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50 Modern Classics: Novels Everyone Should Read

50 works of modern ( or, in the case of Conrad and Wharton, modernist) fiction that , when taken together, make up what I feel is a good core reading list. I limited the list to one book per author and did not include short story collections; I still had to eliminate many great and important books to keep the list at 50.
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1984 (Orwell)
1984 (Orwell)
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All Quiet on the Western Front (Remarque)
All Quiet on the Western Front (Remarque)
3
As I Lay Dying (William Faulkner)
As I Lay Dying (William Faulkner)
4
Atonement (Ian McEwan)
Atonement (Ian McEwan)
5
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein
6
The Bell Jar (Sylvia Plath)
The Bell Jar (Sylvia Plath)
7
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
8
A Canticle for Leibowitz (Miller)
A Canticle for Leibowitz (Miller)
9
Cry the Beloved Country (Alan Paton)
Cry the Beloved Country (Alan Paton)
10
The Erasers (Alain Robbe-Grillet)
The Erasers (Alain Robbe-Grillet)
11
The Fixer (Bernard Malamud)
The Fixer (Bernard Malamud)
12
The Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald)
The Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald)
13
Group Portrait With Lady (Bõll)
Group Portrait With Lady (Bõll)
14
Heart of Darkness (Signet)
Heart of Darkness (Signet)
15
The House of Mirth (Edith Wharton)
The House of Mirth (Edith Wharton)
16
If Beale Street Could Talk (James Baldwin)
If Beale Street Could Talk (James Baldwin)
17
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
18
Invisible Man (Ralph Ellison)
Invisible Man (Ralph Ellison)
19
La Condition Humane (Man's Fate) (Andre Malraux)
La Condition Humane (Man's Fate) (Andre Malraux)
20
Love in the Time of Cholera
Love in the Time of Cholera
21
The Magnificent Ambersons (Booth Tarkington)
The Magnificent Ambersons (Booth Tarkington)
22
Mendelssohn Is on the Roof (Jiří Weil)
Mendelssohn Is on the Roof (Jiří Weil)
23
The Name of the Rose (Eco)
The Name of the Rose (Eco)
24
Nausea (Jean-Paul Sartre)
Nausea (Jean-Paul Sartre)
25
No Country for Old Men (Cormac McCarthy)
No Country for Old Men (Cormac McCarthy)
26
Norwegian Wood (Haruki Murakami)
Norwegian Wood (Haruki Murakami)
27
Orlando
Orlando
28
The Plot Against America (Philip Roth)
The Plot Against America (Philip Roth)
29
The Quiet American (Greene)
The Quiet American (Greene)
30
Rabbit, Run (1960) (John Updike)
Rabbit, Run (1960) (John Updike)
31
The Remains of the Day (Kazuo Ishiguro)
The Remains of the Day (Kazuo Ishiguro)
32
Revolutionary Road (Richard Yates)
Revolutionary Road (Richard Yates)
33
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (Alan Sillitoe)
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (Alan Sillitoe)
34
The Sea the Sea (Iris Murdoch)
The Sea the Sea (Iris Murdoch)
35
Slaughterhouse-Five (Kurt Vonnegut Jr.)
Slaughterhouse-Five (Kurt Vonnegut Jr.)
36
The Stranger (Albert Camus)
The Stranger (Albert Camus)
37
The Sun Also Rises (Ernest Hemingway)
The Sun Also Rises (Ernest Hemingway)
38
Things Fall Apart (Chinua Achebe)
Things Fall Apart (Chinua Achebe)
39
This Sporting Life (David Storey)
This Sporting Life (David Storey)
40
Three Novels (Beckett)
Three Novels (Beckett)
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