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20th Century Books
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The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 1047 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,087,007 ratings — published 1925
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 885 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,686,817 ratings — published 1948
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 823 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,749,423 ratings — published 1945
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 820 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.26 — 7,065,020 ratings — published 1960
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 755 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,982,064 ratings — published 1951
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 662 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,491,137 ratings — published 1942
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 615 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,921,028 ratings — published 1937
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 609 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 3.87 — 970,750 ratings — published 1955
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 603 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,133,966 ratings — published 1932
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 585 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,518,765 ratings — published 1915
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 573 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,951,283 ratings — published 1963
Mrs. Dalloway (Hardcover)
by (shelved 538 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 3.77 — 370,426 ratings — published 1925
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 534 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,290,015 ratings — published 1963
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 530 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,516,452 ratings — published 1969
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 523 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,287,334 ratings — published 1954
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 517 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,527,568 ratings — published 1985
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 500 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,358,701 ratings — published 1952
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (Paperback)
by (shelved 479 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,585,501 ratings — published 1937
Rebecca (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 453 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.25 — 753,834 ratings — published 1938
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 452 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.34 — 2,571,709 ratings — published 1943
The Master and Margarita (Paperback)
by (shelved 447 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.28 — 441,959 ratings — published 1967
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
by (shelved 446 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.47 — 11,709,683 ratings — published 1997
To the Lighthouse (Paperback)
by (shelved 442 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 3.81 — 223,168 ratings — published 1927
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 435 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,137,738 ratings — published 1967
The Grapes of Wrath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 411 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,018,630 ratings — published 1939
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 407 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,296,748 ratings — published 1947
The Trial (Paperback)
by (shelved 384 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 3.93 — 415,012 ratings — published 1925
The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
by (shelved 362 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.41 — 3,218,376 ratings — published 1954
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, #2)
by (shelved 358 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.43 — 4,629,374 ratings — published 1998
A Clockwork Orange (Paperback)
by (shelved 355 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.00 — 787,364 ratings — published 1962
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 349 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 3.65 — 167,393 ratings — published 1916
A Room of One’s Own (Paperback)
by (shelved 348 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.22 — 275,789 ratings — published 1929
And Then There Were None (Paperback)
by (shelved 346 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,686,618 ratings — published 1939
Catch-22 (Paperback)
by (shelved 346 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 3.99 — 900,398 ratings — published 1961
The Sun Also Rises (Paperback)
by (shelved 345 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 3.78 — 506,810 ratings — published 1926
East of Eden (Paperback)
by (shelved 340 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.45 — 695,259 ratings — published 1952
Waiting for Godot (Paperback)
by (shelved 337 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 3.84 — 227,411 ratings — published 1951
The Remains of the Day (Paperback)
by (shelved 331 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.14 — 379,204 ratings — published 1989
Ulysses (Paperback)
by (shelved 328 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 3.76 — 140,873 ratings — published 1922
Dubliners (Paperback)
by (shelved 328 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 3.83 — 183,456 ratings — published 1914
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3)
by (shelved 323 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.58 — 4,992,287 ratings — published 1999
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 318 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,099,761 ratings — published 1992
The Plague (Paperback)
by (shelved 315 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.02 — 327,734 ratings — published 1947
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 — 2,061,550 ratings — published 1979
All Quiet on the Western Front (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 313 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.12 — 535,508 ratings — published 1928
On the Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 308 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 3.61 — 457,108 ratings — published 1957
Beloved (Paperback)
by (shelved 301 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 3.99 — 508,383 ratings — published 1987
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 300 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.20 — 792,194 ratings — published 1962
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Paperback)
by (shelved 298 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.10 — 562,024 ratings — published 1984
Siddhartha (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 297 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.09 — 905,496 ratings — published 1922
“The two came to differ on many, if not most, issues. But the man who would single-handedly defy Hitler in 1940 against all odds bears a striking resemblance to the man who organized the first satyagraha campaign in South Africa.”
― Gandhi and Churchill: The Epic Rivalry that Destroyed an Empire and Forged Our Age
― Gandhi and Churchill: The Epic Rivalry that Destroyed an Empire and Forged Our Age
“I love music passionately. And because I love it, I try to free it from barren traditions that stifle it.”
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