20th Century’s Greatest Hits

Larry McCaffery’s “20th Century’s Greatest Hits”

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1. Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
2. Ulysses by James Joyce
3. Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
4. The Public Burning by Robert Coover
5. The Sound And The Fury by William Faulkner
6. Trilogy: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable by Samuel Beckett
7. The Making of Americans by Gertrude Stein
8. Nova Trilogy by William Burroughs
9. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
10. Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
11. Take It or Leave It by Raymond Federman
12. Beloved by Toni Morrison
13. Going Native by Stephen Wright
14. Under The Volcano by Malcolm Lowry
15. To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
16. In the Heart of the Heart of the Country by William H. Gass
17. JR by William Gaddis
18. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
19. Underworld by Don DeLillo
20. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
21. A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man by James Joyce
22. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
23. The Ambassadors by Henry James
24. Women In Love by D. H. Lawrence
25. 60 Stories by Donald Barthelme
26. The Rifles by William T. Vollmann
27. The Recognitions by William Gaddis
28. Heart Of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
29. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
30. 1984 by George Orwell
31. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neal Hurston
32. Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner
33. Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delany
34. The Grapes Of Wrath by John Steinbeck
35. The Four Elements Tetrology by Rikki Ducornet
36. Neuromancer by William Gibson
37. Tropic Of Cancer by Henry Miller
38. On The Road by Jack Kerouac
39. Lookout Cartridge by Joseph McElroy
40. Crash by J. G. Ballard
41. Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
42. The Sot-Weed Factor by John Barth
43. Genoa by Paul Metcalf
44. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
45. A Passage To India by E. M. Forster
46. Double or Nothing by Raymond Federman
47. at swim two birds by Flann O’Brien
48. Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
49. The Cannibal by John Hawkes
50. Native Son by Richard Wright
51. The Day Of The Locust by Nathanael West
52. Nightwood by Djuna Barnes
53. Housekeeping by Marilynn Robinson
54. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
55. Libra by Don DeLillo
56. Wise Blood by Flannery O’Connor
57. Always Coming Home by Ursula K. Le Guin
58. U.S.A. (Trilogy) by John Dos Passos
59. The Golden Notebook by Doris M. Lessing
60. The Catcher In The Rye by J. D. Salinger
61. Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett
62. What We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond Carver
63. Dubliners by James Joyce
64. Cane by Jean Toomer
65. The House Of Mirth by Edith Wharton
66. Ridley Walker  by Russell Hoban
67. Checkerboard Trilogy by William Eastlake
68. The Franchiser by Stanley Elkin
69. New York Trilogy by Paul Auster
70. Skinny Legs and All by Tom Robbins
71. Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
72. The Age of Wire and String by Ben Marcus
73. Tlooth by Harry Mathews
74. Pricksongs and Descants by Robert Coover
75. The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick
76. American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
77. The French Lieutenant’s Woman by John Fowles
78. The Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe
79. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
80. Albany Trilogy by William Kennedy
81. The Tunnel by William H. Gass
82. Omensetter’s Luck by William H. Gass
83. The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles
84. Darconville’s Cat by Alexander Theroux
85. Up by Ronald Sukenick
86. Yellow Back Radio Broke Down by Ishmael Reed
87. Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson
88. You Bright and Risen Angels by William T. Vollmann
89. The Naked And The Dead by Norman Mailer
90. The Universal Baseball Association, J. Henry Waugh, Prop. by Robert Coover
91. Creamy and Delicious by Steve Katz
92. Waiting for the Barbarians by J.M. Coetzee
93. More Than Human by Theodore Sturgeon
94. Mulligan Stew by Gilbert Sorrentino
95. Look Homeward, Angel by Thomas Wolfe
96. An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
97. Easy Travels to Other Planets by Ted Mooney
98. Tours of the Black Clock by Steve Erickson
99. In Memorium to Identity by Kathy Acker
100. Hogg by Samuel R. Delany