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

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  #41

  Midnight's Children

  by Salman Rushdie

  (9 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 29

  391 points

  "I was born in the city of Bombay . . . once upon a time."

  

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  #42

  The Sot-Weed Factor

  by John Barth

  (2 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 358

  59 points

  "In the last years of the Seventeenth Century there was to be found among the fops and the fools of the London coffee-houses one rangy, gangling flitch called Ebenezer Cooke, more ambitious than..."

  

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  #43

  Genoa

  by Paul Metcalf

  (1 Review)

  Overall Rank: 362

  58 points

  

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  #44

  Brave New World

  by Aldous Huxley

  (30 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 13

  664 points

  "A squat grey building of only thirty-four stories."

  

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  #45

  A Passage to India

  by E. M. Forster

  (8 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 24

  469 points

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

  

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  #46

  Double or Nothing

  by Raymond Federman

  (1 Review)

  Overall Rank: 375

  55 points

  "Once upon a time two or three weeks ago, a rather stubborn and determined middle-aged man decided to record for posterity, exactly as it happened, word by word and step by step, the story of..."

  

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  #47

  At Swim-Two-Birds

  by Flann O'Brien

  (2 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 383

  54 points

  "Having placed in my mouth sufficient bread for three minutes' chewing, I withdrew my powers of sensual perception and retired into the privacy of my mind my eyes and face assuming a vacant and..."

  

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  #48

  Blood Meridian

  by Cormac McCarthy

  (6 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 386

  53 points

  "See the child."

  

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  #49

  The Cannibal

  by John Hawkes

  (1 Review)

  Overall Rank: 390

  52 points

  

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  #50

  Native Son

  by Richard Wright

  (7 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 39

  348 points

  "Brrrrrrriiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinng! An alarm clock clanged in the dark and silent room."

  

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