20th Century Literature

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20th century literature
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4
Brave New World
by Aldous Huxley
52,217 members
749 reviews
3.9
22 Members
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Explanations
ahef1963: I love this book.
8
The Stranger
by Albert Camus
34,367 members
491 reviews
3.9
20 Members
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Explanations
ahef1963: Wonderful book.
10
The Trial
by Franz Kafka
19,355 members
233 reviews
4
16 Members
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11
Ulysses
by James Joyce
23,345 members
334 reviews
4
14 Members
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18
Fahrenheit 451
by Ray Bradbury
51,816 members
983 reviews
4
16 Members
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Explanations
ahef1963 : Disliked it very much.
19
Catch-22
by Joseph Heller
38,924 members
514 reviews
4.1
15 Members
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20
The Handmaid's Tale
by Margaret Atwood
40,824 members
1,116 reviews
4.1
15 Members
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Explanations
ahef1963: One of my favourites.
26
Dubliners
by James Joyce
19,138 members
221 reviews
3.9
15 Members
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27
The Magic Mountain
by Thomas Mann
9,285 members
166 reviews
4.2
10 Members
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28
To the Lighthouse
by Virginia Woolf
16,988 members
257 reviews
3.9
13 Members
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29
Midnight's Children
by Salman Rushdie
13,571 members
241 reviews
4
14 Members
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31
Charlotte's Web
by E. B. White
34,906 members
1,006 reviews
4.2
13 Members
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32
Nausea
by Jean-Paul Sartre
9,649 members
79 reviews
3.8
10 Members
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33
The Sound and the Fury
by William Faulkner
16,783 members
221 reviews
4
12 Members
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Explanations
ahef1963 : I hated this book thoroughly.
34
Invisible Man
by Ralph Ellison
15,746 members
203 reviews
4
13 Members
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Explanations
ahef1963 : Cannot get into this book or even understand it.
35
The Plague
by Albert Camus
17,916 members
235 reviews
3.9
12 Members
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Explanations
ahef1963: The best book I have ever read. Terribly depressing. Not my *favourite* book but definitely the best.
36
A Clockwork Orange
by Anthony Burgess
25,249 members
379 reviews
4
13 Members
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Explanations
ahef1963: A brilliant piece of work.
37
A Passage to India
by E. M. Forster
12,107 members
137 reviews
3.8
13 Members
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39
The Bell Jar
by Sylvia Plath
27,192 members
483 reviews
4
13 Members
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40
The Color Purple
by Alice Walker
19,019 members
333 reviews
4.1
12 Members
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42
Pale Fire
by Vladimir Nabokov
7,684 members
133 reviews
4.2
12 Members
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43
Tender Is the Night
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
2,586 members
45 reviews
3.8
10 Members
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44
Disgrace
by J. M. Coetzee
10,593 members
265 reviews
3.8
12 Members
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Explanations
ahef1963: Love this.
45
Ethan Frome
by Edith Wharton
9,266 members
209 reviews
½ 3.6
12 Members
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46
The Blind Assassin
by Margaret Atwood
16,250 members
379 reviews
3.9
10 Members
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47
Possession
by A. S. Byatt
12,666 members
285 reviews
4
13 Members
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Explanations
ahef1963: Didn't like it much.
48
The Lord of the Rings
by J. R. R. Tolkien
49,122 members
451 reviews
½ 4.5
11 Members
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49
Go Tell It on the Mountain
by James Baldwin
5,490 members
109 reviews
3.9
10 Members
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50
Heart of Darkness and The Secret Sharer
by Joseph Conrad
4,539 members
41 reviews
½ 3.7
10 Members
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Explanations
ManWithAnAgenda: Duplicate
51
Watership Down
by Richard Adams
24,075 members
463 reviews
4.2
10 Members
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52
Buddenbrooks
by Thomas Mann
5,523 members
104 reviews
4.2
9 Members
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53
The Secret Garden
by Frances Hodgson Burnett
33,653 members
539 reviews
4.1
11 Members
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54
Lolita
by Vladimir Nabokov
30,973 members
548 reviews
4.1
12 Members
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55
The Chosen
by Chaim Potok
6,507 members
94 reviews
4.1
12 Members
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The Castle
by Franz Kafka
8,246 members
87 reviews
3.9
10 Members
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57
The Hound of the Baskervilles
by Arthur Conan Doyle
14,728 members
287 reviews
3.9
11 Members
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58
The Fellowship of the Ring
by J. R. R. Tolkien
52,422 members
464 reviews
½ 4.4
12 Members
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59
The Master and Margarita
by Mikhail Bulgakov
19,698 members
456 reviews
4.2
11 Members
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Explanations
ahef1963 : Have tried to read it, without success.
60
Their Eyes Were Watching God
by Zora Neale Hurston
18,450 members
337 reviews
4
9 Members
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61
A Streetcar Named Desire
by Tennessee Williams
7,720 members
92 reviews
3.9
11 Members
SigmundFraud, booksinbed, roby72, amanda4242, Myyst, jasmaynard, thecoroner, ahef1963, mspixieears, ManWithAnAgenda, micaclare
Explanations
ahef1963: Probably my favourite play.
62
The Talented Mr. Ripley
by Patricia Highsmith
5,964 members
194 reviews
3.9
10 Members
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63
Of Mice and Men
by John Steinbeck
37,724 members
643 reviews
3.9
11 Members
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Explanations
ahef1963: Beautiful. Cried a lot.
64
Memoirs of Hadrian
by Marguerite Yourcenar
5,268 members
123 reviews
4.1
8 Members
SigmundFraud, jain, aulsmith, roby72, thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda
65
The Two Towers
by J. R. R. Tolkien
46,436 members
297 reviews
½ 4.4
11 Members
eromsted, merrystar, Myyst, cej1027, gypsysmom, ahef1963, linlef, mspixieears, Laura1124, ManWithAnAgenda, SOShea
66
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
by L. Frank Baum
20,929 members
409 reviews
3.9
11 Members
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67
The Return of the King
by J. R. R. Tolkien
44,633 members
273 reviews
½ 4.5
11 Members
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68
The Big Sleep
by Raymond Chandler
9,957 members
278 reviews
4
10 Members
SigmundFraud, roby72, merrystar, thecoroner, rory1000, alex68, Bretzky1, ahef1963, jaredstein, ManWithAnAgenda
69
The Waste Land and Other Poems
by T. S. Eliot
4,433 members
32 reviews
4.2
10 Members
SigmundFraud, thorold, ahef1963, kara.shamy, mspixieears, Laura1124, Rubenwiering, dpmtuan, ManWithAnAgenda, micaclare
70
Murder on the Orient Express
by Agatha Christie
16,171 members
399 reviews
4.1
9 Members
SigmundFraud, merrystar, AlbertineSimonet, cej1027, gypsysmom, ahef1963, konika11, keith0506, SOShea
71
The French Lieutenant's Woman
by John Fowles
6,413 members
105 reviews
3.8
8 Members
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Explanations
ahef1963: The first post-modern book I ever read. Instrumental in making me choose English literature for my degree path.
72
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
12,570 members
193 reviews
4
8 Members
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Explanations
ahef1963: This book gets rave reviews from me.
73
Winesburg, Ohio
by Sherwood Anderson
5,782 members
120 reviews
3.8
9 Members
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76
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
by Italo Calvino
12,120 members
253 reviews
4.1
8 Members
thorold, roby72, Myyst, thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, mspixieears, FranzK72
77
The Book Thief
by Markus Zusak
43,172 members
2,108 reviews
½ 4.4
9 Members
SigmundFraud, booksinbed, KimarieBee, 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.
78
Beloved
by Toni Morrison
22,057 members
399 reviews
3.9
10 Members
jain, roby72, alex68, gypsysmom, ahef1963, kara.shamy, konika11, Laura1124, ManWithAnAgenda, SOShea
79
The Tin Drum
by Günter Grass
7,413 members
91 reviews
4
9 Members
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80
The Leopard
by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
6,342 members
146 reviews
4.1
8 Members
thorold, roby72, thecoroner, lewbs, alex68, mspixieears, Laura1124, FranzK72
81
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
by Ken Kesey
23,541 members
295 reviews
4.1
9 Members
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Explanations
ahef1963: Brilliant novel.
82
We: A Novel
by Yevgeny Zamyatin
8,159 members
205 reviews
3.9
10 Members
roby72, amanda4242, merrystar, Myyst, thecoroner, lewbs, leigonj, alex68, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda
83
Of Human Bondage
by W. Somerset Maugham
8,216 members
142 reviews
4.1
9 Members
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84
The Sun Also Rises
by Ernest Hemingway
22,337 members
324 reviews
3.8
9 Members
SigmundFraud, booksinbed, amanda4242, elkiedee, ahef1963, konika11, Laura1124, ManWithAnAgenda, micaclare
85
The House of Mirth
by Edith Wharton
9,437 members
195 reviews
4
9 Members
SigmundFraud, booksinbed, roby72, merrystar, thecoroner, alex68, gypsysmom, kara.shamy, Hayden4life
86
The Name of the Rose
by Umberto Eco
19,124 members
308 reviews
4.2
10 Members
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Explanations
ahef1963 : So tedious.
87
Howl and Other Poems
by Allen Ginsberg
5,397 members
67 reviews
4
9 Members
eromsted, SigmundFraud, aulsmith, amanda4242, Myyst, mspixieears, Laura1124, sabinebine, ManWithAnAgenda
88
Death of a Salesman
by Arthur Miller
11,763 members
114 reviews
½ 3.6
10 Members
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89
In Cold Blood
by Truman Capote
22,952 members
455 reviews
4.1
9 Members
SigmundFraud, roby72, thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, Laura1124, sabinebine, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda
90
Anne of Green Gables
by L. M. Montgomery
28,190 members
535 reviews
½ 4.3
9 Members
booksinbed, merrystar, elkiedee, cej1027, gypsysmom, ahef1963, linlef, mspixieears, Christina910
91
Good Omens
by Neil Gaiman
33,431 members
778 reviews
½ 4.3
9 Members
hipdeep, amanda4242, merrystar, gypsysmom, ahef1963, linlef, mspixieears, ManWithAnAgenda, SOShea
92
The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials, Book 1)
by Philip Pullman
35,138 members
734 reviews
4.1
10 Members
booksinbed, merrystar, Myyst, rory1000, gypsysmom, ahef1963, linlef, mspixieears, ManWithAnAgenda, SOShea
93
A Wrinkle in Time
by Madeleine L'Engle
37,914 members
937 reviews
4
9 Members
hipdeep, SigmundFraud, merrystar, cej1027, ahef1963, kara.shamy, Christina910, ManWithAnAgenda, SOShea
Explanations
ahef1963: A great childhood favourite.
94
The Good Earth
by Pearl S. Buck
13,446 members
262 reviews
4
10 Members
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95
The Good Soldier
by Ford Madox Ford
4,662 members
106 reviews
3.8
9 Members
hipdeep, SigmundFraud, thorold, roby72, thecoroner, alex68, kara.shamy, Laura1124, FranzK72
96
Amerika
by Franz Kafka
2,270 members
14 reviews
½ 3.7
8 Members
roby72, thecoroner, leigonj, alex68, sabinebine, rplinke, dpmtuan, FranzK72
97
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
by Haruki Murakami
17,422 members
373 reviews
4.2
9 Members
eromsted, booksinbed, thecoroner, lewbs, leigonj, ahef1963, linlef, mspixieears, sabinebine
98
Cry, the Beloved Country
by Alan Paton
9,112 members
174 reviews
4
8 Members
hipdeep, SigmundFraud, aulsmith, gypsysmom, ahef1963, kara.shamy, Laura1124, SOShea
99
Rebecca
by Daphne Du Maurier
19,845 members
588 reviews
4.2
10 Members
SigmundFraud, booksinbed, roby72, gypsysmom, ahef1963, kara.shamy, mspixieears, Laura1124, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda
100
Collected Poems, 1909–1962
by T. S. Eliot
2,951 members
22 reviews
½ 4.4
8 Members
SigmundFraud, thorold, ahef1963, kara.shamy, sabinebine, Rubenwiering, dpmtuan, micaclare