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

Listopia > Deirdre's votes on the list Best Books of the 20th Century (53 Books)

1	Ulysses by James Joyce 3.76 avg rating — 139,763 ratings Deirdre 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	Endgame by Samuel Beckett 3.79 avg rating — 24,805 ratings Deirdre 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
3	Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett 3.84 avg rating — 225,624 ratings Deirdre 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
4	The Tin Drum by Günter Grass 3.95 avg rating — 47,149 ratings Deirdre 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	Mother Courage and Her Children by Bertolt Brecht 3.62 avg rating — 23,157 ratings Deirdre 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	The Waste Land and Other Poems by T.S. Eliot 4.22 avg rating — 74,572 ratings Deirdre 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
8	A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf 4.22 avg rating — 270,361 ratings Deirdre 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
9	Four Quartets by T.S. Eliot 4.37 avg rating — 20,146 ratings Deirdre 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	Birthday Letters by Ted Hughes 3.89 avg rating — 10,453 ratings Deirdre 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
11	The Child in Time by Ian McEwan (Goodreads Author) 3.58 avg rating — 15,199 ratings Deirdre 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
12	The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco 4.14 avg rating — 400,877 ratings Deirdre 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
13	At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O'Brien 3.84 avg rating — 14,478 ratings Deirdre 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
14	The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien 3.96 avg rating — 23,468 ratings Deirdre 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
15	Collected Poems, 1948-1984 by Derek Walcott 4.17 avg rating — 894 ratings Deirdre 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
16	Selected Poems, 1923-1958 by E.E. Cummings 4.19 avg rating — 1,166 ratings Deirdre 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	Galileo by Bertolt Brecht 3.66 avg rating — 19,224 ratings Deirdre 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	Religion and the Decline of Magic: Studies in Popular Beliefs in Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century England by Keith Thomas 4.17 avg rating — 1,600 ratings Deirdre 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
19	Le Grand Meaulnes by Alain-Fournier 3.72 avg rating — 16,099 ratings Deirdre 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
20	Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf 3.77 avg rating — 365,018 ratings Deirdre 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
21	Crow: From the Life and Songs of the Crow by Ted Hughes 4.05 avg rating — 4,947 ratings Deirdre 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	Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1) by Chinua Achebe 3.75 avg rating — 419,276 ratings Deirdre 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
23	Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison 4.16 avg rating — 131,312 ratings Deirdre 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
24	Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. 4.10 avg rating — 1,503,572 ratings Deirdre 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
25	The Stranger by Albert Camus 4.03 avg rating — 1,457,008 ratings Deirdre 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
26	Beloved by Toni Morrison 3.98 avg rating — 501,279 ratings Deirdre 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
27	The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare by G.K. Chesterton 3.82 avg rating — 47,447 ratings Deirdre 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
28	The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell 4.04 avg rating — 10,570 ratings Deirdre 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
29	A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce 3.64 avg rating — 166,245 ratings Deirdre 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
30	Dubliners by James Joyce 3.83 avg rating — 180,918 ratings Deirdre 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	1984 by George Orwell 4.20 avg rating — 5,605,526 ratings Deirdre 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
32	Lord of the Flies by William Golding 3.70 avg rating — 3,252,690 ratings Deirdre 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
33	Rites of Passage (To the Ends of the Earth, #1) by William Golding 3.58 avg rating — 4,539 ratings Deirdre 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
34	Z by Vassilis Vassilikos 4.02 avg rating — 1,619 ratings Deirdre 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
35	Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys 3.59 avg rating — 109,476 ratings Deirdre 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	Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton 3.93 avg rating — 80,306 ratings Deirdre 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
37	One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey 4.20 avg rating — 787,821 ratings Deirdre 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 Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 4.33 avg rating — 2,537,256 ratings Deirdre 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
39	The Call of the Wild by Jack London 3.92 avg rating — 479,911 ratings Deirdre 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
40	A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 781,285 ratings Deirdre 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
41	To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee 4.26 avg rating — 6,996,189 ratings Deirdre 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
42	Faith in Fakes: Travels in Hyperreality by Umberto Eco 3.89 avg rating — 2,912 ratings Deirdre 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
43	Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West by Dee Brown 4.26 avg rating — 104,190 ratings Deirdre 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
44	The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway 3.81 avg rating — 1,341,079 ratings Deirdre 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
45	Empire of the Sun by J.G. Ballard 3.98 avg rating — 22,950 ratings Deirdre 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
46	A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams 3.98 avg rating — 338,135 ratings Deirdre 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
47	The Once and Future King (The Once and Future King, #1–5) by T.H. White 4.06 avg rating — 119,954 ratings Deirdre 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
48	Foucault’s Pendulum by Umberto Eco 3.91 avg rating — 75,634 ratings Deirdre 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
49	Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard 4.04 avg rating — 93,741 ratings Deirdre 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
50	Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre 3.93 avg rating — 142,955 ratings Deirdre 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
52	The Neverending Story by Michael Ende 4.18 avg rating — 224,243 ratings Deirdre 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	The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir 4.18 avg rating — 48,291 ratings Deirdre 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
54	I, Claudius (Claudius, #1) by Robert Graves 4.24 avg rating — 74,123 ratings Deirdre 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
55	Long Day’s Journey into Night by Eugene O'Neill 4.06 avg rating — 43,426 ratings Deirdre 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