The 1oo greatest books in the 20th century
1 The Lord of the Rings J.R.R. Tolkein
2 Nineteen Eighty-Four George Orwell
3 Animal Farm George Orwell
4 Ulysses James Joyce
5 Catch-22 Jospeh Heller
6 The Catcher in the
7 To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee
8 One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel García Marquez
9 The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck
10 Trainspotting
11 Wild Swans Jung Chang
12 The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald
13 Lord of the Flies William Golding
14 On the Road Jack Kerouac
15 Brave
16 The Wind in the Willows Kenneth Grahame
17 Winnie-The-Pooh A.A. Milne
18 The Color Purple Alice Walker
19 The Hobbit J.R.R. Tolkein
20 The Outsider Albert Camus
21 The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe C.S. Lewis
22 The Trial Franz Kafka
23 Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell
24 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Douglas Adams
25
26 The Diary of Anne Frank Anne Frank
27 A Clockwork
28 Sons and Lovers D.H. Lawrence
29 To the Lighthouse Virginia Woolf
30 If This Is a Man Primo Levi
31 Lolita
32 The Wasp Factory Iain Banks
33 Remembrance of Things Past Marcel Proust
34 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Roald Dahl
35 Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck
36 Beloved Toni Morrison
37 Possession A.S. Byatt
38 Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad
39 A Passage to
40 Watership Down Richard Adams
41 Sophie's World Jostein Gaarder
42 The Name of the Rose Umberto Eco
43 Love in the Time of Cholera Gabriel García Marquez
44 Rebecca Daphne du Maurier
45 The Remains of the Day Kazuo Ishiguro
46 The Unbearable Lightness of Being
47 Birdsong Sebastian Faulks
48 Howards End E.M. Forster
49 Brideshead Revisited Evelyn Waugh
50 A Suitable Boy Vikram Seth
51 Dune Frank Herbert
52 A Prayer for Owen Meany John Irving
53 Perfume Patrick Suskind
54 Doctor Zhivago Boris Pasternack
55 Gormenghaste Mervyn Peake
56 Cider with Rosie Laurie Lee
57 The Bell Jar Sylvia Plath
58 The Handmaid's Tale Margaret Atwood
59 Testament of Youth Vera Brittain
60 The Magus John Fowles
61
62 The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropist Robert Tressel
63 The Master and Margarita Mikhail Bulgakov
64 Tales of the City Armistead Maupin
65 The French Lieutenant's Woman John Fowles
66 Captain Corelli's Mandolin Louis de Bernières
67 Slaughterhouse 5 Kurt Vonnegut
68 Zen and the Art of Motorcyle Maintenance Robert Pirsig
69 A Room with a View E.M. Forster
70 Lucky Jim Kingsley Amis
71 It Stephen King
72 The Power and the Glory Graham Greene
73 The Stand Stephen King
74 All Quiet On The Western Front Erich Maria Remarque
75 Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha Roddy Doyle
76 Matilda Roald Dahl
77 American Psycho Bret
78 Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Hunter S. Thompson
79 A Brief History of Time Stephen Hawking
80 James and the Giant Peach Roald Dahl
81 Lady Chatterley's Lover D.H. Lawrence
82 The Bonfire of the Vanities Tom Wolfe
83 Complete Cookery Course Delia Smith
84 An Evil Cradling Brian Keenan
85 The Rainbow D.H. Lawrence
86 Down and Out in Paris and
87 2001 - A Space Odyssey Arthur C. Clarke
88 The Tin Drum Gunter Grass
89 A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich Alexander Solzhenitsyn
90 Long Walk to Freedom Nelson Mandela
91 The Selfish Gene Richard Dawkins
92
93 The
94 Cry, the Beloved Country Alan Paton
95 High Fidelity Nick Hornby
96 The Van Roddy Doyle
97 The BFG Roald Dahl
98 Earthly Powers Anthony Burgess
99 I, Claudius Robert Graves
100 The Horse Whisperer Nicholas Evans
No comments:
Post a Comment