Which publishing company, owned by Random House, ranked Brave New World fifth on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century?
Brave New World In 1999, the Modern Library ranked "Brave New World" fifth on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. In 2003, Robert McCrum writing for "The Observer" included "Brave New World" chronologically at number 53 in "the top 100 greatest novels of all time", and the novel was listed at number 87 on the BBC's survey The Big Read.
Holtzbrinck Publishing Group Holtzbrinck Publishing Group is a privately-held Stuttgart-based company which owns publishing companies worldwide. The company has published a wide variety of books, from "The Satanic Verses" by Salman Rushdie to classics by Agatha Christie, Jean-Paul Sartre, Ernest Hemingway and John Updike. Other well-known publications of the company include the scientific journal "Nature" and "Scientific American". It is one of the Big Five English-language publishing companies.