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

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New York Public Library's Books of the Century
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Fahrenheit 451
by Ray Bradbury
52,322 members
970 reviews
4
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The Catcher in the Rye
by J. D. Salinger
68,167 members
1,064 reviews
3.8
8 Members
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The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
70,295 members
1,137 reviews
3.8
8 Members
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4
1984
by George Orwell
79,857 members
1,246 reviews
4.2
7 Members
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The Hobbit
by J. R. R. Tolkien
91,758 members
1,165 reviews
½ 4.3
6 Members
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Brave New World
by Aldous Huxley
52,651 members
753 reviews
3.9
7 Members
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Catch-22
by Joseph Heller
39,190 members
514 reviews
4.1
6 Members
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The Age of Innocence
by Edith Wharton
13,543 members
297 reviews
4
6 Members
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The Diary of a Young Girl
by Anne Frank
27,666 members
500 reviews
4.1
6 Members
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The Stranger
by Albert Camus
34,646 members
489 reviews
3.9
6 Members
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Winnie-the-Pooh
by A. A. Milne
13,020 members
200 reviews
½ 4.3
6 Members
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12
To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee
76,543 members
1,418 reviews
½ 4.4
6 Members
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The Complete Maus
by Art Spiegelman
8,381 members
248 reviews
½ 4.5
5 Members
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Things Fall Apart
by Chinua Achebe
20,123 members
425 reviews
3.8
6 Members
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15
The Grapes of Wrath
by John Steinbeck
33,463 members
460 reviews
4.1
5 Members
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16
The Cat in the Hat
by Dr. Seuss
19,721 members
516 reviews
4.2
5 Members
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The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
by C. S. Lewis
44,311 members
737 reviews
4.1
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Portnoy's Complaint
by Philip Roth
7,250 members
149 reviews
½ 3.6
5 Members
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The Hound of the Baskervilles
by Arthur Conan Doyle
14,874 members
290 reviews
3.9
5 Members
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In Cold Blood
by Truman Capote
23,145 members
457 reviews
4.1
5 Members
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Night
by Elie Wiesel
26,886 members
566 reviews
½ 4.3
4 Members
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The Time Machine
by H. G. Wells
17,215 members
330 reviews
½ 3.7
5 Members
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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
by L. Frank Baum
21,207 members
413 reviews
3.9
5 Members
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The Snowy Day
by Ezra Jack Keats
14,156 members
747 reviews
4.2
5 Members
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NRSV Ministry/Pew Bible
by Zondervan
39 members
3
5 Members
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26
The Handmaid's Tale
by Margaret Atwood
41,299 members
1,115 reviews
4.1
5 Members
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The Tale of Peter Rabbit
by Beatrix Potter
11,780 members
175 reviews
4.1
5 Members
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28
Cry, the Beloved Country
by Alan Paton
9,200 members
175 reviews
4
4 Members
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The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition
by Anne Frank
1,623 members
20 reviews
4.2
5 Members
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30
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
by Ken Kesey
23,719 members
295 reviews
4.1
4 Members
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Lolita
by Vladimir Nabokov
31,134 members
546 reviews
4.1
4 Members
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The Innocence of Father Brown
by G. K. Chesterton
1,871 members
58 reviews
½ 3.6
4 Members
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33
Pygmalion
by George Bernard Shaw
6,539 members
76 reviews
3.8
4 Members
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A Passage to India
by E. M. Forster
12,194 members
139 reviews
3.8
4 Members
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35
The Metamorphosis
by Franz Kafka
12,038 members
208 reviews
3.9
4 Members
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36
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
by Malcolm X
9,521 members
118 reviews
½ 4.3
4 Members
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37
The Big Sleep
by Raymond Chandler
10,050 members
277 reviews
4
4 Members
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38
Hiroshima (Expanded edition)
by John Hersey
1,930 members
36 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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39
Wide Sargasso Sea
by Jean Rhys
8,220 members
242 reviews
½ 3.5
4 Members
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Etiquette
by Emily Post
732 members
5 reviews
4
4 Members
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One Hundred Years of Solitude
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
43,558 members
673 reviews
4.2
4 Members
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42
Charlotte's Web
by E. B. White
35,025 members
1,010 reviews
4.2
4 Members
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43
Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts
by Samuel Beckett
12,668 members
157 reviews
3.9
4 Members
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44
Where the Wild Things Are
by Maurice Sendak
25,260 members
1,423 reviews
½ 4.3
4 Members
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45
The Turn of the Screw
by Henry James
7,880 members
241 reviews
½ 3.4
4 Members
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46
To the Lighthouse
by Virginia Woolf
17,152 members
260 reviews
3.9
4 Members
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47
For Whom the Bell Tolls
by Ernest Hemingway
18,520 members
177 reviews
3.9
4 Members
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48
Stranger in a Strange Land
by Robert A. Heinlein
10,727 members
152 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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49
Invisible Man
by Ralph Ellison
15,892 members
203 reviews
4
3 Members
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50
The Interpretation of Dreams
by Sigmund Freud
5,188 members
49 reviews
½ 3.5
3 Members
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51
The Inimitable Jeeves
by P. G. Wodehouse
3,285 members
78 reviews
4
3 Members
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52
The Waste Land
by T. S. Eliot
1,011 members
24 reviews
4
3 Members
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53
On the Road
by Jack Kerouac
27,421 members
382 reviews
½ 3.6
3 Members
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54
The Lover
by Marguerite Duras
5,056 members
151 reviews
½ 3.7
3 Members
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The Color Purple
by Alice Walker
19,188 members
330 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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56
The Mysterious Affair at Styles
by Agatha Christie
8,545 members
273 reviews
½ 3.7
3 Members
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57
Joy of Cooking [1931]: A Facsimile of the First Edition 1931
by Irma S. Rombauer
121 members
1 review
3.9
3 Members
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58
The Wild Swans at Coole
by William Butler Yeats
72 members
5 reviews
½ 3.4
3 Members
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59
The Prophet
by Kahlil Gibran
13,846 members
161 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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60
The Bonfire of the Vanities
by Tom Wolfe
8,798 members
130 reviews
3.8
3 Members
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61
The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA
by James D. Watson
2,946 members
43 reviews
3.8
3 Members
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62
Ulysses
by James Joyce
21,392 members
334 reviews
4
3 Members
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63
Goodnight Moon
by Margaret Wise Brown
18,196 members
678 reviews
4.2
3 Members
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64
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
by Betty Smith
16,140 members
431 reviews
½ 4.3
3 Members
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65
Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care
by Benjamin Spock
1,113 members
6 reviews
½ 3.6
3 Members
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66
Peyton Place
by Grace Metalious
1,650 members
39 reviews
½ 3.6
2 Members
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67
Dracula
by Bram Stoker
33,975 members
590 reviews
4
2 Members
Bretzky1, ManWithAnAgenda
68
Lost Horizon
by James Hilton
3,875 members
97 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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69
The Jungle
by Upton Sinclair
11,394 members
127 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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70
Walden Two
by B. F. Skinner
2,087 members
22 reviews
½ 3.3
2 Members
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All Quiet on the Western Front
by Erich Maria Remarque
18,507 members
393 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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72
The Country of the Pointed Firs
by Sarah Orne Jewett
912 members
24 reviews
3.8
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73
Atlas Shrugged
by Ayn Rand
22,055 members
389 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
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74
Dust Tracks on a Road: An Autobiography
by Zora Neale Hurston
1,318 members
18 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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76
Sarah, Plain and Tall
by Patricia MacLachlan
10,745 members
286 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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77
Coming of Age in Samoa
by Margaret Mead
1,320 members
17 reviews
½ 3.5
2 Members
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78
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
by Dee Brown
8,680 members
125 reviews
½ 4.3
2 Members
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79
Six Characters in Search of an Author
by Luigi Pirandello
1,381 members
29 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
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80
Silent Spring
by Rachel Carson
6,323 members
97 reviews
4
2 Members
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81
The Meaning of Relativity
by Albert Einstein
712 members
3 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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82
Native Son
by Richard Wright
7,551 members
98 reviews
3.9
2 Members
hipdeep, Laura1124
83
The Day of the Locust
by Nathanael West
1,813 members
47 reviews
½ 3.6
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84
The Portable Faulkner: Revised and Expanded Edition
by William Faulkner
591 members
4 reviews
4.2
2 Members
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85
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
by Maya Angelou
14,324 members
217 reviews
4
2 Members
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86
Gone with the Wind
by Margaret Mitchell
22,946 members
434 reviews
½ 4.3
2 Members
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87
Twenty Years at Hull-House
by Jane Addams
811 members
6 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
aprille, hipdeep
88
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
by James Agee
2,087 members
21 reviews
4
2 Members
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89
The Three Sisters
by Anton Tschechow
1,049 members
19 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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90
The Fire Next Time
by James Baldwin
4,540 members
126 reviews
½ 4.4
2 Members
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91
Herland
by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
2,533 members
68 reviews
½ 3.5
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92
A Clockwork Orange
by Anthony Burgess
25,430 members
380 reviews
4
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93
The Story of My Life
by Helen Keller
4,970 members
54 reviews
3.9
Member
aprille
94
Kim
by Rudyard Kipling
8,766 members
199 reviews
3.8
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95
Darkness at Noon
by Arthur Koestler
5,272 members
96 reviews
4
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96
Being and Nothingness: An Essay on Phenomenological Ontology
by Jean-Paul Sartre
4,812 members
19 reviews
½ 3.7
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97
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism and Other Writings
by Peter Baehr
562 members
½ 3.6
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98
Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects
by Bertrand Russell
3,958 members
38 reviews
3.9
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99
The Death and Life of Great American Cities
by Jane Jacobs
4,101 members
37 reviews
½ 4.3
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aprille
100
Cancer Ward
by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
3,468 members
47 reviews
4.1
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