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New York Public Library's Books of the Century - All

Based on bookaward: New York Public Library's Books of the Century

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Rank Title Author Added CK Order

1

by Ray Bradbury

54,174 members

1,002 reviews

4

9 Members: hipdeep, smcwl, blackdove07, Bretzky1, cej1027, ahef1963, Laura1124, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

2

The Catcher in the Rye

by J. D. Salinger

70,101 members

1,083 reviews

3.8

8 Members: smcwl, blackdove07, Bretzky1, cej1027, ahef1963, Laura1124, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

3

The Great Gatsby

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

72,474 members

1,175 reviews

3.8

8 Members: smcwl, blackdove07, Bretzky1, cej1027, ahef1963, Laura1124, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

4

by George Orwell

82,334 members

1,275 reviews

4.2

7 Members: smcwl, blackdove07, Bretzky1, ahef1963, Laura1124, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

5

by J. R. R. Tolkien

94,902 members

1,193 reviews

½ 4.3

6 Members: smcwl, blackdove07, cej1027, ahef1963, Laura1124, ManWithAnAgenda

6

Brave New World

by Aldous Huxley

54,112 members

773 reviews

3.9

7 Members: smcwl, blackdove07, Bretzky1, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

7

by Joseph Heller

40,138 members

528 reviews

4.1

6 Members: hipdeep, blackdove07, Bretzky1, ahef1963, Laura1124, steller0707

8

The Age of Innocence

by Edith Wharton

13,972 members

302 reviews

4

6 Members: aprille, smcwl, blackdove07, Bretzky1, Laura1124, steller0707

9

Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl

12,733 members

242 reviews

4.1

6 Members: smcwl, blackdove07, cej1027, ahef1963, Laura1124, steller0707

10

by Albert Camus

35,642 members

508 reviews

3.9

6 Members: smcwl, blackdove07, ahef1963, Laura1124, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

11

Winnie-the-Pooh

13,549 members

207 reviews

½ 4.3

6 Members: hipdeep, smcwl, cej1027, ahef1963, Laura1124, ManWithAnAgenda

12

To Kill a Mockingbird

78,849 members

1,434 reviews

½ 4.4

6 Members: hipdeep, cej1027, ahef1963, Laura1124, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

13

The Complete Maus

by Art Spiegelman

8,766 members

257 reviews

½ 4.5

5 Members: hipdeep, cej1027, Laura1124, ManWithAnAgenda, MyFathersDragon

14

Things Fall Apart

by Chinua Achebe

20,768 members

434 reviews

3.8

6 Members: Bretzky1, cej1027, ahef1963, Laura1124, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

15

The Grapes of Wrath

by John Steinbeck

34,447 members

478 reviews

4.1

5 Members: hipdeep, Bretzky1, cej1027, Laura1124, ManWithAnAgenda

16

The Cat in the Hat

20,601 members

531 reviews

4.2

5 Members: smcwl, cej1027, ahef1963, Laura1124, steller0707

17

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

45,998 members

768 reviews

4.1

5 Members: smcwl, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

18

Portnoy's Complaint

7,394 members

155 reviews

½ 3.6

5 Members: aprille, smcwl, ahef1963, Laura1124, steller0707

19

The Hound of the Baskervilles

by Arthur Conan Doyle

15,416 members

303 reviews

3.9

5 Members: hipdeep, smcwl, blackdove07, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

20

by Truman Capote

23,843 members

467 reviews

4.1

5 Members: blackdove07, ahef1963, Laura1124, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

21

27,750 members

574 reviews

½ 4.3

4 Members: LoisCK, Bretzky1, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

22

The Time Machine

17,777 members

339 reviews

½ 3.7

5 Members: hipdeep, blackdove07, cej1027, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

23

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

by L. Frank Baum

22,139 members

424 reviews

3.9

5 Members: hipdeep, blackdove07, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

24

by Ezra Jack Keats

14,845 members

759 reviews

4.2

5 Members: hipdeep, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

25

NRSV Ministry/Pew Bible

41 members

3

5 Members: hipdeep, smcwl, cej1027, ahef1963, steller0707

26

The Handmaid's Tale

by Margaret Atwood

42,562 members

1,147 reviews

4.1

5 Members: Bretzky1, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

27

The Tale of Peter Rabbit

by Beatrix Potter

12,331 members

181 reviews

4.1

5 Members: smcwl, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

28

Cry, the Beloved Country

9,420 members

183 reviews

4

4 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963, Laura1124, steller0707

29

The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition

1,717 members

22 reviews

4.2

5 Members: smcwl, cej1027, ahef1963, Laura1124, steller0707

30

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

24,321 members

298 reviews

4.1

4 Members: hipdeep, smcwl, ahef1963, steller0707

31

by Vladimir Nabokov

31,813 members

565 reviews

4.1

4 Members: Bretzky1, Laura1124, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

32

The Innocence of Father Brown

by G.K. Chesterton

1,945 members

59 reviews

½ 3.6

4 Members: aprille, blackdove07, cej1027, ahef1963

33

by George Bernard Shaw

6,777 members

78 reviews

3.8

4 Members: aprille, hipdeep, smcwl, ahef1963

34

A Passage to India

by E. M. Forster

12,499 members

142 reviews

3.8

4 Members: smcwl, ahef1963, Laura1124, ManWithAnAgenda

35

The Metamorphosis

12,566 members

222 reviews

3.9

4 Members: smcwl, blackdove07, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

36

The Autobiography of Malcolm X

9,818 members

124 reviews

½ 4.3

4 Members: hipdeep, smcwl, ahef1963, Laura1124

37

by Raymond Chandler

10,332 members

284 reviews

4

4 Members: blackdove07, Bretzky1, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

38

Hiroshima (Expanded edition)

1,971 members

37 reviews

4.1

3 Members: aprille, hipdeep, cej1027

39

Wide Sargasso Sea

8,502 members

255 reviews

½ 3.5

4 Members: Bretzky1, cej1027, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

40

805 members

5 reviews

4

4 Members: aprille, hipdeep, smcwl, steller0707

41

One Hundred Years of Solitude

by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

44,576 members

697 reviews

4.2

4 Members: blackdove07, Bretzky1, ahef1963, Laura1124

42

Charlotte's Web

36,292 members

1,027 reviews

4.2

4 Members: cej1027, ahef1963, Laura1124, steller0707

43

Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts

by Samuel Beckett

12,989 members

161 reviews

3.9

4 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963, Laura1124, ManWithAnAgenda

44

Where the Wild Things Are

by Maurice Sendak

26,204 members

1,451 reviews

½ 4.3

4 Members: cej1027, ahef1963, Laura1124, steller0707

45

The Turn of the Screw

8,151 members

249 reviews

½ 3.4

4 Members: blackdove07, Bretzky1, Laura1124, ManWithAnAgenda

46

To the Lighthouse

by Virginia Woolf

17,693 members

271 reviews

3.9

4 Members: ahef1963, Laura1124, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

47

For Whom the Bell Tolls

by Ernest Hemingway

19,043 members

186 reviews

3.9

4 Members: Bretzky1, ahef1963, Laura1124, steller0707

48

Stranger in a Strange Land

by Robert A. Heinlein

10,992 members

157 reviews

3.9

3 Members: aprille, smcwl, blackdove07

49

by Ralph Ellison

16,241 members

212 reviews

4

3 Members: Bretzky1, ahef1963, Laura1124

50

The Interpretation of Dreams

by Sigmund Freud

5,350 members

50 reviews

½ 3.5

3 Members: aprille, smcwl, ahef1963

51

The Inimitable Jeeves

by P. G. Wodehouse

3,387 members

83 reviews

4

3 Members: aprille, hipdeep, ahef1963

52

1,048 members

24 reviews

4

3 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963, Laura1124

53

by Jack Kerouac

28,004 members

387 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: Bretzky1, ahef1963, Laura1124

54

by Marguerite Duras

5,178 members

155 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: blackdove07, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

55

The Color Purple

by Alice Walker

19,814 members

340 reviews

4.1

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

56

The Mysterious Affair at Styles

by Agatha Christie

9,026 members

293 reviews

3.8

3 Members: aprille, ahef1963, Laura1124

57

Joy of Cooking [1931]: A Facsimile of the First Edition 1931

by Irma S. Rombauer

121 members

1 review

3.9

3 Members: hipdeep, smcwl, Laura1124

58

The Wild Swans at Coole

by William Butler Yeats

77 members

5 reviews

½ 3.4

3 Members: aprille, hipdeep, ahef1963

59

by Kahlil Gibran

14,335 members

169 reviews

4.1

3 Members: aprille, ahef1963, steller0707

60

The Bonfire of the Vanities

8,976 members

132 reviews

3.8

3 Members: smcwl, Laura1124, steller0707

61

The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA

by James D. Watson

3,037 members

44 reviews

3.8

3 Members: smcwl, ahef1963, Laura1124

62

24,187 members

379 reviews

4

3 Members: Bretzky1, ahef1963, Laura1124

63

by Margaret Wise Brown

18,935 members

695 reviews

4.2

3 Members: cej1027, ahef1963, steller0707

64

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

16,579 members

443 reviews

½ 4.3

3 Members: ahef1963, Laura1124, steller0707

65

Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care

by Benjamin Spock

1,131 members

6 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963, steller0707

66

by Grace Metalious

1,688 members

39 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: aprille, ManWithAnAgenda

67

35,639 members

630 reviews

4

2 Members: Bretzky1, ManWithAnAgenda

68

by James Hilton

3,989 members

101 reviews

3.9

2 Members: aprille, ManWithAnAgenda

69

by Upton Sinclair

11,702 members

129 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

70

by B. F. Skinner

2,142 members

22 reviews

½ 3.3

2 Members: aprille, smcwl

71

All Quiet on the Western Front

by Erich Maria Remarque

19,148 members

403 reviews

4.1

2 Members: Bretzky1, Laura1124

72

The Country of the Pointed Firs

by Sarah Orne Jewett

942 members

23 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

73

22,496 members

397 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: Bretzky1, Laura1124

74

Dust Tracks on a Road: An Autobiography

by Zora Neale Hurston

1,375 members

17 reviews

4.1

2 Members: aprille, hipdeep

75

On Death and Dying: What the Dying Have to Teach Doctors, Nurses, Clergy, and Their Own Families

by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

3,417 members

32 reviews

3.9

2 Members: aprille, ahef1963

76

Sarah, Plain and Tall

by Patricia MacLachlan

11,034 members

287 reviews

3.8

2 Members: cej1027, ahef1963

77

Coming of Age in Samoa

by Margaret Mead

1,364 members

18 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: aprille, ahef1963

78

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

9,010 members

131 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: aprille, steller0707

79

Six Characters in Search of an Author

by Luigi Pirandello

1,439 members

30 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: aprille, ahef1963

80

The Meaning of Relativity

by Albert Einstein

749 members

4 reviews

3.8

2 Members: aprille, hipdeep

81

by Richard Wright

7,746 members

101 reviews

3.9

2 Members: hipdeep, Laura1124

82

The Day of the Locust

by Nathanael West

1,864 members

49 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

83

The Portable Faulkner: Revised and Expanded Edition

by William Faulkner

607 members

5 reviews

4.2

2 Members: hipdeep, Laura1124

84

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

by Maya Angelou

14,852 members

224 reviews

4

2 Members: Laura1124, steller0707

85

Twenty Years at Hull-House

842 members

6 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: aprille, hipdeep

86

Gone with the Wind

by Margaret Mitchell

23,522 members

443 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: Laura1124, steller0707

87

Let Us Now Praise Famous Men

2,138 members

22 reviews

4

2 Members: aprille, Laura1124

88

The Three Sisters

by Anton Tschechow

1,076 members

19 reviews

3.9

2 Members: aprille, hipdeep

89

The Fire Next Time

by James Baldwin

4,815 members

132 reviews

½ 4.4

2 Members: Laura1124, steller0707

90

by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

2,620 members

70 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

91

A Clockwork Orange

by Anthony Burgess

25,967 members

389 reviews

4

Member: blackdove07

92

The Story of My Life

by Helen Keller

5,200 members

58 reviews

3.9

Member: aprille

93

by Rudyard Kipling

9,034 members

201 reviews

3.8

Member: aprille

94

Darkness at Noon

by Arthur Koestler

5,400 members

101 reviews

4

Member: aprille

95

Being and Nothingness: An Essay on Phenomenological Ontology

by Jean-Paul Sartre

4,961 members

19 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: aprille

96

The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism and Other Writings

561 members

½ 3.6

Member: aprille

97

Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects

by Bertrand Russell

4,052 members

39 reviews

3.9

Member: aprille

98

The Death and Life of Great American Cities

4,240 members

39 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: aprille

99

by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

3,549 members

48 reviews

4.1

Member: aprille

100

by Adolf Hitler

4,146 members

77 reviews

½ 2.7

Member: aprille

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