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 Garcia Marquez (1985)
• Beloved by Toni Morrison (1987)

See also

• Penguin Essentials
• Penguin Red Classics
• Ten of the Best