Top Ten Books of the 20th Century - Greg'ss List

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Greg's List

1. Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand
2. Catch-22, Joseph Heller
3. Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, Tom Robbins
4. Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger
5. On the Road, Jack Kerouac
6. The Fountainhead, Ayn Rand
7. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Hunter S. Thompson
8. The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test, Tom Wolfe
9. Farenheit 451, ray bradbury
10. The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck
11. Trainspotting, Irvine Welsh

Comments

The 10 volumes of arthur mee kept me going throughout my childhood on an isolated electricity-less farm in the 50s. I like things which hold the interest - the unputdownable - and all of these were for me.

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