Larry McCaffery's 20th Century Greatest Hits

105 Works 944,661 Books 14,796 Reviews ½ 3.9
Critic, editor, and professor Larry McCaffery's top 100 English-language books of the 20th century. http://spinelessbooks.com/mccaffery/100/index.html
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Pale Fire (2011) af Vladimir Nabokov
1
Ulysses (1922) af James Joyce
2
Gravity's Rainbow (1973) af Thomas Pynchon
3
The Public Burning (1977) af Robert Coover
4
Brølet og vreden (1929) af William Faulkner
5
Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable (1951) af Samuel Beckett
6
The Making of Americans (1934) af Gertrude Stein
7
The Soft Machine (1961) af William S. Burroughs
8.1
Nova-ekspres (1964) af William S. Burroughs
8.2
The Ticket That Exploded (1962) af William S. Burroughs
8.3
Lolita (1955) af Vladimir Nabokov
9
Finnegans Wake (1939) af James Joyce
10
Take It or Leave It (1976) af Raymond Federman
11
Elskede : roman (1987) af Toni Morrison
12
Going Native (1994) af Stephen Wright
13
Under vulkanen (1947) af Malcolm Lowry
14
Til fyret : roman (1927) af Virginia Woolf
15
In the Heart of the Heart of the Country & Other Stories (1968) af William H. Gass
16
J R (1975) af William Gaddis
17
Usynlig mand (1952) af Ralph Ellison
18
Underverden : roman (1997) af Don DeLillo
19
Solen går sin gang (1926) af Ernest Hemingway
20
Portræt af kunstneren som ungt menneske (1916) af James Joyce
21
Den store Gatsby (1925) af F. Scott Fitzgerald
22
The Ambassadors (1903) af Henry James
23
Når kvinder elsker (1920) af D. H. Lawrence
24
Sixty Stories (1981) af Donald Barthelme
25
The Rifles (1994) af William T. Vollmann
26
The Recognitions (1955) af William Gaddis
27
Mørkets hjerte (1899) af Joseph Conrad
28
Punkt 22 (1961) af Joseph Heller
29
1984 (1949) af George Orwell
30
Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937) af Zora Neale Hurston
31
Absalom, Absalom! (1936) af William Faulkner
32
Dhalgren (1975) af Samuel R. Delany
33
Vredens druer (1939) af John Steinbeck
34
The Stain (1984) af Rikki Ducornet
35.1
Entering Fire (1986) af Rikki Ducornet
35.2
The Fountains of Neptune (1989) af Rikki Ducornet
35.3
The Jade Cabinet (1993) af Rikki Ducornet
35.4
Neuromancer Trilogy: Neuromancer, Count Zero, Mona Lisa Overdrive (2000) af William Gibson
36
Krebsens vendekreds (1934) af Henry Miller
37
Vejene (1957) af Jack Kerouac
38
Lookout Cartridge (1974) af Joseph McElroy
39
Crash (1973) af J. G. Ballard
40
Midnatsbørn (1981) af Salman Rushdie
41
The Sot-Weed Factor (1960) af John Barth
42
Genoa: A Telling of Wonders (1965) af Paul Metcalf
43
Fagre nye verden (1932) af Aldous Huxley
44
Indiske dage (1924) af E. M. Forster
45
Double or Nothing (1971) af Raymond Federman
46
Sweeny i træerne : roman (1939) af Flann O'Brien
47
Blodets meridian eller Aftenrøden i Vesten (1985) af Cormac McCarthy
48
The Cannibal (1949) af John Hawkes
49
Native Son (1940) af Richard Wright
50
The Day of the Locust (1939) af Nathanael West
51
Nattens skove : roman (1936) af Djuna Barnes
52
Housekeeping (1980) af Marilynne Robinson
53
Slagtehal fem eller børnekorstoget (1969) af Kurt Vonnegut
54
Vægten : roman (1988) af Don DeLillo
55
Wise Blood (1952) af Flannery O'Connor
56
Always Coming Home (1985) af Ursula K. Le Guin
57
U.S.A. (1938) af John Dos Passos
58
Den gyldne bog (1962) af Doris Lessing
59
Forbandede ungdom (1951) af J. D. Salinger
60
Red Harvest (1929) af Dashiell Hammett
61
Hvad vi taler om, når vi taler om kærlighed : noveller (1981) af Raymond Carver
62
Dublinfolk (1914) af James Joyce
63
Cane (1923) af Jean Toomer
64
The House of Mirth (1905) af Edith Wharton
65
Riddley Walker (1980) af Russell Hoban
66
Lyric of the Circle Heart: The Bowman Family Trilogy (American Literature Series) (1970) af William Eastlake
67
The Franchiser (1976) af Stanley Elkin
68
New York trilogien : By af glas, Genfærd, Det aflåste værelse (1985) af Paul Auster
69
Skinny Legs and All (1990) af Tom Robbins
70
Infinite Jest (1996) af David Foster Wallace
71
The Age of Wire and String (1995) af Ben Marcus
72
Tlooth (1966) af Harry Mathews
73
Pricksongs & Descants: Fictions (1969) af Robert Coover
74
Manden i den store fæstning (1962) af Philip K. Dick
75
American psycho (1991) af Bret Easton Ellis
76
Den franske løjtnants kvinde (1969) af John Fowles
77
The Book of the New Sun (1980) af Gene Wolfe
78
A clockwork orange (1962) af Anthony Burgess
79
An Albany Trio: Legs; Billy Phelan's Greatest Game; Ironweed (1985) af William Kennedy
80
The Tunnel (1995) af William H. Gass
81
Omensetter's Luck (1966) af William H. Gass
82
Under himlens dække (1949) af Paul Bowles
83
Darconville's Cat (1981) af Alexander Theroux
84
Up (1968) af Ronald Sukenick
85
Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down (1969) af Ishmael Reed
86
En by i Ohio (1919) af Sherwood Anderson
87
You Bright & Risen Angels (1987) af William T. Vollmann
88
De nøgne og de døde (1948) af Norman Mailer
89
The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop. (1968) af Robert Coover
90
Creamy and Delicious; Eat My Words (in other words) (1970) af Steve Katz
91
Vi venter på barbarerne (1980) af J. M. Coetzee
92
Jeg er ene - jeg er mange (1953) af Theodore Sturgeon
93
Mulligan Stew (1979) af Gilbert Sorrentino
94
Look Homeward, Angel (1929) af Thomas Wolfe
95
An American Tragedy (1925) af Theodore Dreiser
96
Easy Travel to Other Planets (1981) af Ted Mooney
97
Tours of the Black Clock (1989) af Steve Erickson
98
In Memoriam to Identity (1990) af Kathy Acker
99
Hogg (1995) af Samuel R. Delany
100

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