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The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 1055 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,152,175 ratings — published 1925
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 893 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.21 — 5,777,830 ratings — published 1949
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 835 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,820,738 ratings — published 1945
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 830 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.26 — 7,132,942 ratings — published 1960
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 767 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 3.80 — 4,018,013 ratings — published 1951
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 675 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,532,823 ratings — published 1942
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 623 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,957,314 ratings — published 1937
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 616 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 3.87 — 980,501 ratings — published 1955
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 614 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,157,687 ratings — published 1932
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 591 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,566,043 ratings — published 1915
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 583 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,997,977 ratings — published 1963
Mrs. Dalloway (Hardcover)
by (shelved 549 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 3.77 — 375,900 ratings — published 1925
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 543 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,319,657 ratings — published 1963
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 533 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,529,992 ratings — published 1969
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 528 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 3.71 — 3,320,906 ratings — published 1954
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 525 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,566,960 ratings — published 1985
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 505 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 3.82 — 1,379,246 ratings — published 1952
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (Paperback)
by (shelved 478 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,639,638 ratings — published 1937
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 459 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.34 — 2,613,654 ratings — published 1943
Rebecca (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 457 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.25 — 768,447 ratings — published 1938
The Master and Margarita (Paperback)
by (shelved 454 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.28 — 451,817 ratings — published 1967
To the Lighthouse (Paperback)
by (shelved 448 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 3.81 — 226,734 ratings — published
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
by (shelved 447 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.47 — 11,843,035 ratings — published 1997
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 441 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,154,067 ratings — published 1967
The Grapes of Wrath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 416 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,029,638 ratings — published 1939
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 411 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,337,554 ratings — published 1947
The Trial (Paperback)
by (shelved 391 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 3.93 — 423,516 ratings — published 1925
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, #2)
by (shelved 365 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.43 — 4,679,011 ratings — published 1998
The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
by (shelved 365 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.41 — 3,241,538 ratings — published 1954
A Clockwork Orange (Paperback)
by (shelved 359 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.00 — 793,494 ratings — published 1962
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 354 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 3.65 — 168,554 ratings — published 1916
A Room of One’s Own (Paperback)
by (shelved 353 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.22 — 282,781 ratings — published 1929
And Then There Were None (Paperback)
by (shelved 353 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,716,551 ratings — published 1939
East of Eden (Paperback)
by (shelved 351 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.46 — 733,148 ratings — published 1952
Catch-22 (Paperback)
by (shelved 351 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 3.99 — 905,661 ratings — published 1961
The Sun Also Rises (Paperback)
by (shelved 346 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 3.78 — 512,164 ratings — published 1926
Waiting for Godot (Paperback)
by (shelved 339 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 3.84 — 229,133 ratings — published 1952
The Remains of the Day (Paperback)
by (shelved 333 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.14 — 387,348 ratings — published 1989
Ulysses (Paperback)
by (shelved 332 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 3.76 — 141,903 ratings — published 1922
Dubliners (Paperback)
by (shelved 332 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 3.83 — 186,241 ratings — published 1914
All Quiet on the Western Front (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 324 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.12 — 541,649 ratings — published 1928
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 324 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,129,341 ratings — published 1992
The Plague (Paperback)
by (shelved 322 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.02 — 333,999 ratings — published 1947
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3)
by (shelved 321 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.58 — 5,058,295 ratings — published 1999
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)
by (shelved 317 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.22 — 2,079,760 ratings — published 1979
On the Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 311 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 3.61 — 460,852 ratings — published 1957
Beloved (Paperback)
by (shelved 306 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 3.99 — 515,623 ratings — published 1987
Siddhartha (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 303 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.09 — 916,958 ratings — published 1922
The Sound and the Fury (Paperback)
by (shelved 302 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 3.86 — 201,990 ratings — published 1929
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Paperback)
by (shelved 300 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.10 — 570,105 ratings — published 1984
“Those pearl-white flowers swayed their heads by the feet of Lord Shakyamuni; and from their golden centres wafted unceasingly a wondrous fragrance surpassing all description. It must have been noon in Paradise.”
― Murder in the Age of Enlightenment: Essential Stories
― Murder in the Age of Enlightenment: Essential Stories
“These people were the first to master a new kind of late twentieth-century life. They thrived on the rapid turnover of acquaintances, the lack of involvement with others, and the total self-sufficiency of lives which, needing nothing, were never disappointed.”
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