THE BEST AMERICAN NOVELS OF 20TH CENTURY

1. Absalom, Absalom!, 1936 William Faulkner
2. The Grapes of Wrath, 1939 John Steinbeck
3. The Sound and the Fury ,1929 William Faulkner
4. Lolita, 1955 Vladimir Nabokov
5. The Ambassadors, 1903 Henry James
6. Gravity's Rainbow, 1973 Thomas Pynchon
7. Catch-22, 1961 Joseph Heller
8. The Catcher in the Rye, 1951 J. D. Salinger
9. Invisible Man, 1952 Ralph Ellison
10. Blood Meridian, 1985 Cormac McCarthy
11. As I Lay Dying, 1930 William Faulkner
12. Of Mice and Men, 1937 John Steinbeck
13. The Great Gatsby, 1925 F. Scott Fitzgerald
14. Slaughterhouse-Five, 1969 Kurt Vonnegut
15. The Old Man and the Sea, 1952 Ernest Hemingway
16. The Golden Bowl, 1904 Henry James
17. Beloved, 1987 Toni Morrison
18. The Recognitions, 1955, William Gaddis
19. Underworld, 1997, Don DeLillo
20. America Pastoral, 1997, Philip Roth 
21. The Sun Also Rises, 1926 Ernest Hemingway
22. Infinite Jest, 1996 David Foster Wallace
23. The U.S.A. Trilogy, 1930-36 John Dos Passos
24. On the Road, 1957 Jack Kerouac
25. An American Tragedy, 1925 Theodore Dreiser
26. Light in August, 1932 William Faulkner
27. Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle, 1969 Vladimir Nabokov
28. Martin Eden, 1909 Jack London
29. A Confederacy of Dunces, 1980 John Kennedy Toole
30. All the Pretty Horses, 1992 Cormac McCarthy
31. Herzog, 1964 Saul Bellow
32. White Noise, 1985 Don DeLillo
33. The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, 1940 Carson McCullers
34. The Wings of the Dove, 1902 Henry James
35. Tender Is the Night, 1934 F. Scott Fitzgerald
36. Rabbit, Run, 1960, Jon Updike, 
37. The Color Purple, 1982, Alice Walker
38. The Naked and the Dead, 1948, Norman Mailer
39. The Sot-Weed Factor, 1960, John Barth
40. The Day of The Locust, 1939, Nathaniel West
41. The Sheltering Sky, 1949, Paul Bowles
42. Native Son, 1940, Richard Wright
43. Pale Fire, 1962 Vladimir Nabokov
44. JR, 1975, William Gaddis
45. Suttree, 1979 Cormac McCarthy
46. The Age of Innocence, 1920 Edith Wharton
47. V, 1963 Thomas Pynchon
48. Libra, 1988 Don DeLillo
49. Arrowsmith, 1925 Sinclair Lewis
50. Cannery Row, 1945 John Steinbeck