Best Books of the 20th Century (Goodreads.com)
...and, the top 100 (as of right now) at Goodreads.com
1. To Kill a Mockingbird, Lee
2. The Catcher in the Rye, Salinger
3. 1984, Orwell
4. The Grapes of Wrath, Steinbeck
5. The Lord of the Rings, Tolkein
6. The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald
7. East of Eden, Steinbeck
8. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, Rowling
9. One Hundred Years of Solitude, Marquez
10. Lolita, Nabokov
11. The Little Prince, Saint-Exupery
12. Gone With the Wind, Mitchell
13. The Giver, Lowry
14. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Smith
15. A Confederacy of Dunces, Toole
16. Atlas Shrugged, Rand
17. A Prayer for Owen Meany, Irving
18. The Handmaid’s Tale, Atwood
19. Catch-22, Heller
20. Anne Frank: The Diary of Young Girl
21. Fahrenheit 451, Bradbury
22. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, Lewis
23. The Poisonwood Bible, Kingsolver
24. The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Adams
25. Watership Down, Adams
26. A Wrinkle in Time, L’Engle
27. Beloved, Morrison
28. Ulysses, Joyce
29. Ender’s Game, Card
30. The Bell Jar, Plath
31. Brave New World, Huxley
32. The Stranger, Camus
33. Blindness, Saramago
34. The Sound and the Fury, Faulkner
35. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Rowling
36. The Sun Also Rises, Hemingway
37. Slaughterhouse-Five, Vonnegut
38. The Pillars of the Earth, Follett
39. Their Eyes Were Watching God, Hurston
40. Invisible Man, Ellison
41. The Lorax, Seuss
42. The Fellowship of the Ring, Tolkien
43. Love in the Time of Cholera, Marquez
44. The Stand, King
45. The Fountainhead, Rand
46. The Name of the Rose, Eco
47. Animal Farm, Orwell
48. In Cold Blood, Capote
49. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Kesey
50. The Good Earth, Buck
51. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Rowling
52. Waiting for Godot, Beckett
53. Franny and Zooey, Salinger
54. The Old Man and the Sea, Hemingway
55. Lonesome Dove, McMurtry
56. Lord of the Flies, Golding
57. The Joy Luck Club, Tan
58. The Hobbit, Tolkien
59. The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Kundera
60. The Bone People, Hulme
61. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Thompson
62. Mere Christianity, Lewis
63. The Master and Margarita, Bulgakov
64. Gravity’s Rainbow, Pynchon
65. For Whom the Bell Tolls, Hemingway
66. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Joyce
67. Heart of Darkness, Conrad
68. The Red Tent, Diamant
69. The Things They Carried, O’Brien
70. The Complete Sherlock Holmes, Doyle
71. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Dahl
72. To the Lighthouse, Woolf
73. Of Mice and Men, Steinbeck
74. Tender is the Night, Fitzgerald
75. The World According to Garp, Irving
76. The Crying of Lot 49, Pynchon
77. Blood Meridian,
78. The Return of the King, Tolkien
79. Disgrace, Coetzee
80. A Farewell to Arms, Hemingway
81. The Silmarillion, Tolkien
82. The Alienist, Carr
83. House of Leaves, Danielewski
84. Memoirs of a Geisha, Golden
85. Interpreter of Maladies, Lahiri
86. The Witching Hour, Rice
87. Steppenwolf, Hesse
88. Sophie’s Choice, Styron
89. The Two Towers, Tolkien
90. If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler, Calvino
91. The House of Mirth, Wharton
92. Revolutionary Road, Yates
93. Possession, Byatt
94. The Origin of Consciousness, Jaynes
95. On the Road, Kerouac
96. A Fine Balance, Mistry
97. Neuromancer, Gibson
98. The Hiding Place, Boom
99. The Alexandria Quartet Boxed Set, Durrell
Alas, Babylon, Frank