List: New York Public Library's Books of the CenturyThe Handmaid's Tale (1986) - Margaret Atwood (11/18/1939 -) (Grade:C+) Fahrenheit 451 (1953) - Ray Bradbury (08/22/1920 -06/05/2012) (Grade:A-) A Clockwork Orange (1962) - Anthony Burgess (2/25/1917 -11/22/1993) (Grade:A) Silent Spring (1962) - Rachel Carson (5/27/1907 -4/14/1964) (Grade:F) The Great Gatsby (1925) - F. Scott Fitzgerald (9/24/1896 -12/21/1940) (Grade:B) The Diary of a Young Girl : The Definitive Edition (1947) - Anne Frank (6/12/1929 -February 1945) (Grade:A) Catch-22 (1961) - Joseph Heller (05/01/1923 -12/12/1999) (Grade:A) Lost Horizon (1933) - James Hilton (9/09/1900 -12/20/1954) (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 (1/11/1842 -8/26/1910) (Grade:F) Ulysses (1922) - James Joyce (2/02/1882 -1/13/1941) (Grade:F) The Metamorphosis; and other stories (1915) - Franz Kafka (07/03/1883 -06/03/1924) (Grade:C+) ![]() Kim (1901) - Rudyard Kipling (12/30/1865 -1/18/1936) (Grade:A) ![]() Lolita (1955) - Vladimir Nabokov (4/22/1899 -7/02/1977) (Grade:A) ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The Age of Innocence (1920) - Edith Wharton (1/24/1862 -8/11/1937) (Grade:A) Night (1958) - Elie Wiesel (1928-) (Grade:A) ![]() ![]() I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969) - Maya Angelou (1928-) (Grade:B) ![]() Waiting for Godot (1948) - Samuel Beckett (4/13/1906 -12/22/1989) (Grade:F) Ficciones (1944) - Jorge Luis Borges (8/24/1899 -6/14/1986) (Grade:B) ![]() The Stranger (1946) - Albert Camus (11/07/1913 -1/04/1960) (Grade:C+) ![]() Lord Jim (1900) - Joseph Conrad (12/03/1857 -8/03/1924) (Grade:B) The USA Trilogy: (The 42nd Parallel, 1930; Nineteen Nineteen, 1932; The Big Money, 1936) () - John Dos Passos (1/14/1896 -9/28/1970) (Grade:C) The Lover (1984) - Marguerite Duras (1914-1996) (Grade:F) Invisible Man (1952) - Ralph Ellison (3/01/1913 -4/16/1994) (Grade:C) A Passage to India (1924) - E.M. Forster (1/01/1879 -6/07/1970) (Grade:B) The Affluent Society (1958) - John Kenneth Galbraith (1908-) (Grade:F) Riders of the Purple Sage (1912) - Zane Grey (1/31/1872 -10/23/1939) (Grade:A) Hiroshima (1946) - John Hersey (6/17/1914 -3/24/1993) (Grade:B) Brave New World (1932) - Aldous Huxley (7/26/1894 -11/22/1963) (Grade:A) The Golden Bowl, or actually,The Turn of the Screw (in lieu of The Golden Bowl) () - Henry James (4/15/1843 -2/28/1916) (Grade:B) The Country of the Pointed Firs (1896) - Sarah Orne Jewett (9/03/1849 -6/24/1909) (Grade:B) On the Road (1957) - Jack Kerouac (3/12/1922 -10/21/1969) (Grade:F) The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money (1936) - John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946) (Grade:F) ![]() The Golden Notebook (1962) - Doris Lessing (10/22/1919 -11/17/2013) (Grade:F) ![]() One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) - Gabriel García Márquez (1928-) (Grade:F) Six Characters in Search of an Author (1921) - Luigi Pirandello (6/28/1867 -12/10/1936) (Grade:C+) All Quiet on the Western Front (1928) - Erich Maria Remarque (6/22/1898 -9/25/1970) (Grade:C) Wide Sargasso Sea (1966) - Jean Rhys (8/24/1890 -5/14/1979) (Grade:F-) Portnoy's Complaint (1969) - Phillip Roth (3/19/1933 -5/22/2018) (Grade:F) The Grapes of Wrath (1939) - John Steinbeck (2/27/1902 -12/20/1968) (Grade:A-) The Color Purple (1982) - Alice Walker (1944 -) (Grade:B+) The Day of the Locust (1939) - Nathanael West (10/17/1903 -12/22/1940) (Grade:C-) To the Lighthouse (1927) - Virginia Woolf (1/25/1882 -3/28/1941) (Grade:F) Native Son (1940) - Richard Wright (9/04/1908 -11/28/1960) (Grade:C+) |
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