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The 20th Century's Greatest Hits: 100 English-Language Books of Fiction is a list of the 100 best English-language books of the 20th century compiled by American literary critic Larry McCaffery. The list was created largely in response to the Modern Library 100 Best Novels list (1999), which McCaffery considered out of touch with 20th-century ...
The purpose of the list was to "bring the Modern Library to public attention" and stimulate sales of its books. [2] A separate Modern Library 100 Best Nonfiction list of the 100 best non-fiction books of the 20th century was created the same year.
The Modern Library 100 Best Nonfiction was created in 1998 by the Modern Library. The list is what it considers to be the 100 best non-fiction books published since 1900. The list includes memoirs, textbooks, polemics, and collections of essays. A separate list of the 100 best novels of the 20th century was created the same year. [1]
The 100 Books of the Century (French: Les cent livres du siècle) is a list of the hundred most memorable books of the 20th century, regardless of language, according to a poll performed during the spring of 1999 by the French retailer Fnac and the Paris newspaper Le Monde.
Great Books of the 20th Century is a series of twenty novels published by Penguin Books released at the end of the 20th century. The following novels are included in the series: [1] Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad (1899–1902) Swann's Way by Marcel Proust (1913) The Metamorphosis and Other Stories by Franz Kafka (1915) The Good Soldier by ...
As a result, some notable 20th-century novels, such as Ulysses by James Joyce (published in 1922), were ineligible for inclusion. [1] [2] A list of the ten best graphic novels of the period was subsequently published as a supplement to the list. [3]
The list also includes one book that won two categories: Romance queen Emily Henry's "Funny Story" was readers' pick for both "Best Romance" and "Best Audiobook," which was a newly introduced ...
The highest-ranked book on the list was the Elena Ferrante novel My Brilliant Friend published in 2012. Authors Ferrante, Jesmyn Ward, and George Saunders each had three books on the list, the most of any author.
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