List: Brothers Judd Top 100 of the 20th Century: Novels
Zuleika Dobson or An Oxford Love Story (1911) - Max Beerbohm (1872-1956) (Grade:A)
Dandelion Wine (1957) - Ray Bradbury (08/22/1920-) (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 (1874-1936) (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+)Dune (1965) - Frank Herbert (1920-1986) (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+)Barabbas (1951) - Par Lagerkvist (1891-1974) (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 Underground Man (1971) - Ross MacDonald (12/13/1915-07/11/1983) (Grade:A+)The Galton Case (1959) - Ross MacDonald (12/13/1915-07/11/1983) (Grade:A)
The Fixer (1966) - Bernard Malamud (1914-1986) (Grade:A+)The Sand Pebbles (1962) - Richard McKenna (1913-1964) (Grade:A+)Hopeful Monsters (1990) - Nicholas Mosley (1923-) (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 Portis (1933-) (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 (1918-) (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 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+)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+)5)
All the King's Men (1946) - Robert Penn Warren (1905-1989) (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+)14)
Shoeless Joe (1982) - W. P. Kinsella (-) (Grade:A+)15)
Of Mice and Men (1937) - John Steinbeck (1902-1968) (Grade:A+)17)
Bang the Drum Slowly (1956) - Mark Harris (1922-) (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 (1914-1980) (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-)
37)
The Exorcist (1971) - William Peter Blatty (1928-) (Grade:A+)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)
42)
Independent People: An Epic (1946) - Halldor Laxness (1902-1998) (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 (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 (1898-1963) (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 (1904-1991) (Grade:A)
67)
Double Indemnity (1935) - James M Cain (7/1/1892-10/27/77) (Grade:A+)68) The Wanderer or The End of Youth (1912) - Alain-Fournier (1886-1914) (Grade:A)
70)
The Last Hurrah (1956) - Edwin O'Connor (1918-1968) (Grade:A+)72)
The Sands of Karakorum (1953) - James Ramsey Ullman (-) (Grade:A+)73) Lolita (1955) - Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977) (Grade:A)
74) Red Dragon (1981) - Thomas Harris (1940-) (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 (1905-1970) (Grade:A)
85)
The Golden Warrior: the Story of Harold and William (1949) - Hope Muntz (-) (Grade:A+)87) The Loved One (1948) - Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966) (Grade:A)
88) The Talented Mr. Ripley (1955) - Patricia Highsmith (01/19/1921-1995) (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)
97) Bright Lights, Big City (1984) - Jay McInerney (1955-) (Grade:A)
99) Catch-22 (1961) - Joseph Heller (1923-1999) (Grade:A)
100)
Charlotte's Web (1952) - E. B. White (1899-1985) (Grade:A+)