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

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  #51

  The Day of the Locust

  by Nathanael West

  (3 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 199

  98 points

  "Around quitting time, Tod Hackett heard a great din on the road outside his office."

  

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  #52

  Nightwood

  by Djuna Barnes

  (3 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 407

  49 points

  "Early in 1880, in spite of a well-founded suspicion as to the advisability of perpetuating that race which has the sanction of the Lord and the disapproval of the people, Hedvig Volkbein—a Viennese..."

  

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  #53

  Housekeeping

  by Marilynne Robinson

  (4 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 167

  118 points

  "My name is Ruth."

  

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  #54

  Slaughterhouse-Five

  by Kurt Vonnegut

  (29 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 34

  358 points

  "All this happened, more or less."

  

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  #55

  Libra

  by Don DeLillo

  (2 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 420

  46 points

  

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  #56

  Wise Blood

  by Flannery O'Connor

  (3 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 250

  84 points

  "Hazel Motes sat at a forward angle on the green plush train seat, looking one minute at the window as if he might want to jump out of it, and the next down the aisle at the other end of the car."

  

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  #57

  Always Coming Home

  by Ursula K. Le Guin

  (2 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 425

  44 points

  "Stone Telling is my last name."

  

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  #58

  The 42nd Parallel

  by John Dos Passos

  (3 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 94

  200 points

  "General Mills with his gaudy uniform and spirited charger was the center for all eyes especially as his steed was extremely restless."

  

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  #59

  The Golden Notebook

  by Doris Lessing

  (4 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 65

  266 points

  "The two women were alone in the London flat."

  

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  #60

  The Catcher in the Rye

  by J. D. Salinger

  (45 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 7

  735 points

  "If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they...

  

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