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20th Century Fiction (100)

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Top 100 works of 20th century fiction according to the standard algorithm.

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1. Sister Carrie (1900) · Theodore Dreiser

5.85 | novel

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2. The Golden Bowl (1904) · Henry James

5.98 | novel

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3. The House of Mirth (1905) · Edith Wharton

6.56 | novel

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4. The Jungle (1906) · Upton Sinclair

6.84 | novel

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5. Howards End (1910) · E. M. Forster

6.27 | novel

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6. Ethan Frome (1911) · Edith Wharton

5.95 | novel, novella

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7. À la recherche du temps perdu (1913) · Marcel Proust

6.71 | novel

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8. Dubliners (1914) · James Joyce

6.55 | collection

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9. "The Dead" (1914) · James Joyce

6.10 | short_story

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10. The Metamorphosis (1915) · Franz Kafka

6.86 | novella

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11. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) · James Joyce

6.62 | novel

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12. Main Street (1920) · Sinclair Lewis

6.01 | novel

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13. This Side of Paradise (1920) · F. Scott Fitzgerald

6.04 | novel

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14. The Age of Innocence (1920) · Edith Wharton

6.68 | novel

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15. Babbitt (1922) · Sinclair Lewis

6.14 | novel

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16. Ulysses (1922) · James Joyce

8.01 | novel

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17. Billy Budd (1924) · Herman Melville

6.36 | novel

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18. An American Tragedy (1925) · Theodore Dreiser

6.22 | novel

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19. The Great Gatsby (1925) · F. Scott Fitzgerald

7.53 | novel

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20. The Trial (1925) · Franz Kafka

6.61 | novel

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21. Mrs Dalloway (1925) · Virginia Woolf

6.37 | novel

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22. The Sun Also Rises (1926) · Ernest Hemingway

6.90 | novel

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23. Elmer Gantry (1927) · Sinclair Lewis

5.91 | novel

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24. To the Lighthouse (1927) · Virginia Woolf

6.22 | novel

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25. Lady Chatterley's Lover (1928) · D. H. Lawrence

6.52 | novel

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26. The Sound and the Fury (1929) · William Faulkner

6.65 | novel

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27. As I Lay Dying (1930) · William Faulkner

6.15 | novel

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28. The Maltese Falcon (1930) · Dashiell Hammett

6.08 | novel

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29. Light in August (1932) · William Faulkner

5.78 | novel

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30. Brave New World (1932) · Aldous Huxley

6.76 | novel

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31. Miss Lonelyhearts (1933) · Nathanael West

5.76 | novel

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32. Tender is the Night (1934) · F. Scott Fitzgerald

6.22 | novel

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33. Tropic of Cancer (1934) · Henry Miller

6.20 | novel

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34. It Can't Happen Here (1935) · Sinclair Lewis

5.78 | novel

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35. Absalom, Absalom! (1936) · William Faulkner

5.78 | novel

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36. Of Mice and Men (1937) · John Steinbeck

6.16 | novel, drama

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37. Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937) · Zora Neale Hurston

6.11 | novel

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38. Murphy (1938) · Samuel Beckett

6.03 | novel

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39. The Day of the Locust (1939) · Nathanael West

5.80 | novel

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40. The Grapes of Wrath (1939) · John Steinbeck

7.29 | novel

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41. Darkness at Noon (1940) · Arthur Koestler

6.28 | novel

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42. Native Son (1940) · Richard Wright

6.25 | novel, drama

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43. The Little Prince (1943) · Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

6.64 | short_story

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44. Animal Farm (1945) · George Orwell

7.18 | novel, novella

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45. The Lottery (1948) · Shirley Jackson

6.32 | short_story

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46. Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) · George Orwell

7.20 | novel

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47. I, Robot (1950) · Isaac Asimov

6.53 | novel, collection

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48. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (1950) · C. S. Lewis

6.51 | novel

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49. The Catcher in the Rye (1951) · J. D. Salinger

6.81 | novel

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50. The Old Man and the Sea (1952) · Ernest Hemingway

6.72 | novella

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