Koen Book Distributors Top 100 Books of the Past Century

Given by Koen Book Distributors

100 obres 2,074,005 Llibres 35,632 Ressenyes 4.0

Intended as a companion to the infamous Modern Library ranking of the top 100 books of the past century, this list represents a different viewpoint–that of the booksellers themselves. Compiled from

mostra'n més the responses of over 150 Koen Book Distributors customers, the following titles represent the very best in modern literature.
mostra'n menys
ObraEtiqueta d'ordenació
Matar un rossinyol (1960) de Harper Lee
1
El vigilant en el camp de sègol (1951) de J. D. Salinger
2
El gran Gatsby (1925) de F. Scott Fitzgerald
3
El raïm de la ira (1939) de John Steinbeck
4
Catch-22 (1961) de Joseph Heller
5
1984 (1949) de George Orwell
6
Gone with the Wind (1936) de Margaret Mitchell
7
The Color Purple (1982) de Alice Walker
8
Beloved (1987) de Toni Morrison
9
El Senyor dels anells (1954) de J. R. R. Tolkien
10
Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937) de Zora Neale Hurston
11
Senyor de les mosques (1954) de William Golding
12
La revolta dels animals (1945) de George Orwell
13
Stranger in a Strange Land (Uncut Edition) (1991) de Robert A. Heinlein
14
La Conxorxa dels ximples (1980) de John Kennedy Toole
15
Invisible Man (1952) de Ralph Ellison
16
The Handmaid's Tale (1985) de Margaret Atwood
17
Ulisses (1922) de James Joyce
18
El Sol també s'aixeca (1926) de Ernest Hemingway
19
Escorxador-5 (1969) de Kurt Vonnegut
20
The Good Earth (1931) de Pearl S. Buck
21
El Hòbbit, o viatge d'anada i tornada (1937) de J. R. R. Tolkien
22
En el camino (1957) de Jack Kerouac
23
Un món feliç (1932) de Aldous Huxley
24
Ethan Frome (1911) de Edith Wharton
25
Les Cendres d'Angela (1996) de Frank McCourt
26
Fahrenheit 451 (1953) de Ray Bradbury
27
Rebecca (1938) de Daphne Du Maurier
28
El Quadern daurat (1962) de Doris Lessing
29
El soroll i la fúria (1929) de William Faulkner
30
Lolita (1955) de Vladimir Nabokov
31
Charlotte's Web (1952) de E. B. White
32
Bastard Out of Carolina (1992) de Dorothy Allison
33
My Ántonia (1918) de Willa Cather
34
L'edat de la innocència (1920) de Edith Wharton
35
The Killer Angels (1974) de Michael Shaara
36
The Shipping News (1993) de E. Annie Proulx
37
El món segons Garp (1978) de John Irving
38
Al far (1927) de Virginia Woolf
39
Atlas Shrugged (1957) de Ayn Rand
40
Retrat de l'artista adolescent (1916) de James Joyce
41
La Crida del bosc (1903) de Jack London
42
Snow Falling on Cedars (1997) de David Guterson
43
Watership Down (1972) de Richard Adams
44
The Red Badge of Courage (1894) de Stephen Crane
45
Homes i ratolins (1937) de John Steinbeck
46
La casa de los espíritus (1982) de Isabel Allende
47
Duna (1965) de Frank Herbert
48
La taronja mecànica (1962) de Anthony Burgess
49
A Prayer for Owen Meany (1989) de John Irving
50
The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother (1995) de James McBride
51
Arbres de mongetes (1988) de Barbara Kingsolver
52
L'ampla mar dels Sargassos (1966) de Jean Rhys
53
Jane Eyre (1847) de Charlotte Brontë
54
El vell i la mar (1950) de Ernest Hemingway
55
Native Son (1940) de Richard Wright
56
Un adéu a les armes (1929) de Ernest Hemingway
57
The House of Mirth (1905) de Edith Wharton
58
Kane and Abel (1979) de Jeffrey Archer
59
Creix un arbre a Brooklyn (1943) de Betty Smith
60
A Room with a view (1908) de E. M. Forster
61
2001, una odissea a l'espai (1968) de Arthur C. Clarke
62
White Noise (1984) de Don DeLillo
63
A Thousand Acres (1991) de Jane Smiley
64
El Club de la Bona Estrella (1989) de Amy Tan
65
Tendra és la nit (1934) de F. Scott Fitzgerald
66
Little Women (1868) de Louisa May Alcott
67
Per qui toquen les campanes (1940) de Ernest Hemingway
68
Ellen Foster (1987) de Kaye Gibbons
69
Cold Sassy Tree (1984) de Olive Ann Burns
70
El que resta del dia (1989) de Kazuo Ishiguro
71
War and Remembrance (1978) de Herman Wouk
72
Allà on viuen els monstres (1963) de Maurice Sendak
73
Centennial (1974) de James A. Michener
74
Call It Sleep (1934) de Henry Roth
75
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1971) de Hunter S. Thompson
76
The Road from Coorain (1989) de Jill Ker Conway
77
Sula (1973) de Toni Morrison
78
The Stand (1978) de Stephen King
79
Time and Again (1970) de Jack Finney
80
La campana de vidre (1963) de Sylvia Plath
81
The Fountainhead (1943) de Ayn Rand
82
El padrí (1969) de Mario Puzo
83
Howards End (1910) de E. M. Forster
84
El almuerzo desnudo ( (1962) de William S. Burroughs
85
El pajaro espino (1977) de Colleen McCullough
86
Silent Spring (1962) de Rachel Carson
87
L'Alienista (Catalan Edition) (1994) de Caleb Carr
88
Talk Before Sleep (1997) de Elizabeth Berg
89
Els Buscadors de petxines (1987) de Rosamunde Pilcher
90
Rubyfruit Jungle (1973) de Rita Mae Brown
91
Rabbit, Run (1960) de John Updike
92
The Prince of Tides (1986) de Pat Conroy
93
Possession (1990) de A.S. Byatt
94
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962) de Ken Kesey
95
Main Street (1920) de Sinclair Lewis
96
Jo, Claudi (1934) de Robert Graves
97
La mandolina del capità Corelli (1993) de Louis De Bernières
98
Hawaii (1959) de James A. Michener
99
The Education of Little Tree (1976) de Forrest Carter
100

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