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List: The 20th Centrury's Greatest Hits by American Book Review

The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby

F. Scott Fitzgerald

3.95 (97)

In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.

#1
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The Grapes of Wrath

The Grapes of Wrath

John Steinbeck

4.31 (35)

To the red country and part of the gray country of Oklahoma, the last rains came gently, and they did not cut the scarred earth.

#18
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Hogg

Hogg

Samuel R. Delany

2.75 (4)

#584
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Brave New World

Brave New World

Aldous Huxley

4.07 (30)

A squat grey building of only thirty-four stories.

#19
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

James Joyce

3.33 (9)

Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo....

#107
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To the Lighthouse

To the Lighthouse

Virginia Woolf

3.43 (14)

"Yes, of course, if it's fine tomorrow," said Mrs. Ramsay. "But you'll have to be up with the lark," she added.

#118
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Absalom, Absalom!

Absalom, Absalom!

William Faulkner

3.0 (5)

From a little after two o'clock until almost sundown of the long still hot weary dead September afternoon they sat in what Miss Coldfield still called the office because her father had called it that---

#216
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Going native

Going native

Stephen Wright

4.0 (3)

#499
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620
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Catch-22

Catch-22

Joseph Heller

4.06 (31)

It was love at first sight.

#31
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Cane

Cane

Jean Toomer

4.0 (2)

#541
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463
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