1-Pulitzer Prize
2-National Book Award
3-Pen/Faulkner Award
4-National Book Critic’s Circle Award for Fiction
5-Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction
6-Indies' Choice Book Awards (formerly Book Sense Book Award)
7-Man Booker Prize
8-American Library’s Top 100 Novels
9-Modern Library 100 Best Books
10-Library Journal’s Most Influential Fiction of the 20th Century
11-New York Library’s Books of the Century
12-Harvard Bookstore’s 100 Best Books
13-New York Times Editor’s Choice
Number in parenthesis beside author’s name indicates number of author's books on list.
An asterisk* beside the author’s name indicates Nobel Prize winner.
Title - Author (#of books on list), Awards/Lists
1984 - George Orwell(3) 8, 9, 10, 12
2001 - A Space Odyssey, Arthur C. Clarke 10
A Bell for Adano - John Hersey 1
A Bend in the River - V. S. Naipaul*(3) 8
A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess 8, 9, 10
A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole 1
A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories - Isaac Bashevis Singer 2
A Curtain of Green - Eudora Welty(3) 10
A Dance to the Music of Time - Anthony Powell 8
A Death in the Family - James Agee 1, 10, 12
A Fable - William Faulkner(8) 1, 2
A Farewell to Arms - Ernest Hemingway(4) 8, 9, 10, 12
A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry 5
A Flag for Sunrise - Robert Stone(2) 5
A Frolic of His Own - William Gaddis(2) 2
A Good Man is Hard to Find - Flannery O'Connor(3) 9, 10, 12
A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain - Robert Olen Butler 1
A Handful of Dust - Evelyn Waugh(3) 8
A Happy Marriage - Rafael Yglesias 5
A High Wind in Jamaica - Richard Hughes 8
A Hithchiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams 9
A House for Mr. Biswas - V.S. Naipaul*(3) 8
A Lesson Before Dying - Ernest J. Gaines 4
A Passage to India - E.M. Forster(4) 8, 9, 10
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce(4) 8, 9, 10, 12
A Room with a View - E.M. Forster(4) 8, 9, 10
A Separate Peace - John Knowles 9
A Summons to Memphis - Peter Taylor(2) 1
A Thousand Acres - Jane Smiley 4, 10
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - Betty Smith 10
A Visit From the Goon Squad - Jennifer Egan 13
A Woman in Jerusalem - A. B. Yeshohua 5
Able McLaughlins - The, Margaret Wilson 1
Absalom, Absalom! - William Faulkner (8) 9, 12
Absurdistan - Gary Shteyngart 13
Accidental Tourist, The - Anne Tyler(2) 4, 10
Adventures of Augie March, The - Saul Bellow(5) 2, 8
Advise and Consent - Allen Drury 1, 10
After Rain - William Trevor(2) 13
Age of Anxiety: A Baroque Ecloguez, The - W.H.Auden 11
Age of Innocence, The - Edith Wharton (3) 1, 8, 9, 10
Agony and the Ecstacy, The - Irving Stone 10
Alexandria Quartet - Lawrence Durrell 8
Alice Adams - Booth Tarkington (2) 1
All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque 10
All the King's Men - Robert Penn Warren 1, 8, 9, 10
All the Pretty Horses - Cormac McCarthy (2) 2, 4
Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, The - Michael Chabon 1
Ambassadors, The - Henry James(5) 8, 10
American Pastoral - Philip Roth(8) 1, 13
Amsterdam: A Novel - Ian McEwan(2) 7
An American Tragedy - Theodore Dreiser(2) 8, 9
Andersonville - Mackinlay Kantor 1
Angela’s Ashes - Frank McCourt 6, 13
Angle of Repose - Wallace Stegner (2) 1, 8, 10
Animal Farm - George Orwell (3) 8, 9, 10
Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy 12
Another Country - James Baldwin (3) 12
Appointment in Samarra - John O’Hara (2) 8
Arctic Dreams - Barry Lopez 2
Are You There God, It’s Me, Margaret - Judy Blume - 10
Arrowsmith - Sinclair Lewis (3) 1
As I Lay Dying - William Faulkner (8) 8, 9, 12
Ask The Dusk - John Fante 12
Assorted Fire Events - David Means 5
Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand (2) 9
Atonement - Ian McEwan (2) 4, 5, 13
Augustus - John Williams 2
Austerlitz - Winfried Georg Sebald (2) 4, 13
Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, The - Gertrude Stein (2) 9
Autumn of the Patriarch - Gabriel Garcia Marquez (3) 12
Awakening, The - Kate Chopin 9
Babbitt - Sinclair Lewis (3) 9, 10
Bad Land - Jonathan Raban 13
Barracks Thief, The - Tobias Wolff(2) 3
Barrel Fever - David Sedaris 12
Bastard Out of Carolina - Dorothy Allison 12
Bean Trees, The - Barbara Kingsolver(3) 10
Bear Comes Home, The - Rafi Zabor 3
Beautiful and the Damned, The - F. Scott Fitzgerald(4) 5
Being Dead - Jim Crace 4, 13
Bel Canto - Ann Patchett 3
Bell Jar, The - Sylvia Plath 10, 12
Beloved - Toni Morrison*(4) 1, 9, 10, 12
Beowulf - Seamus Heaney* 13
Big Sleep, The - Raymond Chandler(2) 10
Billy Bathgate - E. L. Doctorow(3) 3, 4
Birds of America: Stories - Lorrie Moore 13
Birdy - William Wharton 2
Blind Assassin, The - Margaret Atwood(2) 7
Blood Ties - Mary Lee Settle 2
Blue Afternoon, The - William Boyd 5
Blue Flower, The - Penelope Fitzgerald(2) 4, 13
Bluest Eye, The - Toni Morrison*(4) 10
Bone People, The - Keri Hulme 7
Bonfire of the Vanities - Thomas Wolfe(2) 9
Bostonians, The - Henry James(5) 9
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley(2) 8, 9, 10, 12
Breathing Lessons - Anne Tyler(2) 1, 10
Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh(3) 8, 9, 10
Bridge of San Luis Rey, The - Thornton Wilder(2) 1, 8, 10
Bridges of Madison County, The - Robert James Waller 6
Brick Lane - Monica Ali 13
Brother Eagle, Sister Sky - Susan Jeffers 6
Brothers Karamazov, The - Fyodor Dostoevsky(2) 12
Burger’s Daughter, The - Nadine Gordimer*(2) 10, 12
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee - Dee Brown 12
Caine Mutiny, The - Herman Wouk(2) 1, 10
Call It Sleep - Henry Roth 10
Call of the Wild, The - Jack London 8, 9, 10
Caprices, The - Sabina Murray 3
Catch-22 - Joseph Heller 8, 9, 10, 12
Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger(4) 8, 9, 10, 12
Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut(2) 9, 10
Centaur, The - John Updike(6) 2
Chaneysville Incident, The - David Bradley 3
Charlotte's Web - EB White 9, 10
Charming Billy - Alice McDermott 2
Cherry Orchard, The - Anton Chekhov (2) 12
Chimera - John Barth 2
City of Quartz - Mike Davis 12
Close Range; Wyoming Stories - Annie Proulx (3) 13
Cloudsplitter - Russell Banks 13
Cold Mountain - Charles Frazier 2, 6
Collected Stories - Jean Stafford 1
Collected Stories - Katherine Anne Porter (2) 1, 2
Collected Stories of, The - Mavis Gallant 13
Collected Stories, The - Eudora Welty (3) 2, 12
Collected Stories, The - William Faulkner (8) 2
Collected Stories - Amy Hempel 13
Color of Water, The - James McBride 10
Color Purple, The - Alice Walker 1, 2, 9
Complete Stories, The - Flannery O'Connor (3) 2
Confessions of Nat Turner, The - William Styron (2) 1
Conservationist, The - Nadine Gordimer* (2) 7
Corrections, The - Jonathan Franzen(2) 2, 13
Cosmicomics - Italo Calvino(2) 12
Counterlife, The - Philip Roth(8) 4
Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky (2) 12
Cry the Beloved Country - Alan Paton 10
Crying Of Lot 49, The - Thomas Pynchon (3) 12
Cutting for Stone - Abraham Verghese 6
