Great Books of the 20th Century

Great Books of the 20th Century

"Great Books of the 20th Century" is a series of novels published by Penguin Books.

Included in this series:

*"The Grapes of Wrath" by John Steinbeck
*"Heart of Darkness" by Joseph Conrad
*"Love in the Time of Cholera" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
*"The Adventures of Augie March" by Saul Bellow
*"The Age of Innocence" by Edith Wharton
*"A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" by James Joyce
*"Swann's Way" by Marcel Proust
*"My Antonia" by Willa Cather
*"On the Road" by Jack Kerouac
*"White Noise" by Don DeLillo
*"Beloved" by Toni Morrison
*"The Good Soldier" by Ford Madox Ford
*"The Metamorphosis" by Franz Kafka
*"Midnight's Children" by Salman Rushdie
*"One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" by Ken Kesey
*"Gravity's Rainbow" by Thomas Pynchon
*"Waiting for the Barbarians" by JM Coetzee

ee also

*"Essential Penguins"


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