Book AwardsBoston Public Library's 100 Most Influential Books of the Century

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Works (95)

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