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20th Century Books
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The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 1037 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,002,393 ratings — published 1925
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 854 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,579,323 ratings — published 1948
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 812 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,975,632 ratings — published 1960
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 801 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,649,242 ratings — published 1945
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 749 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,939,306 ratings — published 1951
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 656 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,446,238 ratings — published 1942
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 606 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,878,498 ratings — published 1937
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 596 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 3.87 — 958,814 ratings — published 1955
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 595 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,106,390 ratings — published 1932
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 582 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,472,138 ratings — published 1915
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 569 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,896,054 ratings — published 1953
Mrs. Dalloway (Hardcover)
by (shelved 530 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 3.77 — 363,317 ratings — published 1925
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 528 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,256,674 ratings — published 1963
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 524 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,499,421 ratings — published 1969
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 516 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,242,349 ratings — published 1954
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 511 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,476,824 ratings — published 1985
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 497 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,335,505 ratings — published 1952
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (Paperback)
by (shelved 482 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,518,658 ratings — published 1937
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 454 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.33 — 2,526,441 ratings — published 1943
Rebecca (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 448 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.25 — 737,496 ratings — published 1938
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
by (shelved 446 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.47 — 11,564,726 ratings — published 1997
The Master and Margarita (Paperback)
by (shelved 444 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.28 — 431,477 ratings — published 1967
To the Lighthouse (Paperback)
by (shelved 434 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 3.81 — 218,787 ratings — published 1927
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 431 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,121,760 ratings — published 1967
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 404 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,244,075 ratings — published 1947
The Grapes of Wrath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 404 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,006,005 ratings — published 1939
The Trial (Paperback)
by (shelved 376 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 3.94 — 405,269 ratings — published 1925
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, #2)
by (shelved 366 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.43 — 4,561,194 ratings — published 1998
The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
by (shelved 363 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.41 — 3,189,245 ratings — published 1954
A Clockwork Orange (Paperback)
by (shelved 351 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.00 — 779,300 ratings — published 1962
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 348 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 3.64 — 165,823 ratings — published 1916
Catch-22 (Paperback)
by (shelved 347 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 3.99 — 893,430 ratings — published 1961
A Room of One’s Own (Paperback)
by (shelved 345 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.22 — 268,643 ratings — published 1929
The Sun Also Rises (Paperback)
by (shelved 343 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 3.79 — 500,207 ratings — published 1926
And Then There Were None (Paperback)
by (shelved 341 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,651,462 ratings — published 1939
Waiting for Godot (Paperback)
by (shelved 333 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 3.84 — 224,984 ratings — published 1951
Dubliners (Paperback)
by (shelved 329 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 3.83 — 180,008 ratings — published 1914
East of Eden (Paperback)
by (shelved 328 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.44 — 661,995 ratings — published 1952
Ulysses (Paperback)
by (shelved 327 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 3.76 — 139,377 ratings — published 1922
The Remains of the Day (Paperback)
by (shelved 325 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.14 — 369,407 ratings — published 1989
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3)
by (shelved 322 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.58 — 4,921,023 ratings — published 1999
All Quiet on the Western Front (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 316 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.12 — 527,678 ratings — published 1928
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)
by (shelved 314 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.22 — 2,038,719 ratings — published 1979
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 311 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,064,259 ratings — published 1992
The Plague (Paperback)
by (shelved 307 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.02 — 321,476 ratings — published 1947
On the Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 301 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 3.61 — 452,807 ratings — published 1957
Beloved (Paperback)
by (shelved 299 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 3.98 — 499,086 ratings — published 1987
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Paperback)
by (shelved 297 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.10 — 553,169 ratings — published 1984
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Chronicles of Narnia, #1)
by (shelved 296 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.24 — 3,181,718 ratings — published 1950
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 293 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.28 — 760,601 ratings — published 1982
“Yet the greatest tragedy of the twenty-first century may be that we have learned so little from the greatest tragedies of the twentieth century. Apparently catastrophe lessons need to be experienced firsthand by each generation. So, here are some refreshers: Nuclear conflict may mean the end of life on this planet. Mass dehumanization can lead to genocide. The death of an independent press can lead to tyranny and render a population helpless to protect itself against a government that disdains law and conscience.”
― Fallout: The Hiroshima Cover-up and the Reporter Who Revealed It to the World
― Fallout: The Hiroshima Cover-up and the Reporter Who Revealed It to the World
“Democracy failed in Europe in the 1920s, '30s, and '40s, and it is failing not only in much of Europe but in many parts of the world today. It is that history and experience that reveals to us the dark range of our possible futures. A nationalist will say that "it can't happen here," which is the first step toward disaster. A patriot says that it could happen here, but that we will stop it.”
― On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
― On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
