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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 — 5,920,500 ratings — published 1925
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 864 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,466,452 ratings — published 1949
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 814 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,555,708 ratings — published 1945
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 808 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,889,626 ratings — published 1960
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 751 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,895,771 ratings — published 1951
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 654 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,402,932 ratings — published 1942
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 602 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,837,837 ratings — published 1937
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 594 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 3.99 — 2,078,368 ratings — published 1932
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 592 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 3.87 — 946,122 ratings — published 1955
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 586 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,429,522 ratings — published 1915
Fahrenheit 451 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 573 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,839,734 ratings — published 1953
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 525 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,222,708 ratings — published 1963
Mrs. Dalloway (Hardcover)
by (shelved 522 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 3.78 — 356,902 ratings — published 1925
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 519 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,483,920 ratings — published 1969
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 515 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,202,233 ratings — published 1954
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 509 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,425,277 ratings — published 1985
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 498 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,313,782 ratings — published 1952
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (Paperback)
by (shelved 479 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,457,675 ratings — published 1937
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 458 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.33 — 2,480,110 ratings — published 1943
Rebecca (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 446 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.25 — 721,269 ratings — published 1938
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
by (shelved 444 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.47 — 11,420,734 ratings — published 1997
The Master and Margarita (Paperback)
by (shelved 437 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.28 — 420,865 ratings — published 1967
To the Lighthouse (Paperback)
by (shelved 434 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 3.81 — 214,855 ratings — published 1927
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 430 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,105,544 ratings — published 1967
The Grapes of Wrath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 404 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.03 — 994,797 ratings — published 1939
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 402 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,195,087 ratings — published 1947
The Trial (Paperback)
by (shelved 375 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 3.94 — 395,631 ratings — published 1925
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, #2)
by (shelved 366 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.43 — 4,495,892 ratings — published 1998
The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
by (shelved 355 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.41 — 3,152,187 ratings — published 1954
A Clockwork Orange (Paperback)
by (shelved 348 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.00 — 770,005 ratings — published 1962
Catch-22 (Paperback)
by (shelved 348 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 3.99 — 887,031 ratings — published 1961
A Room of One’s Own (Paperback)
by (shelved 346 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.22 — 260,945 ratings — published 1929
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 345 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 3.64 — 164,161 ratings — published 1916
The Sun Also Rises (Paperback)
by (shelved 343 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 3.79 — 494,201 ratings — published 1926
And Then There Were None (Paperback)
by (shelved 338 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,616,746 ratings — published 1939
Waiting for Godot (Paperback)
by (shelved 330 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 3.84 — 222,389 ratings — published 1951
Ulysses (Paperback)
by (shelved 326 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 3.76 — 137,893 ratings — published 1922
East of Eden (Paperback)
by (shelved 326 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.44 — 639,239 ratings — published 1952
Dubliners (Paperback)
by (shelved 326 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 3.83 — 176,377 ratings — published 1914
The Remains of the Day (Paperback)
by (shelved 323 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.14 — 360,303 ratings — published 1989
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3)
by (shelved 323 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.58 — 4,844,417 ratings — published 1999
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 — 2,016,812 ratings — published 1979
All Quiet on the Western Front (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 313 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.11 — 520,612 ratings — published 1928
The Plague (Paperback)
by (shelved 306 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.02 — 315,059 ratings — published 1947
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 306 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,029,608 ratings — published 1992
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 297 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.28 — 752,569 ratings — published 1982
Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 297 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 3.98 — 490,814 ratings — published 1987
On the Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 297 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 3.61 — 448,443 ratings — published 1957
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Paperback)
by (shelved 295 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.11 — 544,376 ratings — published 1984
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 292 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.20 — 780,269 ratings — published 1962
“The rush of events in the Soviet Union, Germany, eastern Europe and China in the late 1980s and the very early 1990s had no parallel in modern history. During the last thousand years no other formidable empire in a time of comparative peace had been dissolved so quickly, so unexpectedly, as the Soviet Union.”
― A Short History of the Twentieth Century
― A Short History of the Twentieth Century
“The birth of the 20th century was like a flaming sunrise. More was expected of the century than any other. So much had been achieved in the previous one that it seemed sensible to expect that henceforth the world's triumphs would far outweigh the disasters.”
― A Short History of the Twentieth Century
― A Short History of the Twentieth Century
