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2. "Wielki Gatsby" F. Scott Fitzgerald
3. "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man," James Joyce
4. "Lolita" Vladimir Nabokov
5. "Nowy wspaniały świat" Aldous Huxley
6. "Wściekłość i wrzask" William Faulkner
7. "Paragraf 22" Joseph Heller
8. "Darkness at Noon," Arthur Koestler
9. "Synowie i kochankowie" D. H. Lawrence
10. "Grona gniewu" John Steinbeck
11. "Pod wulkanem" Malcolm Lowry12. "The Way of All Flesh," Samuel Butler
13. "1984" George Orwell
14. "I, Claudius," Robert Graves
15. "Do latarni" Virginia Woolf
16. "Tragedia amerykańska" Theodore Dreiser
17. "Serce to samotny myśliwy" Carson McCullers
18. "Rzeźnia numer 5" Kurt Vonnegut
19. "Niewidzialny człowiek" Ralph Ellison
20. "Native Son," Richard Wright
21. "Henderson,król deszczu" Saul Bellow
22. "Appointment in Samarra," John O' Hara
23. "U.S.A." (trilogy), John Dos Passos
24. "Miasteczko Winesburg" Sherwood Anderson
25. "Droga do Indii" E. M. Forster
26. "The Wings of the Dove," Henry James
27. "Ambasadorowie" Henry James
28. "Czuła jest noc" F. Scott Fitzgerald
29. "The Studs Lonigan Trilogy," James T. Farrell
30. "The Good Soldier," Ford Madox Ford
31. "Folwark zwierzęcy" George Orwell
32. "The Golden Bowl," Henry James
33. "Siostra Carrie" Theodore Dreiser
34. "A Handful of Dust," Evelyn Waugh
35. "Kiedy umieram" William Faulkner
36. "All the King's Men," Robert Penn Warren
37. "The Bridge of San Luis Rey," Thornton Wilder
38. "Howards End" E. M. Forster
39. "Go Tell It on the Mountain," James Baldwin
40. "Sedno sprawy" Graham Greene
41. "Władca much" William Golding
42. "Wybawienie" James Dickey
43. "A Dance to the Music of Time" (series), Anthony Powell
44. "Kontrapunkt" Aldous Huxley
45. "Słońce też wschodzi" Ernest Hemingway
46. "Tajny agent" Joseph Conrad
47. "Nostromo" Joseph Conrad
48. "The Rainbow," D. H. Lawrence
49. "Women in Love," D. H. Lawrence
50. "Zwrotnik Raka" Henry Miller
51. "Nadzy i martwi" Norman Mailer
52. "Kompleks Portnoya" Philip Roth
53. "Blady ogień" Vladimir Nabokov
54. "Światłość w sierpniu" William Faulkner
55. "W drodze" Jack Kerouac
56. "Sokół maltański" Dashiell Hammett
57. "Parade's End," Ford Madox Ford
58. "The Age of Innocence," Edith Wharton
59. "Zuleika Dobson," Max Beerbohm
60. "The Moviegoer," Walker Percy
61. "Death Comes to the Archbishop," Willa Cather
62. "Stąd do wieczności" James Jones
63. "The Wapshot Chronicles," John Cheever
64. "Buszujący w zbożu" J. D. Salinger
65. "Mechaniczna pomarańcza" Anthony Burgess
66. "Of Human Bondage," W. Somerset Maugham
67. "Jądro ciemności" Joseph Conrad
68. "Main Street," Sinclair Lewis
69. "The House of Mirth," Edith Wharton
70. "The Alexandria Quartet," Lawrence Durrell
71. "A High Wind in Jamaica," Richard Hughes
72. "A House for Ms. Biswas," V. S. Naipaul
73. "The Day of the Locust," Nathaniel West
74. "Pożegnanie z bronią" Ernest Hemingway
75. "Scoop," Evelyn Waugh
76. "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie," Muriel Spark
77. "Finnegans Wake," James Joyce
78. "Kim" Rudyard Kipling
79. "Pokój z widokiem" E. M. Forster
80. "Brideshead Revisited," Evelyn Waugh
81. "Przygody Augiego Marcha" Saul Bellow
82. "Angle of Repose," Wallace Stegner
83. "A Bend in the River," V. S. Naipaul
84. "The Death of the Heart," Elizabeth Bowen
85. "Lord Jim" Joseph Conrad
86. "Ragtime," E. L. Doctorow
87. "The Old Wives' Tale," Arnold Bennett
88. "Zew krwi" Jack London
89. "Loving," Henry Green
90. "Dzieci północy," Salman Rushdie
91. "Tobacco Road," Erskine Caldwell
92. "Ironweed," William Kennedy
93. "Mag" John Fowles
94. "Wide Sargasso Sea," Jean Rhys
95. "W sieci," Iris Murdoch
96. "Wybór Zofii," William Styron
97. "The Sheltering Sky," Paul Bowles
98. "Listonosz dzwoni zawsze dwa razy" James M. Cain
99. "The Ginger Man," J. P. Donleavy
100. "The Magnificent Ambersons," Booth Tarkington
