List: Brothers Judd Top 100 of the 20th Century: Novels
The Wanderer or The End of Youth (1912) - Alain-Fournier (1886-1914) (Grade:A)
Zuleika Dobson or An Oxford Love Story (1911) - Max Beerbohm (1872-1956) (Grade:A)
The Exorcist (1971) - William Peter Blatty (1928
-) (Grade:A+)
Dandelion Wine (1957) - Ray Bradbury (08/22/1920
-06/05/2012) (Grade:A+)
Red Sky at Morning (1968) - Richard Bradford (1932-) (Grade:A)
A Clockwork Orange (1962) - Anthony Burgess (1917
-1993) (Grade:A)
The Man Who Was Thursday : A Nightmare (1908) - G. K. Chesterton (05/29/1874
-06/14/1936) (Grade:A-)
Heart of Darkness (1902) - Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) (Grade:A)
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1901) - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) (Grade:A+)
The Witchfinder: an Amos Walker Mystery (1998) - Loren D. Estleman (1952
-) (Grade:A+)
Red Dragon (1981) - Thomas Harris (04/11/1940
-) (Grade:A)
Bang the Drum Slowly (1956) - Mark Harris (11/19/1922
-05/30/2007) (Grade:A+)
Dune (1965) - Frank Herbert (1920
-1986) (Grade:A+)
The Talented Mr. Ripley (1955) - Patricia Highsmith (01/19/1921
-1995) (Grade:A)
Good-Bye, Mr. Chips (1934) - James Hilton (1900
-1954) (Grade:A+)
From Here to Eternity (1951) - James Jones (1921-1977) (Grade:A+)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962) - Ken Kesey (1935-) (Grade:A+)
Shoeless Joe (1982) - W. P. Kinsella (-) (Grade:A+)
Barabbas (1951) - Par Lagerkvist (1891-1974) (Grade:A+)
Independent People: An Epic (1946) - Halldor Laxness (1902
-1998) (Grade:A+)
To Kill a Mockingbird (1960) - Harper Lee (1926-) (Grade:A+)
Babbitt (1922) - Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951) (Grade:A)
The Call of the Wild (1903) - Jack London (1876-1916) (Grade:A)
The Galton Case (1959) - Ross MacDonald (12/13/1915
-07/11/1983) (Grade:A)
The Underground Man (1971) - Ross MacDonald (12/13/1915
-07/11/1983) (Grade:A+)
The Fixer (1966) - Bernard Malamud (04/26/1914-03/18/1986) (Grade:A+)
Bright Lights, Big City (1984) - Jay McInerney (1955-) (Grade:A)
The Sand Pebbles (1962) - Richard McKenna (1913-1964) (Grade:A+)
Hopeful Monsters (1990) - Nicholas Mosley (1923-) (Grade:A)
The Golden Warrior: the Story of Harold and William (1949) - Hope Muntz (08/08/1907
-1981) (Grade:A+)
Master and Commander (1969) - Patrick O'Brian (12/12/1914-01/02/2000) (Grade:A+)
Coming Up for Air (1939) - George Orwell (06/25/1903
-1949) (Grade:A+)
Cool Hand Luke (1965) - Donn Pearce (-) (Grade:A+)
True Grit (1968) - Charles McColl Portis (12/28/1933
-2/17/2020) (Grade:A+)
The Emperor's Tomb (1938) - Joseph Roth (1894
-1939) (Grade:A+)
The Killer Angels (1974) - Michael Shaara (1929-1988) (Grade:A+)
In God We Trust : All Others Pay Cash (1966) - Jean Shepherd (1921
-1999) (Grade:A)
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1963) - Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn (12/11/1918
-8/03/2008) (Grade:A+)
The Lord of the Rings [The Hobbit (1937), The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, The Return of the King] (1948) - J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973) (Grade:A+)
The Sands of Karakorum (1953) - James Ramsey Ullman (-) (Grade:A+)
The Book of the Dun Cow (1978) - Walter M. Wangerin, Jr. (02/13/1944-) (Grade:A+)
The Aerodrome : A Love Story (1941) - Rex [Ernest] Warner (1905-1986) (Grade:A+)
All the King's Men (1946) - Robert Penn Warren (1905-1989) (Grade:A+)
The Return of the Soldier (1918) - Rebecca West (1892-1983) (Grade:A+)
3) The Big Sleep (1939) - Raymond Chandler (1888
-1959) (Grade:A+)
4) The Chosen (1967) - Chaim Potok (1929-) (Grade:A+)
6) Possession: A Romance (1990) - A.S. [Antonia Susan] Byatt (1936-) (Grade:A+)
11) The Maltese Falcon (1930) - Dashiell Hammett (1894
-1961) (Grade:A+)
15) Of Mice and Men (1937) - John Steinbeck (1902
-1968) (Grade:A+)
18) Shane (1949) - Jack Warner Schaefer (-) (Grade:A+)
19) Franny and Zooey (1961) - J. D. Salinger (1919
-) (Grade:A+)
19) The Catcher in the Rye (1951) - J. D. Salinger (1919
-) (Grade:A+)
21) The Roots of Heaven (1956) - Romain Gary (05/08/1914
-12/02/1980) (Grade:A+)
22) Empire of the Sun (1984) - J. G. Ballard (1930-) (Grade:A+)
23) Mariette in Ecstasy (1991) - Ron Hansen (1947-) (Grade:A+)
25) How Green Was My Valley (1939) - Richard Llewellyn (1906-1983) (Grade:A+)
27) The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) - L. Frank Baum (1856
-1919) (Grade:A+)
29) Darkness at Noon (1941) - Arthur Koestler (1905-1983) (Grade:A+)
33) Deliverance (1970) - James Dickey (1923
-1997) (Grade:A+)
34) Archangel (1995) - Paul Watkins (1964-) (Grade:B-)
38) Forever Flowing (1970) - Vasily Grossman (1905
-1964) (Grade:A+)
39) Ordinary People (1976) - Judith Guest (-) (Grade:A+)
40) Schindler's List (1982) - Thomas Keneally (-) (Grade:A)
44) Wise Blood (1952) - Flannery O'Connor (1925
-1968) (Grade:A+)
45) The First Man (1995) - Albert Camus (1913
-1960) (Grade:A+)
46) A Mapmaker's Dream: The Meditations of Fra Mauro, Cartographer to the Court of Venice (1996) - James Cowan (-) (Grade:A+)
47) A River Runs Through It (1976) - Norman MacLean (1902
-1990) (Grade:A+)
48) A Personal Matter (1969) - Kenzaburo Oe (1935-) (Grade:A+)
51) All the Pretty Horses (1992) - Cormac McCarthy (07/20/1933
-) (Grade:A+)
53) The Radetzky March (1932) - Joseph Roth (1894
-1939) (Grade:A+)
54) The Old Man and the Sea (1952) - Ernest Hemingway (1899
-1961) (Grade:A+)
55) Things Fall Apart (1958) - Chinua Achebe (1930-) (Grade:A+)
56) Tarzan of the Apes (1912) - Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950) (Grade:A+)
57) I, Claudius (1934) - Robert Graves (1895-1985) (Grade:A+)
58) Fontamara (1933) - Ignazio Silone (1900-1978) (Grade:A+)
60) Fatherland (1992) - Robert Harris (1957
-) (Grade:A+)
61) The Lathe of Heaven (1971) - Ursula K. LeGuin (1929-) (Grade:A)
62) The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (1950) - C.S. Lewis (11/29/1898
-11/22/1963) (Grade:A+)
63) Katherine (1995) - Anchee Min (01/14/1957-) (Grade:A)
65) The Kid from Tomkinsville (1940) - John R. Tunis (1889-1975) (Grade:A+)
66) The Heart of the Matter (1948) - Graham Greene (10/02/1904
-4/03/1991) (Grade:A)
67) Double Indemnity (1935) - James M Cain (7/1/1892-10/27/77) (Grade:A+)
70) The Last Hurrah (1956) - Edwin O'Connor (1918-1968) (Grade:A+)
73) Lolita (1955) - Vladimir Nabokov (1899
-1977) (Grade:A)
75) Flowers for Algernon (1966) - Daniel Keyes (-) (Grade:A+)
76) The Lilies of the Field (1962) - William Edmund Barrett (1900-1986) (Grade:A+)
78) The Bridge over the River Kwai (1952) - Pierre Boulle (1912-1994) (Grade:A+)
79) The Book of Ebenezer Le Page () - G.B. Edwards (-) (Grade:A+)
80) The Searchers (1954) - Alan Le May (-) (Grade:A+)
81) The Speed Queen (1997) - Stewart O'Nan (-) (Grade:A+)
83) Appointment in Samarra (1934) - John O'Hara (1/31/1905
-4/11/1970) (Grade:A)
87) The Loved One (1948) - Evelyn Waugh (10/28/1903
-04/10/1966) (Grade:A)
89) The Age of Innocence (1920) - Edith Wharton (1862
-1937) (Grade:A)
91) The Princess Bride : S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure: The 'Good Parts' Version, Abridged (1973) - William Goldman (1931-) (Grade:A)
93) The Magnificent Ambersons (1918) - Newton Booth Tarkington (07/29/1869
-05/19/1946) (Grade:A)
99) Catch-22 (1961) - Joseph Heller (1923-1999) (Grade:A)
100) Charlotte's Web (1952) - E. B. White (1899-1985) (Grade:A+)
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