




|
Free, Online Novels
| The 20 Best
Novels of the 20th Century * |

Composite
Rank
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| Sons and
Lovers, by D. H. Lawrence |
1 |
| Heart of
Darkness, by Joseph Conrad |
2 |
| Sister
Carrie, by Theodore Dreiser |
3 |
| Of Human
Bondage, by W. Somerset Maugham |
4 |
| The House of
Mirth, by Edith Wharton |
5 |
| Anthem, by Ayn Rand |
6 |
| The Call of the
Wild, by Jack London |
7 |
| The Way of All
Flesh, by Samuel Butler |
8 |
| The Golden
Bowl, by Henry James |
9 |
| Winesburg,
Ohio, by Sherwood Anderson |
10 |
| The
Ambassadors, by Henry James |
11 |
| Nostromo, by Joseph Conrad |
12 |
| Kim, by Rudyard Kipling |
13 |
| The Secret
Agent, by Joseph Conrad |
14 |
| My
Antonia, by Willa Cather |
15 |
| The Hound of the
Baskervilles, by Arthur Conan Doyle |
16 |
| Tarzan of the
Apes, by Edgar Rice Burroughs |
17 |
| The Age of
Innocence, by Edith Wharton |
18 |
| The Man Who Was
Thursday, by G. K. Chesterton |
19 |
| Main
Street, by Sinclair Lewis |
20 |
| Special Requests |
| The Scariest Book of All Time**:
Dracula, by Bram Stoker |
| A Christmas
Carol, by Charles Dickens, illustrated by John Leech |
(*)
The best out-of-US-copyright, English-language
novels as ranked by the byGosh.com
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(**)
As chosen by a Cable News Network informal survey.
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