List: New York Public Library's Books of the Century
Fahrenheit 451 (1953) - Ray Bradbury (08/22/1920-) (Grade:A-)
A Clockwork Orange (1962) - Anthony Burgess (1917-1993) (Grade:A)
The Diary of a Young Girl : The Definitive Edition (1947) - Anne Frank (1929-1945) (Grade:A)
Lost Horizon (1933) - James Hilton (1900-1954) (Grade:A)
The Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961) - Jane Jacobs (05/14/1916-04/26/2006) (Grade:A-)
The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902) - William James (1842-1910) (Grade:F)
Ulysses (1922) - James Joyce (1882-1941) (Grade:F)
The Metamorphosis; and other stories (1915) - Franz Kafka (1883-1924) (Grade:C+)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962) - Ken Kesey (1935-) (Grade:A+)Kim (1901) - Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) (Grade:A)
To Kill a Mockingbird (1960) - Harper Lee (1926-) (Grade:A+)1984 (1949) - George Orwell (06/25/1903-1949) (Grade:A+)The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956 : An Experiment in Literary Investigation (Volume I) (1973) - Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn (1918-) (Grade:A+)The Lord of the Rings [The Hobbit (1937), The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, The Return of the King] (1948) - J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973) (Grade:A+)Night (1958) - Elie Wiesel (1928-) (Grade:A)
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (1965) - Malcolm X (1925-1965) (Grade:A+)Things Fall Apart (1958) - Chinua Achebe (1930-) (Grade:A+)I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969) - Maya Angelou (1928-) (Grade:B)
The Handmaid's Tale (1986) - Margaret Atwood (1939-) (Grade:C+)
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) - L. Frank Baum (1856-1919) (Grade:A+)Waiting for Godot (1948) - Samuel Beckett (1906-1989) (Grade:F)
Ficciones (1944) - Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) (Grade:B)
Tarzan of the Apes (1912) - Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950) (Grade:A+)The Stranger (1946) - Albert Camus (1913-1960) (Grade:C+)
Silent Spring (1962) - Rachel Carson (1907-1964) (Grade:F)
The Big Sleep (1939) - Raymond Chandler (1888-1959) (Grade:A+)Lord Jim (1900) - Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) (Grade:B)
The USA Trilogy: (The 42nd Parallel, 1930; Nineteen Nineteen, 1932; The Big Money, 1936) () - John Dos Passos (1896-1970) (Grade:C)
The Lover (1984) - Marguerite Duras (1914-1996) (Grade:F)
Invisible Man (1952) - Ralph Ellison (1914-1994) (Grade:C)
The Great Gatsby (1925) - F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) (Grade:B)
A Passage to India (1924) - E.M. Forster (1879-1970) (Grade:B)
The Affluent Society (1958) - John Kenneth Galbraith (1908-) (Grade:F)
Riders of the Purple Sage (1912) - Zane Grey (1872-1939) (Grade:A)
Catch-22 (1961) - Joseph Heller (1923-1999) (Grade:A)
Hiroshima (1946) - John Hersey (1914-1993) (Grade:B)
Brave New World (1932) - Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) (Grade:A)
The Golden Bowl, or actually,The Turn of the Screw (in lieu of The Golden Bowl) () - Henry James (1843-1916) (Grade:B)
The Country of the Pointed Firs (1896) - Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909) (Grade:B)
On the Road (1957) - Jack Kerouac (1922-1969) (Grade:F)
The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money (1936) - John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946) (Grade:F)
Darkness at Noon (1941) - Arthur Koestler (1905-1983) (Grade:A+)The Golden Notebook (1962) - Doris Lessing (-) (Grade:F)
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (1950) - C.S. Lewis (1898-1963) (Grade:A+)One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) - Gabriel García Márquez (1928-) (Grade:F)
Lolita (1955) - Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977) (Grade:A)
Six Characters in Search of an Author (1921) - Luigi Pirandello (1867-1936) (Grade:C+)
All Quiet on the Western Front (1928) - Erich Maria Remarque (1898-1970) (Grade:C)
Wide Sargasso Sea (1966) - Jean Rhys (1890-1979) (Grade:F-)
Portnoy's Complaint (1969) - Phillip Roth (-) (Grade:F)
The Catcher in the Rye (1951) - J. D. Salinger (1919-) (Grade:A+)The Grapes of Wrath (1939) - John Steinbeck (1902-1968) (Grade:A-)
The Color Purple (1982) - Alice Walker (1944-) (Grade:B+)
The Day of the Locust (1939) - Nathanael West (1902-1940) (Grade:C-)
The Age of Innocence (1920) - Edith Wharton (1862-1937) (Grade:A)
To the Lighthouse (1927) - Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) (Grade:F)
Native Son (1940) - Richard Wright (1908-1960) (Grade:C+)
