Modern Librarys Top 100 Novels of the 20th Century (26-50)

Explore Modern Library's Top 100 Novels of the 20th Century (26-50) – a curated list of iconic literary masterpieces. Discover must-read classics and influential works that shaped modern literature.

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The wings of the dove Cover
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The wings of the dove

 

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Tender Is the Night Cover
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Tender Is the Night

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

An idealist confronted by a doomed marriage.
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The Good Soldier

by Ford Madox Ford

`The only novel of mine that I considered...at all to count'. Ford's study of the complex social and sexual relationship between an Edwardian English and …
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Animal Farm

by George Orwell

75th Anniversary Edition—Includes a New Introduction by Téa Obreht George Orwell's timeless and timely allegorical novel—a scathing satire on a downtrodden society’s blind march towards …
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Sister Carrie

by Theodore Dreiser

The special centennial edition of this classic novel offers readers a fresh look at this controversial tale. Reissue.
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A handful of dust

 

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As I Lay Dying

by William Faulkner

A true 20th-century classic from the Nobel Prize-winning author of The Sound and the Fury: the famed harrowing account of the Bundren family’s odyssey across …
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All the King's Men

by Robert Penn Warren

Character study of a Southern demagogue whose career follows in some respects as that of Huey Long.
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The Bridge of San Luis Rey

by Thornton Wilder

This beautiful new edition features unpublished notes for the novel and other illuminating documentary material, all of which is included in a new Afterword by …
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Go tell it on the mountain : [a novel]

by James Baldwin

This novel of Black life in America is written with an impartial attitude
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The Heart of the Matter

by Graham Greene

An assistant police commissioner in a West African coastal town lets passion overrule his honor.
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Lord of the Flies Cover
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Lord of the Flies

by William Golding

Golding’s iconic 1954 novel, now with a new foreword by Lois Lowry, remains one of the greatest books ever written for young adults and an …
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Deliverance

by James Dickey

The canoe trip from hell. Classic take of four men caught in a primitive and violent test of manhood. Their adventure turns into a struggle …
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A Dance to the Music of Time

by Anthony Powell

"Movement 2. The rumble of distant events in Germany and Spain presages the storm of WWII. In England, even as the whirl of marriages and …
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The Sun Also Rises Cover
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The Sun Also Rises

by Ernest Hemingway

A group of expatriates travel from Paris to the Pamplona bullfights.
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The Secret Agent

by Joseph Conrad

'An impenetrable mystery seems destined to hang for ever over this act of madness or despair.'Mr Verloc, the secret agent, keeps a shop in London's …
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The Rainbow Cover
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The Rainbow

 

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Tropic of Cancer

by Henry Miller

The account of a young writer and his friends in free-wheeling Paris.
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