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Mind Review's 100 Best 20th Century Books (17/100)
(Rank, Author, Novel and Year)
1 Henry Adams The Education of Henry Adams (1918)2 James Agee and Walker Evans Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (1941)
3 Dorothy Allison Bastard out of Carolina (1992)
4 Rudolfo Anaya Bless Me Ultima (1972)
5 Sherwood Anderson Winesburg, Ohio (1919)
6 Maya Angelou I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1970)
7 Gloria Anzaldúa Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza (1987)
8 James Baldwin Go Tell It on the Mountain (1953)
9 James Baldwin The Price of the Ticket: Collected Nonfiction (1985)
10 Edward Ball Slaves in the Family (1998)
11 Saul Bellow Herzog (1964)
12 Paul Bowles The Sheltering Sky (1948)
13 William Burroughs Naked Lunch (1959)
14 Truman Capote In Cold Blood (1966)
15 Raymond Carver Cathedral (1983)
16 Willa Cather O Pioneers! (1913)
17 Willa Cather Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927)
18 John Cheever Collected Stories (1978)
19 Sandra Cisneros House on Mango Street (1984)
20 Don DeLillo White Noise (1985)
21 Joan Didion Slouching Towards Bethlehem (1968)
22 Vine Deloria Jr. Custer Died for Your Sins (1983)
23 John Dos Passos U.S.A. (1930)
24 Theodore Dreiser An American Tragedy (1925)
25 W.E.B. DuBois The Souls of Black Folk (1903)
26 Ralph Ellison Invisible Man (1952)
27 Louise Erdrich Love Medicine (1984)
28 William Faulkner The Sound and the Fury (1926)
29 William Faulkner As I Lay Dying (1930)
30 William Faulkner Go Down, Moses (1940)
31 F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby (1925)
32 M.F.K. Fisher The Art of Eating (1954)
33 Francisco Goldman The Ordinary Seaman (1997)
34 Alex Haley Roots (1976)
35 Joseph Heller Catch-22 (1961)
36 Ernest Hemingway The Sun Also Rises (1926)
37 Ernest Hemingway The Short Stories (1938)
38 Michael Herr Dispatches (1984)
39 Chester Himes My Life of Absurdity: The Autobiography (1976)
40 Linda Hogan Mean Spirit (1990)
41 bell hooks Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism (1982)
42 Zora Neale Hurston Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937)
43 Henry James The Wings of the Dove (1902)
44 LeRoi Jones (Amira Baraka) Blues People: Negro Music in White America (1963)
45 Jack Kerouac On the Road (1957)
46 Ken Kesey One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962)
47 Jamaica Kincaid Annie John (1983)
48 Maxine Hong Kingston Woman Warrior (1976)
49 Jerzy Kosinski The Painted Bird (1976)
50 Harper Lee To Kill a Mockingbird (1960)
51 Li-Young Lee The Winged Seed (1995)
52 Sinclair Lewis Babbitt (1922)
53 Cormac McCarthy The Crossing (1994)
54 Carson McCullers The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (1940)
55 Norman Mailer The Naked and the Dead (1948)
56 Bernard Malamud The Magic Barrel (1958)
57 Malcolm X and Alex Haley The Autobiography of Malcolm X (1965)
58 Rollo May Love and Will (1969)
59 Thomas Merton The Seven Storey Mountain (1948)
60 Henry Miller Tropic of Cancer (1934)
61 N. Scott Momaday House Made of Dawn (1968)
62 Wright Morris Field of Vision (1956)
63 Toni Morrison Sula (1973)
64 Toni Morrison Song of Solomon (1977)
65 Toni Morrison Beloved (1987)
66 Toni Morrison Jazz (1992)
67 Vladimir Nabokov Lolita (1958)
68 John G. Neihardt Black Elk Speaks (1932)
69 Flannery O'Connor A Good Man is Hard to Find (1955)
70 Charles Olson Call Me Ishmael (1947)
71 Tillie Olson Tell Me a Riddle (1961)
72 Jon Okada No-No Boy (1977)
73 Grace Paley Collected Stories (1994)
74 Walker Percy The Moviegoer (1961)
75 Katherine Anne Porter Flowering Judas and Other Stories (1930)
76 Thomas Pynchon Gravity's Rainbow (1973)
77 Adrienne Rich On Lies, Secrets and Silence (1979)
78 Philip Roth Portnoy's Complaint (1969)
79 J.D. Salinger The Catcher in the Rye (1951)
80 May Sarton At Seventy (1984)
81 Leslie Marmon Silko Ceremony (1977)
82 Isaac B. Singer The Collected Stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer (1982)
83 Gertrude Stein The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (1993)
84 John Steinbeck The Grapes of Wrath (1937)
85 William Styron Sophie's Choice (1979)
86 James Thurber A Thurber Carnival (1945)
87 Jean Toomer Cane (1923)
88 Mark Twain Letters from the Earth (1962)
89 John Updike Rabbit, Run (1960)
90 Gore Vidal The United States: Essays (1952-1992)
91 Kurt Vonnegut Slaughterhouse Five (1969)
92 Alice Walker The Color Purple (1982)
93 Robert Penn Warren All the Kings Men (1946)
94 Nathanael West The Day of the Locust (1939)
95 John Edgar Wideman Philadelphia Fire (1990)
96 William Carlos Williams In the American Grain (1925)
97 Edmund Wilson To the Finland Station (1940)
98 Thomas Wolfe You Can't Go Home Again (1941)
99 Richard Wright Native Son (1940)
100 Wakako Yamauchi Songs My Mother Taught Me (1994)
