Powell's Books is a chain of bookstores in the Portland, Oregon, area. I'm not sure how this list was compiled, but it's an interesting one. Click on each book's title to order the book from Amazon.com.
Powell's Books Top 25 Novels of the 20th Century:

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
My Antonia by Willa Cather
Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
The Foundation Trilogy by Isaac Asimov
Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
Nightwood by Djuna Barnes
Other Voices, Other Rooms by Truman Capote
Three Lives by Gertrude Stein
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
The Bone People by Keri Hulme
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Razor's Edge by Somerset Maugham
Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs
White Noise by Don Delillo
Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban
Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya
Zami, a New Spelling of My Name by Audre Lorde
The Man in the High Castle by Philip K Dick
London Fields by Martin Amis

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