The Modern Library: the 200 best novels in English since 19501960s

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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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Year Awarded:
1999
VærkOrder Label
Dræb ikke en sangfugl (1960) af Harper Lee
1960
The Balkan Trilogy (1960) af Olivia Manning
1960–65
1960
Rabbit Angstrom: A Tetralogy (1995) af John Updike
1960–90
1960
Jeeves in the Offing (1960) af P. G. Wodehouse
US: How Right You Are, Jeeves
1960
Punkt 22 (1961) af Joseph Heller
1961
A House for Mr Biswas (1961) af V. S. Naipaul
1961
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961) af Muriel Spark
1961
Riders in the Chariot (1961) af Patrick White
1961
That's How It Was (1962) af Maureen Duffy
1962
The Reivers (1962) af William Faulkner
1962
Den gyldne bog (1962) af Doris Lessing
1962
Girl with Green Eyes (1962) af Edna O'Brien
The Lonely Girl, renamed Girl with Green Eyes 1964
1962
Narreskibet (1962) af Katherine Anne Porter
1962
The Little Girls (1964) af Elizabeth Bowen
1963
Spionen der kom ind fra kulden (1963) af John le Carré
1963
Gruppen (1963) af Mary McCarthy
1963
The Bell Jar (1963) af Sylvia Plath
1963
Herzog (1964) af Saul Bellow
1964
Heartland (1964) af Wilson Harris
1964
Sidste udkørsel til Brooklyn (1964) af Hubert Selby Jr.
1964
Memoirs of a Peon (1965) af Frank Sargeson
1965
Interpreters (1965) af Wole Soyinka
1965
Troldmanden (1965) af John Fowles
3rd of 6 additions by the editors for the first paperback edition
1966
A Jest of God (1966) af Margaret Laurence
1966
Wide Sargasso Sea (1966) af Jean Rhys
1966
The Jewel in the Crown (1966) af Paul Scott
1966
Cotters' England (1966) af Christina Stead
US: Dark Places of the Heart 1967
1966
Nat Turner : En oprørers bekendelser (1967) af William Styron
1967
A Grain of Wheat (1967) af Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
1967
In the Heart of the Heart of the Country & Other Stories (1968) af William H. Gass
1968
The Nice and the Good (1968) af Iris Murdoch
1968
The Unfortunates (1969) af B. S. Johnson
1969
Happiness and Other Stories (1969) af Mary Lavin
1969
Mafia (1969) af Mario Puzo
1969

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