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The St. Mark's Bookshop in New York City has made a selection of novels to augment the Modern Library List of 100 Best English Language Novels of the 20th Century. The list includes only authors omitted from the Modern Library list and each author is limited to one title. The selection is based on customer sales over the last 20 years.
| Abish, Walter | How German Is It? |
| Achebe, Chinua | Things Fall Apart |
| Agee, James | A Death in the Family |
| Algren, Nelson | The Man With the Golden Arm |
| Allison, Dorothy | Bastard Out of California |
| Amis, Kingsley | Lucky Jim |
| Amis, Martin | Money |
| Auster, Paul | The New York Trilogy |
| Ballard, J.G. | Crash |
| Barker, Pat | Regeneration |
| Barnes, Djuna | Nightwood |
| Barnes, Julian | Flaubert's Parrot |
| Barth, John | The Floating Opera |
| Beckett, Samuel | Molloy, Malone Dies & The Unnameable |
| Berger, John | G |
| Bowles, Jane | My Sister's Hand in Mine |
| Brookner, Anita | Hotel Du Lac |
| Brown, Claude | Manchild in the Promised Land |
| Bukowski, Charles | Post Office |
| Burroughs, William S. | Naked Lunch |
| Byatt, A.S. | Possession |
| Capote, Truman | In Cold Blood |
| Chandler, Raymond | The Long Goodbye |
| Coetzee, J.M. | Waiting for the Barbarians |
| Conroy, Frank | Stop Time |
| Davies, Robertson | The Deptford Trilogy |
| DeLillo, Don | White Noise |
| Dick, Philip K. | Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? |
| Didion, Joan | Play It As It Lays |
| Dinesen, Isak | Out of Africa |
| Dunn, Katherine | Geek Love |
| Exley, Frederick | A Fan's Notes |
| Fante, John | Ask the Dust |
| Gaddis, William | The Recognitions |
| Gibson, William | Neuromancer |
| Gordimer, Nadine | July's People |
| Hamilton, Jane | A Map of the World |
| Hulme, Keri | The Bone People |
| Hurston, Zora Neale | Their Eyes Were Watching God |
| Irving, John | The World According to Garp |
| Ishiguro, Kazuo | The Remains of the Day |
| Johnson, Denis | Fiskadoro |
| Kesey, Ken | Sometimes a Great Notion |
| Kingson, Maxine Hong | The Woman Warrior |
| Kosinski, Jerzy | The Painted Bird |
| Lee, Harper | To Kill a Mockingbird |
| Lessing, Doris | The Golden Notebook |
| Lightman, Alan | Einstein's Dreams |
| Markson, David | Wittgenstein's Mistress |
| Mathews, Harry | The Journalist |
| Maxwell, William | So Long, See You Tomorrow |
| McCabe, Patrick | The Butcher Boy |
| McCarthy, Cormac | All the Pretty Horses |
| McCarthy, Mary | The Group |
| McInerny, Jay | Bright Lights, Big City |
| Millhauser, Steen | Martin Dressler |
| Moody, Rick | The Ice Storm |
| Moore, Lorrie | Who Will Run the Frog Hospital? |
| Morrison, Toni | Beloved |
| O'Brian, Flann | The Third Policeman |
| O'Brien, Tim | Going After Cacciato |
| O'Connor, Flannery | Wise Blood |
| Okri, Ben | The Famished Road |
| Ondaatje, Michael | The English Patient |
| Pirsig, Robert | Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance |
| Plath, Sylvia | The Bell Jar |
| Powell, Dawn | The Golden Spur |
| Powers, Richard | Galatea 2.2 |
| Prose, Francine | Guided Tours of Hell |
| Proulx, E. Annie | The Shipping News |
| Pynchon, Thomas | Gravity's Rainbow |
| Rand, Ayn | The Fountainhead |
| Robbins, Tom | Jitterbug Perfume |
| Roth, Henry | Call it Sleep |
| Rush, Norman | Mating |
| Salter, James | A Sport and a Pastime |
| Schulberg, Budd | What Makes Sammy Run? |
| Self, Will | The Quantity Theory of Insanity |
| Seth, Vikram | A Suitable Boy |
| Shields, Carol | The Stone Diaries |
| Smiley, jane | A Thousand Acres |
| Stein, Gertrude | The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas |
| Stone, Robert | Dog Soldiers |
| Tan, Amy | The Kitchen God's Wife |
| Tartt, Donna | The Secret History |
| Thompson, Hunter S. | Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas |
| Thompson, Jim | The Killer Indide Me |
| Tolkien, J.R.R. | The Lord of the Rings |
| Toole, John Kennedy | A Confederacy of Dunces |
| Trocchi, Alexander | Cain's Book |
| Tuten, Frederic | Tintin in the New World |
| Updike, John | Rabbit Run |
| Vollmann, William T. | You Bright and Risen Angels |
| Wallace, David Foster | Infinite Jest |
| Welsh, Irvine | Trainspotting |
| Winterson, Jeanette | Written on the Body |
| Wojnarowicz, Daid | Close to the Knives |
| Wolfe, Tom | The Bonfire of the Vanities |
| Wolfe, Thomas | Look Homeward Angel |
| Wolff, Tobias | This Boy's Life |
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