121 books
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33 voters
Listopia > Jeanne Suzan's votes on the list Best Books of the 20th Century (97 Books)
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Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
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"She is a nuanced genius.This one is my favourite by T. Morrison.She talks in the subconscious then the conscious,heart rendering…
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Invisible Man
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"It's dated now but really moved me."
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A Farewell to Arms
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"I think this alone is Hemminway's best novel."
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Waiting for Godot
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"I saw the play and liked it even more.
ennui, I guess" |
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Franny and Zooey
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"We all go through these things in High School."
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Sophie’s Choice
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"Heartbreaking and real.To chose between two children? No one can do it and live,I think."
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
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"Of course this influenced me greatly becoming an artist."
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The Complete Sherlock Holmes
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"Just fun to read his investigations."
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Rebecca
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"Drama,drama, romance."
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Charlie Bucket, #1)
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"My children liked it and so did I. Who can resists a factory of chocolate?"
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Siddhartha
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"College reading,spiritual sort of."
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Where the Wild Things Are
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"I discovered this fantastic illustrator and story teller-Maurice Sendak."
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The Sun Also Rises
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"Just liked it."
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The Metamorphosis
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"He drove himself crazy understandably so.
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Ulysses
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"Crazy book. fun."
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The Secret Garden
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"I always imagined I had a garden like this."
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The Color Purple
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"I love her writing.Not quite as much as Tonni Morrison's-read The Bluest Eye"
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1984
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"To see the future- and many things from that book have come true.Was it written in the early50's or 30's?"
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The Stranger
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
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Fahrenheit 451
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The Great Gatsby
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Animal Farm
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The Little Prince
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The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Chronicles of Narnia, #2)
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One Hundred Years of Solitude
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Brave New World
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Gone with the Wind
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Lord of the Flies
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Of Mice and Men
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Charlotte’s Web
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The Chronicles of Narnia (The Chronicles of Narnia, #1-7)
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The Giving Tree
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
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The Old Man and the Sea
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Love in the Time of Cholera
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The Lorax
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Angela’s Ashes (Frank McCourt, #1)
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Winnie-the-Pooh (Winnie-the-Pooh, #1)
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Where the Sidewalk Ends
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The Call of the Wild
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And Then There Were None
by See Review |
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The Velveteen Rabbit
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Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles, #1)
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The Prophet
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Goodnight Moon
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The Waste Land
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How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
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The Shining (The Shining, #1)
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Tender Is the Night
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Dubliners
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A Streetcar Named Desire
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Doctor Zhivago
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Matilda
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Like Water for Chocolate
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The Wind in the Willows
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The English Patient
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James and the Giant Peach
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Swann’s Way (In Search of Lost Time, #1)
by See Review |
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The Magus
by See Review |
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The Cat in the Hat (Cat in the Hat, #1)
by See Review |
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The Glass Menagerie
by See Review |
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Oh, the Places You’ll Go!
by See Review |
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I, Claudius (Claudius, #1)
by See Review |
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The BFG
by See Review |
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The Bluest Eye
by See Review |
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Cold Mountain
by See Review |
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The Very Hungry Caterpillar
by See Review |
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Snow Falling on Cedars
by See Review |
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The Razor’s Edge
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"was it the wine that smelled like summer grass?"
Jeanne
rated it 5 stars
See Review |
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Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories
by See Review |
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The Maltese Falcon
by See Review |
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Tropic of Cancer (Tropic, #1)
by See Review |
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The Shipping News
by See Review |
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Song of Solomon
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"T. Morrison- anything she writes is superb."
Jeanne
rated it 3 stars
See Review |
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The Second Sex
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"Well, she has many good ideas but she put up with that ugly old guy ."
Jeanne
rated it 3 stars
See Review |
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The Witches
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"A great book illustrated by the best."
Jeanne
rated it 4 stars
See Review |
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The Bonfire of the Vanities
by See Review |
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Bridget Jones’s Diary (Bridget Jones, #1)
by See Review |
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Nausea
by See Review |
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Schindler’s List
by See Review |
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The Polar Express
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"Crazy women, etc."
Jeanne
rated it 3 stars
See Review |
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The French Lieutenant’s Woman
by See Review |
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A Brief History of Time
by See Review |
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The Quiet American
by See Review |
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Old Yeller
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"The saddest book from the 50's."
Jeanne
rated it 5 stars
See Review |
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The Prince of Tides
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"well, he had a strange dysfunctional family!"
Jeanne
rated it 2 stars
See Review |
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Just So Stories
by See Review |
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Stuart Little
by See Review |
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100 Selected Poems
by See Review |
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The Talented Mr. Ripley (Ripley, #1)
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"The sneaky Mr. Ripley.Watch out!"
Jeanne
rated it 4 stars
See Review |
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Finnegans Wake
by See Review |
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Harold and the Purple Crayon (Harold, #1)
by See Review |
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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
by See Review |
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A Moveable Feast
by See Review |
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Jurassic Park (Jurassic Park, #1)
by See Review |
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The Silver Chair (Chronicles of Narnia, #5)
by See Review |
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