Top 10 20th Century Novels

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  • From Here to Eternity: A Novel (Modern Library 100 Best Novels)

    • ASIN: 0812984315
    • ISBN: 0812984315
    • Brand: Dial Press
    • Manufacturer: Dial Press Trade Paperback

    Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all timeTHE COMPLETE UNCENSORED EDITION • THE WORLD WAR II MASTERPIECE AS IT WAS MEANT TO BE READ • WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD   Diamond Head, Hawaii, 1941. Pvt. Robert E. Lee Prewitt is a champion welterweight and a fine bugler. But when he refuses to join the company’s ... [Read More]

  • Deliverance (Modern Library 100 Best Novels)

    • ASIN: 038531387X
    • ISBN: 038531387X
    • Brand: Delta
    • Manufacturer: Delta

    “You're hooked, you feel every cut, grope up every cliff, swallow water with every spill of the canoe, sweat with every draw of the bowstring. Wholly absorbing [and] dramatic.”—Harper's Magazine The setting is the Georgia wilderness, where the states most remote white-water river awaits. In the thundering froth of that river, in its echoing s... [Read More]

  • The Great American Read: The Book of Books: Explore America's 100 Best-Loved Novels

    • ASIN: 0316417556
    • ISBN: 0316417556
    • Manufacturer: Black Dog & Leventhal

    A blockbuster illustrated book that captures what Americans love to read, The Great American Read: The Book of Books is the gorgeously-produced companion book to PBS's ambitious summer 2018 series. What are America's best-loved novels? PBS will launch The Great American Read series with a 2-hour special in May 2018 revealing America's 100 best-lo... [Read More]

  • Midnight's Children: A Novel (Modern Library 100 Best Novels)

    • ASIN: 0812976533
    • ISBN: 9780812976533
    • Brand: Unbranded
    • Manufacturer: Random House Trade Paperbacks

    The iconic masterpiece of India that introduced the world to “a glittering novelist—one with startling imaginative and intellectual resources, a master of perpetual storytelling” (The New Yorker)WINNER OF THE BEST OF THE BOOKERS • SOON TO BE A NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIES Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time... [Read More]

  • As I Lay Dying (Modern Library 100 Best Novels)

    • UPC: 880792745071
    • ASIN: 0375504524
    • ISBN: 0375504524
    • Brand: Modern Library
    • Manufacturer: Modern Library

    Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all timeFrom the Modern Library’s new set of beautifully repackaged hardcover classics by William Faulkner—also available are Snopes, The Sound and the Fury, Light in August, Absalom, Absalom!, and Selected Short StoriesOne of William Faulkner’s finest novels, As I Lay Dying, ori... [Read More]

  • The Guns of August: The Outbreak of World War I; Barbara W. Tuchman's Great War Series (Modern Library 100 Best Nonfiction Books)

    • ASIN: B002TXZS8A
    • Manufacturer: Random House

  • Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel (Modern Library 100 Best Novels)

    • ASIN: 0385333846
    • ISBN: 0812988523
    • Brand: Delta
    • Manufacturer: Dial Press Trade Paperback

    Slaughterhouse-Five, an American classic, is one of the world’s great antiwar books. Centering on the infamous firebombing of Dresden, Billy Pilgrim’s odyssey through time reflects the mythic journey of our own fractured lives as we search for meaning in what we fear most.

  • The Way of All Flesh (Modern Library 100 Best Novels)

    • ASIN: 0375752498
    • ISBN: 0375752498
    • Brand: Butler, Samuel
    • Manufacturer: Modern Library

    Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all timeThe Way of All Flesh is one of the time-bombs of literature," said V. S. Pritchett. "One thinks of it lying in Samuel Butler's desk for thirty years, waiting to blow up the Victorian family and with it the whole great pillared and balustraded edifice of the Victorian novel." �... [Read More]

  • Ragtime: A Novel (Modern Library 100 Best Novels)

    • ASIN: 0812978188
    • ISBN: 0812978188
    • Brand: Random House Trade
    • Manufacturer: Random House Trade Paperbacks

    Published in 1975, Ragtime changed our very concept of what a novel could be. An extraordinary tapestry, Ragtime captures the spirit of America in the era between the turn of the century and the First World War.The story opens in 1906 in New Rochelle, New York, at the home of an affluent American family. One lazy Sunday afternoon, the famous escape... [Read More]

  • Heart of Darkness & Selections from The Congo Diary

    • ASIN: 037575377X
    • ISBN: 037575377X
    • Manufacturer: Modern Library

    Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time • Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American ReadIntroduction by Caryl PhillipsCommentary by H. L. Mencken, E. M. Forster, Virginia Woolf, Ernest Hemingway, Bertrand Russell, Lionel Trilling, Chinua Achebe, and Philip GourevitchOriginal... [Read More]

  • The Magnificent Ambersons (Modern Library 100 Best Novels)

    • ASIN: 0375752501
    • ISBN: 0375752501
    • Manufacturer: Modern Library

    Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all timeWinner of the Pulitzer Prize when it was first published in 1918, The Magnificent Ambersons chronicles the changing fortunes of three generations of an American dynasty. The protagonist of Booth Tarkington's great historical drama is George Amberson Minafer, the spoiled and arr... [Read More]

  • The Rainbow (Modern Library 100 Best Novels)

    • ASIN: 0375759654
    • ISBN: 0375759654
    • Manufacturer: Modern Library

    Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all timePronounced obscene when it was first published in 1915, The Rainbow is the epic story of three generations of the Brangwens, a Midlands family. A visionary novel, considered to be one of Lawrence’s finest, it explores the complex sexual and psychological relationships between... [Read More]

  • Modern Fantasy: The Hundred Best Novels : An English-Language Selection, 1946-1987

    • ASIN: 0872263282
    • ISBN: 0872263282
    • Manufacturer: Peter Bedrick Books

    Recommends the hundred best modern fantasy novels and offers brief summaries of each work

  • One Hundred Years of Solitude (P.S.) (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)

    • ASIN: 0060883286
    • ISBN: 9780060883287
    • Brand: Gabriel Garc 237 a M 225 rquez
    • Manufacturer: Harper Perennial Modern Classics

    One Hundred Years of Solitude tells the story of the rise and fall, birth and death of the mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buendía family. Inventive, amusing, magnetic, sad, and alive with unforgettable men and women -- brimming with truth, compassion, and a lyrical magic that strikes the soul -- this novel is a masterpiece... [Read More]

  • Invisible Man (Modern Library 100 Best Novels)

    • ASIN: 0679601392
    • ISBN: 9780679601395
    • Brand: Modern Library
    • Manufacturer: Modern Library

    Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time • Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American ReadInvisible Man is a milestone in American literature, a book that has continued to engage readers since its appearance in 1952. A first novel by an unknown writer, it remained on the bestse... [Read More]

  • The Best American Short Stories of the Century (The Best American Series ®)

    • UPC: 046442843676
    • ASIN: 0395843677
    • ISBN: 0395843677
    • Brand: Mariner Books
    • Manufacturer: Mariner Books

    Since the series' inception in 1915, the annual volumes of The Best American Short Stories have launched literary careers, showcased the most compelling stories of each year, and confirmed for all time the significance of the short story in our national literature. Now THE BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES OF THE CENTURY brings together the best of the b... [Read More]

  • The House of Mirth (Modern Library 100 Best Novels)

    • ASIN: 0375753753
    • ISBN: 0375753753
    • Manufacturer: Modern Library

  • Heart of Darkness: and Selections from The Congo Diary (Modern Library 100 Best Novels)

    • ASIN: B000FC1II6
    • Manufacturer: Modern Library

  • Solitaire TriPeaks by GSN

    • ASIN: B00NG6CIKA
    • Brand: GSN
    • Manufacturer: GSN

  • To Kill a Mockingbird

    • ASIN: 0060935464
    • ISBN: 0060935464
    • Brand: Harper Perennial
    • Manufacturer: Harper Perennial

    Voted America's Best-Loved Novel in PBS's The Great American ReadHarper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterwork of honor and injustice in the deep South—and the heroism of one man in the face of blind and violent hatredOne of the most cherished stories of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird has been translated into more than forty languages, sold m... [Read More]

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