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List:  The Hungry Mind Review's 100 Best 20th Century Books


The Education of Henry Adams : An Autobiography (1918) - Henry Brooks Adams (2/16/1838 -3/27/1918)  (Grade:B+)

The Sheltering Sky (1949) - Paul Bowles (12/30/1910 -11/18/1999)  (Grade:D)

Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927) - Willa Cather (12/07/1873 -4/24/1947)  (Grade:C)

White Noise (1985) - Don DeLillo (11/20/1936 -)  (Grade:C)

Catch-22 (1961) - Joseph Heller (05/01/1923 -12/12/1999)  (Grade:A)

Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937) - Zora Neale Hurston (1/07/1891 -1/28/1960)  (Grade:B)

The Wings of the Dove (1902) - Henry James (4/15/1843 -2/28/1916)  (Grade:D)

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962) - Ken Kesey (9/17/1935 -11/10/2001)  (Grade:A+)

The Winged Seed: A Remembrance (1995) - Li-Young Lee (1957-)  (Grade:D-)

To Kill a Mockingbird (1960) - Harper Lee (4/28/1926 -2/19/2016)  (Grade:A+)

Babbitt (1922) - Sinclair Lewis (2/07/1885 -1/10/1951)  (Grade:A)

Lolita (1955) - Vladimir Nabokov (4/22/1899 -7/02/1977)  (Grade:A)

The Catcher in the Rye (1951) - J. D. Salinger (1/01/1919 -1/27/2010)  (Grade:A+)

Rabbit, Run (1960) - John Updike (March 18, 1932 -01/27/2009)  (Grade:C)

Slaughterhouse-Five (1969) - Kurt Vonnegut (11/111922 -4/11/2007)  (Grade:C)

All the King's Men (1946) - Robert Penn Warren (4/24/1905 -9/15/1989)  (Grade:A+)

The Autobiography of Malcolm X (1965) - Malcolm X (5/19/1925 -2/21/1965)  (Grade:A+)

Winesburg, Ohio (1919) - Sherwood Anderson (9/13/1876 -3/08/1941)  (Grade:C-)

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969) - Maya Angelou (1928-)  (Grade:B)

Go Tell it on the Mountain (1953) - James Baldwin (8/02/1924 -12/01/1987)  (Grade:B)

The Stories of John Cheever (1975) - John Cheever (5/27/1912 -6/18/1982)  (Grade:C+)

The USA Trilogy: (The 42nd Parallel, 1930; Nineteen Nineteen, 1932; The Big Money, 1936) () - John Dos Passos (1/14/1896 -9/28/1970)  (Grade:C)

An American Tragedy (1925) - Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945)  (Grade:F)

Invisible Man (1952) - Ralph Ellison (3/01/1913 -4/16/1994)  (Grade:C)

The Sound and the Fury (1929) - William Faulkner (09/25/1897 -07/06/1962)  (Grade:F)

As I Lay Dying (1930) - William Faulkner (09/25/1897 -07/06/1962)  (Grade:F)

The Great Gatsby (1925) - F. Scott Fitzgerald (9/24/1896 -12/21/1940)  (Grade:B)

The Sun Also Rises (1926) - Ernest Hemingway (7/21/1899 -7/02/1961)  (Grade:C-)

On the Road (1957) - Jack Kerouac (3/12/1922 -10/21/1969)  (Grade:F)

The Painted Bird (1965) - Jerzy Kosinski (1933-1991)  (Grade:C)

The Naked and the Dead (1948) - Norman Mailer (01/31/1923 -11/10/2007)  (Grade:D)

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (1940) - Carson McCullers (2/19/1917 -9/29/1967)  (Grade:D)

Tropic of Cancer (1934) - Henry Miller (1891 -1980)  (Grade:F)

Beloved (1987) - Toni Morrison (2/18/1931 -8/05/2019)  (Grade:F)

Jazz (1992) - Toni Morrison (2/18/1931 -8/05/2019)  (Grade:D)

The Moviegoer (1961) - Walker Percy (05/28/1916 -05/10/1990)  (Grade:C+)

Portnoy's Complaint (1969) - Phillip Roth (3/19/1933 -5/22/2018)  (Grade:F)

The Grapes of Wrath (1939) - John Steinbeck (2/27/1902 -12/20/1968)  (Grade:A-)

Sophie's Choice (1979) - William Styron (6/11/1925 -11/01/2006)  (Grade:C)

The Color Purple (1982) - Alice Walker (1944 -)  (Grade:B+)

The Day of the Locust (1939) - Nathanael West (10/17/1903 -12/22/1940)  (Grade:C-)

Native Son (1940) - Richard Wright (9/04/1908 -11/28/1960)  (Grade:C+)