20th Century Literature

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20th century literature
8
The Stranger
by Albert Camus
41,014 members
584 reviews
3.9
20 Members
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Explanations
ahef1963: Wonderful book.
10
The Trial
by Franz Kafka
22,972 members
270 reviews
4
16 Members
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12
Fahrenheit 451
by Ray Bradbury
63,663 members
1,143 reviews
4
18 Members
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Explanations
ahef1963: Disliked it very much.
14
Ulysses
by James Joyce
27,560 members
378 reviews
4
14 Members
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20
Catch-22
by Joseph Heller
44,492 members
580 reviews
4.1
16 Members
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21
The Handmaid's Tale
by Margaret Atwood
48,619 members
1,238 reviews
4.1
16 Members
SigmundFraud, booksinbed, roby72, amanda4242, Myyst, sturlington, AlbertineSimonet, elkiedee, Bretzky1, cej1027, gypsysmom, ahef1963, kara.shamy, dpmtuan, ManWithAnAgenda, SOShea
Explanations
ahef1963: One of my favourites.
22
Charlotte's Web
by E. B. White
41,689 members
1,071 reviews
4.2
15 Members
SigmundFraud, dara85, booksinbed, KimarieBee, amanda4242, merrystar, sturlington, cej1027, ahef1963, linlef, mspixieears, Laura1124, dpmtuan, keith0506, micaclare
23
Heart of Darkness
by Joseph Conrad
26,483 members
431 reviews
½ 3.6
19 Members
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Explanations
sturlington: Published in 1899
27
The Sound and the Fury
by William Faulkner
19,595 members
248 reviews
4
13 Members
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Explanations
ahef1963: I hated this book thoroughly.
29
Dubliners
by James Joyce
22,191 members
265 reviews
3.9
15 Members
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30
Invisible Man
by Ralph Ellison
18,459 members
232 reviews
4
13 Members
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31
To the Lighthouse
by Virginia Woolf
20,394 members
312 reviews
3.9
14 Members
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32
The Magic Mountain
by Thomas Mann
11,277 members
195 reviews
4.2
10 Members
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33
Midnight's Children
by Salman Rushdie
15,593 members
271 reviews
4
15 Members
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34
Nausea
by Jean-Paul Sartre
11,537 members
102 reviews
½ 3.7
10 Members
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35
A Clockwork Orange
by Anthony Burgess
28,783 members
418 reviews
4
14 Members
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Explanations
ahef1963: A brilliant piece of work.
38
The Bell Jar
by Sylvia Plath
32,840 members
562 reviews
4
14 Members
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39
The Color Purple
by Alice Walker
22,680 members
371 reviews
4.1
13 Members
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41
The Plague
by Albert Camus
21,209 members
281 reviews
3.9
12 Members
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42
The Blind Assassin
by Margaret Atwood
17,810 members
392 reviews
3.9
11 Members
SigmundFraud, booksinbed, roby72, sturlington, gypsysmom, ahef1963, kara.shamy, linlef, konika11, mspixieears, Laura1124
Explanations
sturlington: 21st century
43
The Lord of the Rings
by J. R. R. Tolkien
57,157 members
497 reviews
½ 4.5
12 Members
KimarieBee, merrystar, Myyst, sturlington, lewbs, gypsysmom, ahef1963, linlef, mspixieears, Laura1124, natevdokia, keith0506,alex68
44
The Chosen
by Chaim Potok
7,114 members
101 reviews
4.1
13 Members
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45
Possession
by A. S. Byatt
14,298 members
315 reviews
4
14 Members
SigmundFraud, booksinbed, roby72, merrystar, sturlington, thecoroner, alex68, gypsysmom, ahef1963, kara.shamy, linlef, Laura1124, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda
Explanations
ahef1963: Didn't like it much.
46
Go Tell It on the Mountain
by James Baldwin
6,945 members
134 reviews
3.9
11 Members
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47
Their Eyes Were Watching God
by Zora Neale Hurston
22,423 members
391 reviews
4
11 Members
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48
Pale Fire
by Vladimir Nabokov
9,039 members
157 reviews
4.2
12 Members
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49
Tender Is the Night
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
14,616 members
195 reviews
½ 3.7
10 Members
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51
Disgrace
by J. M. Coetzee
11,853 members
299 reviews
3.9
12 Members
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Explanations
ahef1963: Love this.
52
Ethan Frome
by Edith Wharton
10,697 members
244 reviews
½ 3.6
12 Members
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54
The Fellowship of the Ring
by J. R. R. Tolkien
64,038 members
577 reviews
½ 4.4
13 Members
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55
Watership Down
by Richard Adams
28,039 members
515 reviews
4.2
10 Members
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56
A Streetcar Named Desire
by Tennessee Williams
9,255 members
114 reviews
3.9
12 Members
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Explanations
ahef1963: Probably my favourite play.
57
The Talented Mr. Ripley
by Patricia Highsmith
7,256 members
226 reviews
3.9
11 Members
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58
Of Mice and Men
by John Steinbeck
44,792 members
727 reviews
3.9
12 Members
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Explanations
ahef1963: Beautiful. Cried a lot.
59
Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family
by Thomas Mann
6,508 members
113 reviews
4.2
9 Members
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60
The Two Towers
by J. R. R. Tolkien
56,546 members
359 reviews
½ 4.4
12 Members
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62
The Castle
by Franz Kafka
9,632 members
119 reviews
3.9
10 Members
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63
The Return of the King
by J. R. R. Tolkien
54,913 members
339 reviews
½ 4.5
12 Members
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64
The Big Sleep
by Raymond Chandler
11,577 members
315 reviews
4
11 Members
SigmundFraud, roby72, merrystar, sturlington, thecoroner, rory1000, alex68, Bretzky1, ahef1963, jaredstein, ManWithAnAgenda
66
Murder on the Orient Express
by Agatha Christie
20,795 members
474 reviews
4.1
10 Members
SigmundFraud, merrystar, sturlington, AlbertineSimonet, cej1027, gypsysmom, ahef1963, konika11, keith0506, SOShea
67
The Master and Margarita
by Mikhail Bulgakov
23,947 members
514 reviews
4.2
11 Members
SigmundFraud, roby72, amanda4242, thecoroner, lewbs, leigonj, alex68, Rubenwiering, dpmtuan, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda,ahef1963
Explanations
ahef1963 : Have tried to read it, without success.
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We
by Yevgeny Zamyatin
9,973 members
248 reviews
3.8
12 Members
roby72, amanda4242, merrystar, Myyst, sturlington, thecoroner, lewbs, leigonj, alex68, ahef1963, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda
72
The French Lieutenant's Woman
by John Fowles
7,106 members
109 reviews
3.8
9 Members
SigmundFraud, roby72, sturlington, thecoroner, elkiedee, alex68, gypsysmom, ahef1963, FranzK72
Explanations
ahef1963: The first post-modern book I ever read. Instrumental in making me choose English literature for my degree path.
74
The Book Thief
by Markus Zusak
52,548 members
2,243 reviews
½ 4.4
10 Members
SigmundFraud, booksinbed, KimarieBee, sturlington, rory1000, gypsysmom, ahef1963, linlef, keith0506, micaclare,jain
Explanations
jain : 21st century (published in 2005).
ahef1963: The amount of tears I shed over this book would cause a flood.
75
The House of Mirth
by Edith Wharton
10,788 members
215 reviews
4
11 Members
SigmundFraud, booksinbed, roby72, merrystar, sturlington, thecoroner, alex68, gypsysmom, ahef1963, kara.shamy, Hayden4life
76
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
by Ken Kesey
26,816 members
320 reviews
4.1
10 Members
eromsted, booksinbed, Myyst, sturlington, leigonj, gypsysmom, ahef1963, linlef, sabinebine, micaclare
Explanations
ahef1963: Brilliant novel.
77
The Sun Also Rises
by Ernest Hemingway
25,803 members
374 reviews
3.8
10 Members
SigmundFraud, booksinbed, amanda4242, sturlington, elkiedee, ahef1963, konika11, Laura1124, ManWithAnAgenda, micaclare
78
Beloved
by Toni Morrison
26,688 members
449 reviews
3.9
11 Members
jain, roby72, sturlington, alex68, gypsysmom, ahef1963, kara.shamy, konika11, Laura1124, ManWithAnAgenda, SOShea
79
Lolita
by Vladimir Nabokov
35,424 members
637 reviews
4.1
12 Members
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80
The Good Soldier
by Ford Madox Ford
5,329 members
121 reviews
3.8
11 Members
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81
The Name of the Rose
by Umberto Eco
21,822 members
336 reviews
4.2
11 Members
SigmundFraud, jain, roby72, merrystar, Myyst, sturlington, thecoroner, lewbs, alex68, gypsysmom, FranzK72,ahef1963
Explanations
ahef1963 : So tedious.
82
Death of a Salesman
by Arthur Miller
14,320 members
139 reviews
½ 3.6
11 Members
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83
The Leopard
by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
7,697 members
171 reviews
4.1
9 Members
thorold, roby72, thecoroner, lewbs, alex68, ahef1963, mspixieears, Laura1124, FranzK72
84
In Cold Blood
by Truman Capote
26,981 members
519 reviews
4.1
10 Members
SigmundFraud, roby72, sturlington, thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, Laura1124, sabinebine, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda
85
Good Omens
by Neil Gaiman
39,196 members
876 reviews
4.2
10 Members
hipdeep, amanda4242, merrystar, sturlington, gypsysmom, ahef1963, linlef, mspixieears, ManWithAnAgenda, SOShea
86
Northern Lights
by Philip Pullman
40,218 members
794 reviews
4.1
11 Members
booksinbed, merrystar, Myyst, sturlington, rory1000, gypsysmom, ahef1963, linlef, mspixieears, ManWithAnAgenda, SOShea
87
A Wrinkle in Time
by Madeleine L'Engle
45,552 members
1,040 reviews
4
10 Members
hipdeep, SigmundFraud, merrystar, sturlington, cej1027, ahef1963, kara.shamy, Christina910, ManWithAnAgenda, SOShea
Explanations
ahef1963: A great childhood favourite.
88
The Good Earth
by Pearl S. Buck
15,362 members
290 reviews
4
11 Members
booksinbed, roby72, sturlington, thecoroner, alex68, cej1027, gypsysmom, ahef1963, Laura1124, FranzK72, SOShea
89
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
14,594 members
232 reviews
4
8 Members
eromsted, SigmundFraud, booksinbed, roby72, AlbertineSimonet, Bretzky1, ahef1963, mspixieears
Explanations
ahef1963: This book gets rave reviews from me.
90
Winesburg, Ohio
by Sherwood Anderson
6,568 members
137 reviews
3.8
9 Members
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91
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
by Italo Calvino
14,340 members
285 reviews
4
8 Members
thorold, roby72, Myyst, thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, mspixieears, FranzK72
92
Rebecca
by Daphne Du Maurier
24,046 members
690 reviews
4.2
11 Members
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93
The Tin Drum
by Günter Grass
8,417 members
104 reviews
4
9 Members
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94
The Magician's Nephew
by C. S. Lewis
34,695 members
411 reviews
3.9
10 Members
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95
Of Human Bondage
by W. Somerset Maugham
9,424 members
166 reviews
4.1
9 Members
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96
Kindred
by Octavia E. Butler
10,786 members
410 reviews
4.2
9 Members
hipdeep, dara85, jain, booksinbed, sturlington, gypsysmom, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, SOShea
97
Howl and Other Poems
by Allen Ginsberg
6,199 members
71 reviews
4
9 Members
eromsted, SigmundFraud, aulsmith, amanda4242, Myyst, mspixieears, Laura1124, sabinebine, ManWithAnAgenda
98
Anne of Green Gables
by L. M. Montgomery
36,106 members
634 reviews
½ 4.3
9 Members
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99
The Age of Innocence
by Edith Wharton
15,881 members
336 reviews
4
11 Members
roby72, amanda4242, merrystar, sturlington, thecoroner, alex68, gypsysmom, ahef1963, kara.shamy, Laura1124, FranzK72,Bretzky1
100
Little House in the Big Woods
by Laura Ingalls Wilder
19,546 members
307 reviews
4.1
10 Members
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