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New York Public Library's Books of the Century

Based on bookaward: New York Public Library's Books of the Century

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Rank Title Author Added CK Order

1

The Great Gatsby

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

82,934 members

1,304 reviews

3.8

13 Members: hipdeep, staffordcastle, Rtrace, smcwl, roby72, desertbloom, merrystar, thecoroner, alex68, Bretzky1, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

2

Nineteen Eighty-Four

by George Orwell

94,274 members

1,450 reviews

4.2

10 Members: staffordcastle, Rtrace, smcwl, aulsmith, roby72, desertbloom, alex68, Bretzky1, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

3

Brave New World

by Aldous Huxley

61,503 members

870 reviews

3.9

11 Members: staffordcastle, Rtrace, smcwl, roby72, desertbloom, merrystar, thecoroner, Bretzky1, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

4

by Ray Bradbury

63,414 members

1,141 reviews

4

11 Members: hipdeep, Rtrace, smcwl, roby72, desertbloom, merrystar, Bretzky1, cej1027, ahef1963, lowtalker, ManWithAnAgenda,thecoroner

5

The Metamorphosis [novella]

15,202 members

277 reviews

3.9

9 Members: smcwl, roby72, thecoroner, alex68, Bretzky1, ahef1963, Saultimate, ManWithAnAgenda, MyFathersDragon

6

To Kill a Mockingbird

89,999 members

1,559 reviews

½ 4.4

9 Members: hipdeep, Rtrace, roby72, desertbloom, merrystar, Bretzky1, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

7

The Catcher in the Rye

by J. D. Salinger

77,149 members

1,197 reviews

3.8

10 Members: smcwl, roby72, desertbloom, merrystar, thecoroner, alex68, Bretzky1, ahef1963, Saultimate, ManWithAnAgenda,cej1027

8

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

by L. Frank Baum

26,627 members

478 reviews

3.9

9 Members: hipdeep, staffordcastle, Rtrace, roby72, merrystar, jasmaynard, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

9

by J. R. R. Tolkien

107,512 members

1,302 reviews

½ 4.3

8 Members: staffordcastle, Rtrace, smcwl, merrystar, cej1027, ahef1963, lowtalker, ManWithAnAgenda,thecoroner

10

The Grapes of Wrath

by John Steinbeck

39,138 members

518 reviews

4.1

9 Members: staffordcastle, Rtrace, roby72, desertbloom, thecoroner, alex68, Bretzky1, cej1027, ManWithAnAgenda

11

by George Bernard Shaw

7,707 members

95 reviews

3.9

8 Members: staffordcastle, smcwl, roby72, jasmaynard, alex68, Bretzky1, ahef1963, lowtalker

12

Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl

13,556 members

245 reviews

4.1

9 Members: staffordcastle, smcwl, roby72, desertbloom, merrystar, thecoroner, alex68, cej1027, ahef1963

13

Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts

by Samuel Beckett

14,624 members

189 reviews

3.9

9 Members: hipdeep, roby72, merrystar, jasmaynard, thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, MyFathersDragon

14

27,457 members

377 reviews

4

6 Members: roby72, desertbloom, thecoroner, alex68, Bretzky1, ahef1963

15

by Albert Camus

40,839 members

580 reviews

3.9

8 Members: smcwl, roby72, merrystar, thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, Saultimate, ManWithAnAgenda

16

A Passage to India

by E. M. Forster

13,963 members

167 reviews

3.8

8 Members: aprille, smcwl, roby72, merrystar, thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

17

One Hundred Years of Solitude

by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

49,694 members

780 reviews

4.2

7 Members: roby72, merrystar, thecoroner, alex68, Bretzky1, ahef1963, lowtalker

18

The Cat in the Hat

25,284 members

564 reviews

4.2

8 Members: staffordcastle, Rtrace, smcwl, merrystar, jasmaynard, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

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The Turn of the Screw

9,435 members

295 reviews

½ 3.4

8 Members: Rtrace, roby72, jasmaynard, thecoroner, alex68, Bretzky1, lowtalker, ManWithAnAgenda

20

Winnie-the-Pooh

15,953 members

223 reviews

½ 4.3

8 Members: hipdeep, staffordcastle, Rtrace, smcwl, merrystar, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

21

In Search of Lost Time

by Marcel Proust

4,374 members

50 reviews

½ 4.6

5 Members: aprille, roby72, desertbloom, thecoroner, alex68

22

The Age of Innocence

by Edith Wharton

15,998 members

335 reviews

4

8 Members: smcwl, roby72, desertbloom, merrystar, thecoroner, alex68, Bretzky1, ahef1963

23

The Handmaid's Tale

by Margaret Atwood

48,392 members

1,236 reviews

4.1

7 Members: Rtrace, roby72, desertbloom, Bretzky1, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

24

Where the Wild Things Are

by Maurice Sendak

30,877 members

1,520 reviews

½ 4.3

7 Members: hipdeep, staffordcastle, merrystar, jasmaynard, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

25

To the Lighthouse

by Virginia Woolf

20,416 members

312 reviews

3.9

6 Members: roby72, merrystar, thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

26

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

54,039 members

854 reviews

4.1

7 Members: hipdeep, staffordcastle, Rtrace, merrystar, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda,thecoroner

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by Truman Capote

26,882 members

517 reviews

4.1

7 Members: Rtrace, roby72, desertbloom, thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

28

Charlotte's Web

41,458 members

1,069 reviews

4.2

6 Members: staffordcastle, Rtrace, merrystar, jasmaynard, cej1027, ahef1963

29

All Quiet on the Western Front

by Erich Maria Remarque

22,072 members

442 reviews

4.1

7 Members: hipdeep, roby72, desertbloom, merrystar, thecoroner, alex68, Bretzky1

30

The Inimitable Jeeves

by P. G. Wodehouse

3,870 members

93 reviews

4

6 Members: aprille, hipdeep, staffordcastle, Rtrace, merrystar, ahef1963

31

The Interpretation of Dreams

by Sigmund Freud

6,260 members

56 reviews

½ 3.5

6 Members: aprille, roby72, thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, MyFathersDragon

32

by Raymond Chandler

11,519 members

314 reviews

4

7 Members: roby72, merrystar, thecoroner, alex68, Bretzky1, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

33

The Hound of the Baskervilles

by Arthur Conan Doyle

17,889 members

341 reviews

3.9

7 Members: staffordcastle, Rtrace, smcwl, roby72, merrystar, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda,thecoroner

34

by Margaret Wise Brown

22,950 members

751 reviews

4.2

6 Members: staffordcastle, merrystar, jasmaynard, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

35

Stranger in a Strange Land

by Robert A. Heinlein

12,140 members

181 reviews

3.8

6 Members: aprille, staffordcastle, Rtrace, smcwl, merrystar, ManWithAnAgenda

36

by Jorge Luis Borges

8,881 members

134 reviews

½ 4.4

4 Members: roby72, merrystar, thecoroner, alex68

37

The Magic Mountain

11,224 members

195 reviews

4.2

4 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, MyFathersDragon

38

41,376 members

684 reviews

4

6 Members: hipdeep, staffordcastle, Rtrace, Bretzky1, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda,thecoroner

39

by Ezra Jack Keats

19,700 members

798 reviews

4.2

5 Members: hipdeep, merrystar, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

40

Six Characters in Search of an Author

by Luigi Pirandello

1,653 members

38 reviews

3.8

5 Members: aprille, roby72, thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963

41

Sarah, Plain and Tall

by Patricia MacLachlan

13,886 members

307 reviews

3.8

5 Members: aprille, merrystar, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

42

Things Fall Apart

by Chinua Achebe

23,347 members

460 reviews

3.8

5 Members: roby72, Bretzky1, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

43

A Clockwork Orange

by Anthony Burgess

28,663 members

416 reviews

4

5 Members: Rtrace, roby72, alex68, ahef1963, MyFathersDragon

44

Holy Bible: New Revised Standard Version

2,592 members

13 reviews

4

5 Members: hipdeep, smcwl, desertbloom, cej1027, ahef1963

45

The Complete Maus

by Art Spiegelman

10,754 members

286 reviews

½ 4.5

4 Members: hipdeep, cej1027, ManWithAnAgenda, MyFathersDragon

46

The Tale of Peter Rabbit

by Beatrix Potter

15,186 members

193 reviews

4.1

5 Members: staffordcastle, smcwl, merrystar, cej1027, ahef1963

47

by Vladimir Nabokov

35,283 members

635 reviews

4.1

5 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, Bretzky1, ManWithAnAgenda,cej1027

48

by Simone de Beauvoir

2,938 members

22 reviews

4.1

4 Members: aprille, roby72, thecoroner, alex68

49

by Ralph Ellison

18,414 members

231 reviews

4

6 Members: hipdeep, roby72, desertbloom, thecoroner, alex68, Bretzky1,merrystar

50

The Mysterious Affair at Styles

by Agatha Christie

10,982 members

351 reviews

3.8

4 Members: aprille, staffordcastle, merrystar, ahef1963

51

by Joseph Heller

44,351 members

578 reviews

4.1

4 Members: hipdeep, roby72, thecoroner, Bretzky1

52

The Golden Notebook

by Doris Lessing

5,996 members

99 reviews

½ 3.6

4 Members: smcwl, roby72, thecoroner, alex68

53

The Meaning of Relativity

by Albert Einstein

845 members

5 reviews

3.9

4 Members: aprille, smcwl, desertbloom, MyFathersDragon

54

2,430 members

47 reviews

4.1

4 Members: aprille, hipdeep, desertbloom, cej1027

55

1,178 members

25 reviews

4

4 Members: aprille, hipdeep, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

56

by John Dos Passos

1,711 members

14 reviews

4

4 Members: aprille, roby72, thecoroner, alex68

57

And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic

by Randy Shilts

3,263 members

63 reviews

½ 4.4

4 Members: aprille, hipdeep, smcwl, jasmaynard

58

For Whom the Bell Tolls

by Ernest Hemingway

21,566 members

222 reviews

3.9

5 Members: staffordcastle, desertbloom, merrystar, Bretzky1, ahef1963,thecoroner

59

The Time Machine

20,243 members

385 reviews

½ 3.7

5 Members: Rtrace, roby72, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda,thecoroner

60

Wide Sargasso Sea

9,463 members

273 reviews

½ 3.6

4 Members: Bretzky1, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

61

Portnoy's Complaint

8,027 members

160 reviews

½ 3.6

4 Members: smcwl, roby72, thecoroner, ahef1963

62

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

18,565 members

482 reviews

½ 4.3

4 Members: smcwl, desertbloom, merrystar, ahef1963,thecoroner

63

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

10,470 members

149 reviews

½ 4.3

3 Members: aprille, desertbloom, MyFathersDragon

64

My Fight for Birth Control

by Margaret Sanger

15 members

4

2 Members: aprille, ManWithAnAgenda

65

by Marguerite Duras

6,091 members

167 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: thecoroner, alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

66

24,644 members

429 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: aprille, jasmaynard, Bretzky1

67

12,933 members

240 reviews

½ 4.3

3 Members: Bretzky1, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

68

How to Win Friends and Influence People

by Dale Carnegie

16,468 members

200 reviews

4

3 Members: aprille, smcwl, jasmaynard

69

The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition

9,267 members

127 reviews

½ 4.3

4 Members: desertbloom, cej1027, ahef1963, MyFathersDragon,roby72

70

The Innocence of Father Brown

by G. K. Chesterton

2,251 members

62 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: merrystar, cej1027, ahef1963

71

Cry, the Beloved Country

10,583 members

194 reviews

4

2 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963

72

The Good Soldier Švejk

by Jaroslav Hašek

3,964 members

72 reviews

4

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68

73

Joy of Cooking [1931]: A Facsimile of the First Edition 1931

by Irma S. Rombauer

129 members

1 review

3.9

3 Members: hipdeep, desertbloom, merrystar

74

The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA

by James D. Watson

3,296 members

50 reviews

3.8

3 Members: smcwl, ahef1963, MyFathersDragon

75

by Kahlil Gibran

16,385 members

192 reviews

4.1

3 Members: aprille, roby72, ahef1963

76

by Rudyard Kipling

10,212 members

217 reviews

3.8

4 Members: aprille, staffordcastle, desertbloom, ahef1963,thecoroner

77

The Autobiography of Malcolm X

11,405 members

144 reviews

½ 4.3

3 Members: hipdeep, smcwl, ahef1963

78

Gone with the Wind

by Margaret Mitchell

26,033 members

477 reviews

½ 4.3

3 Members: roby72, desertbloom, merrystar

79

by Jack Kerouac

30,685 members

424 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, Bretzky1

80

The Story of My Life

by Helen Keller

5,983 members

64 reviews

3.9

3 Members: aprille, smcwl, merrystar

81

Coming of Age in Samoa

by Margaret Mead

1,509 members

19 reviews

½ 3.5

3 Members: aprille, staffordcastle, ahef1963

82

by Anton Chekhov

1,178 members

19 reviews

3.8

3 Members: aprille, roby72, merrystar

83

Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care

by Benjamin Spock

1,212 members

8 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: aprille, staffordcastle, ahef1963

84

by Grace Metalious

1,845 members

40 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: aprille, ManWithAnAgenda

85

by James Hilton

4,467 members

109 reviews

3.9

2 Members: aprille, ManWithAnAgenda

86

The Color Purple

by Alice Walker

22,596 members

369 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

87

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

26,706 members

319 reviews

4.1

3 Members: hipdeep, smcwl, ahef1963,thecoroner

88

The Fire Next Time

by James Baldwin

6,142 members

165 reviews

½ 4.4

2 Members: hipdeep, jasmaynard

89

The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism and Other Writings

721 members

1 review

½ 3.7

2 Members: aprille, jasmaynard

90

Shadows on the Rock

by Willa Cather

1,022 members

27 reviews

3.9

2 Members: aprille, desertbloom

91

The Portable Faulkner: Revised and Expanded Edition

by William Faulkner

687 members

6 reviews

4.2

2 Members: aprille, desertbloom

92

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

by Maya Angelou

17,544 members

259 reviews

4

2 Members: desertbloom, merrystar

93

The Metamorphosis and Other Stories [Dover]

1,858 members

11 reviews

4

2 Members: ahef1963, MyFathersDragon

94

Dust Tracks on a Road

by Zora Neale Hurston

1,588 members

19 reviews

4

2 Members: hipdeep, smcwl

95

by Joseph Conrad

10,158 members

127 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: roby72, desertbloom

96

by Stephen King

17,245 members

341 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963

97

The Day of the Locust

by Nathanael West

2,079 members

57 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

98

The Wild Swans of Coole and other poems

by William Butler Yeats

98 members

5 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963

99

The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales

by Bruno Bettelheim

3,523 members

33 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: smcwl, ahef1963

100

The War Poems of Siegfried Sassoon

by Siegfried Sassoon

111 members

2 reviews

3.9

2 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963

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