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Modern Library Board: top 20 books (excerpt)

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20 ranked · top 10 made the cut
  1. Ulysses — James JoyceHistorical Fiction
  2. The Great Gatsby — F. Scott FitzgeraldRomance
  3. A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man — James Joyce
  4. Lolita — Vladimir NabokovLiterary Fiction
  5. Brave New World — Aldous HuxleyScience Fiction
  6. The Sound And The Fury — William Faulkner
  7. Catch-22 — Joseph Heller
  8. Darkness At Noon — Arthur Koestler
  9. Sons And Lovers — D. H. Lawrence
  10. The Grapes Of Wrath — John SteinbeckHistorical Fiction
  1. 1 below the Cut
    Under The Volcano — Malcolm Lowry
  2. 2 below the Cut
    The Way Of All Flesh — Samuel ButlerHistorical Fiction
  3. 3 below the Cut
    1984 — George OrwellScience Fiction
  4. 4 below the Cut
    I, Claudius — Robert Graves
  5. 5 below the Cut
    To The Lighthouse — Virginia Woolf
  6. 6 below the Cut
    An American Tragedy — Theodore DreiserRomance
  7. 7 below the Cut
    The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter — Carson McCullersRomance
  8. 8 below the Cut
    Slaughterhouse-Five — Kurt VonnegutScience Fiction, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction
  9. 9 below the Cut
    Invisible Man — Ralph Ellison
  10. 10 below the Cut
    Native Son — Richard Wright

#1 for Modern Library Board: Ulysses — James Joyce — the top 10 made the cut out of 20.

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