"Our Readable Century", The Best Books of the 20th Century -- Honorable Mention

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January Magazine, 185 Books

These are the books from the list found here: https://thegreatestbooks.org/lists/136 that only got a single vote.

Voters: 48 authors and all the names are listed in the original article

This list was originally published in 2000 and was added to this site 12 months ago.

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Rank Book Authors Year Country Language Actions
7719 The Wanderers Richard Price 1974 American English
5 One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel García Márquez 1967 Colombian Spanish
242 Tropic of Cancer Henry Miller 1934 American English
86 All Quiet on the Western Front Erich Maria Remarque 1928 German German
158 The Good Soldier Švejk Jaroslav Hašek 1921 Czech Czech
265 Pippi Longstocking Astrid Lindgren 1945 Swedish Swedish
1635 The Sportswriter Richard Ford 1986 American English
1483 Independence Day Richard Ford 1995 American English
1502 Sometimes a Great Notion Ken Kesey 1964 American English
107 Charlotte's Web E. B. White 1952 American English
108 In Cold Blood Truman Capote 1966 American English
1243 Down and Out in Paris and London George Orwell 1933 British English
4674 Green Eggs and Ham Dr. Seuss 1960 American English
635 The Quiet American Graham Greene 1955 British English
7199 Lonely Crusade Chester Himes 1947 American English
899 Last Exit to Brooklyn Hubert Selby 1964 American English
1111 Jesus' Son Denis Johnson 1992 American English
7199 The Years Virginia Woolf 1937 British English
2833 The Stone Angel Margaret Laurence 1964 Canadian English
8905 Captains And The Kings Taylor Caldwell 1972 American English
3043 Centennial James A. Michener 1974 American English
10855 A Man In Full (A Novel) Tom Wolfe 1998 American English
2412 The Age of Jackson Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr 1945 American English
5895 Death In The Afternoon Ernest Hemingway 1932 American English
854 A Moveable Feast Ernest Hemingway 1964 American English
7639 The Sunday Of Life Raymond Queneau 1952 French French
990 Macunaíma Mario de Andrade 1928 Brazilian Portuguese
1615 Nostalgia Mircea Cărtărescu 1989 Romanian Romanian
3112 The Armies of the Night Norman Mailer 1968 American English
410 Underworld Don DeLillo 1997 American English
7199 The New York Times Manual Of Style And Usage Allan M. Siegal, William G. Connolly 1950 American English
11 Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoevsky 1866 Russian Russian
11136 A World Lit Only By Fire William Manchester 1992 American English
1679 Harold and the Purple Crayon Crockett Johnson 1955 American English
7199 Jungle Peace William Beebe 1918 American English
7804 On The Track Of Unknown Animals Bernard Heuvelmans 1955 Belgian French
6222 A Night To Remember Walter Lord 1955 American English
840 Crash J. G. Ballard 1973 British English
2080 The Sheep Look Up John Brunner 1972 British English
10238 The Warrior Who Carried Life Geoff Ryman 1985 British English
7199 Death In Silver Lester Dent 1934 American English
671 Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea Jules Verne 1870 French French
106 Native Son Richard Wright 1940 American English
8061 The White Nile Alan Moorehead 1960 British English
11136 The Creators Daniel J. Boorstin 1992 American English
8590 Rationale Of The Dirty Joke G. Legman 1968 American English
8320 The Rebellion Of Yale Marrat Robert H. Rimmer 1964 American English
8162 Lilith J.R. Salamanca 1961 American English
91 The Tin Drum Günter Grass 1959 German German
1037 The German Lesson Siegfried Lenz 1968 German German
1864 Elmer Gantry Sinclair Lewis 1927 American English
1011 Justine Lawrence Durrell 1957 British English
7952 Balthazar Lawrence Durrell 1958 British English
8061 Clea Lawrence Durrell 1960 British English
7952 Mountolive Lawrence Durrell 1958 British English
49 Beloved Toni Morrison 1987 American English
42 On the Road Jack Kerouac 1957 American English
11626 All Of Us Raymond Carver 1996 American English
923 Where I'm Calling From Raymond Carver 1988 American English
10721 The Collected Poems 1931 1987 Czesław Miłosz 1988 Polish Polish
1302 Poems Paul Celan 1952 German German
2435 Poems Of Anna Akhmatova Anna Akhmatova 1912 Russian Russian
268 Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats William Butler Yeats 1933 Irish English
1421 The Sot-Weed Factor John Barth 1960 American English
10824 American Appetites Joyce Carol Oates 1989 American English
1887 A Dark Adapted Eye Barbara Vine 1986 British English
2915 Maigret And The Headless Corpse Georges Simenon 1955 Belgian French
44 The Little Prince Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1943 French French
8657 The Peanuts Treasury Charles M. Schulz 1969 American English
8320 The Bat Poet Randall Jarrell 1964 American English
1902 The Diviners Margaret Laurence 1974 Canadian English
11481 The Roaring Girl Greg Hollingshead 1995 Canadian English
10118 Dinner Along The Amazon Timothy Findley 1984 Canadian English
1036 Birds of America Lorrie Moore 1998 American English
329 A Dance to the Music of Time Anthony Powell 1951 British English
318 If on a Winter's Night a Traveller Italo Calvino 1979 Italian Italian
173 A Room of One's Own Virginia Woolf 1929 British English
146 The Hobbit J. R. R. Tolkien 1937 British English
17 The Lord Of The Rings J. R. R. Tolkien 1959 English English
568 The French Lieutenant's Woman John Fowles 1969 British English
62 Under the Volcano Malcolm Lowry 1947 British English
101 The Unbearable Lightness of Being Milan Kundera 1984 Czech Czech
5566 Lincoln Gore Vidal 1984 American English
631 Lonesome Dove Larry McMurtry 1985 American English
10019 The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford Ron Hansen 1983 American English
5489 The Underground Man Ross Macdonald 1971 American English
1772 Childhood's End Arthur C. Clarke 1953 British English
7688 Mama Day Gloria Naylor 1988 American English
12626 The Barbary Coast Herbert Asbury 2009 American English
9816 Mornings On Horseback David McCullough 1981 American English
4501 Truman David McCullough 1992 American English
3143 All the President's Men Bob Woodward, Carl Bernstein 1974 American English
647 Dispatches Michael Herr 1977 American English
460 Atlas Shrugged Ayn Rand 1957 American English
309 Bonfire of the Vanities Tom Wolfe 1987 American English
197 Lady Chatterley's Lover D. H. Lawrence 1928 British English
467 The Postman Always Rings Twice James M. Cain 1934 American English
7700 The Southpaw Mark Harris 1953 American English
7755 The Bad Seed William March 1954 American English
4600 One Lonely Night Mickey Spillane 1951 American English
595 Farewell, My Lovely Raymond Chandler 1940 American English
7199 Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye Horace McCoy 1948 American English
5637 Pop. 1280 Jim Thompson 1964 American English
465 A Handful of Dust Evelyn Waugh 1934 British English
8525 Life Studies Robert Lowell 1967 American English
6856 Collected Poems Philip Larkin 1988 British English
190 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Douglas Adams 1979 British English
9626 Sentinel Syd Mead 1979 Unknown English
483 The Civil War Shelby Foote 1958 American English
10824 Berlin Noir Philip Kerr 1989 British English
11862 Whittaker Chambers Sam Tanenhaus 1997 American English
169 Siddhartha Hermann Hesse 1922 German German
1731 Zen In The Art Of Archery Eugen Herrigel 1948 German German
7 Moby-Dick Herman Melville 1851 American English
2150 The Immense Journey Loren Eiseley 1957 American English
7994 100 Love Sonnets Pablo Neruda 1959 Chilean Spanish
464 Collected Poems Wallace Stevens 1954 American English
7199 Man Against Himself Karl A. Menninger 1938 American English
8590 Lyrical And Critical Essays Albert Camus 1968 French French
7845 Language, Thought, And Reality Benjamin Lee Whorf 1956 American English