| Radcliffe Publishing Course: the century's top 100 novels |
| On July 21, 1998, the
Radcliffe Publishing Course released its own list of the century's top
100 novels. The Radcliffe Publishing Course compiled its list at the
request of the Modern Library and formally presented its list to the
Modern Library's Board Chairman Christopher Cerf on July 24 in
Cambridge. "Students studying at Radcliffe today will be the leaders of the publishing industry tomorrow," said Cerf. "Their insights and observations give all of us a sneak-preview into the publishing trends of the 21st century." The 100 Radcliffe publishing students were assigned the task of creating their own list of the 20th century's top 100 novels written in English. Like the Modern Library list, the students' lists were selected from 400 possible titles. Instructors of the course compiled and quantified the students' lists, creating the final Radcliffe Publishing Course list below. |
1.
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald –  Rezension |
| 2. The Catcher in the Rye
by
J.D. Salinger – Rezension |
| 3. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck |
| 4.
To Kill a Mockingbird by
Harper Lee – Rezension |
| 5.
The
Color Purple by Alice Walker – Rezension
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6. Ulysses by James Joyce 7. Beloved by Toni Morrison |
| 8.
The Lord of the Flies by William Golding – Rezension |
| 9.
1984 by George Orwell 10. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner 11. Lolita by Vladmir Nabokov |
| 12.
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck – Rezension |
| 13.
Charlotte's Web by E. B. White 14. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce |
| 15.
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller – Rezension |
| 16. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley |
| 17.
Animal Farm by George Orwell – Rezension |
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18. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway 19. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner 20. A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway |
| 21. Heart of Darkness
by
Joseph Conrad – Verwandtes und Sekundäres |
| 22.
Winnie-the-Pooh by A. A. Milne 23. Their Eyes are Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston |
| 24.
Invisible Man
by Ralph Ellison – Rezension |
| 25.
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison 26. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell |
| 27. Native Son by
Richard
Wright – Rezension |
| 28.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey 29. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut 30. For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway 31. On the Road by Jack Kerouac |
| 32.
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway – Rezension |
| 33.
The Call of the Wild by Jack London 34. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf 35. Portrait of a Lady by Henry James 36. Go Tell it on the Mountain by James Baldwin 37. The World According to Garp by John Irving 38. All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren 39. A Room with a View by E. M. Forster 40. The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien 41. Schindler's List by Thomas Keneally 42. The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton 43. The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand 44. Finnegans Wake by James Joyce 45. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair |
| 46.
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf – Rezension |
| 47.
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum 48. Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence 49. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess |
| 50.
The Awakening by Kate Chopin– Rezension |
| 51. My Antonia by Willa Cather |
| 52.
Howards End by E. M. Forster –
Rezension |
| 53. In
Cold Blood by Truman Capote 54. Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger 55. The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie 56. Jazz by Toni Morrison 57. Sophie's Choice by William Styron 58. Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner 59. A Passage to India by E. M. Forster 60. Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton |
| 61. A Good Man Is Hard to Find by Flannery O'Connor |
| 62.
Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald 63. Orlando by Virginia Woolf 64. Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence 65. Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe 66. Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut 67. A Separate Peace by John Knowles 68. Light in August by William Faulkner 69. The Wings of the Dove by Henry James |
| 70. Things Fall Apart
by
Chinua Achebe – Rezension |
| 71.
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier 72. A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams 73. Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs 74. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh 75. Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence 76. Look Homeward, Angel by Thomas Wolfe 77. In Our Time by Ernest Hemingway |
| 78.
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein – Rezension |
| 79.
The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett 80. The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer 81. Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys 82. White Noise by Don DeLillo 83. O Pioneers! by Willa Cather 84. Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller 85. The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells |
| 86.
Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad 87. The Bostonians by Henry James 88. An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser 89. Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather 90. The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame 91. This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald 92. Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand 93. The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles |
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94. Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis – Rezension |
| 95. Kim by Rudyard Kipling 96. The Beautiful and the Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald 97. Rabbit, Run by John Updike 98. Where Angels Fear to Tread by E. M. Forster 99. Main Street by Sinclair Lewis 100. Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie |