Daily Telegraph's 100 Books of the Century, 1900-1999

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96 Works 821,385 Books 13,010 Reviews ½ 4.0
Work
My Father and Myself (1968) by J. R. Ackerley
Collected Poems (1976) by W. H. Auden
The Atrocity Exhibition (1969) by J. G. Ballard
Steps to an Ecology of Mind: Collected Essays in Anthropology, Psychiatry, Evolution, and Epistemology (1972) by Gregory Bateson
Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts (1953) by Samuel Beckett
Humboldt's Gift (1973) by Saul Bellow
Flesh (1962) by Brigid Brophy
The Master and Margarita (1966) by Mikhail Bulgakov
Silent Spring (1962) by Rachel Carson
Complete Poems (1961) by C.P. Cavafy
The Worst Journey in the World (1922) by Apsley Cherry-Garrard
The Worm Forgives the Plough (1973) by John Stewart Collis
Man-Eaters of Kumaon (1944) by Jim Corbett
Travels in Arabia Deserta (1888) by Charles M. Doughty
Rebecca (1938) by Daphne Du Maurier
The Waste Land (1922) by T. S. Eliot
The Sound and the Fury (1929) by William Faulkner
The Great Gatsby (1925) by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Good Soldier (1915) by Ford Madox Ford
A Passage to India (1924) by E. M. Forster
Mountain Interval (1916) by Robert Frost
North of Boston (1914) by Robert Frost
Love in the Time of Cholera (1985) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Wind in the Willows (1908) by Kenneth Grahame
Pack My Bag: A Self-Portrait (1940) by Henry Green
Life and Fate (1984) by Vasily Grossman
Collected Poems of Thomas Hardy (Wordsworth Collection) (1930) by Thomas Hardy
In Our Time (1925) by Ernest Hemingway
Cavaliers and Roundheads: The English Civil War, 1642-1649 (1993) by Christopher Hibbert
Mein Kampf (1925) by Adolf Hitler
The Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins (1918) by Gerard Manley Hopkins
Last Poems (1922) by A. E. Housman
Brave New World (1932) by Aldous Huxley
The Golden Bowl (1904) by Henry James
Ulysses (1922) by James Joyce
The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men against the Sea (1997) by Sebastian Junger
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
Kim (1901) by Rudyard Kipling
Sons And Lovers (1913) by D. H. Lawrence
Independent People (1946) by Halldór Laxness
The Story of Ferdinand (1936) by Munro Leaf
If This Is a Man (1947) by Primo Levi
If This Is a Man: Remembering Auschwitz (1999) by Primo Levi
Babbitt (1922) by Sinclair Lewis
Blasting and Bombardiering (1937) by Wyndham Lewis
Van Loon's Lives (1942) by Hendrik Willem van Loon
The Towers of Trebizond (1956) by Rose Macaulay
Danube (1989) by Claudio Magris
The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill, Volume II: Alone, 1932-1940 (1988) by William Manchester
Joseph and His Brothers: The Stories of Jacob, Young Joseph, Joseph in Egypt, Joseph the Provider (1934) by Thomas Mann
Being Geniuses Together, 1920-1930 (1968) by Robert McAlmon
Jerusalem Commands (1992) by Michael Moorcock
Lolita (1955) by Vladimir Nabokov
Pale Fire (2011) by Vladimir Nabokov
Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited (1947) by Vladimir Nabokov
The Third Policeman (1967) by Flann O'Brien
The Endless Adventure (1930) by F. S. Oliver
1984 (1949) by George Orwell
Animal Farm (1945) by George Orwell
Homage to Catalonia (1938) by George Orwell
The Unquiet Grave: A Word Cycle by Palinurus (1945) by Cyril Connolly
Good company : diaries : January 1967-December 1970 (1994) by Frances Partridge
Doctor Zhivago (1957) by Boris Pasternak
A Dance to the Music of Time (1955) by Anthony Powell
A Glastonbury Romance (1932) by John Cowper Powys
In Search of Lost Time (1913) by Marcel Proust
The Getting of Wisdom (1910) by Henry Handel Richardson
Midnight's Children (1981) by Salman Rushdie
A History of Western Philosophy (1946) by Bertrand Russell
The Problems of Philosophy (1912) by Bertrand Russell
The Catcher in the Rye (1951) by J. D. Salinger
The Last of the Just (1959) by André Schwarz-Bart
1066 and All That: A Memorable History of England, Comprising All the Parts You Can Remember Including One Hundred and Three Good Things, Five Bad Kings, and Two Genuine Dates (1930) by W.C. Sellar
A Suitable Boy (1993) by Vikram Seth
And Quiet Flows the Don (1928) by Mikhail Sholokhov
The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation (1973) by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Last and First Men (1930) by Olaf Stapledon
Collected Poems (1921) by Edward Thomas
The Leopard (1958) by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
Collected Stories (1969) by William Trevor
The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914 (1966) by Barbara W. Tuchman
Pigeon Feathers and Other Stories (1962) by John Updike
Breakfast of Champions (1974) by Kurt Vonnegut
Mr. Fortune's Maggot (1927) by Sylvia Townsend Warner
The Loved One (1948) by Evelyn Waugh
The History of Mr. Polly (1910) by H. G. Wells
Down with Skool! (1953) by Geoffrey Willans
A Streetcar Named Desire (1947) by Tennessee Williams
The Struggle for Europe (1952) by Chester Wilmot
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1921) by Ludwig Wittgenstein
The Inimitable Jeeves (1923) by P. G. Wodehouse
Complete Diary : 1915-1941 (1977) by Virginia Woolf
The Tower (1928) by W. B. Yeats

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