The Best English-Language Fiction of the Twentieth Century
A Composite List and Ranking
by Brian Kunde
 
INTRODUCTION
SOURCE LISTS
COMPOSITE LIST
RANKING SYSTEM
COLUMN KEY
REVIEWS
LINKS

Works Appearing in All Sources.

K LM R App. Points Rank Author Title Date
K-003 L-013 M-002 R-001 4 385 001 Fitzgerald, F. Scott Great Gatsby, The 1925
K-006 L-007 M-013 R-009 4 369 002 Orwell, George Nineteen Eighty Four 1949
K-005 L-010 M-007 R-015 4 367 003 Heller, Joseph Catch-22 1961
K-004 L-020 M-010 R-003 4 367 004 Steinbeck, John Grapes of Wrath, The 1939
K-031 L-017 M-004 R-011 4 341 005 Nabokov, Vladimir Lolita 1955
K-018 L-044 M-001 R-006 4 335 006 Joyce, James Ulysses 1922
K-013 L-008 M-031 R-017 4 335 007 Orwell, George Animal Farm 1945
K-012 L-009 M-041 R-008 4 334 008 Golding, William Lord of the Flies 1954
K-002 L-002 M-064 R-002 4 334 009 Salinger, J. D. Catcher in the Rye, The 1951
K-020 L-014 M-018 R-029 4 323 010 Vonnegut, Kurt, Jr. Slaughterhouse Five 1969
K-024 L-041 M-005 R-016 4 318 011 Huxley, Aldous Brave New World 1932
K-016 L-028 M-019 R-024 4 317 012 Ellison, Ralph Invisible Man 1952
K-030 L-047 M-006 R-010 4 311 013 Faulkner, William Sound and the Fury, The 1929
K-041 L-053 M-003 R-014 4 293 015 Joyce, James Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, A 1916
K-019 L-045 M-045 R-018 4 277 018 Hemingway, Ernest Sun Also Rises, The 1926
K-056 L-031 M-020 R-027 4 270 019 Wright, Richard Native Son 1940
K-023 L-039 M-055 R-031 4 256 021 Kerouac, Jack On the Road 1957
K-039 L-060 M-015 R-034 4 256 022 Woolf, Virginia To the Lighthouse 1927
K-035 L-037 M-058 R-042 4 232 025 Wharton, Edith Age of Innocence, The 1920
K-057 L-033 M-074 R-020 4 220 026 Hemingway, Ernest Farewell to Arms, A 1929
K-049 L-058 M-065 R-049 4 183 031 Burgess, Anthony Clockwork Orange, A 1962
K-042 L-067 M-088 R-033 4 174 032 London, Jack Call of the Wild, The 1903
K-061 L-124 M-079 R-039 4 101 062 Forster, E. M. Room With a View, A 1908
K-053 L-127 M-094 R-081 4 049 113 Rhys, Jean Wide Sargasso Sea 1966

1st web edition posted 2/26/99 (last updated 5/25/04).
2nd web edition posted 6/24/05 (last updated 12/4/13).
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Published by Fleabonnet Press.
The source list data is public domain.
Additional material © 1999-2013 by Brian Kunde.