20th Century's Greatest Hits: 100 English-Language Books of Fiction
This is one of the 759 lists we use to generate our main The Greatest Books list.
About this list
Larry McCaffery, 116 Books
The 20th Century’s Greatest Hits: 100 English-Language Books of Fiction is a popular "best of" list compiled by Larry McCaffery largely in response to Modern Library 100 Best Novels list (1999), which McCaffery saw as being out of touch with 20th-century fiction. McCaffery writes that he sees his list "as a means of sharing with readers my own views about what books are going to be read 100 or 1000 years from now".
This list was originally published in 1999 and was added to this site about 12 years ago.
