20th Century Literature

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20th century literature
4
Brave New World
by Aldous Huxley
54,015 members
773 reviews
3.9
22 Members
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Explanations
ahef1963: I love this book.
8
The Stranger
by Albert Camus
35,572 members
507 reviews
3.9
20 Members
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Explanations
ahef1963: Wonderful book.
10
The Trial
by Franz Kafka
19,924 members
237 reviews
4
16 Members
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11
Ulysses
by James Joyce
24,135 members
379 reviews
4
14 Members
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18
Fahrenheit 451
by Ray Bradbury
54,040 members
1,000 reviews
4
16 Members
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Explanations
ahef1963 : Disliked it very much.
19
Catch-22
by Joseph Heller
40,079 members
527 reviews
4.1
15 Members
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20
The Handmaid's Tale
by Margaret Atwood
42,432 members
1,144 reviews
4.1
15 Members
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Explanations
ahef1963: One of my favourites.
26
Dubliners
by James Joyce
19,720 members
226 reviews
3.9
15 Members
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27
The Magic Mountain
by Thomas Mann
9,624 members
176 reviews
4.2
10 Members
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28
To the Lighthouse
by Virginia Woolf
17,627 members
271 reviews
3.9
13 Members
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29
Midnight's Children
by Salman Rushdie
13,920 members
244 reviews
4
14 Members
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31
Charlotte's Web
by E. B. White
36,211 members
1,025 reviews
4.2
13 Members
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32
Nausea
by Jean-Paul Sartre
9,977 members
83 reviews
3.8
10 Members
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33
The Sound and the Fury
by William Faulkner
17,321 members
226 reviews
4
12 Members
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Explanations
ahef1963 : I hated this book thoroughly.
34
Invisible Man
by Ralph Ellison
16,214 members
212 reviews
4
13 Members
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Explanations
ahef1963 : Cannot get into this book or even understand it.
35
The Plague
by Albert Camus
18,529 members
249 reviews
4
12 Members
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Explanations
ahef1963: The best book I have ever read. Terribly depressing. Not my *favourite* book but definitely the best.
36
A Clockwork Orange
by Anthony Burgess
25,911 members
389 reviews
4
13 Members
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Explanations
ahef1963: A brilliant piece of work.
37
A Passage to India
by E. M. Forster
12,472 members
142 reviews
3.8
13 Members
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39
The Bell Jar
by Sylvia Plath
28,162 members
503 reviews
4
13 Members
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40
The Color Purple
by Alice Walker
19,784 members
338 reviews
4.1
12 Members
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42
Pale Fire
by Vladimir Nabokov
7,965 members
140 reviews
4.2
12 Members
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43
Tender is the Night
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
12,950 members
183 reviews
½ 3.7
10 Members
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44
Disgrace
by J. M. Coetzee
10,874 members
275 reviews
3.8
12 Members
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Explanations
ahef1963: Love this.
45
Ethan Frome
by Edith Wharton
9,513 members
214 reviews
½ 3.6
12 Members
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46
The Blind Assassin
by Margaret Atwood
16,478 members
384 reviews
3.9
10 Members
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47
Possession
by A.S. Byatt
12,972 members
289 reviews
4
13 Members
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Explanations
ahef1963: Didn't like it much.
48
The Lord of the Rings
by J. R. R. Tolkien
50,499 members
451 reviews
½ 4.5
11 Members
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49
Go Tell It on the Mountain
by James Baldwin
5,770 members
112 reviews
3.9
10 Members
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50
Heart of Darkness and The Secret Sharer
by Joseph Conrad
4,644 members
40 reviews
½ 3.7
10 Members
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Explanations
ManWithAnAgenda: Duplicate
51
Watership Down
by Richard Adams
24,938 members
472 reviews
4.2
10 Members
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52
Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family
by Thomas Mann
5,684 members
109 reviews
4.2
9 Members
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53
The Secret Garden
by Frances Hodgson Burnett
35,404 members
559 reviews
4.1
11 Members
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54
Lolita
by Vladimir Nabokov
31,757 members
564 reviews
4.1
12 Members
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55
The Chosen
by Chaim Potok
6,608 members
93 reviews
4.1
12 Members
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56
The Castle
by Franz Kafka
8,261 members
93 reviews
3.9
10 Members
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57
The Hound of the Baskervilles
by Arthur Conan Doyle
15,380 members
301 reviews
3.9
11 Members
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58
The Fellowship of the Ring
by J. R. R. Tolkien
54,826 members
488 reviews
½ 4.4
12 Members
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59
The Master and Margarita
by Mikhail Bulgakov
20,461 members
466 reviews
4.2
11 Members
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Explanations
ahef1963 : Have tried to read it, without success.
60
Their Eyes Were Watching God
by Zora Neale Hurston
19,158 members
346 reviews
4
9 Members
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61
A Streetcar Named Desire
by Tennessee Williams
8,055 members
96 reviews
3.9
11 Members
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Explanations
ahef1963: Probably my favourite play.
62
The Talented Mr. Ripley
by Patricia Highsmith
6,234 members
199 reviews
3.9
10 Members
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63
Of Mice and Men
by John Steinbeck
39,166 members
665 reviews
3.9
11 Members
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Explanations
ahef1963: Beautiful. Cried a lot.
64
Memoirs of Hadrian
by Marguerite Yourcenar
5,467 members
125 reviews
4.2
8 Members
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65
The Two Towers
by J. R. R. Tolkien
48,543 members
309 reviews
½ 4.4
11 Members
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66
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
by L. Frank Baum
22,037 members
424 reviews
3.9
11 Members
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67
The Return of the King
by J. R. R. Tolkien
46,893 members
283 reviews
½ 4.5
11 Members
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68
The Big Sleep
by Raymond Chandler
10,310 members
284 reviews
4
10 Members
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69
The Waste Land and Other Poems
by T. S. Eliot
4,570 members
33 reviews
4.2
10 Members
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70
Murder on the Orient Express
by Agatha Christie
17,189 members
422 reviews
4.1
9 Members
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71
The French Lieutenant's Woman
by John Fowles
6,545 members
108 reviews
3.8
8 Members
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Explanations
ahef1963: The first post-modern book I ever read. Instrumental in making me choose English literature for my degree path.
72
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
12,966 members
201 reviews
4
8 Members
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Explanations
ahef1963: This book gets rave reviews from me.
73
Winesburg, Ohio
by Sherwood Anderson
5,945 members
120 reviews
3.8
9 Members
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76
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
by Italo Calvino
12,541 members
258 reviews
4.1
8 Members
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77
The Book Thief
by Markus Zusak
44,993 members
2,126 reviews
½ 4.4
9 Members
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Explanations
jain : 21st century (published in 2005).
ahef1963: The amount of tears I shed over this book would cause a flood.
78
Beloved
by Toni Morrison
22,894 members
408 reviews
3.9
10 Members
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79
The Tin Drum
by Günter Grass
7,616 members
93 reviews
4
9 Members
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80
The Leopard
by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
6,574 members
150 reviews
4.1
8 Members
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81
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
by Ken Kesey
24,266 members
298 reviews
4.1
9 Members
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Explanations
ahef1963: Brilliant novel.
82
We
by Yevgeny Zamyatin
8,488 members
214 reviews
3.8
10 Members
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83
Of Human Bondage
by W. Somerset Maugham
8,468 members
146 reviews
4.1
9 Members
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84
The Sun Also Rises
by Ernest Hemingway
23,000 members
337 reviews
3.8
9 Members
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85
The House of Mirth
by Edith Wharton
9,711 members
203 reviews
4
9 Members
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86
The Name of the Rose
by Umberto Eco
19,548 members
312 reviews
4.2
10 Members
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Explanations
ahef1963 : So tedious.
87
Howl and Other Poems
by Allen Ginsberg
5,574 members
67 reviews
4
9 Members
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88
Death of a Salesman
by Arthur Miller
12,244 members
116 reviews
½ 3.6
10 Members
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89
In Cold Blood
by Truman Capote
23,806 members
467 reviews
4.1
9 Members
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90
Anne of Green Gables
by L. M. Montgomery
29,505 members
562 reviews
½ 4.3
9 Members
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91
Good Omens
by Terry Pratchett
34,808 members
789 reviews
½ 4.3
9 Members
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92
Northern Lights
by Philip Pullman
36,267 members
742 reviews
4.1
10 Members
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93
A Wrinkle in Time
by Madeleine L'Engle
39,552 members
961 reviews
4
9 Members
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Explanations
ahef1963: A great childhood favourite.
94
The Good Earth
by Pearl S. Buck
13,871 members
264 reviews
4
10 Members
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95
The Good Soldier
by Ford Madox Ford
4,794 members
115 reviews
3.8
9 Members
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96
Amerika
by Franz Kafka
2,366 members
14 reviews
½ 3.7
8 Members
roby72, thecoroner, leigonj, alex68, sabinebine, rplinke, dpmtuan, FranzK72
97
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
by Haruki Murakami
17,893 members
370 reviews
4.2
9 Members
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98
Cry, the Beloved Country
by Alan Paton
9,399 members
183 reviews
4
8 Members
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99
Rebecca
by Daphne Du Maurier
20,800 members
613 reviews
4.2
10 Members
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100
Collected Poems, 1909–1962
by T. S. Eliot
3,049 members
23 reviews
½ 4.4
8 Members
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