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20th Century Classics Books
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The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 107 times as 20th-century-classics)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,171,240 ratings — published 1925
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 94 times as 20th-century-classics)
avg rating 4.26 — 7,152,642 ratings — published 1960
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 84 times as 20th-century-classics)
avg rating 4.21 — 5,805,585 ratings — published 1949
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 82 times as 20th-century-classics)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,844,539 ratings — published 1945
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as 20th-century-classics)
avg rating 3.80 — 4,028,290 ratings — published 1951
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as 20th-century-classics)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,164,640 ratings — published 1932
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as 20th-century-classics)
avg rating 3.97 — 3,012,013 ratings — published 1963
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as 20th-century-classics)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,968,543 ratings — published 1937
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 54 times as 20th-century-classics)
avg rating 3.87 — 984,086 ratings — published 1955
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as 20th-century-classics)
avg rating 3.71 — 3,331,347 ratings — published 1954
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as 20th-century-classics)
avg rating 3.82 — 1,385,027 ratings — published 1952
The Grapes of Wrath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as 20th-century-classics)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,033,213 ratings — published 1939
Catch-22 (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as 20th-century-classics)
avg rating 3.99 — 907,368 ratings — published 1961
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as 20th-century-classics)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,534,270 ratings — published 1969
Rebecca (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 47 times as 20th-century-classics)
avg rating 4.25 — 775,361 ratings — published 1938
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as 20th-century-classics)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,545,887 ratings — published 1942
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as 20th-century-classics)
avg rating 4.20 — 798,132 ratings — published 1962
Mrs. Dalloway (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as 20th-century-classics)
avg rating 3.77 — 378,567 ratings — published 1925
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as 20th-century-classics)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,328,746 ratings — published 1963
To the Lighthouse (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as 20th-century-classics)
avg rating 3.81 — 227,890 ratings — published 1927
The Sun Also Rises (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as 20th-century-classics)
avg rating 3.78 — 513,752 ratings — published 1926
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as 20th-century-classics)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,578,485 ratings — published 1915
A Farewell to Arms (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as 20th-century-classics)
avg rating 3.82 — 369,074 ratings — published 1929
On the Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as 20th-century-classics)
avg rating 3.61 — 461,918 ratings — published 1957
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as 20th-century-classics)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,656,292 ratings — published 1937
East of Eden (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as 20th-century-classics)
avg rating 4.46 — 754,577 ratings — published 1952
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as 20th-century-classics)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,158,888 ratings — published 1967
For Whom the Bell Tolls (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as 20th-century-classics)
avg rating 3.99 — 328,935 ratings — published 1940
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as 20th-century-classics)
avg rating 3.65 — 168,921 ratings — published 1916
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as 20th-century-classics)
avg rating 4.34 — 2,625,051 ratings — published 1943
A Room with a View (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as 20th-century-classics)
avg rating 3.89 — 209,775 ratings — published 1908
The Sound and the Fury (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as 20th-century-classics)
avg rating 3.86 — 202,582 ratings — published 1929
The Master and Margarita (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as 20th-century-classics)
avg rating 4.28 — 454,819 ratings — published 1967
Ulysses (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as 20th-century-classics)
avg rating 3.76 — 142,229 ratings — published 1922
Invisible Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as 20th-century-classics)
avg rating 3.93 — 207,473 ratings — published 1952
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as 20th-century-classics)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,579,345 ratings — published 1985
A Clockwork Orange (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as 20th-century-classics)
avg rating 4.00 — 795,486 ratings — published 1962
The Trial (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as 20th-century-classics)
avg rating 3.93 — 426,600 ratings — published 1925
Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as 20th-century-classics)
avg rating 4.00 — 132,455 ratings — published 1945
All Quiet on the Western Front (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as 20th-century-classics)
avg rating 4.12 — 543,713 ratings — published 1928
In Cold Blood (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as 20th-century-classics)
avg rating 4.09 — 760,114 ratings — published 1966
Beloved (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as 20th-century-classics)
avg rating 3.99 — 518,226 ratings — published 1987
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as 20th-century-classics)
avg rating 4.21 — 4,349,389 ratings — published 1947
The Haunting of Hill House (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as 20th-century-classics)
avg rating 3.80 — 435,463 ratings — published 1959
Siddhartha (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as 20th-century-classics)
avg rating 4.09 — 920,774 ratings — published 1922
The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
by (shelved 25 times as 20th-century-classics)
avg rating 4.41 — 3,249,498 ratings — published 1954
The Age of Innocence (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as 20th-century-classics)
avg rating 3.98 — 205,470 ratings — published 1920
Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as 20th-century-classics)
avg rating 3.85 — 258,042 ratings — published 1958
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as 20th-century-classics)
avg rating 4.28 — 775,974 ratings — published 1982
Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1)
by (shelved 23 times as 20th-century-classics)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,162,338 ratings — published 1908