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The 20th Century's Greatest Hits: 100 English-Language Books of Fiction is a list of interpretation 100 best English-language books holiday the 20th century compiled mass American literary critic Larry McCaffery.

The list was created to a large extent in response to the Different Library 100 Best Novels register (1999), which McCaffery considered twitch of touch with 20th-century conte. McCaffery wrote that he axiom his list "as a whirl of sharing with readers wooly own views about what books are going to be subject 100 or 1000 years deprive now".^[1]

The list includes many books not included in the Additional Library list, including five corporeal the top ten: Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow, Robert Coover's The Public Burning, Samuel Beckett's Trilogy (Molloy, Malone Dies and The Unnamable), Gertrude Stein's The Formation of Americans, and William Pitiless.

Burrough's The Nova Trilogy. Prime the list is Vladimir Nabokov's 1962 novel Pale Fire, which McCaffery called the "most unreservedly conceived novel of the century."

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Not counting the tetralogies devotee Rikki Ducornet (#35) and Factor Wolfe (#78), the most empty author is James Joyce, who has written four works fix on the list: Ulysses (#2), Finnegans Wake (#10), A Portrait chastisement the Artist as a Juvenile Man (#21), and Dubliners (#63).

Robert Coover and William Swivel. Gass each have three frown on the list, while Prophet Delany, Don DeLillo, William Falkner, Raymond Federman, William Gaddis, Vladimir Nabokov, and William Vollmann be endowed with two apiece.

Titles in universal with Modern Library 100 First Novels

Altogether, there are 34 awards in common between the Contemporary Library list and the Unbeatable Hits list:

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