1940s

3
The Stranger
by Albert Camus
40,773 members
580 reviews
3.9
14 Members
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4
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
by Anne Frank
13,544 members
245 reviews
4.1
10 Members
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5
The Little Prince
by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
53,040 members
875 reviews
4.2
8 Members
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6
Cry, the Beloved Country
by Alan Paton
10,584 members
194 reviews
4
7 Members
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7
Fictions
by Jorge Luis Borges
8,865 members
134 reviews
½ 4.4
6 Members
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8
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
by Carson McCullers
11,955 members
271 reviews
4
9 Members
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9
For Whom the Bell Tolls
by Ernest Hemingway
21,570 members
222 reviews
3.9
8 Members
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10
Brideshead Revisited
by Evelyn Waugh
14,102 members
286 reviews
4
8 Members
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11
I Capture the Castle
by Dodie Smith
10,135 members
322 reviews
4.1
6 Members
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12
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
by Betty Smith
18,543 members
482 reviews
½ 4.3
7 Members
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13
Death of a Salesman
by Arthur Miller
14,258 members
138 reviews
½ 3.6
7 Members
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14
Stuart Little
by E. B. White
18,371 members
157 reviews
3.8
7 Members
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15
Pippi Longstocking
by Astrid Lindgren
12,818 members
174 reviews
4
7 Members
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16
The Screwtape Letters
by C. S. Lewis
9,384 members
118 reviews
4.1
6 Members
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17
Other Voices, Other Rooms
by Truman Capote
2,871 members
56 reviews
3.8
6 Members
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18
Goodnight Moon
by Margaret Wise Brown
22,913 members
750 reviews
4.2
6 Members
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19
Native Son
by Richard Wright
8,757 members
112 reviews
4
5 Members
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20
Cannery Row
by John Steinbeck
11,161 members
214 reviews
4
6 Members
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21
The Plague
by Albert Camus
21,074 members
281 reviews
3.9
5 Members
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22
The Once and Future King
by T. H. White
17,325 members
224 reviews
4.1
5 Members
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23
Blueberries for Sal
by Robert McCloskey
9,910 members
152 reviews
4.2
5 Members
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24
Under the Volcano
by Malcolm Lowry
5,001 members
101 reviews
3.8
4 Members
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25
The Second Sex
by Simone de Beauvoir
2,953 members
22 reviews
4.1
4 Members
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26
The Glass Menagerie
by Tennessee Williams
7,444 members
76 reviews
½ 3.7
5 Members
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27
Dangling Man
by Saul Bellow
1,120 members
16 reviews
½ 3.4
5 Members
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28
Doctor Faustus
by Thomas Mann
4,735 members
50 reviews
4.2
3 Members
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29
Invisible Man
by Ralph Ellison
18,392 members
231 reviews
4
4 Members
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30
The Death of Virgil
by Hermann Broch
1,387 members
16 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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31
The Naked and the Dead
by Norman Mailer
4,533 members
49 reviews
3.9
4 Members
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32
Curious George
by H. A. Rey
8,376 members
96 reviews
3.9
5 Members
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33
The Power and the Glory
by Graham Greene
8,623 members
147 reviews
3.9
5 Members
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34
The Bridge on the Drina
by Ivo Andrić
2,785 members
68 reviews
4.2
4 Members
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35
A Streetcar Named Desire
by Tennessee Williams
9,260 members
112 reviews
3.9
4 Members
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36
The Makioka Sisters
by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki
2,530 members
48 reviews
4.1
4 Members
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37
Suite Française
by Irène Némirovsky
10,597 members
356 reviews
4
4 Members
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38
The Razor's Edge
by W. Somerset Maugham
6,958 members
129 reviews
4.1
4 Members
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39
The Thurber Carnival
by James Thurber
2,826 members
37 reviews
4.2
3 Members
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40
Christ Stopped at Eboli
by Carlo Levi
2,252 members
54 reviews
4
3 Members
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41
The Case of Charles Dexter Ward
by H. P. Lovecraft
1,838 members
38 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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42
No Exit
by Jean-Paul Sartre
1,291 members
23 reviews
4
3 Members
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43
Conversations in Sicily
by Elio Vittorini
773 members
9 reviews
½ 3.7
3 Members
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44
The Tartar Steppe
by Dino Buzzati
3,134 members
73 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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45
Confessions of a Mask
by Yukio Mishima
3,104 members
53 reviews
3.9
3 Members
roby72, thecoroner, alex68
46
Good Evening, Mrs. Craven: The Wartime Stories of Mollie Panter-Downes
by Mollie Panter-Downes
543 members
25 reviews
4.2
2 Members
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47
House of Liars
by Elsa Morante
234 members
4 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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48
The President
by Miguel Ángel Asturias
1,231 members
22 reviews
4
3 Members
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49
Farewell, My Lovely
by Raymond Chandler
5,050 members
113 reviews
4
2 Members
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50
The Aleph
by Jorge Luis Borges
2,697 members
70 reviews
4.2
2 Members
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51
Finn Family Moomintroll
by Tove Jansson
2,897 members
59 reviews
½ 4.3
2 Members
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52
Miracle on 34th Street
by Valentine Davies
1,142 members
20 reviews
3.8
3 Members
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53
The Wayward Bus
by John Steinbeck
2,394 members
46 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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54
Beautiful Antonio
by Vitaliano Brancati
239 members
5 reviews
½ 3.6
3 Members
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55
Lettere di una novizia
by Guido Piovene
41 members
1 review
½ 3.7
3 Members
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56
Palladian
by Elizabeth Taylor
307 members
13 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
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57
The Lady in the Lake
by Raymond Chandler
3,719 members
69 reviews
4
3 Members
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58
Saplings
by Noel Streatfeild
374 members
18 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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59
Don Giovanni in Sicilia
by Vitaliano Brancati
251 members
4 reviews
½ 3.5
3 Members
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60
Men and Not Men
by Elio Vittorini
424 members
7 reviews
½ 3.7
3 Members
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61
Agostino
by Alberto Moravia
558 members
16 reviews
½ 3.4
3 Members
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62
A View of the Harbour
by Elizabeth Taylor
675 members
35 reviews
4
2 Members
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63
The Pursuit of Love
by Nancy Mitford
2,136 members
85 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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64
A Time to Kill
by Ennio Flaiano
250 members
6 reviews
½ 3.6
3 Members
roby72, thecoroner, alex68
65
The Invention of Morel [novella]
by Adolfo Bioy Casares
3,126 members
101 reviews
3.9
3 Members
roby72, thecoroner, alex68
66
The Dream​-​Quest of Unknown Kadath and Others
by H. P. Lovecraft
1,451 members
21 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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67
Four Quartets
by T. S. Eliot
3,750 members
47 reviews
½ 4.4
2 Members
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68
The Little White Horse
by Elizabeth Goudge
2,921 members
56 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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69
The High Window
by Raymond Chandler
3,175 members
57 reviews
4
2 Members
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70
House-Bound
by Winifred Peck
139 members
4 reviews
½ 3.6
2 Members
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71
If This Is a Man
by Primo Levi
6,657 members
102 reviews
½ 4.3
2 Members
Myyst, alex68
72
The Reluctant Widow
by Georgette Heyer
1,678 members
66 reviews
3.8
2 Members
inge87, merrystar
73
Gigi [novella]
by Colette
183 members
5 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
inge87, alex68
74
Life of Galileo
by Bertolt Brecht
2,502 members
17 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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75
The Sheltering Sky
by Paul Bowles
4,763 members
89 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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76
Delta Wedding
by Eudora Welty
1,127 members
22 reviews
½ 3.6
2 Members
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77
Alicia: My Story
by Alicia Appleman-Jurman
713 members
11 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
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78
One Fine Day
by Mollie Panter-Downes
420 members
19 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
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79
Hiroshima
by John Hersey
2,432 members
47 reviews
4.1
2 Members
hipdeep, alex68
80
All the King's Men
by Robert Penn Warren
8,100 members
133 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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81
Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle
by Betty MacDonald
5,601 members
47 reviews
4.1
2 Members
merrystar, ManWithAnAgenda
82
The Long Winter
by Laura Ingalls Wilder
11,984 members
110 reviews
4.2
2 Members
merrystar, ManWithAnAgenda
83
Joseph and His Brothers: The Stories of Jacob, Young Joseph, Joseph in Egypt, Joseph the Provider
by Thomas Mann
1,257 members
20 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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Explanations
ManWithAnAgenda : Published 1933
84
Silverlock
by John Myers Myers
1,106 members
21 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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85
Chess Story
by Stefan Zweig
5,002 members
140 reviews
4.1
2 Members
Myyst, alex68
86
The Beautiful Summer
by Cesare Pavese
697 members
16 reviews
½ 3.6
2 Members
roby72, alex68
87
Caligula
by Albert Camus
453 members
11 reviews
3.9
2 Members
Myyst, alex68
88
The Thief's Journal
by Jean Genet
1,701 members
11 reviews
3.9
2 Members
thecoroner, alex68
89
My Enemy's Cradle
by Sara Young
507 members
23 reviews
3.9
Member
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90
The White Deer
by James Thurber
353 members
4 reviews
4.1
Member
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91
The Pearl
by John Steinbeck
15,222 members
238 reviews
½ 3.5
2 Members
alex68, ManWithAnAgenda
92
Montana 1948
by Larry Watson
1,774 members
76 reviews
3.9
Member
dara85
93
Der Tod von Reval
by Werner Bergengruen
42 members
3 reviews
3.9
Member
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94
The City and the Pillar {original}
by Gore Vidal
207 members
1 review
½ 3.6
Member
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95
The Lark in the Morn
by Elfrida Vipont
131 members
4 reviews
4.1
Member
inge87
96
The Water and the Blood
by Nancy E. Turner
110 members
5 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
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97
Mine Boy
by Peter Abrahams
219 members
5 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
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98
The Gallery
by John Horne Burns
399 members
9 reviews
3.8
Member
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99
The Stone of Chastity
by Margery Sharp
83 members
8 reviews
3.8
Member
inge87
100
Hughie
by Eugene O'Neill
49 members
1 review
½ 3.6
Member
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