  67. 67

    Norwegian Wood

  68. 68

    The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

  69. 69

    Kafka on the Shore

  70. 70

    Snow Country

  71. 71

    The Tale of Genji (modern reception)

  72. 72

    The Stranger / L'Étranger (#18)

  73. 73

    A Clockwork Orange

  74. 74

    Lord of the Flies

  75. 75

    Brideshead Revisited

  76. 76

    Decline and Fall

  77. 77

    The Power and the Glory

  78. 78

    The End of the Affair

  79. 79

    The Heart of the Matter

  80. 80

    Brighton Rock

  81. 81

    Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

  82. 82

    The Spy Who Came In from the Cold

  83. 83

    The Name of the Rose

  84. 84

    Foucault's Pendulum

  85. 85

    If on a winter's night a traveler

  86. 86

    Invisible Cities

  87. 87

    The Leopard

  88. 88

    Ficciones

  89. 89

    Hopscotch

  90. 90

    Love in the Time of Cholera

  91. 91

    The Aleph

  92. 92

    Death and the Maiden

  93. 93

    Pedro Páramo

  94. 94

    The Savage Detectives

  95. 95

    2666

  96. 96

    The Master

  97. 97

    At Swim-Two-Birds

  98. 98

    Dubliners

  99. 99

    A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

  100. 100

    Mason & Dixon

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