The New York Public Library's Books of the Century

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  1. Landmarks of Modern Literature
  2. The Three Sisters - Anton Chekhov
  3. Remembrance of Things Past - Marcel Proust
  4. Tender Buttons - Gertrude Stein
  5. The Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka
  6. Renascence and Other Poems - Edna St. Vincent Millay
  7. The Wild Swans at Coole - W. B. Yeats
  8. Six Characters in Search of an Author - Luigi Pirandello
  9. The Waste Land - T. S. Eliot
  10. Ulysses - James Joyce
  11. The Magic Mountain - Thomas Mann
  12. The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
  13. To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf
  14. Gypsy Ballads - Federico Garcia Lorca
  15. Native Son - Richard Wright
  16. The Portable Faulkner - William Faulkner
  17. The Age of Anxiety: A Baroque Eclogue - W. H. Auden
  18. Waiting for Godot - Samuel Beckett
  19. Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison
  20. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
  21. Fictions - Jorge Luis Borges
  22. On the Road - Jack Kerouac
  23. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  24. Portnoy's Complaint - Philip Roth
  25. Song of Solomon - Toni Morrison


  27. Nature's Realm
  28. The Life of the Bee - Maurice Maeterlinck
  29. Treatise on Radioactivity - Marie Curie
  30. The Meaning of Relativity - Albert Einstein
  31. A Field Guide to the Birds - Roger Peterson
  32. A Sand County Almanac - Aldo Leopold
  33. King Solomon's Ring: New Light on Animal Ways - Konrad Lorenz
  34. Silent Spring - Rachel Carson
  35. Smoking and Health known as The Surgeon General's Report (1964)
  36. The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA - James Dewey Watson
  37. The Diversity of Life - Edward O. Wilson


  39. Protest + Progress
  40. The Battle with the Slum - Jacob Riis
  41. The Souls of Black Folk - W. E. B. DuBois
  42. The Jungle - Upton Sinclair
  43. Twenty Years at Hull House - Jane Addams
  44. The House on Henry Street - Lillian Wald
  45. The Autobiography of Lincoln Steffens - Lincoln Steffens
  46. U. S. A. - John Dos Passos
  47. The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
  48. Let Us Now Praise Famous Men - James Agee & Walker Evans
  49. Strange Fruit - Lillian Smith
  50. Growing Up Absurd - Paul Goodman
  51. The Fire Next Time - James Baldwin
  52. The Autobiography of Malcolm X - Malcolm X
  53. And the Band Played On - Randy Shilts
  54. There Are No Children Here - Alex Kotlowitz


  56. Colonialism
  57. Lord Jim - Joseph Conrad
  58. Kim - Rudyard Kipling
  59. Satyagraha [Non-violent Resistance] - Mohandas Gandhi
  60. A Passage to India - E. M. Forster
  61. The Stranger - Albert Camus
  62. United Nations Charter (1945)
  63. Cry, The Beloved Country - Alan Paton
  64. The Family of Man: The Photographic Exhibition - Edward Steichen for the MOMA in NY
  65. Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe
  66. The Wretched of the Earth - Frantz Fanon
  67. Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys
  68. Season of Migration to the North - Tayeb El-Salih
  69. Guerrillas - V. S. Naipaul
  70. The Bride Price - Buchi Emecheta
  71. The Emperor - Ryszard Kapuscinski
  72. I, Rigoberta Menchu - Rigoberta Menchu
  73. The Lover - Marguerite Duras


  75. Mind + Spirit
  76. Suicide: A Study in Sociology - Emile Durkheim
  77. The Interpretation of Dreams - Sigmund Freud
  78. Studies in the Psychology of Sex - Havelock Ellis
  79. The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature - William James
  80. The Prophet - Kahlil Gibran
  81. Why I Am Not a Christian - Bertrand Russell
  82. Coming of Age in Samoa - Margaret Mead
  83. Being and Nothingness - Jean-Paul Sartre
  84. The Common Sense of Baby and Child Care - Benjamin Spock
  85. The Holy Bible (RSV, 1952)
  86. The Courage to Be - Paul Tillich
  87. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey
  88. The Politics of Ecstasy - Timothy Leary
  89. Death and Dying - Elisabeth Keibler-Ross
  90. The Uses of Enchantment - Bruno Bettelheim


  92. Popular Culture + Mass Entertainment
  93. Dracula - Bram Stoker
  94. The Turn of the Screw - Henry James
  95. The Hound of the Baskervilles - Arthur Conan Doyle
  96. Tarzan of the Apes - Edgar Rice Burroughs
  97. Riders of the Purple Stage - Zane Grey
  98. The Mysterious Affair at Styles - Agatha Christie
  99. How to Win Friends and Influence People - Dale Carnegie
  100. Gone With the Wind - Margaret Mitchell
  101. The Big Sleep - Raymond Chandler
  102. The Day of the Locust - Nathanael West
  103. The Cat in the Hat - Dr. Seuss
  104. Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert Heinlein
  105. Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
  106. In Cold Blood - Truman Capote
  107. Ball Four - Jim Bouton
  108. Carrie - Stephen King
  109. The Bonfire of the Vanities - Tom Wolfe


  111. Women Rise
  112. The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton
  113. Woman Suffrage and Politics - Carrie Chapman Catt
  114. My Fight for Birth Control - Margaret Sanger
  115. Dust Tracks on a Road - Zora Neale Hurston
  116. The Second Sex - Simone de Beavoir
  117. The Golden Notebook - Doris Lessing
  118. The Feminine Mystique - Betty Friedan
  119. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou
  120. Sisterhood is Powerful - Robin Morgan, ed.
  121. Against Our Will - Susan Brownmiller
  122. The Color Purple - Alice Walker


  124. Economics + Technology
  125. The Theory of the Leisure Class - Thorstein Veblen
  126. The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism - Max Weber
  127. The Education of Henry Adams - Henry Adams
  128. The General Theory of Employment, Interest, an Money - John Maynard Keynes
  129. The Road to Serfdom - F. A. Hayek
  130. A Theory of the Consumption Function - Milton Friedman
  131. The Affluent Society - John Galbraith
  132. The Death and Life of Great American Cities - Jane Jacobs
  133. Superhighway--Superhoax - Helen Leavitt
  134. Small is Beautiful - E. F. Schumacher
  135. The Whole Internet - Ed Krol


  137. Utopias + Dystopias
  138. The Time Machine - H. G. Wells
  139. The Jewish State - Theodor Herzl
  140. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz - L. Frank Baum
  141. Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens - J. M. Barrie
  142. Herland - Charlotte Perkins Gilman
  143. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
  144. Lost Horizon - James Hilton
  145. Walden Two - B. F. Skinner
  146. Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell
  147. Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
  148. Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
  149. A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
  150. The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood


  152. War, Holocaust, Totalitarianism
  153. Armenian Atrocities - Arnold Toynbel
  154. Ten Days that Shook the World - John Reed
  155. The War Poems - Siegfried Sassoon
  156. The Gold Soldier Svejk - Jaroslav Hasek
  157. Mein Kampf - Adolf Hitler
  158. All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque
  159. Requiem - Anna Akhmatova
  160. For Whom the Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway
  161. Darkness at Noon - Arthur Kaestler
  162. Hiroshima - John Hersey
  163. The Diary of Anne Frank - Anne Frank
  164. The Gathering Storm - Winston Churchill
  165. Night - Elie Wiesel
  166. Quotations from Chairman Mao - Mao Zedong
  167. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee - Dee Alexander Brown
  168. The Gulag Archipelago - Aleksander I. Solzhenitsyn
  169. Dispatched - Michael Herr
  170. Maus: A Survivor's Tale - Art Spiegelman


  172. Optimism, Joy, Gentility
  173. The Country of the Pointed Firs - Sarah Orne Jewett
  174. The Story of My Life - Helen Keller
  175. The Innocence of Father Brown - G. K. Chesterton
  176. Platero and I - Juan Ramon Jimenez
  177. Pygmalion - George Bernard Shaw
  178. Etiquette in Society, in Business, in Politics, and at Home - Emily Post
  179. The Inimitable Jeeves - P. G. Wodehouse
  180. Winnie-the-Pooh - A. A. Milne
  181. Shadows on the Rock - Willa Cather
  182. The Joy of Cooking - Irma S. Rombauer
  183. The Hobbit - J. R. R. Tolkien
  184. Goodnight Moon - Margaret Wise Brown
  185. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
  186. The Best of Simple - Langston Hughes
  187. The Complete Poems 1927-1979 - Elizabeth Bishop


  189. Favorites of Childhood and Youth
  190. The Tale of Peter Rabbit - Beatrix Potter
  191. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - Betty Smith
  192. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe - C. S. Lewis
  193. The Catcher in the Rye - J. D. Salinger
  194. Charlotte's Web - E. B. White
  195. The Snowy Day - Ezra Jack Keats
  196. Where the Wild Things Are - Maurice Sendak
  197. Sarah, Plain, and Tall - Patricia MacLachlan