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

Listopia > Bridget's votes on the list Best Books of the 20th Century (67 Books)

1	The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien 3.96 avg rating — 23,558 ratings Bridget 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	Narcissus and Goldmund by Hermann Hesse 4.22 avg rating — 74,644 ratings Bridget 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	Fifth Business (The Deptford Trilogy, #1) by Robertson Davies 4.06 avg rating — 20,806 ratings Bridget 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 Code of the Woosters (Jeeves, #7) by P.G. Wodehouse 4.32 avg rating — 32,167 ratings Bridget 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	Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell 4.09 avg rating — 73,836 ratings Bridget 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
7	The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe 3.93 avg rating — 88,517 ratings Bridget 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	Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow 3.90 avg rating — 47,362 ratings Bridget 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	A Suitable Boy (A Bridge of Leaves, #1) by Vikram Seth 4.11 avg rating — 50,490 ratings Bridget 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
10	Naked Lunch: The Restored Text by William S. Burroughs 3.46 avg rating — 99,798 ratings Bridget 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
11	The Glass Bead Game by Hermann Hesse 4.10 avg rating — 43,227 ratings Bridget 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 Quiet American by Graham Greene 3.98 avg rating — 73,657 ratings Bridget 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	The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1) by Raymond Chandler 3.94 avg rating — 171,348 ratings Bridget 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	My Name Is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok 4.24 avg rating — 43,867 ratings Bridget 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	The Gormenghast Novels (Gormenghast, #1-3) by Mervyn Peake 4.03 avg rating — 10,008 ratings Bridget 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	Anne of Avonlea (Anne of Green Gables, #2) by L.M. Montgomery 4.23 avg rating — 231,212 ratings Bridget 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
17	The Reader by Bernhard Schlink 3.79 avg rating — 235,252 ratings Bridget 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 Tin Drum by Günter Grass 3.95 avg rating — 47,234 ratings Bridget 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	The Chosen (Reuven Malter, #1) by Chaim Potok 4.08 avg rating — 99,402 ratings Bridget 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	Winnie-the-Pooh (Winnie-the-Pooh, #1) by A.A. Milne 4.37 avg rating — 356,636 ratings Bridget 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
21	Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton 3.93 avg rating — 80,423 ratings Bridget 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
22	The Crucible by Arthur Miller 3.61 avg rating — 471,543 ratings Bridget 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
23	Dubliners by James Joyce 3.83 avg rating — 181,613 ratings Bridget 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	The Screwtape Letters (Screwtape, #1) by C.S. Lewis 4.27 avg rating — 538,577 ratings Bridget 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 Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami 4.14 avg rating — 320,512 ratings Bridget 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	Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt 3.92 avg rating — 300,350 ratings Bridget 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
27	The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende (Goodreads Author) 4.30 avg rating — 333,574 ratings Bridget 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	To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee 4.26 avg rating — 7,014,667 ratings Bridget 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	1984 by George Orwell 4.20 avg rating — 5,627,240 ratings Bridget 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 Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger 3.80 avg rating — 3,958,093 ratings Bridget 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 Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald 3.93 avg rating — 6,039,503 ratings Bridget 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
33	The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 4.33 avg rating — 2,545,654 ratings Bridget 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
34	One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez 4.12 avg rating — 1,128,906 ratings Bridget 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
36	The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood (Goodreads Author) 4.15 avg rating — 2,499,309 ratings Bridget 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
37	A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith 4.30 avg rating — 523,480 ratings Bridget 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 Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway 3.81 avg rating — 1,345,742 ratings Bridget 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 Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath 4.04 avg rating — 1,271,299 ratings Bridget 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	In Cold Blood by Truman Capote 4.09 avg rating — 744,475 ratings Bridget 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
41	The Color Purple by Alice Walker 4.28 avg rating — 764,079 ratings Bridget 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 Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway 3.79 avg rating — 503,106 ratings Bridget 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	On the Road by Jack Kerouac 3.61 avg rating — 454,770 ratings Bridget 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 Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco 4.14 avg rating — 401,758 ratings Bridget 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	The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett 4.17 avg rating — 1,319,413 ratings Bridget 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
46	The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov 4.28 avg rating — 436,122 ratings Bridget 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 Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner 3.86 avg rating — 198,966 ratings Bridget 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
48	To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf 3.81 avg rating — 220,675 ratings Bridget 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	One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 3.98 avg rating — 127,319 ratings Bridget 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	Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie 3.97 avg rating — 134,985 ratings Bridget 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
51	The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer 4.05 avg rating — 23,957 ratings Bridget 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	Look Homeward, Angel by Thomas Wolfe 3.91 avg rating — 15,960 ratings Bridget 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	Main Street by Sinclair Lewis 3.78 avg rating — 27,094 ratings Bridget 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
54	My Family and Other Animals (Corfu Trilogy, #1) by Gerald Durrell 4.16 avg rating — 65,051 ratings Bridget 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	Lake Wobegon Days by Garrison Keillor 3.64 avg rating — 8,583 ratings Bridget 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
56	The Deptford Trilogy by Robertson Davies 4.33 avg rating — 8,265 ratings Bridget 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 Illuminatus! Trilogy by Robert Shea 4.01 avg rating — 16,275 ratings Bridget 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
58	The Promise (Reuven Malter, #2) by Chaim Potok 4.20 avg rating — 14,336 ratings Bridget 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	At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O'Brien 3.84 avg rating — 14,503 ratings Bridget 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	The Inimitable Jeeves (Jeeves, #2) by P.G. Wodehouse 4.20 avg rating — 31,049 ratings Bridget 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	Money by Martin Amis 3.70 avg rating — 26,257 ratings Bridget 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	Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1) by Marjane Satrapi 4.27 avg rating — 235,852 ratings Bridget 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	Junky by William S. Burroughs 3.84 avg rating — 72,659 ratings Bridget 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
64	And Quiet Flows the Don by Mikhail Sholokhov 4.12 avg rating — 13,433 ratings Bridget 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
65	Earthly Powers by Anthony Burgess 4.13 avg rating — 3,453 ratings Bridget 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
66	My Name Is Red by Orhan Pamuk 3.87 avg rating — 62,330 ratings Bridget 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
67	The Raj Quartet by Paul Scott 4.48 avg rating — 1,052 ratings Bridget 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
68	Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph by T.E. Lawrence 3.91 avg rating — 12,359 ratings Bridget 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
69	Le Grand Meaulnes by Alain-Fournier 3.72 avg rating — 16,191 ratings Bridget 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
70	The Rings of Saturn by W.G. Sebald 4.22 avg rating — 18,254 ratings Bridget 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