Published at the end of the millennium, this larger, trade-sized series collects twenty of the best books published from 1901-1999. Rather than using a standard numbering system, the books are organized by the year they were originally published.
| 1902 | Heart of Darkness | Joseph Conrad |
| 1913 | Swann’s Way | Marcel Proust |
| 1915 | The Metamorphosis and Other Stories | Franz Kafka |
| 1915 | The Good Soldier | Ford Maddox Ford |
| 1916 | Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | James Joyce |
| 1918 | My Antonia | Willa Cather |
| 1920 | Women In Love | D.H. Lawrence |
| 1920 | The Age of Innocence | Edith Wharton |
| 1939 | Grapes of Wrath | John Steinbeck |
| 1948 | The Heart of the Matter | Graham Greene |
| 1953 | The Adventures of Augie March | Saul Bellow |
| 1954 | Lord of the Flies | William Golding |
| 1957 | On The Road | Jack Kerouac |
| 1962 | One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest | Ken Kesey |
| 1973 | Gravity’s Rainbow | Thomas Pynchon |
| 1980 | Waiting for the Barbarians | J.M. Coetzee |
| 1981 | Midnight’s Children | Salman Rushdie |
| 1985 | White Noise | Don Delillo |
| 1985 | Love in the Time of Cholera | Gabriel Garcia Marquez |
| 1987 | Beloved | Toni Morrison |
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