100 Buku Terbaik Sepanjang Abad 20

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GoodReads mengumpulkan buku-buku yang terbit sejak 1 Januari 1901 sampai 3 Desember 2000. Dalam kurun waktu seratus tahun tersebut, ada banyak sekali buku yang masuk, jumlahnya mencapai ribuan. Dari ribuan buku itu, berikut ini adalah 100 buku yang dianggap terbaik sepanjang abad 20.

1. To Kill of Mockingbird, karya Harper Lee
2. 1984, karya George Orwell
3. The Cather in the Rye, karya J.D Salinger
4. The Lord of the Ring, karya J.R.R Tolkien
5. The Great Gatsby, karya F. Scott  Fitzgerald
6. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, karya J.K Rowling
7. The Diary of Young Girl, karya Anne Frank
8. The Little Prince, karya Antonie de saint-Exupery
9. The Graves of Wrath, karya John Steinbeck
10. Fahrenheit 451, karya Ray Bradbury
11. Animal Farm, karya George Orwell
12. One Hundred Years of Solitude, karya Gabriel Garcia Marquez
13. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, karya C.S Lewis
14. The Hobbit, karya J.R.R Tolkien
15. Gone With the Wind, karya Margaret Mitchel
16. Brave New World, karya Aldous Huxley
17. Catch-22, karya Joseph Heller
18. The Giver, karya Louis Lowry
19. Lolita, karya Vladimir Nobokov
20. East of Eden, karya John Steinback
21. Slaughterhouse Five, karya Kurt Vonnegut
22. Of Mice and Man, karya John Steinback
23. Lord of the Flies, karya William Golding 
24. A Wrinkle in Time, karya Madeleine L'Engle
25. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, karya J.K Rowling
26. The Handmaid's Tale, karya Margaret Atwood
27. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Net, karya Ken Kesey
28. The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to Galaxy, karya Douglas Adam
29. The Tree Grows in Brooklyn, karya Betty Smith
30. The Stranger, karya Albert Camus
31. The Memoirs of a Geisha, karya Arthur Golden
32. The Fellowship of the Ring, karya J.R.R Tolkien
33. Ender's Game, karya Orson Scott Card
34. Atlas Shrugged, karya Ayn Rand
35. Charlotte's Web, karya E.B White
36. The Cronicles of Narnia, karya C.S Lewis
37. The Poisonwood Bible, karya Barbara Kingslover
38. Watership Down, karya Richard Adam
39. Night, karya Elie Wiesel
40. The Bell Jar, karya Sylvia Path
41. A Prayer for Owen Meany, karya John Irving
42. The Old Man and the Sea, karya Ernest Hemingway
43. The Return of the King, karya J.R.R Tolkien
44. The Two Towers, karya J.R.R Tolkien
45. The Lorax, karya Dr. Seuss
46. The Cold Blood, karya Truman Capote
47. The Giving Tree, karya Shel Silverstein
48. Love in the Time of Cholera, karya Gabriel Gargia Marquez
49. Green Eggs and Ham, karya Dr. Seuss
50. A Convederacy of Dunces, karya John Kennedy Toole
51. Ulysses, karya James Joyce
52. The Stand, karya Stephen King
53. Beloved, karya Toni Morison
54. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, karya Roald Dahl
55. Anne of Green Gables, karya L.M Montgomory
56. The Sun Also Rises, karya Ernest Hemingway
57. The Good Earth, karya Pearl S. Buck
58. The Unbearable Lightness of Being, karya Milan Kundera
59. The Fountainhead, karya Ayn Rand
60. On The Road, karya Jack Kerouac
61. The Color Purple, karya Alice Walker
62. The Sound and the Fury, karya William Faulkner
63. Siddharta, karya Hermann Hesse
64. Harry Potter and the Chambers of Secret, karya J.K Rowling
65. The Pillars of the Earth, karya Ken Follet
66. Invisible Man, karya Ralph Ellison
67. The Name of the Rose, karya Umberto Eco
68. Where the Wild Things Are, karya Maurice Sendak
69. Their Eyes Were Watching God, karya Zora Neale Hurston
70. Rebecca, karya Daphne du Maurier
71. A Clockwork Orange, karya Anthony Burgess
72. The Joy Luck Club, karya Amy Tan
73. The Master and Margarita, karya Michail Bulgakov
74. The Complete Sherlock Holmes, karya Arthur Conan Doyle
75. Dune, karya Frank Herbet
76. The Alchemist, karya Paulo Coelho
77. The Metamorphosis, karya Franz Kafka
78. The World According the Garp, karya John Irving
79. Little House and the Prairie, karya laura Ingalls Wilder
80. From Whom to Bell Tolls, karya Ernest Hemingway
81. All Quiet in the Western Front, karya Erich Maria Remarque
82. Where the Red Fern Grow, karya Wilson Rawls
83. Mere Christianity: Comparing the Case for Christianity, Christian Behavior and Beyond Personality, karya C.S Lewis
84. A Farewell to Arms, karya Ernest Hemingway
85. The Red Tent, karya Anita Diamant
86. Franny and Zooey, karya J.D Salinger
87. The Secret Garden, karya Frances Hodgson Burnett
88. Waiting for Godot, karya Samuel Beckett
89. The Outsider, karya S.E Hinton
90. The Things They Caried, karya Tom O'Brien
91. Angela Ashes, karya Frank Mc Court
92. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: a Savage Journey in to the Heart of the American Dream, karya Hunter S. Thompson
93. Lonesome Dove, karya Larry Mc Murtry
94. Sophie's Choice, karya William Styron
95. A Potrait of the Artist as a Young Man, karya James Joyce
96. Blindness, karya Jose Saramago
97. The Hitchhiker Guide to Galaxy, karya Douglas Adam
98. To The Lighthouse, karya Virginia Woolf
99. The Hiding Place, karya Corrie ten Boom
100. She's Come Undone, karya Wally Lamb

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