Great Books of the 20th Century

Great Books of the 20th Century is a series of twenty novels published by Penguin Books released at the end of the 20th century.

The following novels are included in the series:


 * Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad (1899–1902)
 * Swann's Way by Marcel Proust (1913)
 * The Metamorphosis and Other Stories by Franz Kafka (1915)
 * The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford (1915)
 * A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce (1914–16)
 * My Ántonia by Willa Cather (1918)
 * Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence (1920)
 * The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (1920)
 * The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (1939)
 * The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene (1948)
 * The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow (1953)
 * Lord of the Flies by William Golding (1954)
 * On the Road by Jack Kerouac (1957)
 * One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey (1962)
 * Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon (1973)
 * Waiting for the Barbarians by J. M. Coetzee (1980)
 * Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie (1981)
 * White Noise by Don DeLillo (1985)
 * Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez (1985)
 * Beloved by Toni Morrison (1987)