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

Slaughterhouse-Five

Kurt Vonnegut

All this happened, more or less.

A Passage to India

E. M. Forster

Except for the Marabar caves--and they are twenty miles off--the city of Chrandrapore presents nothing extraordinary.

Heart of Darkness

Joseph Conrad

The Nellie, a cruising yawl, swung to her anchor without a flutter of the sails, and was at rest. The flood had made, the wind was nearly calm, and being bound down the river, the only thing for it was to come to and wait for the turn of the tide.

Dhalgren

Samuel R. Delany

To wound the autumnal city.

The Franchiser

Stanley Elkin

Neuromancer

William Gibson

The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.

More Than Human

Theodore Sturgeon

The idiot lived in a black and gray world, punctuated by the white lightning of hunger and the flickering of fear.

The Golden Notebook

Doris Lessing

The two women were alone in the London flat.

Mulligan Stew

Gilbert Sorrentino

Omensetter's Luck

William H. Gass