Top 20 Books of the 20th Century 1. Ulysses — James Joyce 2. In Search of Lost Time — Marcel Proust 3. The Great Gatsby — F. Scott Fitzgerald 4. One Hundred Years of Solitude — Gabriel García Márquez 5. To the Lighthouse — Virginia Woolf 6. 1984 — George Orwell 7. The Sound and the Fury — William Faulkner 8. Lolita — Vladimir Nabokov 9. Brave New World — Aldous Huxley 10. The Catcher in the Rye — J.D. Salinger 11. The Grapes of Wrath — John Steinbeck 12. The Trial — Franz Kafka 13. Invisible Man