Boston Public Library's 100 Most Influential Books of the Century

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Philosophy Of New Music (1949) by Theodor W. Adorno
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (1939) by James Agee
Alcoholics Anonymous (1939) by Alcoholics Anonymous
Go Tell It on the Mountain (1953) by James Baldwin
The Second Sex (1953) by Simone de Beauvoir
Patterns of Culture (1934) by Ruth Benedict
The Engineering of Consent (1955) by Edward L. Bernays
Our Bodies, Ourselves: A Book By and For Women (1970) by Boston Women's Health Book Collective
I and Thou (1923) by Martin Buber
A Clockwork Orange (1962) by Anthony Burgess
The Stranger (1942) by Albert Camus
How to Win Friends & Influence People (1936) by Dale Carnegie
Silent Spring (1962) by Rachel Carson
Reflections from Captivity (Southeast Asia Translation Series) (1978) by Phan Bio Chau
The Cherry Orchard (1904) by Anton Chekhov
Mastering the Art of French Cooking (Two-volume set) (1961) by Julia Child
Syntactic Structures (1957) by Noam Chomsky
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) by Arthur C. Clarke
The Joy of Sex (1972) by Alex Comfort
Heart of Darkness (1899) by Joseph Conrad
Looking at the Dance (1949) by Edwin Denby
The School and Society (1899) by John Dewey
Genetics and the Origin of Species (1947) by Theodosius Dobzhansky
Relativity: The Special and General Theory (1916) by Albert Einstein
Prufrock and Other Observations (1917) by T. S. Eliot
The Great Gatsby (1925) by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Diary of a Young Girl (1947) by Anne Frank
Man's Search for Meaning (1946) by Viktor Frankl
The Golden Bough (1890) by James George Frazer
The Interpretation of Dreams (1900) by Sigmund Freud
The Masters and the Slaves: A Study in the Development of Brazilian Civilization (1956) by Gilberto Freyre
The Feminine Mystique (1963) by Betty Friedan
Satyagraha in South Africa (1950) by M. K. Gandhi
One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
In the Shadow of Man (1971) by Jane Goodall
Creatures That Once Were Men (1918) by Maxim Gorky
Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus: The Classic Guide to Understanding the Opposite Sex (1992) by John Gray
Art and Culture: Critical Essays (1961) by Clement Greenberg
Roots (1976) by Alex Haley
Smoking and Health: Report of the Advisory Committee to the Surgeon General of the Public Health Service (1964) by and Welfare U.S. Department of Education Health
Being and Time (1927) by Martin Heidegger
The Sun Also Rises (1926) by Ernest Hemingway
Steppenwolf (1927) by Hermann Hesse
Mein Kampf (1925) by Adolf Hitler
Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking (1907) by William James
Encyclicals of Pope John XXIII (1980) by John XXIII
Ulysses (1922) by James Joyce
Psychology of the Unconscious (1912) by C. G. Jung
The Trial (1925) by Franz Kafka
On the Road (1957) by Jack Kerouac
The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money (1936) by John Maynard Keynes
Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (1948) by Alfred C. Kinsey
Darkness at Noon (1940) by Arthur Koestler
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962) by Thomas S. Kuhn
Lady Chatterley's Lover (1960) by D. H. Lawrence
The Golden Notebook (1962) by Doris Lessing
The Raw and the Cooked: Introduction to a Science of Mythology: I (1964) by Claude Lévi-Strauss
Babbitt (1922) by Sinclair Lewis
On Aggression (1963) by Konrad Lorenz
Man's Fate (1933) by André Malraux
The Magic Mountain (1924) by Thomas Mann
Motivation and Personality (1954) by Abraham H. Maslow
Coming of Age in Samoa (1928) by Margaret Mead
The Seven Storey Mountain (1948) by Thomas Merton
The Power Elite (1956) by C. Wright Mills
The Montessori Method (1912) by Maria Montessori
A Critique of the Theory of Evolution (2009) by Thomas Hunt Morgan
Lolita (1955) by Vladimir Nabokov
1984 (1949) by George Orwell
Conditioned Reflexes (1927) by I. P. Pavlov
Judgment and reasoning in the child (1959) by Jean Piaget
Six Characters in Search of an Author (1921) by Luigi Pirandello
In Search of Lost Time (1913) by Marcel Proust
Atlas Shrugged (1957) by Ayn Rand
Ten Days that Shook the World (1919) by John Reed
The Function of the Orgasm: Discovery of the Orgone (Discovery of the Orgone, Vol 1) (1961) by Wilhelm Reich
How the Other Half Lives (1890) by Jacob A. Riis
The Catcher in the Rye (1951) by J. D. Salinger
Happiness in Marriage (1926) by Margaret Sanger
Being and Nothingness: An Essay on Phenomenological Ontology (1943) by Jean-Paul Sartre
Intelligent Life in the Universe (1962) by I. S. Shklovskii
The Jungle (1906) by Upton Sinclair
Beyond Freedom & Dignity (1971) by B. F. Skinner
The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation (Volume One, Parts I-II) (1973) by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The Decline of the West (1918) by Oswald Spengler
Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care (1945) by Benjamin Spock
The Grapes of Wrath (1939) by John Steinbeck
The History of the Standard Oil Company: Briefer Version (1966) by Ida M. Tarbell
Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung (1968) by Mao Tse-Tung
Theory of Games and Economic Behavior (1944) by John Von Neumann
The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA (1969) by James D. Watson
Behaviorism (1925) by John B. Watson
Cybernetics, or, Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine (1948) by Norbert Wiener
A Room of One's Own (1929) by Virginia Woolf
Native Son (1940) by Richard Wright

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