BRUCE'S LIST OF LISTS
TOP FICTION BOOKS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

HOW MANY HAVE YOU READ?

*This list was compiled over a three year period and originally had 2000 titles.
*Information was culled from dozens of "Best of..." lists from librarians, teachers, and learning institutions across the country.
*Placement was determined by how many lists a book was on and where they placed on those lists.
 

BRUCE'S TOP TWENTY

Ranking Title Author Year Published
1 The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck 1939
2 To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee 1960
3 Nineteen Eighty-four George Orwell 1949
4 Lord Of the Rings J. R. R. Tolkien 1956
5 The Catcher In the Rye J. D. Salinger 1945
6 One Hundred Years Of Solitude G. G. Marquez 1970
7 The Color Purple Alice Walker 1982
8 The Good Earth Pearl S. Buck 1931
9 Charlotte's Web E. B. White 1952
10 Catch 22 Joseph Heller 1961
11 Lonesome Dove Larry McMurtry 1986
12 Ulysses James Joyce 1922
13 Animal Farm George Orwell 1954
14 A Tree Grows In Brooklyn Betty Smith 1947
15 Lolita Vladimir Nabokov 1955
16 Beloved Toni Morrison 1987
17 Rabbit Run John Updike 1960
18 Winnie the Pooh A. A. Milne 1926
19 The Hobbit J. R. R. Tolkien 1937
20 The Sound and the Fury William Faulkner 1929

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