Modernism - An Alternate Canon

1.
The Man Without Qualities
The Man Without Qualities 4.19 avg rating — 7,191 ratings
2.
Nightwood: The Original Version and Related Drafts
Nightwood: The Original Version and Related Drafts 3.60 avg rating — 14,251 ratings
3.
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Their Eyes Were Watching God 3.99 avg rating — 377,787 ratings
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At Swim-Two-Birds
At Swim-Two-Birds 3.85 avg rating — 14,061 ratings
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The Blind Owl
The Blind Owl 3.96 avg rating — 32,906 ratings
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Pilgrimage, complete in 4 volumes
Pilgrimage, complete in 4 volumes 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings
7.
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes 3.60 avg rating — 6,830 ratings
8.
Insel
Insel
by: Mina Loy
3.64 avg rating — 378 ratings
9.
Pilgrimage 1 (Pilgrimage, #1-3)
Pilgrimage 1 (Pilgrimage, #1-3) 3.58 avg rating — 506 ratings
10.
Ship of Fools
Ship of Fools 3.67 avg rating — 2,930 ratings
11.
A Glastonbury Romance
A Glastonbury Romance 4.24 avg rating — 464 ratings
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Quicksand and Passing
Quicksand and Passing 3.95 avg rating — 4,575 ratings
13.
Matter and Memory
Matter and Memory 4.11 avg rating — 2,661 ratings
14.
The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova
The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova 4.42 avg rating — 7,511 ratings
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Pilgrimage 2 (Pilgrimage, #4-5)
Pilgrimage 2 (Pilgrimage, #4-5) 4.10 avg rating — 97 ratings
16.
The Original 1939 Notebook of a Return to the Native Land: Bilingual Edition (Wesleyan Poetry Series)
The Original 1939 Notebook of a Return to the Native Land: Bilingual Edition (Wesleyan Poetry Series) 4.09 avg rating — 3,446 ratings
17.
Not Without Laughter
Not Without Laughter 4.23 avg rating — 3,669 ratings
18.
Voyage in the Dark
Voyage in the Dark
by: Jean Rhys
3.78 avg rating — 5,880 ratings
18.
The Museum of Eterna's Novel (The First Good Novel)
The Museum of Eterna's Novel (The First Good Novel) 3.92 avg rating — 604 ratings
20.
The Making of Americans
The Making of Americans 3.55 avg rating — 583 ratings
21.
Novel on Yellow Paper, or Work It Out for Yourself
Novel on Yellow Paper, or Work It Out for Yourself 3.54 avg rating — 572 ratings
21.
Women of the Left Bank
Women of the Left Bank 4.16 avg rating — 387 ratings
23.
Alberta and Jacob
Alberta and Jacob 3.95 avg rating — 866 ratings
23.
Adventures in Immediate Irreality
Adventures in Immediate Irreality 4.08 avg rating — 2,607 ratings
25.
Pilgrimage 3 (Pilgrimage, #6-8)
Pilgrimage 3 (Pilgrimage, #6-8) 4.12 avg rating — 50 ratings
26.
Guardian Angel and Other Stories
Guardian Angel and Other Stories really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 11 ratings
27.
Autobiography
Autobiography 4.34 avg rating — 88 ratings
28.
Petersburg
Petersburg 3.97 avg rating — 5,600 ratings
29.
Not So Quiet...
Not So Quiet... 4.19 avg rating — 1,037 ratings
30.
Invitation to the Waltz
Invitation to the Waltz 3.88 avg rating — 1,472 ratings
31.
Black No More
Black No More really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4,580 ratings
32.
A Well Full of Leaves
A Well Full of Leaves 3.87 avg rating — 46 ratings
33.
Fugue
Fugue 3.82 avg rating — 11 ratings
34.
A Calendar of Sin
A Calendar of Sin 4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings
35.
Grandmother Brown's Hundred Years, 1827-1927
Grandmother Brown's Hundred Years, 1827-1927 4.40 avg rating — 15 ratings
36.
Novel with Cocaine
Novel with Cocaine
by: M. Agueev
3.84 avg rating — 3,507 ratings
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The Taverner Novels: Armed with Madness and Death of Felicity Taverner
The Taverner Novels: Armed with Madness and Death of Felicity Taverner 3.65 avg rating — 66 ratings
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Fear
Fear 4.19 avg rating — 1,562 ratings
39.
Company Parade
Company Parade 3.20 avg rating — 165 ratings
39.
Spleen
Spleen 3.73 avg rating — 79 ratings
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Prae: Vol. 1 (Prae, #1)
Prae: Vol. 1 (Prae, #1) 4.32 avg rating — 31 ratings
42.
Adventures of Sindbad
Adventures of Sindbad 3.70 avg rating — 461 ratings
43.
Year Before Last
Year Before Last
by: Kay Boyle
3.75 avg rating — 73 ratings
44.
House of All Nations
House of All Nations 4.22 avg rating — 36 ratings
45.
The Gender of Modernism: A Critical Anthology
The Gender of Modernism: A Critical Anthology 4.33 avg rating — 15 ratings
46.
Belarmino and Apolonio
Belarmino and Apolonio 3.65 avg rating — 102 ratings
47.
Love in Winter
Love in Winter 3.39 avg rating — 38 ratings
48.
I Am Jonathan Scrivener
I Am Jonathan Scrivener 4.01 avg rating — 161 ratings
49.
Body Sweats: The Uncensored Writings of Elsa Von Freytag-Loringhoven
Body Sweats: The Uncensored Writings of Elsa Von Freytag-Loringhoven 4.18 avg rating — 66 ratings
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A Winter's Journal
A Winter's Journal 3.80 avg rating — 71 ratings
50.
Niebla
Niebla 4.06 avg rating — 22,492 ratings
52.
The Complete Stories
The Complete Stories 3.89 avg rating — 35 ratings
53.
The Young and Evil
The Young and Evil 3.72 avg rating — 98 ratings
53.
The Church of Solitude
The Church of Solitude 3.72 avg rating — 88 ratings
55.
Smoke: and Other Early Stories
Smoke: and Other Early Stories 3.65 avg rating — 190 ratings
56.
My Next Bride
My Next Bride
by: Kay Boyle
3.50 avg rating — 44 ratings
57.
Paris
Paris 3.91 avg rating — 394 ratings
58.
The Salzburg Tales
The Salzburg Tales 3.68 avg rating — 37 ratings
59.
The Grampian Quartet: The Quarry Wood: The Weatherhouse: A Pass in the Grampians: The Living Mountain (Canongate Classics)
The Grampian Quartet: The Quarry Wood: The Weatherhouse: A Pass in the Grampians: The Living Mountain (Canongate Classics) 4.11 avg rating — 55 ratings
60.
The Beauties and Furies
The Beauties and Furies 3.72 avg rating — 57 ratings
61.
Ordinary Families
Ordinary Families 3.78 avg rating — 55 ratings
62.
Finnley Wren
Finnley Wren really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 36 ratings
63.
On the Side of the Angels
On the Side of the Angels 3.84 avg rating — 61 ratings
64.
The Folks
The Folks really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 15 ratings
65.
Told by an Idiot
Told by an Idiot 3.93 avg rating — 147 ratings
66.
Migrations ; an Arabesque in Histories
Migrations ; an Arabesque in Histories 4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings
67.
Am I a Redundant Human Being? (German and Austrian Literature Series)
Am I a Redundant Human Being? (German and Austrian Literature Series) 3.75 avg rating — 170 ratings
68.
From Man to Man
From Man to Man 3.78 avg rating — 49 ratings
69.
Bryher: Two Novels: Development and Two Selves
Bryher: Two Novels: Development and Two Selves
by: Bryher
3.52 avg rating — 31 ratings
70.
Escapade: An Autobiography
Escapade: An Autobiography 3.49 avg rating — 41 ratings
71.
Islanders
Islanders 4.03 avg rating — 34 ratings
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The Wave
The Wave 3.93 avg rating — 28 ratings
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The Narrow House
The Narrow House 3.52 avg rating — 29 ratings
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This is the End
This is the End 3.75 avg rating — 48 ratings
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HERmione
HERmione
by: H.D.
3.88 avg rating — 568 ratings
76.
JOURNEY TO PARADISE
JOURNEY TO PARADISE 3.94 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Ryder
Ryder 3.66 avg rating — 271 ratings
78.
Solitude: A Novel of Catalonia
Solitude: A Novel of Catalonia 4.03 avg rating — 1,975 ratings
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Rough Draft: The Modernist Diaries of Emily Holmes Coleman, 1929-1937
Rough Draft: The Modernist Diaries of Emily Holmes Coleman, 1929-1937 really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
80.
For Love Alone
For Love Alone 3.67 avg rating — 209 ratings
81.
Alberta Alone
Alberta Alone 4.15 avg rating — 246 ratings
82.
Alberta and Freedom
Alberta and Freedom 3.95 avg rating — 427 ratings
83.
The Rise of David Levinsky
The Rise of David Levinsky 3.71 avg rating — 690 ratings
84.
Ariadne in the Grotesque Labyrinth (Catalan Literature Series)
Ariadne in the Grotesque Labyrinth (Catalan Literature Series) 3.41 avg rating — 81 ratings
85.
Ladies Almanack
Ladies Almanack 3.61 avg rating — 496 ratings
86.
Negro: An Anthology
Negro: An Anthology 4.47 avg rating — 19 ratings
87.
Close Up: Cinema And Modernism
Close Up: Cinema And Modernism really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 11 ratings
88.
Harlem Renaissance: Four Novels of the 1930s: Not Without Laughter / Black No More / The Conjure-Man Dies / Black Thunder
Harlem Renaissance: Four Novels of the 1930s: Not Without Laughter / Black No More / The Conjure-Man Dies / Black Thunder 4.48 avg rating — 21 ratings
89.
Life and Death of Harriet Frean
Life and Death of Harriet Frean 3.59 avg rating — 1,182 ratings
90.
Ashe of Rings: And Other Writings
Ashe of Rings: And Other Writings 3.52 avg rating — 23 ratings
91.
Fifty Stories
Fifty Stories
by: Kay Boyle
4.09 avg rating — 35 ratings
92.
Essays on Race and Empire
Essays on Race and Empire 3.20 avg rating — 5 ratings
93.
The Gift: Novel
The Gift: Novel
by: H.D.
3.78 avg rating — 174 ratings
94.
Asphodel
Asphodel
by: H.D.
3.39 avg rating — 140 ratings
95.
Pale Blue Ink in a Lady's Hand
Pale Blue Ink in a Lady's Hand 3.69 avg rating — 2,048 ratings
96.
Journal of Impressions in Belgium
Journal of Impressions in Belgium 3.24 avg rating — 17 ratings
97.
Rain on the Just
Rain on the Just 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings
98.
Spillway and Other Stories
Spillway and Other Stories 3.62 avg rating — 156 ratings
99.
The Fire in the Flint (Brown Thrasher Books)
The Fire in the Flint (Brown Thrasher Books) 3.97 avg rating — 69 ratings
100.
Trilogy: The Walls Do Not Fall / Tribute to the Angels / The Flowering of the Rod
Trilogy: The Walls Do Not Fall / Tribute to the Angels / The Flowering of the Rod
by: H.D.
4.21 avg rating — 1,425 ratings
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