List: The 20th Centrury's Greatest Hits by American Book Review

The Cannibal

John Hawkes

Cane

Jean Toomer

Infinite Jest

David Foster Wallace

I am seated in an office, surrounded by heads and bodies.

Mulligan Stew

Gilbert Sorrentino

In Memoriam to Identity

Kathy Acker

Their Eyes Were Watching God

Zora Neale Hurston

Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board.

The Great Gatsby

F. Scott Fitzgerald

In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.

The House of Mirth

Edith Wharton

Selden paused in surprise.

The Grapes of Wrath

John Steinbeck

To the red country and part of the gray country of Oklahoma, the last rains came gently, and they did not cut the scarred earth.

Absalom, Absalom!

William Faulkner

From a little after two o'clock until almost sundown of the long still hot weary dead September afternoon they sat in what Miss Coldfield still called the office because her father had called it that---