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

An American Tragedy

Theodore Dreiser

Dusk - of a summer night.

Easy Travel to Other Planets

Ted Mooney

Tours of the Black Clock

Steve Erickson

In Memoriam to Identity

Kathy Acker

Hogg

Samuel R. Delany

Nineteen Eighty-Four

George Orwell

It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.

The Sound and the Fury

William Faulkner

Through the fence, between the curling flower spaces, I could see them hitting.

Their Eyes Were Watching God

Zora Neale Hurston

Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board.

Ulysses

James Joyce

Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed.

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.