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The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 1044 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 3.92 — 6,186,893 ratings — published 1925
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 896 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.21 — 5,828,099 ratings — published 1949
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 838 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,863,735 ratings — published 1945
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 833 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.26 — 7,169,228 ratings — published 1960
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 766 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 3.80 — 4,036,526 ratings — published 1951
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 679 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,555,838 ratings — published 1942
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 624 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,977,781 ratings — published 1937
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 619 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 3.87 — 986,581 ratings — published 1955
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 613 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,170,146 ratings — published 1932
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 594 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,586,369 ratings — published 1915
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 585 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 3.97 — 3,023,222 ratings — published 1963
Mrs. Dalloway (Hardcover)
by (shelved 557 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 3.77 — 380,095 ratings — published 1925
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 547 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,336,449 ratings — published 1963
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 537 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,537,653 ratings — published 1969
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 536 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 3.71 — 3,339,903 ratings — published 1954
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 525 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,589,084 ratings — published 1985
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 507 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 3.82 — 1,389,733 ratings — published 1952
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (Paperback)
by (shelved 489 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,669,135 ratings — published 1937
Rebecca (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 464 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.25 — 781,931 ratings — published 1938
The Master and Margarita (Paperback)
by (shelved 455 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.27 — 457,599 ratings — published 1967
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 451 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.34 — 2,636,324 ratings — published 1943
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
by (shelved 448 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.47 — 11,911,833 ratings — published 1997
To the Lighthouse (Paperback)
by (shelved 448 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 3.81 — 228,759 ratings — published 1927
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 444 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,162,650 ratings — published 1967
The Grapes of Wrath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 417 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,036,125 ratings — published 1939
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 415 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.21 — 4,358,658 ratings — published 1947
The Trial (Paperback)
by (shelved 393 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 3.93 — 428,988 ratings — published 1925
The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
by (shelved 370 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.41 — 3,255,700 ratings — published 1954
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, #2)
by (shelved 366 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.43 — 4,711,624 ratings — published 1998
A Clockwork Orange (Paperback)
by (shelved 362 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.00 — 797,058 ratings — published 1962
East of Eden (Paperback)
by (shelved 361 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.46 — 773,139 ratings — published 1952
A Room of One’s Own (Paperback)
by (shelved 359 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.22 — 286,784 ratings — published 1929
Catch-22 (Paperback)
by (shelved 355 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 3.99 — 908,790 ratings — published 1961
And Then There Were None (Paperback)
by (shelved 354 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,736,124 ratings — published 1939
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 354 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 3.65 — 169,295 ratings — published 1916
The Sun Also Rises (Paperback)
by (shelved 348 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 3.78 — 515,045 ratings — published 1926
Waiting for Godot (Paperback)
by (shelved 340 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 3.84 — 230,279 ratings — published 1952
Ulysses (Paperback)
by (shelved 334 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 3.76 — 142,522 ratings — published 1922
The Remains of the Day (Paperback)
by (shelved 334 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.14 — 392,422 ratings — published 1989
Dubliners (Paperback)
by (shelved 332 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 3.83 — 187,931 ratings — published 1914
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 331 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,150,524 ratings — published 1992
All Quiet on the Western Front (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 323 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.13 — 545,528 ratings — published 1928
The Plague (Paperback)
by (shelved 322 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.02 — 337,831 ratings — published 1947
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3)
by (shelved 322 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.58 — 5,093,986 ratings — published 1999
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)
by (shelved 317 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.22 — 2,089,591 ratings — published 1979
On the Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 311 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 3.61 — 462,801 ratings — published 1957
Beloved (Paperback)
by (shelved 310 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 3.99 — 520,606 ratings — published 1987
Siddhartha (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 306 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.09 — 925,343 ratings — published 1922
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Chronicles of Narnia, #1)
by (shelved 303 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.24 — 3,246,213 ratings — published 1950
The Sound and the Fury (Paperback)
by (shelved 303 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 3.86 — 203,062 ratings — published 1929
“Dan thought of love as defined by books, cobwebbed and hidden from view by the past. Too bad a love like that didn't actually exist. In the twentieth century one had to fake it.”
― Closer
― Closer
“The century of airplanes deserves its own music. As there are no precedents, I must create anew.”
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