New York Public Library's Books of the Century - All

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New York Public Library's Books of the Century
1
Fahrenheit 451
by Ray Bradbury
63,432 members
1,141 reviews
4
10 Members
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2
The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
82,956 members
1,304 reviews
3.8
9 Members
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3
The Catcher in the Rye
by J. D. Salinger
77,161 members
1,197 reviews
3.8
8 Members
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4
Nineteen Eighty-Four
by George Orwell
94,293 members
1,450 reviews
4.2
8 Members
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5
The Hobbit
by J. R. R. Tolkien
107,533 members
1,302 reviews
½ 4.3
6 Members
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6
Brave New World
by Aldous Huxley
61,516 members
870 reviews
3.9
7 Members
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7
Catch-22
by Joseph Heller
44,363 members
578 reviews
4.1
6 Members
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8
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
by Anne Frank
13,558 members
245 reviews
4.1
6 Members
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9
The Stranger
by Albert Camus
40,849 members
580 reviews
3.9
6 Members
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10
Winnie-the-Pooh
by A. A. Milne
15,958 members
223 reviews
½ 4.3
6 Members
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11
To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee
90,017 members
1,559 reviews
½ 4.4
6 Members
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12
The Complete Maus
by Art Spiegelman
10,755 members
286 reviews
½ 4.5
5 Members
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13
Things Fall Apart
by Chinua Achebe
23,355 members
460 reviews
3.8
6 Members
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14
The Grapes of Wrath
by John Steinbeck
39,147 members
518 reviews
4.1
5 Members
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15
The Age of Innocence
by Edith Wharton
15,817 members
336 reviews
4
5 Members
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16
The Cat in the Hat
by Dr. Seuss
25,293 members
564 reviews
4.2
5 Members
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17
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
by C. S. Lewis
54,051 members
854 reviews
4.1
5 Members
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18
The Hound of the Baskervilles
by Arthur Conan Doyle
17,896 members
341 reviews
3.9
5 Members
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19
In Cold Blood
by Truman Capote
26,878 members
517 reviews
4.1
5 Members
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20
Night
by Elie Wiesel
12,927 members
240 reviews
½ 4.3
4 Members
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21
The Time Machine
by H. G. Wells
20,245 members
385 reviews
½ 3.7
5 Members
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22
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
by L. Frank Baum
26,629 members
478 reviews
3.9
5 Members
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23
The Snowy Day
by Ezra Jack Keats
19,709 members
798 reviews
4.2
5 Members
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24
Holy Bible: New Revised Standard Version
by NRSV
2,593 members
13 reviews
4
5 Members
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25
The Handmaid's Tale
by Margaret Atwood
48,388 members
1,236 reviews
4.1
5 Members
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26
The Tale of Peter Rabbit
by Beatrix Potter
15,194 members
193 reviews
4.1
5 Members
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27
The Innocence of Father Brown
by G. K. Chesterton
2,250 members
62 reviews
½ 3.6
4 Members
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28
Cry, the Beloved Country
by Alan Paton
10,587 members
194 reviews
4
4 Members
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29
The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition
by Anne Frank
9,271 members
127 reviews
½ 4.3
5 Members
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30
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
by Ken Kesey
26,710 members
319 reviews
4.1
4 Members
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31
Lolita
by Vladimir Nabokov
35,291 members
635 reviews
4.1
4 Members
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32
A Passage to India
by E. M. Forster
13,963 members
167 reviews
3.8
4 Members
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33
The Metamorphosis [novella]
by Franz Kafka
15,204 members
277 reviews
3.9
4 Members
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34
Hiroshima
by John Hersey
2,430 members
47 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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35
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
by Malcolm X
11,408 members
144 reviews
½ 4.3
4 Members
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36
Portnoy's Complaint
by Philip Roth
8,027 members
160 reviews
½ 3.6
4 Members
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37
The Big Sleep
by Raymond Chandler
11,520 members
315 reviews
4
4 Members
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38
Etiquette
by Emily Post
883 members
5 reviews
3.9
4 Members
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39
Wide Sargasso Sea
by Jean Rhys
9,464 members
273 reviews
½ 3.6
4 Members
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40
One Hundred Years of Solitude
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
49,698 members
780 reviews
4.2
4 Members
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41
Charlotte's Web
by E. B. White
41,464 members
1,069 reviews
4.2
4 Members
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42
Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts
by Samuel Beckett
14,633 members
189 reviews
3.9
4 Members
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43
Where the Wild Things Are
by Maurice Sendak
31,053 members
1,520 reviews
½ 4.3
4 Members
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44
Stranger in a Strange Land
by Robert A. Heinlein
12,141 members
181 reviews
3.8
3 Members
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45
The Turn of the Screw
by Henry James
9,437 members
295 reviews
½ 3.4
4 Members
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46
To the Lighthouse
by Virginia Woolf
20,421 members
312 reviews
3.9
4 Members
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47
For Whom the Bell Tolls
by Ernest Hemingway
21,574 members
222 reviews
3.9
4 Members
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48
Invisible Man
by Ralph Ellison
18,416 members
231 reviews
4
3 Members
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49
The Interpretation of Dreams
by Sigmund Freud
6,262 members
56 reviews
½ 3.5
3 Members
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50
The Inimitable Jeeves
by P. G. Wodehouse
3,873 members
93 reviews
4
3 Members
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51
The Waste Land
by T. S. Eliot
1,178 members
25 reviews
4
3 Members
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52
The Mysterious Affair at Styles
by Agatha Christie
10,984 members
351 reviews
3.8
3 Members
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53
On the Road
by Jack Kerouac
30,445 members
424 reviews
½ 3.6
3 Members
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54
The Lover
by Marguerite Duras
6,092 members
167 reviews
½ 3.7
3 Members
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55
The Color Purple
by Alice Walker
22,599 members
369 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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56
Pygmalion
by George Bernard Shaw
7,708 members
95 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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57
The Prophet
by Kahlil Gibran
16,389 members
192 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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58
Joy of Cooking [1931]: A Facsimile of the First Edition 1931
by Irma S. Rombauer
129 members
1 review
3.9
3 Members
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59
The Bonfire of the Vanities
by Tom Wolfe
9,725 members
142 reviews
3.8
3 Members
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60
The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA
by James D. Watson
3,297 members
50 reviews
3.8
3 Members
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61
Ulysses
by James Joyce
27,453 members
377 reviews
4
3 Members
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62
Goodnight Moon
by Margaret Wise Brown
22,960 members
751 reviews
4.2
3 Members
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63
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
by Betty Smith
18,571 members
482 reviews
½ 4.3
3 Members
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64
Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care
by Benjamin Spock
1,212 members
8 reviews
½ 3.6
3 Members
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65
Peyton Place
by Grace Metalious
1,845 members
40 reviews
½ 3.6
2 Members
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66
Walden Two
by B. F. Skinner
2,310 members
27 reviews
½ 3.3
2 Members
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67
Lost Horizon
by James Hilton
4,468 members
109 reviews
3.9
2 Members
aprille, ManWithAnAgenda
68
Dracula
by Bram Stoker
41,368 members
684 reviews
4
2 Members
Bretzky1, ManWithAnAgenda
69
The Jungle
by Upton Sinclair
13,303 members
146 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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70
All Quiet on the Western Front
by Erich Maria Remarque
22,078 members
442 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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71
The Country of the Pointed Firs
by Sarah Orne Jewett
1,059 members
29 reviews
3.8
Member
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72
Dust Tracks on a Road
by Zora Neale Hurston
1,588 members
19 reviews
4
2 Members
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73
Atlas Shrugged
by Ayn Rand
24,646 members
429 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
Bretzky1, Laura1124
75
Coming of Age in Samoa
by Margaret Mead
1,509 members
19 reviews
½ 3.5
2 Members
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76
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
by Dee Brown
10,472 members
149 reviews
½ 4.3
2 Members
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77
Six Characters in Search of an Author
by Luigi Pirandello
1,654 members
38 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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78
Sarah, Plain and Tall
by Patricia MacLachlan
13,889 members
307 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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79
The Wild Swans of Coole and other poems
by William Butler Yeats
98 members
5 reviews
½ 3.6
2 Members
hipdeep, ahef1963
80
The Meaning of Relativity
by Albert Einstein
845 members
5 reviews
3.9
2 Members
aprille, hipdeep
81
Native Son
by Richard Wright
8,754 members
112 reviews
4
2 Members
hipdeep, Laura1124
82
The Day of the Locust
by Nathanael West
2,075 members
57 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
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83
The Portable Faulkner: Revised and Expanded Edition
by William Faulkner
687 members
6 reviews
4.2
2 Members
hipdeep, Laura1124
84
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
by James Agee
2,394 members
22 reviews
4
2 Members
aprille, Laura1124
85
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
by Maya Angelou
17,548 members
259 reviews
4
2 Members
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86
Twenty Years at Hull-House
by Jane Addams
911 members
6 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
aprille, hipdeep
87
Three Sisters
by Anton Chekhov
1,178 members
19 reviews
3.8
2 Members
aprille, hipdeep
88
Gone with the Wind
by Margaret Mitchell
26,041 members
477 reviews
½ 4.3
2 Members
Laura1124, steller0707
89
The Fire Next Time
by James Baldwin
6,127 members
165 reviews
½ 4.4
2 Members
Laura1124, steller0707
90
Herland
by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
2,889 members
75 reviews
½ 3.5
Member
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91
A Clockwork Orange
by Anthony Burgess
28,673 members
416 reviews
4
Member
blackdove07
92
The Story of My Life
by Helen Keller
5,984 members
64 reviews
3.9
Member
aprille
93
Kim
by Rudyard Kipling
10,213 members
217 reviews
3.8
Member
aprille
94
Darkness at Noon
by Arthur Koestler
5,975 members
121 reviews
4
Member
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95
Being and Nothingness
by Jean-Paul Sartre
5,633 members
22 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
aprille
96
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism and Other Writings
by Max Weber
722 members
1 review
½ 3.7
Member
aprille
97
Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects
by Bertrand Russell
4,465 members
42 reviews
3.9
Member
aprille
98
The Death and Life of Great American Cities
by Jane Jacobs
4,831 members
47 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
aprille
99
Cancer Ward
by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
4,010 members
58 reviews
4.1
Member
aprille
100
Mein Kampf
by Adolf Hitler
4,788 members
97 reviews
½ 2.7
Member
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