Thread: Nominate MobileRead's 10 best fiction books of the 20th Century
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Old 03-27-2015, 08:58 PM   #72
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Originally Posted by Hamlet53 View Post
Some decades the making one choice among a number outstanding books was difficult.
Hardest for me was choosing between Gatsby and The Magic Mountain for the 20s. If the 70s stated in 1970, I'd nominate Robertson Davies's Fifth Business. Failing that, Flannery O'Connor is looking very good to me.
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