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Top 100 English-Language Novels of the 20th Century: The Radcliffe List

The Fletcher Library owns nearly all of these titles and often has more than one edition or copy. For a list of available titles please consult the annotated list below.

In order to keep the length of this page to a minimum, a hyperlink is only provided to one copy (usually the most current or definitive edition) of the book available at the West campus. All titles with more than one edition available from the West Library are followed by an * (asterisk).

The Radcliffe List is a response to the Modern Library - 100 Best Novels list, which has been criticized for undervaluing women, minorities, and contemporary writers.

As with any "Top 100" list there is definite disagreement both upon what titles belong and their appropriate ranking. The two lists (Modern Library and Radcliffe) only agree on 47 titles - Titles Appearing on Both Lists.


Annotated List of Fletcher Library Holdings

 

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1. The Great Gatsby by F(rancis) Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)*
PS3511.I9 G7 1991 West Stacks
2. The Catcher in the Rye by J(erome) D(avid) Salinger (1919- )
PS3537.A426 C3 1951 West Stacks
3. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (1902-1968)*
PS3537 .T3234 G8 1993 West Stacks
4. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (1926 -)
PS3562.E353 T6 1999 West Stacks
5. The Color Purple by Alice Walker (1944- )
PS3573 .A425 C6 [1982] West Stacks
6. Ulysses by James Joyce (1882-1941)*
PR6019 .O9 U4 1946 West Stacks
7. Beloved by Toni Morrison (1931- )
PS3563 .O8749 B4 1987 West Stacks
8. The Lord of the Flies by William Golding (1911-1993)
PR6013 .O35 L6 1962 West Stacks
9. 1984 by George Orwell (1903-1950)*
PR6029 .R8 N49 1982 West Stacks
10. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner (1897-1962)*
PS3511 .A86 S62 1956a West Stacks
11. Lolita by Vladmir Nabokov (1899-1977)*
PS3527.A15 L6 West Stacks
12. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck (1902-1968)
PS3537.T3234 O3 1965 West Stacks
13. Charlotte's Web by E(lwyn) B(rooks) White (1899-1985)
PS3545.H5187 C536 1994 West Stacks
14. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce (1882-1941)*
PR6019 .O9 P6 1964 West Stacks
15. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller (1923-1999)*
PS3558 .E476 C3 1961 West Stacks
16. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (1894-1963)
PR6015.U9 B69 1946 West Stacks
17. Animal Farm by George Orwell (1903-1950)*
PR6029.R8 A63 1995 West Stacks
18. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)
PS3515.E37 S9 1954 West Stacks
19. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner (1897-1962)*
PS3511.A86 A86 1957 West Stacks
20. A Farewell To Arms by Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)
PS3515.E37 F3 1957b West Stacks
21. Heart Of Darkness by Joseph Conrad (1857-1924)*
PR6005.O4 H4 1999 West Stacks
22. Winnie The Pooh by A(lan) A(lexander) Milne (1882-1956)
Fic M635w 1988 West Curriculum
23. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960)
PS3515.U789 T5 1998 West Stacks
24. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison (1914-1994)*
PS3555 .L625 I5 1952b West Stacks
25. Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison (1931- )
PS3563 .O8749 S6 West Stacks
26. Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell (1900-1949)*
PS3525.I972 G6 1964b West Stacks
27. Native Son by Richard Wright (1908-1960)
PS3545.R815 N25 1998 West Stacks
28. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey (1935- )
PS3561.E667 O5 1973 West Stacks
29. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut (1922- )
PS3572 .O5 S58 West Stacks
30. For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)
PS3515 .E37 F6 West Stacks
31. On the Road by Jack Kerouac (1922-1969)
PS3521.E735 O5 1991 West Stacks
32. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)
PS3515.E37 O5 1952b West Stacks
33. The Call of the Wild by Jack London (1876-1916)*
PS3523.O46 C3 1960b West Stacks
34. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)
PR6045.O72 T6 1992 West Stacks
35. Portrait of a Lady by Henry James (1843-1916)*
PS2116 .P6 1975x West Stacks
36. Go Tell It On the Mountain by James Baldwin (1924-1987)
PS3552 .A45 G56 1969 West Stacks
37. The World According to Garp by John Irving (1942- )
PS3559.R8 W6 1978c West Stacks
38. All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren (1905-1989)
PS3545.A748 A7 1996 West Stacks
39. A Room With a View by E(dward) M(organ) Forster (1879-1970)
PR6011.O58 R6 1976 West Stacks
40. The Lord of the Rings by J(ohn) R(onald) R(euel) Tolkien (1892-1973)
PR6039.O32 L6 1954 v.1-3 West Stacks
41. Schindler's List by Thomas Keneally (1935- )
PR9619.3.K46 S3 1982 West Stacks
42. The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (1862-1937)*
PS3545.H16 A7 1920 West Stacks
43. The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand (1905-1982)
PS3535.A547 F63 1968 Hayden Stacks
44. Finnegans Wak by James Joyce (1882-1941)
PR6019.O9 F5 1959 West Stacks
45. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair (1878-1968)
PS3537.I85 J85 1988 West Stacks
46. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)*
PR6045.O72 M7 1996b West Stacks
47. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L(yman) Frank Baum (1856-1919)*
PS3503.A923 W59 1991 West Stacks
48. Lady Chatterly's Lover by D(avid) H(erbert) Lawrence (1885-1930)*
PR6023 .A93 J6 1972 West Stacks
49. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess (1917-1993)
PR6052.U638 C55 1963b West Stacks
50. The Awakening by Kate Chopin (1851-1904)
PS1294.C63 A9 1969 West Stacks
51. My Antonia by Willa Cather (1873-1947)*
PS3505 .A87 M8 1994c West Stacks
52. Howards End by E(dward) M(organ) Forster (1879-1970)*
PR6011.O58 H6 1996 West Stacks
53. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote (1924-1984)
HV6533 .K3 C3 West Stacks
54. Franny and Zooey by J(erome) D(avid) Salinger (1919- )
PS3537 .A426 F7x 1961 West Stacks
55. The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie (1947- )
PR6068 .U757 S28 1989 West Stacks
56. Jazz by Toni Morrison (1931- )
PS3563 .O8749 J38 1992 West Stacks
57. Sophie's Choice by William Styron (1925- )
PS3569 .T9 S67 1979 West Stacks
58. Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner (1897-1962)
PS3511.A86 A65 1987 West Stacks
59. A Passage to India by E(dward) M(organ) Forster (1879-1970)
PR6011 .O58 P3 1952 West Stacks
60. Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton (1862-1937)
PS3545.H16 E7 2001 West Stacks
61. A Good Man Is Hard to Find by Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964)
PS3565.C57 G6 1993 West Stacks
62. Tender is the Night by F(rancis) Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)*
PS3511 .I9 T4 1962 West Stacks
63. Orlando by Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)*
PR6045.O72 O7 1977 West Stacks
64. Sons and Lovers by D(avid) H(erbert) Lawrence (1885-1930)*
PR6023.A96 S7 1962 West Stacks
65. Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe (1931- )
PS3573.O526 B6 1987 West Stacks
66. Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut (1922- )
PS3572 .O5 C3 1963a West Stacks
67. A Separate Peace by John Knowles (1926- )
PS3561.N68 S4 1960 West Stacks
68. Light in August by William Faulkner (1897-1962)
PS3511 .A86 L5 1950 West Stacks
69. The Wings of the Dove by Henry James (1843-1916)
PS2116 .W5 1937 West Stacks
70. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe (1930- )
PR9387.9.A3 T5 West Stacks
71. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier (1907- )
PR6007.U47 R4 1980 West Stacks
72. A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams (1952- )
PN1992.8.C66 H58 2002 VIDEO West Media
73. Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs (1914-1997)
PS3552 .U75 N34 1959 West Stacks
74. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966)
PR6045.A97 B75 1946 West Stacks
75. Women in Love by D(avid) H(erbert) Lawrence (1885-1930)*
PR6023.A93 W6 1931 West Stacks
76. Look Homeward, Angel by Thomas Wolfe (1900-1938)
PS3545.O337 L6 1957c West Stacks
77. In Our Time by Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)
E169.12 .W62 1980 West Stacks
78. The Autobiograph of Alice B. Tokias by Gertrude Stein (1874-1946)
PS3537.T323 Z5 1933b West Stacks
79. The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett (1894-1961)
PS3515.A4347 M3 1930 West Stacks
80. The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer (1923- )*
PS3525 .A4152 N3 West Stacks
81. Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys (1890-1979)
PR6035.H96 W5 1999 West Stacks
82. White Noise by Don DeLillo (1936- )*
PS3554 .E4425 W48 1985 West Stacks
83. O Pioneers! by Willa Cather (1873-1947)*
PS3505.A87 O2 1992 West Stacks
84. Tropic Of Cancer by Henry Miller (1891-1980)
PS3525.I5454 T7 1987 West Stacks
85. The War of the Worlds by H(erbert) G(eorge) Wells (1866-1946)
PN1991.77.I5 C3 1940b West Stacks
86. LordJim by Joseph Conrad (1857-1924)
PR6005.O4 L6 1958 West Stacks
87. The Bostonians by Henry James (1843-1916)
PS2116 .B6 1974 West Stacks
88. An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945)
PS3507 .R55 A45 1956 West Stacks
89. Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather (1873-1947)
PS3505.A87 D4 1999 West Stacks
90. The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame (1859-1932)
Fic G76w 1940 West Curriculum
91. This Side of Paradise by F(rancis) Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)*
PS3511 .I9 T48 1995 West Stacks
92. Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand (1905-1982)
PS3535.A547 A94 1992 West Stacks
93. The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles (1926- )
PR6056.O85 F79 1969 West Stacks
94. Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951)*
PS3523.E94 B2 1922 West Stacks
95. Kim by Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)
PR4854 .K5 1901b West Stacks
96. The Beautiful and the Damned by F(rancis) Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)
Not owned by the ASU Libraries
97. Rabbit, Run by John Updike (1932- )
PS3571.P4 R29 West Stacks
98. Where Angels Fear to Tread by E(dward) M(organ) Forster (1879-1970)
PR6011.O58 1972 v. 1 Hayden Stacks
West does not own
99. Main Street by Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951)*
PS3523.E94 M2 1992 West Stacks
100. Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie (1947- )
PR6068.U757 M5 1995 West Stacks

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