20th Century Literature

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20th century literature
8
The Stranger
by Albert Camus
40,712 members
578 reviews
3.9
20 Members
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Explanations
ahef1963: Wonderful book.
10
The Trial
by Franz Kafka
22,869 members
267 reviews
4
16 Members
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12
Fahrenheit 451
by Ray Bradbury
63,250 members
1,141 reviews
4
18 Members
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Explanations
ahef1963: Disliked it very much.
14
Ulysses
by James Joyce
27,382 members
376 reviews
4
14 Members
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20
Catch-22
by Joseph Heller
44,291 members
578 reviews
4.1
16 Members
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21
The Handmaid's Tale
by Margaret Atwood
48,366 members
1,235 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
41,402 members
1,069 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
26,303 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
19,458 members
247 reviews
4
13 Members
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Explanations
ahef1963: I hated this book thoroughly.
29
Dubliners
by James Joyce
22,089 members
264 reviews
3.9
15 Members
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30
Invisible Man
by Ralph Ellison
18,369 members
231 reviews
4
13 Members
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31
To the Lighthouse
by Virginia Woolf
20,373 members
312 reviews
3.9
14 Members
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32
The Magic Mountain
by Thomas Mann
11,186 members
195 reviews
4.2
10 Members
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33
Midnight's Children
by Salman Rushdie
15,507 members
269 reviews
4
15 Members
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34
Nausea
by Jean-Paul Sartre
11,474 members
102 reviews
½ 3.7
10 Members
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35
A Clockwork Orange
by Anthony Burgess
28,603 members
415 reviews
4
14 Members
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Explanations
ahef1963: A brilliant piece of work.
38
The Bell Jar
by Sylvia Plath
32,653 members
559 reviews
4
14 Members
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39
The Color Purple
by Alice Walker
22,545 members
369 reviews
4.1
13 Members
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41
The Plague
by Albert Camus
21,042 members
283 reviews
3.9
12 Members
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42
The Blind Assassin
by Margaret Atwood
17,750 members
391 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
56,921 members
496 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
7,086 members
101 reviews
4.1
13 Members
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45
Possession
by A. S. Byatt
14,223 members
313 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
6,899 members
134 reviews
3.9
11 Members
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47
Their Eyes Were Watching God
by Zora Neale Hurston
22,255 members
384 reviews
4
11 Members
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48
Pale Fire
by Vladimir Nabokov
8,998 members
159 reviews
4.2
12 Members
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49
Tender Is the Night
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
14,516 members
195 reviews
½ 3.7
10 Members
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51
Disgrace
by J. M. Coetzee
11,828 members
297 reviews
3.9
12 Members
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Explanations
ahef1963: Love this.
52
Ethan Frome
by Edith Wharton
10,643 members
240 reviews
½ 3.6
12 Members
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54
The Fellowship of the Ring
by J. R. R. Tolkien
63,625 members
574 reviews
½ 4.4
13 Members
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55
Watership Down
by Richard Adams
27,902 members
513 reviews
4.2
10 Members
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56
A Streetcar Named Desire
by Tennessee Williams
9,249 members
112 reviews
3.9
12 Members
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Explanations
ahef1963: Probably my favourite play.
57
The Talented Mr. Ripley
by Patricia Highsmith
7,215 members
222 reviews
3.9
11 Members
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58
Of Mice and Men
by John Steinbeck
44,513 members
724 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
6,483 members
113 reviews
4.2
9 Members
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60
The Two Towers
by J. R. R. Tolkien
56,196 members
355 reviews
½ 4.4
12 Members
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62
The Castle
by Franz Kafka
9,571 members
119 reviews
3.9
10 Members
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63
The Return of the King
by J. R. R. Tolkien
54,562 members
335 reviews
½ 4.5
12 Members
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64
The Big Sleep
by Raymond Chandler
11,490 members
314 reviews
4
11 Members
SigmundFraud, roby72, merrystar, sturlington, thecoroner, rory1000, alex68, Bretzky1, ahef1963, jaredstein, ManWithAnAgenda
66
Murder on the Orient Express
by Agatha Christie
20,619 members
472 reviews
4.1
10 Members
SigmundFraud, merrystar, sturlington, AlbertineSimonet, cej1027, gypsysmom, ahef1963, konika11, keith0506, SOShea
67
The Master and Margarita
by Mikhail Bulgakov
23,770 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
9,959 members
246 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
7,077 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
52,240 members
2,239 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
10,737 members
212 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
26,662 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
25,628 members
373 reviews
3.8
10 Members
SigmundFraud, booksinbed, amanda4242, sturlington, elkiedee, ahef1963, konika11, Laura1124, ManWithAnAgenda, micaclare
78
Beloved
by Toni Morrison
26,484 members
447 reviews
3.9
11 Members
jain, roby72, sturlington, alex68, gypsysmom, ahef1963, kara.shamy, konika11, Laura1124, ManWithAnAgenda, SOShea
79
Lolita
by Vladimir Nabokov
35,201 members
633 reviews
4.1
12 Members
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80
The Good Soldier
by Ford Madox Ford
5,338 members
121 reviews
3.8
11 Members
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81
The Name of the Rose
by Umberto Eco
21,770 members
335 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
14,255 members
138 reviews
½ 3.6
11 Members
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83
The Leopard
by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
7,626 members
172 reviews
4.1
9 Members
thorold, roby72, thecoroner, lewbs, alex68, ahef1963, mspixieears, Laura1124, FranzK72
84
In Cold Blood
by Truman Capote
26,818 members
516 reviews
4.1
10 Members
SigmundFraud, roby72, sturlington, thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, Laura1124, sabinebine, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda
85
Good Omens
by Neil Gaiman
38,988 members
875 reviews
4.2
10 Members
hipdeep, amanda4242, merrystar, sturlington, gypsysmom, ahef1963, linlef, mspixieears, ManWithAnAgenda, SOShea
86
Northern Lights
by Philip Pullman
40,082 members
790 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
45,457 members
1,039 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
15,284 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
14,498 members
231 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
6,534 members
136 reviews
3.8
9 Members
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91
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
by Italo Calvino
14,237 members
283 reviews
4
8 Members
thorold, roby72, Myyst, thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, mspixieears, FranzK72
92
Rebecca
by Daphne Du Maurier
23,899 members
685 reviews
4.2
11 Members
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93
The Tin Drum
by Günter Grass
8,397 members
104 reviews
4
9 Members
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94
The Magician's Nephew
by C. S. Lewis
34,496 members
410 reviews
3.9
10 Members
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95
Of Human Bondage
by W. Somerset Maugham
9,398 members
165 reviews
4.1
9 Members
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96
Kindred
by Octavia E. Butler
10,662 members
405 reviews
4.2
9 Members
hipdeep, dara85, jain, booksinbed, sturlington, gypsysmom, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, SOShea
97
Howl and Other Poems
by Allen Ginsberg
6,170 members
71 reviews
4
9 Members
eromsted, SigmundFraud, aulsmith, amanda4242, Myyst, mspixieears, Laura1124, sabinebine, ManWithAnAgenda
98
Anne of Green Gables
by L. M. Montgomery
35,846 members
629 reviews
½ 4.3
9 Members
booksinbed, merrystar, elkiedee, cej1027, gypsysmom, ahef1963, linlef, mspixieears, Christina910
99
The Age of Innocence
by Edith Wharton
15,965 members
334 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
19,432 members
305 reviews
4.1
10 Members
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