Best English Language Novels of the 20th Century

One of the most well known novels. Many high school students are required to read and analyze the novel.

This novel was awarded the Pulitzer Prize and the Nobel Prize for Literature.

This novel won the Pulitzer Prize. The novel was an instant success when published and has become a classic of modern American fiction.

IT IS A FANTASTIC BOOK

About 250,000 copies of this novel are sold each year. It has total sales of more than sixty-five million.

The Color Purple received the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award. Later, it was turned into a movie and musical with the same name.

This novel-set in a working class area of Leeds in the mid nineteen fifties-is a tour-de-force-far outreaching Keith Waterhouse's "There Is a Happy Land",which has a similar background.Tebb is primarily known for his poetry but this novel -a lyrical and at times hilarious autobiographical account of a nascent poet's trials-should be far better known.The novel moves along a time line from the early 40's to the late 60's and is most definitely not politically correct-though this is a subjective reaction but probably the reason why it failed to get the coverage it deserved.It is available on Amazon at a ridiculously low price and for anyone wanting a read utterly dissimilar to Martin Amis or Beryl Baimbridge then this is certainly a flamboyant and at times outrageous antidote.