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Watchmojo's Top 10 20th Century Novels

"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."
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The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
The Great Gatsby
1
F. Scott Fitzgerald
To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
To Kill a Mockingbird
2
Harper Lee
The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)
The Catcher in the Rye
3
J.D. Salinger
1984 (George Orwell)
1984
4
George Orwell
The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)
The Grapes of Wrath
5
John Steinbeck
Ulysses (James Joyce)
Ulysses
6
James Joyce
A Farewell to Arms (Ernest Hemingway)
A Farewell to Arms
7
Ernest Hemingway
Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov)
Lolita
8
Vladimir Nabokov
The Lord of the Rings (J.R.R. Tolkien)
The Lord of the Rings
9
J.R.R. Tolkien
100 Years of Solitude (Gabriel Garcí­A Márquez)
100 Years of Solitude
10
Gabriel Garcí­A Márquez
Lord of the Flies (William Golding)
Lord of the Flies
11
William Golding
Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
Catch-22
12
Joseph Heller
The Call of the Wild (Jack London)
The Call of the Wild
13
Jack London
The Sound and the Fury (William Faulkner)
The Sound and the Fury
14
William Faulkner
Slaughterhouse-Five (Kurt Vonnegut)
Slaughterhouse-Five
15
Kurt Vonnegut
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (J.K. Rowling)
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
16
J.K. Rowling
On the Road (Jack Kerouac)
On the Road
17
Jack Kerouac
Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
Brave New World
18
Aldous Huxley
A Passage to India (E.M. Forster)
A Passage to India
19
E.M. Forster
To the Lighthouse (Virginia Woolf)
To the Lighthouse
20
Virginia Woolf
All the King's Men (Robert Penn Warren)
All the King's Men
21
Robert Penn Warren
The Sun Also Rises (Ernest Hemingway)
The Sun Also Rises
22
Ernest Hemingway
The Bell Jar (Sylvia Plath)
The Bell Jar
23
Sylvia Plath
Midnight's Children (Salman Rushdie)
Midnight's Children
24
Salman Rushdie
Animal Farm (George Orwell)
Animal Farm
25
George Orwell
Blood Meridian (Cormac McCartney)
Blood Meridian
26
Cormac McCartney
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Ken Kesey)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
27
Ken Kesey
The Stand (Stephen King)
The Stand
28
Stephen King
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