Best 20th Century Novels

A Listmania! list by Book Hawk "Book Hawk" (UK)
 
Journey to the End of the Night
1.  Journey to the End of the Night by Louis-Ferdinand Celine
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  "A poetic - and very funny - journey beyond despair"
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The Man Who Watched the Trains Go By (Pocket Penguin Classics)
2.  The Man Who Watched the Trains Go By (Pocket Penguin Classics) by Georges Simenon
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  "What happens to a boring Dutch bourgeois when he sees through convention"
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Vile Bodies (Penguin Modern Classics)
3.  Vile Bodies (Penguin Modern Classics) by Evelyn Waugh
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  "Another vey funny book which describes futility using techniques borrowed from the cinema"
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The Great Gatsby (Penguin Popular Classics)
4.  The Great Gatsby (Penguin Popular Classics) by F Scott Fitzgerald
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  "No American writer - including Fitzgerald - ever wrote a better book than this"
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The Sun Also Rises (Scribner Classics)
5.  The Sun Also Rises (Scribner Classics) by Ernest Hemingway
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  "But Hemingway runs him close...."
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Breakfast Of Champions (Vintage Classics)
6.  Breakfast Of Champions (Vintage Classics) by Kurt Vonnegut
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  "Strongly influenced by Celine. America's greatest post-war writer"
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Steppenwolf (Essential Penguin)
7.  Steppenwolf (Essential Penguin) by Hermann Hesse
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  "How to recover from a breakdown"
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Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values
8.  Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values by Robert Pirsig
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  "Reality...a crutch for people who can't handle truth"
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The Pledge
9.  The Pledge by Friedrich Durrenmatt
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  "A warning against getting obssessional about things"
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Harper Perennial Modern Classics - Tropic of Cancer
10.  Harper Perennial Modern Classics - Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
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  "Yet another American masterpiece (and I'm English!)"
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