Book AwardsA Century of Reading by LitHub

Book awards by cover

Works (119)

TitlesOrder
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon — not in English Common Knowledge [2000]
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen — not in English Common Knowledge [2000]
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson — not in English Common Knowledge [1970]
The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan — not in English Common Knowledge [1960]
Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon — not in English Common Knowledge [1970]
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote — not in English Common Knowledge [1960]
Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays by Joan Didion — not in English Common Knowledge [1960]
The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen — not in English Common Knowledge [2010]
Ulysses by James Joyce — not in English Common Knowledge [1920]
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead — not in English Common Knowledge [2010]
The Call of the Wild by Jack London — not in English Common Knowledge1900s
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad — not in English Common Knowledge1900s
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle — not in English Common Knowledge1900s
The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton — not in English Common Knowledge1900s
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair — not in English Common Knowledge1900s
The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. Du Bois — not in English Common Knowledge1900s
The Story of My Life by Helen Keller — not in English Common Knowledge1900s
Up from Slavery by Booker T. Washington — not in English Common Knowledge1900s
The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James — not in English Common Knowledge1900s
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum — not in English Common Knowledge1900s
The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud — not in English Common Knowledge1910s
The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington — not in English Common Knowledge1910s
Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie — not in English Common Knowledge1910s
O Pioneers! by Willa Cather — not in English Common Knowledge1910s
Riders of the Purple Sage by Zane Grey — not in English Common Knowledge1910s
Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs — not in English Common Knowledge1910s
Tender Buttons by Gertrude Stein — not in English Common Knowledge1910s
Twenty Years at Hull-House by Jane Addams — not in English Common Knowledge1910s
The Wild Swans at Coole by William Butler Yeats — not in English Common Knowledge1910s
Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson — not in English Common Knowledge1910s
Cane by Jean Toomer — not in English Common Knowledge1920s
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald — not in English Common Knowledge1920s
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf — not in English Common Knowledge1920s
The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie — not in English Common Knowledge1920s
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner — not in English Common Knowledge1920s
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway — not in English Common Knowledge1920s
Swann's Way by Marcel Proust — not in English Common Knowledge1920s
The Waste Land and Other Poems by T. S. Eliot — not in English Common Knowledge1920s
The Weary Blues by Langston Hughes — not in English Common Knowledge1920s
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley — not in English Common Knowledge1930s
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell — not in English Common Knowledge1930s
The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck — not in English Common Knowledge1930s
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck — not in English Common Knowledge1930s
How to Win Friends & Influence People by Dale Carnegie — not in English Common Knowledge1930s
Joy of Cooking [1951-1974] by Irma S. Rombauer — not in English Common Knowledge1930s
The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett — not in English Common Knowledge1930s
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka — not in English Common Knowledge1930s
Nightwood by Djuna Barnes — not in English Common Knowledge1930s
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston — not in English Common Knowledge1930s
1984 by George Orwell — not in English Common Knowledge1940s
Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care by Benjamin Spock — not in English Common Knowledge1940s
Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown — not in English Common Knowledge1940s
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers — not in English Common Knowledge1940s
The Lottery and Other Stories by Shirley Jackson — not in English Common Knowledge1940s
Native Son by Richard Wright — not in English Common Knowledge1940s
Sexual Behavior in the Human Male by Alfred C. Kinsey — not in English Common Knowledge1940s
A Street in Bronzeville by Gwendolyn Brooks — not in English Common Knowledge1940s
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith — not in English Common Knowledge1940s
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand — not in English Common Knowledge1950s
The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger — not in English Common Knowledge1950s
Exodus by Leon Uris — not in English Common Knowledge1950s
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury — not in English Common Knowledge1950s
The Fellowship of the Ring by J. R. R. Tolkien — not in English Common Knowledge1950s
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison — not in English Common Knowledge1950s
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov — not in English Common Knowledge1950s
Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin — not in English Common Knowledge1950s
On the Road by Jack Kerouac — not in English Common Knowledge1950s
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe — not in English Common Knowledge1950s
Ariel by Sylvia Plath — not in English Common Knowledge1960s
The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X — not in English Common Knowledge1960s
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou — not in English Common Knowledge1960s
Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth — not in English Common Knowledge1960s
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut — not in English Common Knowledge1960s
Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein — not in English Common Knowledge1960s
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee — not in English Common Knowledge1960s
All the President's Men by Carl Bernstein — not in English Common Knowledge1970s
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret by Judy Blume — not in English Common Knowledge1970s
Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders by Vincent Bugliosi — not in English Common Knowledge1970s
The Joy of Sex by Alex Comfort — not in English Common Knowledge1970s
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez — not in English Common Knowledge1970s
Roots by Alex Haley — not in English Common Knowledge1970s
The Shining by Stephen King — not in English Common Knowledge1970s
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values by Robert M. Pirsig — not in English Common Knowledge1970s
Beloved by Toni Morrison — not in English Common Knowledge1980s
The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe — not in English Common Knowledge1980s
A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes by Stephen Hawking — not in English Common Knowledge1980s
The Color Purple by Alice Walker — not in English Common Knowledge1980s
The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros — not in English Common Knowledge1980s
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry — not in English Common Knowledge1980s
Neuromancer by William Gibson — not in English Common Knowledge1980s
The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie — not in English Common Knowledge1980s
What We Talk about When We Talk about Love by Raymond Carver — not in English Common Knowledge1980s
White Noise by Don DeLillo — not in English Common Knowledge1980s
Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt — not in English Common Knowledge1990s
Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes, Parts 1 & 2 by Tony Kushner — not in English Common Knowledge1990s
Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding — not in English Common Knowledge1990s
Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk — not in English Common Knowledge1990s
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace — not in English Common Knowledge1990s
Interpreter of Maladies: Stories by Jhumpa Lahiri — not in English Common Knowledge1990s
Jesus' Son: Stories by Denis Johnson — not in English Common Knowledge1990s
The Secret History by Donna Tartt — not in English Common Knowledge1990s
The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien — not in English Common Knowledge1990s
The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides — not in English Common Knowledge1990s
2666 by Roberto Bolaño — not in English Common Knowledge2000s
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell — not in English Common Knowledge2000s
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling — not in English Common Knowledge2000s
Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami — not in English Common Knowledge2000s
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro — not in English Common Knowledge2000s
The Road by Cormac McCarthy — not in English Common Knowledge2000s
Runaway by Alice Munro — not in English Common Knowledge2000s
White Teeth by Zadie Smith — not in English Common Knowledge2000s
Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine — not in English Common Knowledge2010s
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara — not in English Common Knowledge2010s
My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante — not in English Common Knowledge2010s
My Struggle: Book 1 by Karl Ove Knausgård — not in English Common Knowledge2010s
Tenth of December: Stories by George Saunders — not in English Common Knowledge2010s
There There by Tommy Orange — not in English Common Knowledge2010s
The Tiger's Wife by Téa Obreht — not in English Common Knowledge2010s
A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan — not in English Common Knowledge2010s