20th Century Literature

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20th century literature
4
Brave New World
by Aldous Huxley
54,187 members
774 reviews
3.9
22 Members
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Explanations
ahef1963: I love this book.
8
The Stranger
by Albert Camus
35,679 members
510 reviews
3.9
20 Members
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Explanations
ahef1963: Wonderful book.
10
The Trial
by Franz Kafka
19,994 members
238 reviews
4
16 Members
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Ulysses
by James Joyce
24,235 members
379 reviews
4
14 Members
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18
Fahrenheit 451
by Ray Bradbury
54,262 members
1,006 reviews
4
16 Members
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Explanations
ahef1963 : Disliked it very much.
19
Catch-22
by Joseph Heller
40,181 members
529 reviews
4.1
15 Members
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20
The Handmaid's Tale
by Margaret Atwood
42,668 members
1,149 reviews
4.1
15 Members
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Explanations
ahef1963: One of my favourites.
26
Dubliners
by James Joyce
19,795 members
228 reviews
3.9
15 Members
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27
The Magic Mountain
by Thomas Mann
9,659 members
176 reviews
4.2
10 Members
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28
To the Lighthouse
by Virginia Woolf
17,727 members
271 reviews
3.9
13 Members
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29
Midnight's Children
by Salman Rushdie
13,975 members
245 reviews
4
14 Members
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31
Charlotte's Web
by E. B. White
36,333 members
1,027 reviews
4.2
13 Members
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32
Nausea
by Jean-Paul Sartre
10,005 members
83 reviews
3.8
10 Members
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33
The Sound and the Fury
by William Faulkner
17,369 members
226 reviews
4
12 Members
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Explanations
ahef1963 : I hated this book thoroughly.
34
Invisible Man
by Ralph Ellison
16,266 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
18,602 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
25,996 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
12,519 members
142 reviews
3.8
13 Members
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39
The Bell Jar
by Sylvia Plath
28,271 members
505 reviews
4
13 Members
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40
The Color Purple
by Alice Walker
19,875 members
342 reviews
4.1
12 Members
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42
Pale Fire
by Vladimir Nabokov
7,969 members
140 reviews
4.2
12 Members
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43
Tender is the Night
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
12,994 members
184 reviews
½ 3.7
10 Members
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44
Disgrace
by J. M. Coetzee
10,887 members
279 reviews
3.8
12 Members
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Explanations
ahef1963: Love this.
45
Ethan Frome
by Edith Wharton
9,540 members
217 reviews
½ 3.6
12 Members
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46
The Blind Assassin
by Margaret Atwood
16,532 members
384 reviews
3.9
10 Members
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47
Possession
by A.S. Byatt
13,017 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
50,636 members
452 reviews
½ 4.5
11 Members
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49
Go Tell It on the Mountain
by James Baldwin
5,802 members
112 reviews
3.9
10 Members
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50
Heart of Darkness and The Secret Sharer
by Joseph Conrad
4,657 members
40 reviews
½ 3.7
10 Members
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Explanations
ManWithAnAgenda: Duplicate
51
Watership Down
by Richard Adams
25,029 members
473 reviews
4.2
10 Members
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52
Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family
by Thomas Mann
5,707 members
109 reviews
4.2
9 Members
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53
The Secret Garden
by Frances Hodgson Burnett
35,676 members
561 reviews
4.1
11 Members
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54
Lolita
by Vladimir Nabokov
31,846 members
565 reviews
4.1
12 Members
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55
The Chosen
by Chaim Potok
6,614 members
93 reviews
4.1
12 Members
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56
The Castle
by Franz Kafka
8,293 members
93 reviews
3.9
10 Members
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57
The Hound of the Baskervilles
by Arthur Conan Doyle
15,439 members
303 reviews
3.9
11 Members
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58
The Fellowship of the Ring
by J. R. R. Tolkien
55,081 members
490 reviews
½ 4.4
12 Members
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59
The Master and Margarita
by Mikhail Bulgakov
20,551 members
469 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
19,253 members
348 reviews
4
9 Members
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61
A Streetcar Named Desire
by Tennessee Williams
8,092 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
6,251 members
199 reviews
3.9
10 Members
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63
Of Mice and Men
by John Steinbeck
39,325 members
666 reviews
3.9
11 Members
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Explanations
ahef1963: Beautiful. Cried a lot.
64
Memoirs of Hadrian
by Marguerite Yourcenar
5,496 members
125 reviews
4.1
8 Members
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65
The Two Towers
by J. R. R. Tolkien
48,725 members
310 reviews
½ 4.4
11 Members
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66
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
by L. Frank Baum
22,187 members
424 reviews
3.9
11 Members
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67
The Return of the King
by J. R. R. Tolkien
47,092 members
285 reviews
½ 4.5
11 Members
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68
The Big Sleep
by Raymond Chandler
10,345 members
285 reviews
4
10 Members
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69
The Waste Land and Other Poems
by T. S. Eliot
4,583 members
33 reviews
4.2
10 Members
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70
Murder on the Orient Express
by Agatha Christie
17,283 members
424 reviews
4.1
9 Members
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71
The French Lieutenant's Woman
by John Fowles
6,563 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
13,013 members
202 reviews
4
8 Members
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Explanations
ahef1963: This book gets rave reviews from me.
73
Winesburg, Ohio
by Sherwood Anderson
5,961 members
121 reviews
3.8
9 Members
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76
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
by Italo Calvino
12,606 members
260 reviews
4.1
8 Members
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77
The Book Thief
by Markus Zusak
45,227 members
2,131 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
23,015 members
409 reviews
3.9
10 Members
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79
The Tin Drum
by Günter Grass
7,623 members
93 reviews
4
9 Members
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80
The Leopard
by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
6,596 members
151 reviews
4.1
8 Members
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81
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
by Ken Kesey
24,263 members
298 reviews
4.1
9 Members
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Explanations
ahef1963: Brilliant novel.
82
We
by Yevgeny Zamyatin
8,516 members
215 reviews
3.8
10 Members
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83
Of Human Bondage
by W. Somerset Maugham
8,497 members
146 reviews
4.1
9 Members
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84
The Sun Also Rises
by Ernest Hemingway
23,054 members
339 reviews
3.8
9 Members
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85
The House of Mirth
by Edith Wharton
9,751 members
204 reviews
4
9 Members
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86
The Name of the Rose
by Umberto Eco
19,612 members
315 reviews
4.2
10 Members
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Explanations
ahef1963 : So tedious.
87
Howl and Other Poems
by Allen Ginsberg
5,601 members
67 reviews
4
9 Members
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88
Death of a Salesman
by Arthur Miller
12,270 members
116 reviews
½ 3.6
10 Members
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89
In Cold Blood
by Truman Capote
23,873 members
467 reviews
4.1
9 Members
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90
Anne of Green Gables
by L. M. Montgomery
29,690 members
563 reviews
½ 4.3
9 Members
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91
Good Omens
by Terry Pratchett
34,981 members
794 reviews
½ 4.3
9 Members
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92
Northern Lights
by Philip Pullman
36,381 members
744 reviews
4.1
10 Members
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93
A Wrinkle in Time
by Madeleine L'Engle
39,753 members
963 reviews
4
9 Members
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Explanations
ahef1963: A great childhood favourite.
94
The Good Earth
by Pearl S. Buck
13,941 members
264 reviews
4
10 Members
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95
The Good Soldier
by Ford Madox Ford
4,813 members
115 reviews
3.8
9 Members
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96
Amerika
by Franz Kafka
2,371 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
17,959 members
370 reviews
4.2
9 Members
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98
Cry, the Beloved Country
by Alan Paton
9,432 members
183 reviews
4
8 Members
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99
Rebecca
by Daphne Du Maurier
20,864 members
616 reviews
4.2
10 Members
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100
Collected Poems, 1909–1962
by T. S. Eliot
3,061 members
23 reviews
½ 4.4
8 Members
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