20th Century’s Greatest Hits

Blue = 86

Pale Fire Vladimir Nabokov
Ulysses James Joyce
Gravity’s Rainbow Thomas Pynchon
The Public Burning Robert Coover
The Sound and the Fury William Faulkner
The Trilogy (Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable) Samuel Beckett
The Making of Americans Gertrude Stein
The Nova Trilogy (The Soft Machine, The Ticket That Exploded, Nova Express) William S. Burroughs
Lolita Vladimir Nabokov
Finnegans Wake James Joyce
Take It or Leave It Raymond Federman
Beloved Toni Morrison
Going Native Stephen Wright
Under the Volcano Malcolm Lowry
To the Lighthouse Virginia Woolf
In the Heart of the Heart of the Country William H. Gass
J R William Gaddis
Invisible Man Ralph Ellison
Underworld Don DeLillo
The Sun Also Rises Ernest Hemingway
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man James Joyce
The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Ambassadors Henry James
Women in Love D. H. Lawrence
Sixty Stories Donald Barthelme
The Rifles William T. Vollmann
The Recognitions William Gaddis
Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad
Catch-22 Joseph Heller
Nineteen Eighty-Four George Orwell
Their Eyes Were Watching God Zora Neale Hurston
Absalom, Absalom! William Faulkner
Dhalgren Samuel R. Delany
The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck
The Four Elements Tetrology (The Stain, Entering Fire, The Fountains of Neptune, The Jade Cabinet) Rikki Ducornet
Cyberspace Trilogy (Neuromancer, Count Zero, Mona Lisa Overdrive) William Gibson
Tropic of Cancer Henry Miller
On the Road Jack Kerouac
Lookout Cartridge Joseph McElroy
Crash J. G. Ballard
Midnight’s Children Salman Rushdie
The Sot-Weed Factor John Barth
Genoa Paul Metcalf
Brave New World Aldous Huxley
A Passage to India E. M. Forster
Double or Nothing Raymond Federman
At Swim-Two-Birds Flann O’Brien
Blood Meridian Cormac McCarthy
The Cannibal John Hawkes
Native Son Richard Wright
The Day of the Locust Nathaniel West
Nightwood Djuna Barnes
Housekeeping Marilynne Robinson
Slaughterhouse-Five Kurt Vonnegut
Libra Don DeLillo
Wise Blood Flannery O’Conner
Always Coming Home Ursula K. Le Guin
U.S.A. Trilogy (The 42nd Parallel, 1919, The Big Money) John Dos Passos
The Golden Notebook Doris Lessing
The Catcher in the Rye J. D. Salinger
Red Harvest Dashiell Hammett
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love Raymond Carver
Dubliners James Joyce
Cane Jean Toomer
The House of Mirth Edith Wharton
Riddley Walker Russell Hoban
The Checkerboard Trilogy (Go in Beauty, The Bronc People, Portrait of the Artist with 26 Horses) William Eastlake
The Franchiser Stanley Elkin
The New York Trilogy (City of Glass, Ghosts, The Locked Room) Paul Auster
Skinny Legs and All Tom Robbins
Infinite Jest David Foster Wallace
The Age of Wire and String Ben Marcus
Tlooth Harry Mathews
Pricksongs and Descants Robert Coover
The Man in the High Castle Phillip K. Dick
American Psycho Brett Easton Ellis
The French Lieutenant’s Woman John Fowles
The Book of the New Sun Tetrology (The Shadow of the Torturer, The Claw of the Conciliator, The Sword of the Lictor, The Citadel of the Autarch) Gene Wolfe
A Clockwork Orange Anthony Burgess
Albany Cycle (Legs, Billy Phelan’s Greatest Game, Ironweed) William Kennedy
The Tunnel William H. Gass
Omensetter’s Luck William H. Gass
The Sheltering Sky Paul Bowles
Darconville’s Cat Alexander Theroux
Up Ronald Sukenick
Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down Ishmael Reed
Winesburg, Ohio Sherwood Anderson
You Bright and Risen Angels William T. Vollmann
The Naked and the Dead Norman Mailer
The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop. Robert Coover
Creamy and Delicious Steve Katz
Waiting for the Barbarians J. M. Coetzee
More Than Human Theodore Sturgeon
Mulligan Stew Gilbert Sorrentino
Look Homeward, Angel Thomas Wolfe
An American Tragedy Theodore Dreiser
Easy Travel to Other Planets Ted Mooney
Tours of the Black Clock Steve Erickson
In Memorium to Identity Kathy Acker
Hogg Samuel R. Delany