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Doc's List of Modern and Contemporary Classic Novels and Story Collections

A personal, idiosyncratic list of 252 modern and contemporary classic novels and short story collections. I could have kept going, but I wanted to keep the list manageable. I define modern as beginning with the Modernist movement in approximately 1900 and running into the 1950s, with post-modernist works running to about 2000 give or take, and contemporary running from approximately 2000 to today. The list is by no means comprehensive nor should it be considered a "greatest hits" compilation. I've tried to be representative, and have included both literary and popular fiction.
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100 Years of Solitude (Gabriel Garcí­A Márquez)
100 Years of Solitude
1
Gabriel Garcí­A Márquez
11/22/63 (Stephen King)
11/22/63
2
Stephen King
1984 (Orwell)
1984
3
Orwell
2666 (Roberto Bolaño)
2666
4
Roberto Bolaño
A Brief History of Seven Killings (Marlon James)
A Brief History of Seven Killings
5
Marlon James
A Burnt Out Case (Greene)
A Burnt Out Case
6
Greene
A Canticle for Leibowitz (Miller)
A Canticle for Leibowitz
7
Miller
A Clockwork Orange (Burgess)
A Clockwork Orange
8
Burgess
A Coffin for Dimitrios (Ambler)
A Coffin for Dimitrios
9
Ambler
A Confederacy of Dunces (John Kennedy Toole)
A Confederacy of Dunces
10
John Kennedy Toole
A Farewell to Arms (Ernest Hemingway)
A Farewell to Arms
11
Ernest Hemingway
A Passage to India (E. M. Forster)
A Passage to India
12
E. M. Forster
A Seperate Peace (Knowles)
A Seperate Peace
13
Knowles
A Soldier of the Great War (Mark Helprin)
A Soldier of the Great War
14
Mark Helprin
All Quiet on the Western Front (Remarque)
All Quiet on the Western Front
15
Remarque
All the Light We Cannot See (Anthony Doerr)
All the Light We Cannot See
16
Anthony Doerr
All the Pretty Horses (Cormac McCarthy)
All the Pretty Horses
17
Cormac McCarthy
An American Tragedy (Theodore Dreiser)
An American Tragedy
18
Theodore Dreiser
And Then There Were None (Agatha Christie)
And Then There Were None
19
Agatha Christie
Animal Farm (George Orwell)
Animal Farm
20
George Orwell
April Morning (Fast)
April Morning
21
Fast
As I Lay Dying (William Faulkner)
As I Lay Dying
22
William Faulkner
Atlas Shrugged (Ayn Rand)
Atlas Shrugged
23
Ayn Rand
Atonement (Ian McEwan)
Atonement
24
Ian McEwan
Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis
Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis
25
Beloved (Toni Morrison)
Beloved
26
Toni Morrison
Billiards at Half-Past Nine (Heinrich Böll)
Billiards at Half-Past Nine
27
Heinrich Böll
Breakfast of Champions (Kurt Vonnegut)
Breakfast of Champions
28
Kurt Vonnegut
Cancer Ward (Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn)
Cancer Ward
29
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Captain Corelli's Mandolin (Louis De Bernieres)
Captain Corelli's Mandolin
30
Louis De Bernieres
Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
Catch-22
31
Joseph Heller
Cat's Cradle (Vonnegut)
Cat's Cradle
32
Vonnegut
Childhood's End (Arthur C. Clarke)
Childhood's End
33
Arthur C. Clarke
Citizen Tom Paine (Fast)
Citizen Tom Paine
34
Fast
Closely Watched Trains
Closely Watched Trains
35
Cloud Atlas (David Mitchell)
Cloud Atlas
36
David Mitchell
Cold Mountain (Charles Frazier)
Cold Mountain
37
Charles Frazier
Collected Ghost Stories (M.R James)
Collected Ghost Stories
38
M.R James
Collected Stories by Jean Stafford
Collected Stories by Jean Stafford
39
Crash (J.G. Ballard)
Crash
40
J.G. Ballard
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