Novels of the Modern Era

A starting sample of the fiction canon — thirty entries in, nowhere near finished.

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#	Year	Author	Title	Look up
001	1925	F. Scott Fitzgerald	The Great Gatsby	★ Goodreads
002	1927	Virginia Woolf	To the Lighthouse	★ Goodreads
003	1932	Aldous Huxley	Brave New World	★ Goodreads
004	1937	Zora Neale Hurston	Their Eyes Were Watching God	★ Goodreads
005	1940	Ernest Hemingway	For Whom the Bell Tolls	★ Goodreads
006	1949	George Orwell	Nineteen Eighty-Four	★ Goodreads
007	1952	Ralph Ellison	Invisible Man	★ Goodreads
008	1955	Vladimir Nabokov	Lolita	★ Goodreads
009	1958	Chinua Achebe	Things Fall Apart	★ Goodreads
010	1960	Harper Lee	To Kill a Mockingbird	★ Goodreads
011	1962	Anthony Burgess	A Clockwork Orange	★ Goodreads
012	1963	Julio Cortázar	Hopscotch	★ Goodreads
013	1967	Gabriel García Márquez	One Hundred Years of Solitude	★ Goodreads
014	1969	Kurt Vonnegut	Slaughterhouse-Five	★ Goodreads
015	1970	Toni Morrison	The Bluest Eye	★ Goodreads
016	1972	Italo Calvino	Invisible Cities	★ Goodreads
017	1979	Italo Calvino	If on a Winter's Night a Traveller	★ Goodreads
018	1985	Margaret Atwood	The Handmaid's Tale	★ Goodreads
019	1987	Toni Morrison	Beloved	★ Goodreads
020	1992	Michael Ondaatje	The English Patient	★ Goodreads
021	1996	David Foster Wallace	Infinite Jest	★ Goodreads
022	1997	Arundhati Roy	The God of Small Things	★ Goodreads
023	2000	Zadie Smith	White Teeth	★ Goodreads
024	2004	Roberto Bolaño	2666	★ Goodreads
025	2006	Cormac McCarthy	The Road	★ Goodreads
026	2011	Julian Barnes	The Sense of an Ending	★ Goodreads
027	2013	Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie	Americanah	★ Goodreads
028	2016	Colson Whitehead	The Underground Railroad	★ Goodreads
029	2018	Sally Rooney	Normal People	★ Goodreads
030	2020	Maggie O'Farrell	Hamnet	★ Goodreads

This one isn’t finished. These 30 entries are a starting point — enough to show how the list reads and behaves, not the whole thing.