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Modern Library's 100 Best Novels is a 1998 list of the best English-language novels published during the 20th century, [a] as selected by Modern Library from among 400 novels published by Random House, which owns Modern Library. [1] The purpose of the list was to "bring the Modern Library to public attention" and stimulate sales of its books. [2]
The resulting list of "100 novels that shaped our world", [1] called the "100 Most Inspiring Novels" by BBC News, [2] was published by the BBC to kick off a year of celebrating literature. [ 2 ] [ 3 ]
Many complained of there being only nine books- Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift (1726), The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne (1759), The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (1891); Dracula by Bram Stoker (1897), Ulysses by James Joyce (1922), Murphy by Samuel Beckett (1938), At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann ...
The list was criticized as biased towards English-language books, particularly those published by American authors. [3] Nigerian academic Ainehi Edoro criticized the lack of literature by African authors and the predominance of American literature on the list and called the list "an act of cultural erasure". [ 4 ]
Early Modern Spanish: 11 Andersen's Fairy Tales: Hans Christian Andersen: 1835–1852: 129 [14] Danish: 12 The Book of Mormon: See Origin of the Book of Mormon: 1830: 115 [15] English: 13 Asterix: René Goscinny & Albert Uderzo: 1959–present: 115 [16] (not all volumes are available in all languages) French: 14 The Quran: See History of the ...
Kamila Shamsie FRSL (Urdu: کاملہ شمسی; born 13 August 1973) [2] is a Pakistani and British writer and novelist who is best known for her award-winning novel Home Fire (2017). [1] Named on Granta magazine's list of 20 best young British writers , Shamsie has been described by The New Indian Express as "a novelist to reckon with and to ...
Samurai Girl: Real Bout High School; School Days (novel) Schooled (novel) Science Fair (novel) Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda; The Skin I'm In; Son of Interflux; Sorority Sisters (novel series) Sound! Euphonium; Speak (Anderson novel) Stargirl (novel) The Strange Case of Origami Yoda
Candy (Brooks novel) The Canticle of Whispers; The Carbon Diaries: 2015; Castle in the Air (novel) The Cat of Bubastes; Cherry Crush (novel) The Children of the Lost; Clay (novel) Click (novel) Cold Tom; Collision Course (Hinton novel) Come Clean (novel) A Company of Swans; Coram Boy; Corydon and the Island of Monsters; A Countess Below Stairs ...