The Modern Library: the 200 best novels in English since 19501980s

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Based on the book by Carmen Callil and Colm Tóibín, published by Picador (1999). See the list of books on the Clare County Library's website. This list is not associated with the publisher Modern

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The list has 202 items; Callil and Tóibín could not agree on the best work of V.S. Naipaul, and of Saul Bellow, so each of their choices was included for those two authors. In addition the first edition stopped short of 200 (at 194) and invited readers to send in suggestions for the final six; these were included in subsequent editions. These six are annotated on their listing below.
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1999
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Earthly Powers (1980) af Anthony Burgess
1980
The Transit of Venus (1980) af Shirley Hazzard
1980
Riddley Walker (1980) af Russell Hoban
1980
Lamb (1980) af Bernard MacLaverty
1980
So Long, See You Tomorrow (1979) af William Maxwell
5th of 6 additions by the editors for the first paperback edition
1980
Housekeeping (1980) af Marilynne Robinson
1980
Fjolsernes forbund : roman (1980) af John Kennedy Toole
1980
Støvbold : roman (1980) af Fay Weldon
1980
Lanark (1981) af Alasdair Gray
1981
Den røde drage (1981) af Thomas Harris
1981
Midnatsbørn (1981) af Salman Rushdie
1981
Efter natten (1981) af Robert Stone
1981
On the Black Hill (1982) af Bruce Chatwin
1982
Schindler's Ark (1982) af Thomas Keneally
US: Schindler's List
1982
Farven lilla (1982) af Alice Walker
1982
En drengs historie (1982) af Edmund White
1982
Money: A Suicide Note (1984) af Martin Amis
1984
Solens rige (1984) af J. G. Ballard
1984
Flauberts papegøje (1984) af Julian Barnes
1984
In Custody (1984) af Anita Desai
1984
The Children's Bach (1984) af Helen Garner
6th of 6 additions by the editors for the first paperback edition
1984
Nation of Fools: Scenes from Indian Life (1984) af Balraj Khanna
1984
Machine Dreams (1984) af Jayne Anne Phillips
1984
Family and Friends (1985) af Anita Brookner
1985
Blodets meridian eller Aftenrøden i Vesten (1985) af Cormac McCarthy
1985
Lonesome Dove (1985) af Larry McMurtry
1985
Black Robe (1985) af Brian Moore
1985
Der er andre frugter end appelsiner (1985) af Jeanette Winterson
1985
Sportsjournalisten : roman (1986) af Richard Ford
1986
Kunstner i den flydende verden (1986) af Kazuo Ishiguro
1986
A Summons to Memphis (1986) af Peter Taylor
1986
A Dark-Adapted Eye (1986) af Barbara Vine
1986
Ellen Foster (1987) af Kaye Gibbons
1987
Double Whammy (1987) af Carl Hiaasen
1987
Misery (1987) af Stephen King
1987
Elskede : roman (1987) af Toni Morrison
1987
In the Skin of a Lion (1987) af Michael Ondaatje
1987
The Other Garden (1987) af Francis Wyndham
1987
Oscar og Lucinda (1988) af Peter Carey
1988
Her hvor jeg ringer fra : 34 noveller (1988) af Raymond Carver
1988
Paris Trout (1988) af Pete Dexter
1988
The Sugar Mother (1988) af Elizabeth Jolley
1988
Forty-seventeen (1988) af Frank Moorhouse
1988
Cracking India (1988) af Bapsi Sidhwa
1988
Åndedrætsøvelser (1988) af Anne Tyler
1988
Forfængelighedens bål (1987) af Tom Wolfe
1988
The Book of Evidence (1989) af John Banville
1989
The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love (1989) af Oscar Hijuelos
1989
Klub Held og Glæde (1989) af Amy Tan
1989

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