1940s

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1984
by George Orwell
79,813 members
1,245 reviews
4.2
17 Members
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3
The Stranger
by Albert Camus
34,635 members
489 reviews
3.9
14 Members
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4
The Diary of a Young Girl
by Anne Frank
27,655 members
500 reviews
4.1
11 Members
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5
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
by Carson McCullers
10,504 members
237 reviews
4
10 Members
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6
Cry, the Beloved Country
by Alan Paton
9,195 members
175 reviews
4
7 Members
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7
The Little Prince
by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
43,147 members
739 reviews
4.2
8 Members
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8
Brideshead Revisited
by Evelyn Waugh
12,304 members
263 reviews
4
9 Members
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9
Fictions
by Jorge Luis Borges
7,384 members
110 reviews
½ 4.4
6 Members
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10
For Whom the Bell Tolls
by Ernest Hemingway
18,509 members
177 reviews
3.9
8 Members
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11
I Capture the Castle
by Dodie Smith
9,022 members
288 reviews
4.1
6 Members
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12
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
by Betty Smith
16,132 members
431 reviews
½ 4.3
7 Members
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13
Death of a Salesman
by Arthur Miller
11,854 members
114 reviews
½ 3.6
7 Members
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14
Goodnight Moon
by Margaret Wise Brown
18,180 members
678 reviews
4.2
7 Members
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15
Stuart Little
by E. B. White
14,362 members
140 reviews
3.8
7 Members
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16
Pippi Longstocking
by Astrid Lindgren
10,151 members
158 reviews
4
7 Members
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17
The Screwtape Letters
by C. S. Lewis
7,682 members
86 reviews
4.1
6 Members
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18
Blueberries for Sal
by Robert McCloskey
7,769 members
142 reviews
4.2
6 Members
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19
Other Voices, Other Rooms
by Truman Capote
2,494 members
47 reviews
3.8
6 Members
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20
The Glass Menagerie
by Tennessee Williams
6,521 members
70 reviews
½ 3.7
6 Members
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21
Native Son
by Richard Wright
7,547 members
98 reviews
3.9
5 Members
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22
Cannery Row
by John Steinbeck
9,659 members
182 reviews
4
6 Members
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23
The Plague
by Albert Camus
18,064 members
236 reviews
3.9
5 Members
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24
Curious George
by H. A. Rey
6,442 members
90 reviews
3.9
6 Members
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25
Under the Volcano
by Malcolm Lowry
4,301 members
86 reviews
3.8
4 Members
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26
The Second Sex
by Simone de Beauvoir
2,332 members
18 reviews
4.1
4 Members
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27
Dangling Man
by Saul Bellow
992 members
12 reviews
½ 3.4
5 Members
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28
Doctor Faustus: The Life of the German Composer Adrian Leverkuhn As Told by a Friend
by Thomas Mann
4,001 members
45 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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29
Invisible Man
by Ralph Ellison
15,886 members
203 reviews
4
4 Members
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30
The Death of Virgil
by Hermann Broch
1,159 members
13 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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31
The Once and Future King
by T. H. White
14,964 members
197 reviews
4.1
5 Members
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Explanations
sturlington : the omnibus was published in 1958
32
The Naked and the Dead
by Norman Mailer
4,064 members
45 reviews
3.9
4 Members
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33
The Power and the Glory
by Graham Greene
7,588 members
121 reviews
3.9
5 Members
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34
The Bridge on the Drina
by Ivo Andrić
2,294 members
64 reviews
4.2
4 Members
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35
No Exit
by Jean-Paul Sartre
1,057 members
17 reviews
3.9
4 Members
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36
A Streetcar Named Desire
by Tennessee Williams
7,775 members
92 reviews
3.9
4 Members
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37
The Makioka Sisters
by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki
2,107 members
42 reviews
4.1
4 Members
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38
Suite Française
by Irène Némirovsky
9,782 members
340 reviews
4
4 Members
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39
The Razor's Edge
by W. Somerset Maugham
6,079 members
115 reviews
4.1
4 Members
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40
The Thurber Carnival
by James Thurber
2,534 members
32 reviews
4.2
3 Members
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41
Christ Stopped at Eboli
by Carlo Levi
1,930 members
40 reviews
4
3 Members
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42
The Case of Charles Dexter Ward
by H. P. Lovecraft
1,611 members
33 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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43
Conversations in Sicily
by Elio Vittorini
649 members
8 reviews
½ 3.7
3 Members
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44
The Tartar Steppe
by Dino Buzzati
2,427 members
56 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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45
Confessions of a Mask
by Yukio Mishima
2,503 members
41 reviews
3.8
3 Members
roby72, thecoroner, alex68
46
Good Evening, Mrs. Craven: The Wartime Stories of Mollie Panter-Downes
by Mollie Panter-Downes
495 members
24 reviews
4.2
2 Members
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47
House of Liars
by Elsa Morante
193 members
4 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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48
The President
by Miguel Ángel Asturias
993 members
17 reviews
4
3 Members
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49
The Aleph
by Jorge Luis Borges
2,252 members
62 reviews
4.2
2 Members
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50
Finn Family Moomintroll
by Tove Jansson
2,426 members
49 reviews
½ 4.3
2 Members
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51
Miracle on 34th Street
by Valentine Davies
939 members
16 reviews
3.8
3 Members
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52
The Wayward Bus
by John Steinbeck
2,040 members
40 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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53
Beautiful Antonio
by Vitaliano Brancati
211 members
3 reviews
½ 3.7
3 Members
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54
Lettere di una novizia
by Guido Piovene
33 members
1 review
½ 3.6
3 Members
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55
Palladian
by Elizabeth Taylor
281 members
12 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
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56
The Lady in the Lake
by Raymond Chandler
3,267 members
67 reviews
4
3 Members
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57
Saplings
by Noel Streatfeild
337 members
17 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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58
Don Giovanni in Sicilia
by Vitaliano Brancati
215 members
4 reviews
½ 3.4
3 Members
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59
Men and Not Men
by Elio Vittorini
365 members
7 reviews
½ 3.7
3 Members
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60
Agostino
by Alberto Moravia
450 members
15 reviews
½ 3.3
3 Members
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61
A View of the Harbour
by Elizabeth Taylor
563 members
32 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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62
The Pursuit of Love
by Nancy Mitford
1,867 members
68 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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63
A Time to Kill
by Ennio Flaiano
209 members
6 reviews
½ 3.5
3 Members
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64
The Invention of Morel
by Adolfo Bioy Casares
2,516 members
78 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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65
The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath
by H. P. Lovecraft
1,281 members
15 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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66
Four Quartets
by T. S. Eliot
3,216 members
40 reviews
½ 4.3
2 Members
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67
The Little White Horse
by Elizabeth Goudge
2,475 members
51 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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68
House-Bound
by Winifred Peck
118 members
3 reviews
½ 3.5
2 Members
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69
If This Is a Man
by Primo Levi
5,947 members
96 reviews
½ 4.3
2 Members
Myyst, alex68
70
The Reluctant Widow
by Georgette Heyer
1,557 members
62 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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71
Gigi
by Colette
354 members
7 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
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72
Life of Galileo
by Bertolt Brecht
2,512 members
18 reviews
3.8
2 Members
hipdeep, Myyst
73
Delta Wedding
by Eudora Welty
978 members
23 reviews
½ 3.6
2 Members
inge87, Laura1124
74
Alicia: My Story
by Alicia Appleman-Jurman
625 members
11 reviews
4.2
Member
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75
One Fine Day
by Mollie Panter-Downes
343 members
16 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
inge87
76
Hiroshima (Expanded edition)
by John Hersey
1,930 members
36 reviews
4.1
2 Members
hipdeep, alex68
77
The Little House
by Virginia Lee Burton
5,207 members
126 reviews
½ 4.3
2 Members
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78
Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle
by Betty MacDonald
4,563 members
38 reviews
4.1
2 Members
merrystar, ManWithAnAgenda
79
The Long Winter
by Laura Ingalls Wilder
9,755 members
92 reviews
4.2
2 Members
merrystar, ManWithAnAgenda
80
Joseph and His Brothers: The Stories of Jacob, Young Joseph, Joseph in Egypt, Joseph the Provider
by Thomas Mann
1,063 members
19 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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Explanations
ManWithAnAgenda : Published 1933
81
Silverlock
by John Myers Myers
1,000 members
20 reviews
3.9
2 Members
merrystar, ManWithAnAgenda
82
The Sheltering Sky
by Paul Bowles
4,226 members
78 reviews
3.8
2 Members
sturlington, alex68
83
Chess Story
by Stefan Zweig
3,867 members
113 reviews
4.1
2 Members
Myyst, alex68
84
The Beautiful Summer
by Cesare Pavese
552 members
15 reviews
½ 3.5
2 Members
roby72, alex68
85
Horton Hatches the Egg
by Dr. Seuss
4,265 members
56 reviews
4.1
2 Members
sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda
86
Now, Voyager
by Olive Higgins Prouty
212 members
9 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
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87
Caligula
by Albert Camus
389 members
11 reviews
3.9
2 Members
Myyst, alex68
88
The Thief's Journal
by Jean Genet
1,454 members
5 reviews
3.9
2 Members
thecoroner, alex68
89
The Black Stallion
by Walter Farley
4,854 members
56 reviews
4
2 Members
sturlington, alex68
90
My Enemy's Cradle
by Sara Pennypacker
474 members
23 reviews
3.9
Member
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91
The White Deer
by James Thurber
320 members
2 reviews
4.1
Member
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92
The Uninvited
by Dorothy Macardle
243 members
18 reviews
4.1
Member
sturlington
93
The Pearl
by John Steinbeck
12,782 members
196 reviews
½ 3.5
2 Members
alex68, ManWithAnAgenda
94
Montana 1948
by Larry Watson
1,573 members
72 reviews
3.9
Member
dara85
95
Dust Tracks on a Road: An Autobiography
by Zora Neale Hurston
1,317 members
18 reviews
4.1
Member
sturlington
96
Mine Boy
by Peter Abrahams
189 members
4 reviews
½ 3.5
Member
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97
Der Tod von Reval
by Werner Bergengruen
40 members
2 reviews
3.9
Member
inge87
98
Laura
by Vera Caspary
542 members
24 reviews
4
Member
sturlington
99
The City and the Pillar {original}
by Gore Vidal
193 members
2 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
100
The Lark in the Morn
by Elfrida Vipont
110 members
3 reviews
4.2
Member
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