1999 list of best novels published in English I read through this list in
reverse order. I gave myself four months to get through Ulysses.
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20th Century American novels William Faulkner: Sanctuary, The Hamlet, The Town, The Mansion, Soldier’s Pay, A Fable, Sartoris, Pylon, Intruder In The Dust, The Reivers, Requiem For A Nun Edith Wharton: The Custom Of The Country, Old New York, The Reef, Backward Glance Henry James: Washington Square, The Europeans, The American, The Ambassadors, The Awkward Age, The Bostonians, The Turn Of The Screw (novella) Ernest Hemingway:To Have And Have Not, Islands In The Stream, Men Without Women, In Our Time, Green Hills Of Africa, Winner Take Nothing Theodore Dreiser: The Genius, The Color Of A Great City, The Stoic e.e. Cummings: The Enormous Room Sinclair Lewis: Elmer Gantry, Babbit, Dodsworth, It Can’t happen Here Willa Cather: My Antonia, O Pioneers, Shadows On The Rock, Lucy Gayheart, The Professor’s House, My Mortal Enemy, The Song Of The Lark F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Beautiful And Damned, Taps at Reveille (short story) Sherwood Anderson: Beyond Desire, Marching Men, Many Marriages, Poor White, Dark Laughter Erskine Caldwell: God’s Little Acre, Poor Fool, Journeyman, Trouble In July John Dos Passos: Chosen Country, The Great Day, Midcentury (District Of Columbia Trilogy) John Steinbeck: In Dubious Battle, The Short Reign of Pippin IV, The Wayward Bus, The Moon Is Down Robert Penn Warren: Night Rider, At Heaven’s Gate, Band Of Angels, The Cave, Wilderness A Tale Of The Civil War, A Place To Come To Katherine Anne Porter: Pale Horse, Pale Rider, (Collected Stories Of) Ship Of Fools, The Days, Before, The Leaning Tower, The Never Ending Wrong Eudora Welty: Losing Battles, The Robber Bridegroom, The Golden Apples, The Ponder Heart Thomas Wolfe: The Hills Beyond (short story), From Death To Morning John Cheever:The Wapshot Scandal, Falconer, Bullet Park Saul Bellow: Mr. Sammler’s Planet, The Dangling Man, The Victim Henry Miller: The Tropic Of Capricorn, Black Spring 19th Century American novels Herman Melville: Paradise Of Bachelor's, Confidence Man, Typee, Omoo, Voyage Thither, White Jacket Mark Twain: Roughing It, The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer, Life On The Mississippi Bret Harte: Gabril Conroy, Gold Rush (short story) William Dean Howells: Their Wedding Journey, A Hazard Of New Fortunes Stephen Crane: Maggie, A Girl Of The Streets 20th Century British novels Graham Greene: The End Of The Affair, A Burnt-Out Case, Brighton Rock, The Honorary Counsel Virginia Woolf: Mrs. Dalloway, Mrs. Dalloway’s Party, Night And Day, Orlando, The Waves, The Voyage Out, A Room Of One’s Own, Between The Acts E.M. Forster: The Longest Journey, Where Angels Fear To Tread D.H. Lawrence: Lady Chatterley’s Lover Joseph Conrad: Typhoon and Other Tales, Secret Sharer, An Outcast Of The Islands, Nigger Of The Narcissus, Informer, Anarchist Evelyn Waugh: Officers And Gentlemen, The Eve Of Battle, Decline And Fall Somerset Maugham: Liza Of Lambeth, The Moon And Sixpence Aldous Huxley: A Virgin Heart 19th Century British novels Charles Dickens: Bleak House, Pickwick Papers, Oliver Twist, Old Curiosity Shop, Hard Times, Nicholas Nickelby Daniel Defoe: Moll Flanders, A Journal Of The Plague Year, Roxanna Or The Fortunate Mistress Rudyard Kipling: The Man Who Would Be King And Other Stories, The Light That Failed, Kim, Soldier’s Three, The Jungle Book, Many Inventions Oscar Wilde: The Picture Of Dorian Gray H.G. Welles: The War Of The Worlds, The Time Machine, The Invisible Man (four complete novels) Thomas Hardy: Tess Of The D’Urbervilles (the webmaster's favorite book of all time) , Far From The Madding Crowd Henry Fielding: Tom Jones Novels translated from the French Victor Hugo: Notre Dame Of Paris, The Hunchback Of Notre Dame, Claude Geuex, The Laughing Man, The Terrible Year, 1793 Jules Verne; An Antarctic Mystery, Five Weeks In A Balloon, Master Of The World, Off On A Comet Alexander Dumas: The Count Of Monte Cristo, Corsican Brothers, Black Tulip, Man In The Iron Mask, The Three Musketeers, Twenty Years After Marcel Proust: In Search Of Lost Time (Vols. I - VI) Novels translated from the Russian Fyododr Dostoyevsky: Notes From The Underground, The Adolescent, The Possessed Victor Tolstoy: War And Peace, Death Of Ivan Ilych, Confession, Exiled To Siberia Books by Indian authors Salman Rushdie: The Satanic Verses, Shame, The Moor’s Last Sigh V.S. Naipaul: The Enigma Of Arrival, Guerrillas, In a Free State, The Mimic Men, Mr. Stone and The Knights Companion, The Mystic Masseuse, The Suffrage Of Elvira, A Flag On The Island, A Way In The World Authors for the next list William Styron, Norman Mailer, John Updike, Philip Roth, James Baldwin, Frank McCourt, Thornton Wilder, William Burroughs, James Jones, Robert Louis Stevenson, Iris Murdoch, Doris Lessing, Kurt Vonnegut, James Clavell |
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