20th Century 1. The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald 2. The Catcher in the Rye, J. D. Salinger 3. The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck 4. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee 5. The Color Purple, Alice Walker 6. Ulysses, James Joyce 7. Beloved, Toni Morrison 8. The Lord of the Flies, William Golding 9. 1984, George Orwell 10. The Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner 11. Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov 12. Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck 13. Charlotte's Web, E. B. White 14. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce 15. Catch-22, Joseph Heller 16. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley 17. Animal Farm, George Orwell 18. The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway 19. As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner 20. A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway 21. Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad 22. Winnie-the-Pooh, A. A. Milne 23. Their Eyes Are Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston 24. Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison 25. Song of Solomon, Toni Morrison 26. Gone With the Wind, Margaret Mitchell 27. Nati