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

Hogg

Samuel R. Delany

Pricksongs & descants

Robert Coover

Brave New World

Aldous Huxley

A squat grey building of only thirty-four stories.

The Grapes of Wrath

John Steinbeck

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.

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

James Joyce

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....

Absalom, Absalom!

William Faulkner

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---

Going native

Stephen Wright

Catch-22

Joseph Heller

It was love at first sight.

On the Road

Jack Kerouac

I first met Dean not long after my wife and I split up.

Cane

Jean Toomer