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

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About this list

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
1056 Memories, Dreams, Reflections Carl Jung 1963 Swiss German
4633 The Psychopathology Of Everyday Life Sigmund Freud 1901 German German
3189 The Lives of a Cell Lewis Thomas 1974 American English
1351 Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas Dylan Thomas 1952 British English
5748 Earthly Paradise Colette 1966 French French
552 The Code of the Woosters P. G. Wodehouse 1938 British English
194 East of Eden John Steinbeck 1952 American English
2658 Early Autumn Robert B. Parker 1980 American English
7994 The Apprenticeship Of Duddy Kravitz Mordecai Richler 1959 Canadian English
257 Naked Lunch William S. Burroughs 1959 American English
340 Sister Carrie Theodore Dreiser 1900 American English
1420 Ubik Philip K. Dick 1969 American English
1935 Geek Love Katherine Dunn 1989 American English
362 White Noise Don DeLillo 1985 American English
9816 Simulacres Et Simulation Jean Baudrillard 1981 French French
579 The Outsider And Others H. P. Lovecraft 1939 American English
10051 Shot In The Heart Mikal Gilmore 1994 American English
11246 Shella Andrew Vachss 1993 American English
1846 The Little Sister Raymond Chandler 1949 American English
219 Brighton Rock Graham Greene 1938 British English
1 Ulysses James Joyce 1922 Irish English
11246 Gospel Wilton Barnhardt 1993 American English
1341 The Hamlet William Faulkner 1940 American English
7895 The Town William Faulkner 1957 American English
6166 The Mansion William Faulkner 1959 American English
2795 Delta Wedding Eudora Welty 1946 American English
5907 The Valley Of Fear Arthur Conan Doyle 1915 British English
681 Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Hunter S. Thompson 1971 American English
5568 VALIS Philip K. Dick 1981 American English
2231 Flashman George MacDonald Fraser 1969 British English
3236 The Great Bridge David McCullough 1972 American English
5851 My Life and Hard Times James Thurber 1933 American English
9337 True Confessions John Gregory Dunne 1977 American English
170 Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck 1937 American English
231 The Call of the Wild Jack London 1903 American English
633 Johnny Got His Gun Dalton Trumbo 1939 American English
5916 Sylvester And The Magic Pebble William Steig 1969 American English
1529 Jurassic Park Michael Crichton 1990 American English
1084 Misery Stephen King 1987 American English
1555 Pilgrim at Tinker Creek Annie Dillard 1974 American English
6654 The Gashlycrumb Tinies Edward Gorey 1963 American English
79 As I Lay Dying William Faulkner 1930 American English
9816 An Interrupted Life Etty Hillesum 1981 Dutch Dutch
843 Civilization and Its Discontents Sigmund Freud 1930 Austrian German
176 The End of the Affair Graham Greene 1951 British English
2348 Enemies, A Love Story Isaac Bashevis Singer 1972 American Yiddish
5338 The Last Coyote Michael Connelly 1995 American English
11862 The Mac Gregor Brides Nora Roberts 1997 American English
1262 Jonathan Livingston Seagull Richard Bach 1970 American English
5927 Ten North Frederick John O'Hara 1955 American English
8513 The Queen's Gambit Walter Tevis 1983 American English
3005 Point Blank Richard Stark 1962 American English
166 Tender Is the Night F. Scott Fitzgerald 1934 American English
10385 The Free Frenchman Piers Paul Read 1986 British English
11626 American Musicians Ii Whitney Balliett 1996 American English
1378 The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty Eudora Welty 1980 American English
1312 The Optimist's Daughter Eudora Welty 1972 American English
3799 The Ponder Heart Eudora Welty 1954 American English
8809 Photographs Eudora Welty 1971 American English
7845 The Barbarous Coast Ross Macdonald 1956 American English
14 Lolita Vladimir Nabokov 1955 American English
2175 The American Language H. L. Mencken 1919 American English
3238 The Thurber Carnival James Thurber 1945 American English
2167 The Love Of The Last Tycoon F. Scott Fitzgerald 1941 American English
2365 The Crack-Up F. Scott Fitzgerald 1945 American English