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Modern Fantasy: The 100 Best Novels
Modern Fantasy: The 100 Best Novels, An English-Language Selection, 1946–1987 is a nonfiction book written by David Pringle, published by Grafton Books in 1988 in the United Kingdom and the following year by Peter Bedrick Books in the United States. The foreword is by Brian W. Aldiss. Primarily the book comprises 100 short essays on the selected works, covered in order of publication, without any ranking. It is considered an important critical summary of the field of modern fantasy literature.
Modern Library 100 Best Nonfiction
The editors of The Modern Library were privileged to have the assistance of a distinguished Board made up of celebrated authors, historians, critics, and publishing luminaries. In 1998 and 1999, members of the Modern Library Board participated in the “100 Best” project, voting on the 100 Best Novels and 100 Best Non-fiction works, respectively.
Modern Library 100 Best Novels
Modern Library's 100 Best Novels is a 1998 list of the best English-language novels published during the 20th century, as selected by Modern Library from among 400 novels published by Random House, which owns Modern Library. The purpose of the list was to "bring the Modern Library to public attention" and stimulate sales of its books. A separate Modern Library 100 Best Nonfiction list was created the same year.
Modern Library 100 Best Novels The Readers List
In 1998 Modern Library published its Editors list of the best novels written in english in the 20th century. Afterwards they held an online poll so that readers could vote for their own. The result is an eclectic mix, partly influenced by the online population of 1998 and concerted efforts to rally votes. This results in Scientologist Hubbard having 3 books in the list, and Ayn Rand having 4. The original list has been removed from Modern Library's website.