Holly's votes on the list BURGESS' 99 BEST ENGLISH-LANGUAGE NOVELS

Listopia > Holly's votes on the list BURGESS' 99 BEST ENGLISH-LANGUAGE NOVELS (32 Books)

1		Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison 3.93 avg rating — 207,349 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
2		1984 by George Orwell 4.21 avg rating — 5,797,904 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3		A Bend in the River by V.S. Naipaul 3.77 avg rating — 19,245 ratings Holly rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
4		The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer 3.95 avg rating — 26,930 ratings Holly rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
5		Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov 4.17 avg rating — 60,837 ratings Holly rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
6		Catch-22 by Joseph Heller 3.99 avg rating — 906,813 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
7		A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood 4.05 avg rating — 39,302 ratings Holly rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
8		The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger 3.80 avg rating — 4,025,475 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
9		A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole 3.89 avg rating — 309,753 ratings Holly rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
10		Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor 3.81 avg rating — 40,321 ratings Holly rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
11		The Once and Future King (The Once and Future King, #1–5) by T.H. White 4.06 avg rating — 121,190 ratings Holly rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
12		The French Lieutenant’s Woman by John Fowles 3.89 avg rating — 56,713 ratings Holly rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
13		The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene 3.99 avg rating — 45,911 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
14		The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing 3.77 avg rating — 25,505 ratings Holly rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
15		The Girls of Slender Means by Muriel Spark 3.63 avg rating — 9,135 ratings Holly rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
16		The Last Gentleman by Walker Percy 3.81 avg rating — 2,731 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
17		After Many a Summer Dies the Swan by Aldous Huxley 3.71 avg rating — 3,458 ratings Holly rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
18		The Mandelbaum Gate by Muriel Spark 3.56 avg rating — 1,022 ratings Holly rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
19		Sophie’s Choice by William Styron 4.16 avg rating — 95,718 ratings Holly rated it 3 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
20		Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellow 3.84 avg rating — 10,360 ratings Holly rated it 3 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
21		The Bell by Iris Murdoch 3.93 avg rating — 11,095 ratings Holly rated it 3 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
22		The Rebel Angels (The Cornish Trilogy, #1) by Robertson Davies 4.02 avg rating — 6,185 ratings Holly rated it 3 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
23		The Assistant by Bernard Malamud 3.90 avg rating — 11,438 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
24		How Far Can You Go? by David Lodge 3.75 avg rating — 1,717 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
25		Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 132,318 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
26		The Razor’s Edge by W. Somerset Maugham 4.19 avg rating — 56,296 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
27		For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway 3.99 avg rating — 328,667 ratings Holly rated it 3 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
28		Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis 3.74 avg rating — 33,217 ratings Holly rated it 3 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
29		Portnoy’s Complaint by Philip Roth 3.70 avg rating — 76,101 ratings Holly rated it 3 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
30		Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon 4.02 avg rating — 50,477 ratings Holly rated it 2 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
31		At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O'Brien 3.84 avg rating — 14,746 ratings Holly rated it 2 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
32		Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry 3.76 avg rating — 27,714 ratings Holly rated it 2 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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