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

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  #21

  A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

  by James Joyce

  (9 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 30

  389 points

  "Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo...."

  

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  #22

  The Great Gatsby

  by F. Scott Fitzgerald

  (97 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 1

  994 points

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

  

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  #23

  The Ambassadors

  by Henry James

  (4 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 76

  235 points

  "Strether's first question, when he reached the hotel, was about his friend; yet on his learning that Waymarsh was apparently not to arrive till evening he was not wholly disconcerted."

  

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  #24

  Women in Love

  by D. H. Lawrence

  (5 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 79

  226 points

  "Ursula and Gudrun Brangwen sat one morning in the window-bay of their father’s house in Beldover, working and talking. Ursula was stitching a piece of brightly-coloured embroidery, and Gudrun was..."

  

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  #25

  Sixty Stories

  by Donald Barthelme

  (1 Review)

  Overall Rank: 280

  76 points

  

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  #26

  The Rifles

  by William Vollmann

  (1 Review)

  Overall Rank: 286

  75 points

  

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  #27

  The Recognitions

  by William Gaddis

  (3 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 291

  74 points

  "Even Camilla had enjoyed masquerades, of the safe sort where the mask may be dropped at the critical moment it presumes itself as reality."

  

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  #28

  Heart of Darkness

  by Joseph Conrad

  (18 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 32

  382 points

  "The Nellie, a cruising yawl, swung to her anchor without a flutter of the sails, and was at rest. The flood had made, the wind was nearly calm, and being bound down the river, the only thing for it..."

  

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  #29

  Catch-22

  by Joseph Heller

  (31 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 6

  823 points

  "It was love at first sight."

  

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  #30

  Nineteen Eighty-Four

  by George Orwell

  (69 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 3

  946 points

  "It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen."

  

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