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Counterpunch 100 Best Novels in English Since 1900

These are the favourite novels since 1900 of Counterpunch editors Jeffrey St. Clair and Alexander Cockburn. The source list was published in 2014 and has been used by the greatestbooks.org for its master list.
The beginning of the list has many of the usual suspects, but there is a great deal of variety in the remaining works.
BTW, Item 45 does not appear in the original list, so the total items is only 99. But who said editors should be able to count to 100.
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Ulysses (James Joyce)
Ulysses (James Joyce)
2
Absalom, Absalom! (William Faulkner)
Absalom, Absalom! (William Faulkner)
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Gravity's Rainbow (Thomas Pynchon)
Gravity's Rainbow (Thomas Pynchon)
4
Native Son (Richard Wright)
Native Son (Richard Wright)
5
Orlando (Virginia Woolf)
Orlando (Virginia Woolf)
6
The Rainbow (D.H. Lawrence)
The Rainbow (D.H. Lawrence)
7
Tender Is the Night (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
Tender Is the Night (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
8
Invisible Man (Ralph Ellison)
Invisible Man (Ralph Ellison)
9
Jr (William Gaddis)
Jr (William Gaddis)
10
Tropic of Cancer (Henry Miller)
Tropic of Cancer (Henry Miller)
11
The Golden Notebook (Doris Lessing)
The Golden Notebook (Doris Lessing)
12
The Sun Also Rises (Ernest Hemingway)
The Sun Also Rises (Ernest Hemingway)
13
Wide Sargasso Sea (Jean Rhys)
Wide Sargasso Sea (Jean Rhys)
14
The Code of the Woosters (P.G. Wodehouse)
The Code of the Woosters (P.G. Wodehouse)
15
Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
16
Giovanni's Room (James Baldwin)
Giovanni's Room (James Baldwin)
17
The Talented Mr. Ripley (Patricia Highsmith)
The Talented Mr. Ripley (Patricia Highsmith)
18
At Swim-Two-Birds (Flann O'Brien)
At Swim-Two-Birds (Flann O'Brien)
19
On the Road (Jack Kerouac)
On the Road (Jack Kerouac)
20
The Violent Bear It Away (Flannery O'Connor)
The Violent Bear It Away (Flannery O'Connor)
21
Pale Fire (Vladimir Nabokov)
Pale Fire (Vladimir Nabokov)
22
The End of the Affair (Graham Greene)
The End of the Affair (Graham Greene)
23
Red Harvest (Dashiell Hammett)
Red Harvest (Dashiell Hammett)
24
Mumbo Jumbo (Ishmael Reed)
Mumbo Jumbo (Ishmael Reed)
25
A Lost Lady (Willa Cather)
A Lost Lady (Willa Cather)
26
The Hound of the Baskervilles (Arthur Conan Doyle)
The Hound of the Baskervilles (Arthur Conan Doyle)
27
Far Tortuga (Peter Matthiessen)
Far Tortuga (Peter Matthiessen)
28
The Iron Heel (Jack London)
The Iron Heel (Jack London)
29
Jazz (Toni Morrison)
Jazz (Toni Morrison)
30
The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)
The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)
31
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Zora Neale Hurston)
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Zora Neale Hurston)
32
Nothing Like the Sun
Nothing Like the Sun
33
The Riddle of the Sands (Erskine Childers)
The Riddle of the Sands (Erskine Childers)
34
The Thinking Reed
The Thinking Reed
35
Under Western Eyes (Joseph Conrad)
Under Western Eyes (Joseph Conrad)
36
Beat the Devil (Claud Cockburn)
Beat the Devil (Claud Cockburn)
37
The Indian Lawyer (James Welch)
The Indian Lawyer (James Welch)
38
The White Hotel (D.M. Thomas)
The White Hotel (D.M. Thomas)
39
Neuromancer (William Gibson)
Neuromancer (William Gibson)
40
The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold
The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold
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