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Counterpunch 100 Best Novels in English Since 1900

These are the favourite novels since 1900 of Counterpunch editors Jeffrey St. Clair and Alexander Cockburn. The source list was published in 2014 and has been used by the greatestbooks.org for its master list.
The beginning of the list has many of the usual suspects, but there is a great deal of variety in the remaining works.
BTW, Item 45 does not appear in the original list, so the total items is only 99. But who said editors should be able to count to 100.
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Ulysses (James Joyce)
Ulysses
1
James Joyce
Absalom, Absalom! (William Faulkner)
Absalom, Absalom!
2
William Faulkner
Gravity's Rainbow (Thomas Pynchon)
Gravity's Rainbow
3
Thomas Pynchon
Native Son (Richard Wright)
Native Son
4
Richard Wright
Orlando (Virginia Woolf)
Orlando
5
Virginia Woolf
The Rainbow (D.H. Lawrence)
The Rainbow
6
D.H. Lawrence
Tender Is the Night (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
Tender Is the Night
7
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Invisible Man (Ralph Ellison)
Invisible Man
8
Ralph Ellison
Jr (William Gaddis)
Jr
9
William Gaddis
Tropic of Cancer (Henry Miller)
Tropic of Cancer
10
Henry Miller
The Golden Notebook (Doris Lessing)
The Golden Notebook
11
Doris Lessing
The Sun Also Rises (Ernest Hemingway)
The Sun Also Rises
12
Ernest Hemingway
Wide Sargasso Sea (Jean Rhys)
Wide Sargasso Sea
13
Jean Rhys
The Code of the Woosters (P.G. Wodehouse)
The Code of the Woosters
14
P.G. Wodehouse
Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
Catch-22
15
Joseph Heller
Giovanni's Room (James Baldwin)
Giovanni's Room
16
James Baldwin
The Talented Mr. Ripley (Patricia Highsmith)
The Talented Mr. Ripley
17
Patricia Highsmith
At Swim-Two-Birds (Flann O'Brien)
At Swim-Two-Birds
18
Flann O'Brien
On the Road (Jack Kerouac)
On the Road
19
Jack Kerouac
The Violent Bear It Away (Flannery O'Connor)
The Violent Bear It Away
20
Flannery O'Connor
Pale Fire (Vladimir Nabokov)
Pale Fire
21
Vladimir Nabokov
The End of the Affair (Graham Greene)
The End of the Affair
22
Graham Greene
Red Harvest (Dashiell Hammett)
Red Harvest
23
Dashiell Hammett
Mumbo Jumbo (Ishmael Reed)
Mumbo Jumbo
24
Ishmael Reed
A Lost Lady (Willa Cather)
A Lost Lady
25
Willa Cather
The Hound of the Baskervilles (Arthur Conan Doyle)
The Hound of the Baskervilles
26
Arthur Conan Doyle
Far Tortuga (Peter Matthiessen)
Far Tortuga
27
Peter Matthiessen
The Iron Heel (Jack London)
The Iron Heel
28
Jack London
Jazz (Toni Morrison)
Jazz
29
Toni Morrison
The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)
The Grapes of Wrath
30
John Steinbeck
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Zora Neale Hurston)
Their Eyes Were Watching God
31
Zora Neale Hurston
Nothing Like the Sun
Nothing Like the Sun
32
The Riddle of the Sands (Erskine Childers)
The Riddle of the Sands
33
Erskine Childers
The Thinking Reed
The Thinking Reed
34
Under Western Eyes (Joseph Conrad)
Under Western Eyes
35
Joseph Conrad
Beat the Devil (Claud Cockburn)
Beat the Devil
36
Claud Cockburn
The Indian Lawyer (James Welch)
The Indian Lawyer
37
James Welch
The White Hotel (D.M. Thomas)
The White Hotel
38
D.M. Thomas
Neuromancer (William Gibson)
Neuromancer
39
William Gibson
The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold
The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold
40
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