1940s

2
1984
by George Orwell
82,451 members
1,276 reviews
4.2
17 Members
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3
The Stranger
by Albert Camus
35,679 members
510 reviews
3.9
14 Members
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4
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
by Anne Frank
12,753 members
242 reviews
4.1
11 Members
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5
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
by Carson McCullers
10,789 members
244 reviews
4
10 Members
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6
Cry, the Beloved Country
by Alan Paton
9,432 members
183 reviews
4
7 Members
hipdeep, inge87, edwinbcn, souloftherose, ahef1963, kara.shamy, Laura1124
7
The Little Prince
by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
44,992 members
770 reviews
4.2
8 Members
norabelle414, roby72, sturlington, thecoroner, alex68, cej1027, starbox, ahef1963
8
Brideshead Revisited
by Evelyn Waugh
12,632 members
265 reviews
4
9 Members
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9
Fictions
by Jorge Luis Borges
7,648 members
114 reviews
½ 4.4
6 Members
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10
For Whom the Bell Tolls
by Ernest Hemingway
19,065 members
186 reviews
3.9
8 Members
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11
I Capture the Castle
by Dodie Smith
9,241 members
295 reviews
4.1
6 Members
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12
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
by Betty Smith
16,615 members
444 reviews
½ 4.3
7 Members
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13
Death of a Salesman
by Arthur Miller
12,270 members
116 reviews
½ 3.6
7 Members
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14
Goodnight Moon
by Margaret Wise Brown
19,001 members
695 reviews
4.2
7 Members
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15
Stuart Little
by E. B. White
15,081 members
146 reviews
3.8
7 Members
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16
Pippi Longstocking
by Astrid Lindgren
10,591 members
161 reviews
4
7 Members
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17
The Screwtape Letters
by C. S. Lewis
7,913 members
89 reviews
4.1
6 Members
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18
Blueberries for Sal
by Robert McCloskey
8,151 members
146 reviews
4.2
6 Members
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19
Other Voices, Other Rooms
by Truman Capote
2,568 members
50 reviews
3.8
6 Members
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20
The Glass Menagerie
by Tennessee Williams
6,634 members
70 reviews
½ 3.7
6 Members
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21
Native Son
by Richard Wright
7,777 members
102 reviews
4
5 Members
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22
Cannery Row
by John Steinbeck
9,946 members
186 reviews
4
6 Members
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23
The Plague
by Albert Camus
18,602 members
249 reviews
4
5 Members
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24
Curious George
by H. A. Rey
6,845 members
92 reviews
3.9
6 Members
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25
Under the Volcano
by Malcolm Lowry
4,431 members
89 reviews
3.8
4 Members
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26
The Second Sex
by Simone de Beauvoir
2,411 members
17 reviews
4.1
4 Members
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27
Dangling Man
by Saul Bellow
1,007 members
13 reviews
½ 3.3
5 Members
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28
Doctor Faustus
by Thomas Mann
4,120 members
47 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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29
Invisible Man
by Ralph Ellison
16,266 members
212 reviews
4
4 Members
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30
The Death of Virgil
by Hermann Broch
1,189 members
14 reviews
4
3 Members
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31
The Once and Future King
by T. H. White
15,400 members
207 reviews
4.1
5 Members
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Explanations
sturlington : the omnibus was published in 1958
32
The Naked and the Dead
by Norman Mailer
4,151 members
47 reviews
3.9
4 Members
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33
The Power and the Glory
by Graham Greene
7,794 members
124 reviews
3.9
5 Members
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34
The Bridge on the Drina
by Ivo Andrić
2,396 members
67 reviews
4.2
4 Members
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35
No Exit
by Jean-Paul Sartre
1,103 members
18 reviews
3.9
4 Members
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36
A Streetcar Named Desire
by Tennessee Williams
8,092 members
96 reviews
3.9
4 Members
hipdeep, Myyst, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
37
The Makioka Sisters
by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki
2,191 members
43 reviews
4.1
4 Members
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38
Suite Française
by Irène Némirovsky
9,956 members
346 reviews
4
4 Members
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39
The Razor's Edge
by W. Somerset Maugham
6,261 members
118 reviews
4.1
4 Members
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40
The Thurber Carnival
by James Thurber
2,589 members
33 reviews
4.2
3 Members
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41
Christ Stopped at Eboli
by Carlo Levi
1,998 members
43 reviews
4
3 Members
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42
The Case of Charles Dexter Ward
by H. P. Lovecraft
1,659 members
32 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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43
Conversations in Sicily
by Elio Vittorini
682 members
9 reviews
½ 3.7
3 Members
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44
The Tartar Steppe
by Dino Buzzati
2,535 members
58 reviews
4.1
3 Members
roby72, thecoroner, alex68
45
Confessions of a Mask
by Yukio Mishima
2,610 members
42 reviews
3.8
3 Members
roby72, thecoroner, alex68
46
Good Evening, Mrs. Craven: The Wartime Stories of Mollie Panter-Downes
by Mollie Panter-Downes
498 members
24 reviews
4.2
2 Members
inge87, souloftherose
47
House of Liars
by Elsa Morante
201 members
4 reviews
3.9
3 Members
roby72, thecoroner, alex68
48
The President
by Miguel Ángel Asturias
1,027 members
17 reviews
4
3 Members
roby72, thecoroner, alex68
49
Farewell, My Lovely
by Raymond Chandler
4,530 members
103 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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50
The Aleph
by Jorge Luis Borges
2,327 members
62 reviews
4.2
2 Members
alex68, raperper
51
Finn Family Moomintroll
by Tove Jansson
2,508 members
50 reviews
½ 4.3
2 Members
merrystar, souloftherose
52
Miracle on 34th Street
by Valentine Davies
981 members
18 reviews
3.8
3 Members
hipdeep, merrystar, ManWithAnAgenda
53
The Wayward Bus
by John Steinbeck
2,109 members
42 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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54
Beautiful Antonio
by Vitaliano Brancati
216 members
3 reviews
½ 3.7
3 Members
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55
Lettere di una novizia
by Guido Piovene
34 members
1 review
½ 3.6
3 Members
roby72, thecoroner, alex68
56
Palladian
by Elizabeth Taylor
285 members
13 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
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57
The Lady in the Lake
by Raymond Chandler
3,331 members
66 reviews
4
3 Members
roby72, alex68, ManWithAnAgenda
58
Saplings
by Noel Streatfeild
341 members
17 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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59
Don Giovanni in Sicilia
by Vitaliano Brancati
221 members
4 reviews
½ 3.5
3 Members
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60
Men and Not Men
by Elio Vittorini
381 members
7 reviews
½ 3.7
3 Members
roby72, thecoroner, alex68
61
Agostino
by Alberto Moravia
468 members
17 reviews
½ 3.3
3 Members
roby72, thecoroner, alex68
62
A View of the Harbour
by Elizabeth Taylor
582 members
33 reviews
4
2 Members
souloftherose, elkiedee
63
The Pursuit of Love
by Nancy Mitford
1,954 members
70 reviews
3.9
2 Members
merrystar, starbox
64
A Time to Kill
by Ennio Flaiano
216 members
6 reviews
½ 3.6
3 Members
roby72, thecoroner, alex68
65
The Invention of Morel
by Adolfo Bioy Casares
2,622 members
79 reviews
3.9
3 Members
roby72, thecoroner, alex68
66
The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath
by H. P. Lovecraft
1,307 members
16 reviews
3.8
2 Members
raperper, ManWithAnAgenda
67
Four Quartets
by T. S. Eliot
3,311 members
41 reviews
½ 4.3
2 Members
hipdeep, alex68
68
The Little White Horse
by Elizabeth Goudge
2,571 members
52 reviews
4.1
2 Members
merrystar, souloftherose
69
The High Window
by Raymond Chandler
2,832 members
52 reviews
4
2 Members
Bretzky1, ManWithAnAgenda
70
House-Bound
by Winifred Peck
125 members
3 reviews
½ 3.5
2 Members
souloftherose, elkiedee
71
Survival In Auschwitz
by Primo Levi
2,257 members
25 reviews
4.2
2 Members
Myyst, alex68
72
The Reluctant Widow
by Georgette Heyer
1,578 members
64 reviews
3.8
2 Members
inge87, merrystar
73
Gigi
by Colette
379 members
7 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
inge87, alex68
74
Life of Galileo
by Bertolt Brecht
2,263 members
18 reviews
3.8
2 Members
hipdeep, Myyst
75
Delta Wedding
by Eudora Welty
1,007 members
23 reviews
½ 3.6
2 Members
inge87, Laura1124
76
Alicia: My Story
by Alicia Appleman-Jurman
643 members
11 reviews
4.2
Member
dara85
77
One Fine Day
by Mollie Panter-Downes
355 members
16 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
inge87
78
Hiroshima (Expanded edition)
by John Hersey
1,973 members
37 reviews
4.1
2 Members
hipdeep, alex68
79
The Little House
by Virginia Lee Burton
5,484 members
129 reviews
½ 4.3
2 Members
sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda
80
Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle
by Betty MacDonald
4,771 members
41 reviews
4.1
2 Members
merrystar, ManWithAnAgenda
81
The Long Winter
by Laura Ingalls Wilder
10,189 members
96 reviews
4.2
2 Members
merrystar, ManWithAnAgenda
82
Joseph and His Brothers: The Stories of Jacob, Young Joseph, Joseph in Egypt, Joseph the Provider
by Thomas Mann
1,113 members
19 reviews
4
2 Members
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Explanations
ManWithAnAgenda : Published 1933
83
Silverlock
by John Myers Myers
1,023 members
20 reviews
3.9
2 Members
merrystar, ManWithAnAgenda
84
The Sheltering Sky
by Paul Bowles
4,334 members
79 reviews
3.8
2 Members
sturlington, alex68
85
Chess Story
by Stefan Zweig
4,048 members
117 reviews
4.1
2 Members
Myyst, alex68
86
The Beautiful Summer
by Cesare Pavese
572 members
15 reviews
½ 3.6
2 Members
roby72, alex68
87
Horton Hatches the Egg
by Dr. Seuss
4,495 members
56 reviews
4.1
2 Members
sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda
88
Now, Voyager
by Olive Higgins Prouty
215 members
9 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
sturlington
89
Caligula
by Albert Camus
400 members
11 reviews
3.9
2 Members
Myyst, alex68
90
The Thief's Journal
by Jean Genet
1,498 members
5 reviews
3.9
2 Members
thecoroner, alex68
91
The Black Stallion
by Walter Farley
5,035 members
57 reviews
4
2 Members
sturlington, alex68
92
My Enemy's Cradle
by Sara Pennypacker
481 members
23 reviews
3.9
Member
dara85
93
The White Deer
by James Thurber
328 members
2 reviews
4.1
Member
fundevogel
94
The Uninvited
by Dorothy Macardle
251 members
18 reviews
4.1
Member
sturlington
95
The Pearl
by John Steinbeck
13,278 members
205 reviews
½ 3.5
2 Members
alex68, ManWithAnAgenda
96
Montana 1948
by Larry Watson
1,615 members
73 reviews
3.9
Member
dara85
97
Dust Tracks on a Road: An Autobiography
by Zora Neale Hurston
1,379 members
17 reviews
4.1
Member
sturlington
98
Der Tod von Reval
by Werner Bergengruen
40 members
2 reviews
3.9
Member
inge87
99
Laura
by Vera Caspary
569 members
25 reviews
3.9
Member
sturlington
100
The City and the Pillar {original}
by Gore Vidal
196 members
1 review
½ 3.6
Member
ManWithAnAgenda