20th Century Literature

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20th century literature
8
The Stranger
by Albert Camus
40,915 members
581 reviews
3.9
20 Members
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Explanations
ahef1963: Wonderful book.
10
The Trial
by Franz Kafka
22,891 members
269 reviews
4
16 Members
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12
Fahrenheit 451
by Ray Bradbury
63,521 members
1,141 reviews
4
18 Members
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Explanations
ahef1963: Disliked it very much.
14
Ulysses
by James Joyce
27,481 members
377 reviews
4
14 Members
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20
Catch-22
by Joseph Heller
44,402 members
578 reviews
4.1
16 Members
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21
The Handmaid's Tale
by Margaret Atwood
48,451 members
1,237 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
41,473 members
1,069 reviews
4.2
15 Members
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23
Heart of Darkness
by Joseph Conrad
26,408 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
19,548 members
247 reviews
4
13 Members
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Explanations
ahef1963: I hated this book thoroughly.
29
Dubliners
by James Joyce
22,146 members
265 reviews
3.9
15 Members
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30
Invisible Man
by Ralph Ellison
18,433 members
231 reviews
4
13 Members
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31
To the Lighthouse
by Virginia Woolf
20,342 members
312 reviews
3.9
14 Members
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32
The Magic Mountain
by Thomas Mann
11,243 members
195 reviews
4.2
10 Members
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33
Midnight's Children
by Salman Rushdie
15,559 members
270 reviews
4
15 Members
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34
Nausea
by Jean-Paul Sartre
11,516 members
102 reviews
½ 3.7
10 Members
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35
A Clockwork Orange
by Anthony Burgess
28,705 members
416 reviews
4
14 Members
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Explanations
ahef1963: A brilliant piece of work.
38
The Bell Jar
by Sylvia Plath
32,737 members
560 reviews
4
14 Members
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39
The Color Purple
by Alice Walker
22,621 members
369 reviews
4.1
13 Members
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41
The Plague
by Albert Camus
21,148 members
281 reviews
3.9
12 Members
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42
The Blind Assassin
by Margaret Atwood
17,781 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
57,006 members
496 reviews
½ 4.5
12 Members
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44
The Chosen
by Chaim Potok
7,101 members
101 reviews
4.1
13 Members
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45
Possession
by A. S. Byatt
14,268 members
314 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
6,928 members
134 reviews
3.9
11 Members
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47
Their Eyes Were Watching God
by Zora Neale Hurston
22,358 members
387 reviews
4
11 Members
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48
Pale Fire
by Vladimir Nabokov
9,019 members
157 reviews
4.2
12 Members
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49
Tender Is the Night
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
14,579 members
195 reviews
½ 3.7
10 Members
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51
Disgrace
by J. M. Coetzee
11,846 members
299 reviews
3.9
12 Members
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Explanations
ahef1963: Love this.
52
Ethan Frome
by Edith Wharton
10,671 members
241 reviews
½ 3.6
12 Members
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54
The Fellowship of the Ring
by J. R. R. Tolkien
63,861 members
575 reviews
½ 4.4
13 Members
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55
Watership Down
by Richard Adams
27,986 members
513 reviews
4.2
10 Members
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56
A Streetcar Named Desire
by Tennessee Williams
9,240 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
7,253 members
224 reviews
3.9
11 Members
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58
Of Mice and Men
by John Steinbeck
44,680 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
6,494 members
113 reviews
4.2
9 Members
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60
The Two Towers
by J. R. R. Tolkien
56,418 members
357 reviews
½ 4.4
12 Members
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62
The Castle
by Franz Kafka
9,610 members
119 reviews
3.9
10 Members
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63
The Return of the King
by J. R. R. Tolkien
54,773 members
337 reviews
½ 4.5
12 Members
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64
The Big Sleep
by Raymond Chandler
11,540 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
20,710 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
23,879 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
10,000 members
247 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
7,095 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
52,429 members
2,241 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
10,756 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
26,749 members
319 reviews
4.1
10 Members
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Explanations
ahef1963: Brilliant novel.
77
The Sun Also Rises
by Ernest Hemingway
25,738 members
374 reviews
3.8
10 Members
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78
Beloved
by Toni Morrison
26,610 members
447 reviews
3.9
11 Members
jain, roby72, sturlington, alex68, gypsysmom, ahef1963, kara.shamy, konika11, Laura1124, ManWithAnAgenda, SOShea
79
Lolita
by Vladimir Nabokov
35,324 members
636 reviews
4.1
12 Members
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80
The Good Soldier
by Ford Madox Ford
5,321 members
121 reviews
3.8
11 Members
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81
The Name of the Rose
by Umberto Eco
21,775 members
334 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
14,279 members
139 reviews
½ 3.6
11 Members
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83
The Leopard
by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
7,666 members
172 reviews
4.1
9 Members
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84
In Cold Blood
by Truman Capote
26,906 members
518 reviews
4.1
10 Members
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85
Good Omens
by Neil Gaiman
39,111 members
875 reviews
4.2
10 Members
hipdeep, amanda4242, merrystar, sturlington, gypsysmom, ahef1963, linlef, mspixieears, ManWithAnAgenda, SOShea
86
Northern Lights
by Philip Pullman
40,158 members
793 reviews
4.1
11 Members
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87
A Wrinkle in Time
by Madeleine L'Engle
45,548 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
15,328 members
290 reviews
4
11 Members
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89
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
14,544 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
6,555 members
136 reviews
3.8
9 Members
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91
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
by Italo Calvino
14,303 members
284 reviews
4
8 Members
thorold, roby72, Myyst, thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, mspixieears, FranzK72
92
Rebecca
by Daphne Du Maurier
23,975 members
687 reviews
4.2
11 Members
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93
The Tin Drum
by Günter Grass
8,410 members
104 reviews
4
9 Members
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94
The Magician's Nephew
by C. S. Lewis
34,624 members
411 reviews
3.9
10 Members
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95
Of Human Bondage
by W. Somerset Maugham
9,397 members
165 reviews
4.1
9 Members
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96
Kindred
by Octavia E. Butler
10,742 members
408 reviews
4.2
9 Members
hipdeep, dara85, jain, booksinbed, sturlington, gypsysmom, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, SOShea
97
Howl and Other Poems
by Allen Ginsberg
6,186 members
71 reviews
4
9 Members
eromsted, SigmundFraud, aulsmith, amanda4242, Myyst, mspixieears, Laura1124, sabinebine, ManWithAnAgenda
98
Anne of Green Gables
by L. M. Montgomery
36,004 members
630 reviews
½ 4.3
9 Members
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99
The Age of Innocence
by Edith Wharton
15,831 members
335 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
19,485 members
306 reviews
4.1
10 Members
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