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ARTS / LITERATURE
List: Top 10 Novels published in the English language since 1900
Date: July, 1998
Source: The Modern Library
Base: Fifteen plus editors and members of the board of The Modern Library
Notes: Members compiled a list of the top 100 novels and top 100 non-fiction books. Two readers lists were also published later in the year attracting over 400,000 votes (mostly by internet). In the readers list, the top 10 novels included 4 books by Ayn Rand (very cool) and 3 by L Ron Hubbard (bizarre!). To see the top 100 novels lists click HERE.
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Rank
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Novel
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Author
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1
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Ulysses
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James Joyce
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2
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The Great Gatsby
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
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3
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A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man
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James Joyce
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4
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Lolita
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Vladimir Nabokov
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5
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Brave New World
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Aldous Huxley
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6
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The Sound And The Fury
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William Faulkner
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7
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Catch-22
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Joseph Heller
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8
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Darkness At Noon
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Arthur Koestler
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9
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Sons And Lovers
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D.H. Lawrence
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10
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The Grapes Of Wrath
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John Steinbeck
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