Sonya's votes on the list Best Books of the 20th Century

Listopia > Sonya's votes on the list Best Books of the 20th Century (62 Books)

1	The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald 3.93 avg rating — 5,895,996 ratings Sonya rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
2	The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck 4.03 avg rating — 992,087 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
4	East of Eden by John Steinbeck 4.44 avg rating — 634,576 ratings Sonya rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
5	Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov 3.87 avg rating — 943,005 ratings Sonya rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
6	A Wrinkle in Time (Time Quintet, #1) by Madeleine L'Engle 3.97 avg rating — 1,282,501 ratings Sonya rated it 3 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
7	A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith 4.30 avg rating — 511,120 ratings Sonya rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
8	A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving (Goodreads Author) 4.24 avg rating — 336,708 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
9	Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1) by Toni Morrison 3.98 avg rating — 489,283 ratings Sonya rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
10	Ulysses by James Joyce 3.76 avg rating — 137,637 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
11	Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison 3.92 avg rating — 201,744 ratings Sonya rated it 3 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
12	Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston 3.99 avg rating — 385,671 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
13	The Stand by Stephen King (Goodreads Author) 4.35 avg rating — 833,197 ratings Sonya rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
14	The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner 3.86 avg rating — 195,711 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
15	The World According to Garp by John Irving (Goodreads Author) 4.11 avg rating — 238,540 ratings Sonya rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
16	Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger 3.96 avg rating — 239,569 ratings Sonya rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
17	Lonesome Dove (Lonesome Dove, #1) by Larry McMurtry 4.57 avg rating — 238,607 ratings Sonya rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
18	The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien 4.15 avg rating — 344,173 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
19	To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf 3.81 avg rating — 214,132 ratings Sonya rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
20	Little House on the Prairie (Little House, #3) by Laura Ingalls Wilder 4.21 avg rating — 301,845 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
21	Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri 4.18 avg rating — 206,097 ratings Sonya rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
22	The Alienist (Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, #1) by Caleb Carr 4.06 avg rating — 181,282 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
23	Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier 4.25 avg rating — 717,742 ratings Sonya rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
24	Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy 4.15 avg rating — 218,843 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
25	Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee 3.86 avg rating — 116,948 ratings Sonya rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
26	Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1) by Chinua Achebe 3.74 avg rating — 411,691 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
28	Swann’s Way (In Search of Lost Time, #1) by Marcel Proust 4.16 avg rating — 68,160 ratings Sonya rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
29	Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf 3.78 avg rating — 355,506 ratings Sonya rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
30	The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami 4.14 avg rating — 314,144 ratings Sonya rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
31	The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon 4.19 avg rating — 212,487 ratings Sonya rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
32	His Dark Materials (His Dark Materials #1-3) by Philip Pullman 4.29 avg rating — 168,166 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
34	The Cider House Rules by John Irving (Goodreads Author) 4.17 avg rating — 195,429 ratings Sonya added it to novels-to-explore See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
35	The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy (Goodreads Author) 3.96 avg rating — 324,526 ratings Sonya rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
36	A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf 4.22 avg rating — 259,222 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
37	Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison 4.16 avg rating — 127,209 ratings Sonya rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
38	The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison 4.13 avg rating — 299,787 ratings Sonya rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
39	White Noise by Don DeLillo 3.86 avg rating — 126,813 ratings Sonya rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
40	The Razor’s Edge by W. Somerset Maugham 4.20 avg rating — 53,787 ratings Sonya rated it 3 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
41	Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson 3.81 avg rating — 58,515 ratings Sonya rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
42	The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury 4.16 avg rating — 285,251 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
43	An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser 3.97 avg rating — 38,726 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
44	American Pastoral by Philip Roth 3.95 avg rating — 88,117 ratings Sonya rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
45	A Suitable Boy (A Bridge of Leaves, #1) by Vikram Seth 4.11 avg rating — 49,925 ratings Sonya added it to novels-to-explore See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
46	The New York Trilogy (New York Trilogy, #1-3) by Paul Auster 3.86 avg rating — 86,720 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
47	A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories by Flannery O'Connor 4.16 avg rating — 49,643 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
48	The Talented Mr. Ripley (Ripley, #1) by Patricia Highsmith 3.95 avg rating — 116,525 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
50	Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow 3.90 avg rating — 46,482 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
51	Nine Stories by J.D. Salinger 4.18 avg rating — 154,617 ratings Sonya rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
52	Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov 4.17 avg rating — 57,423 ratings Sonya rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
53	Heart of Darkness and The Secret Sharer by Joseph Conrad 3.52 avg rating — 18,270 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
54	Howards End by E.M. Forster 3.96 avg rating — 94,714 ratings Sonya rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
55	Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller 3.59 avg rating — 258,453 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
56	A Passage to India by E.M. Forster 3.67 avg rating — 85,750 ratings Sonya rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
57	The Human Stain (The American Trilogy, #3) by Philip Roth 3.92 avg rating — 45,669 ratings Sonya rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
58	A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley (Goodreads Author) 3.82 avg rating — 72,304 ratings Sonya rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
59	The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields 3.89 avg rating — 42,023 ratings Sonya rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
60	Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov 4.08 avg rating — 17,705 ratings Sonya rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
61	Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem 3.86 avg rating — 42,547 ratings Sonya rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
62	The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene 3.96 avg rating — 30,812 ratings Sonya rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
63	Cruddy by Lynda Barry 4.16 avg rating — 6,602 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
64	Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer (Goodreads Author) 4.26 avg rating — 566,533 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
65	84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff 4.16 avg rating — 98,124 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
66	Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels 3.92 avg rating — 17,353 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars