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The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as twentieth-century)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,121,243 ratings — published 1925
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as twentieth-century)
avg rating 4.21 — 5,733,455 ratings — published 1949
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as twentieth-century)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,778,869 ratings — published 1945
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as twentieth-century)
avg rating 4.26 — 7,100,486 ratings — published 1960
Rebecca (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 22 times as twentieth-century)
avg rating 4.25 — 760,399 ratings — published 1938
Mrs. Dalloway (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as twentieth-century)
avg rating 3.77 — 373,142 ratings — published 1925
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as twentieth-century)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,939,724 ratings — published 1937
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as twentieth-century)
avg rating 3.80 — 4,000,743 ratings — published 1951
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as twentieth-century)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,146,092 ratings — published 1932
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as twentieth-century)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,305,118 ratings — published 1963
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as twentieth-century)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,547,847 ratings — published 1985
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 14 times as twentieth-century)
avg rating 3.87 — 975,410 ratings — published 1955
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as twentieth-century)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,975,003 ratings — published 1963
The Haunting of Hill House (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as twentieth-century)
avg rating 3.81 — 420,516 ratings — published 1959
Murder on the Orient Express (Hercule Poirot, #10)
by (shelved 14 times as twentieth-century)
avg rating 4.20 — 765,631 ratings — published 1934
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as twentieth-century)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,114,273 ratings — published 1992
To the Lighthouse (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as twentieth-century)
avg rating 3.81 — 224,976 ratings — published 1927
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as twentieth-century)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,523,302 ratings — published 1969
East of Eden (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as twentieth-century)
avg rating 4.45 — 711,856 ratings — published 1952
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as twentieth-century)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,304,794 ratings — published 1954
The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as twentieth-century)
avg rating 4.41 — 3,229,674 ratings — published 1954
Wide Sargasso Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as twentieth-century)
avg rating 3.59 — 111,880 ratings — published 1966
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as twentieth-century)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,514,883 ratings — published 1942
Beloved (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as twentieth-century)
avg rating 3.99 — 512,019 ratings — published 1987
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as twentieth-century)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,542,604 ratings — published 1915
The Sun Also Rises (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as twentieth-century)
avg rating 3.78 — 509,537 ratings — published 1926
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as twentieth-century)
avg rating 3.65 — 167,974 ratings — published 1916
Dubliners (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as twentieth-century)
avg rating 3.83 — 184,850 ratings — published 1914
Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as twentieth-century)
avg rating 4.00 — 131,178 ratings — published 1945
The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings, #2)
by (shelved 12 times as twentieth-century)
avg rating 4.51 — 1,174,872 ratings — published 1954
We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as twentieth-century)
avg rating 3.90 — 316,295 ratings — published 1962
The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings, #3)
by (shelved 12 times as twentieth-century)
avg rating 4.59 — 1,084,790 ratings — published 1955
On the Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as twentieth-century)
avg rating 3.61 — 459,057 ratings — published 1957
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as twentieth-century)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,613,175 ratings — published 1937
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as twentieth-century)
avg rating 4.28 — 771,121 ratings — published 1982
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as twentieth-century)
avg rating 4.00 — 399,503 ratings — published 1937
Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as twentieth-century)
avg rating 3.85 — 256,646 ratings — published 1958
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as twentieth-century)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,317,677 ratings — published 1947
The End of the Affair (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as twentieth-century)
avg rating 3.90 — 74,427 ratings — published 1951
The Left Hand of Darkness (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as twentieth-century)
avg rating 4.09 — 235,810 ratings — published 1969
Giovanni’s Room (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as twentieth-century)
avg rating 4.34 — 294,758 ratings — published 1956
The Secret Garden (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as twentieth-century)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,334,543 ratings — published 1911
A Room with a View (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as twentieth-century)
avg rating 3.89 — 208,047 ratings — published 1908
The A.B.C. Murders (Hercule Poirot, #13)
by (shelved 10 times as twentieth-century)
avg rating 4.03 — 213,357 ratings — published 1936
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as twentieth-century)
avg rating 3.82 — 1,369,074 ratings — published 1952
The Trial (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as twentieth-century)
avg rating 3.93 — 419,177 ratings — published 1925
Catch-22 (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as twentieth-century)
avg rating 3.99 — 903,079 ratings — published 1961
Ulysses (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as twentieth-century)
avg rating 3.76 — 141,379 ratings — published 1922
The Waste Land and Other Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as twentieth-century)
avg rating 4.21 — 75,250 ratings — published 1922
Flowers for Algernon (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as twentieth-century)
avg rating 4.25 — 838,429 ratings — published 1966
“England,' 'La France,' 'Das Reich;' their words
Are like the names of extinct birds
Or peasant-women's quaint old charms
For bringing lovers to their arms,
Which would be only pretty save
That they bring thousands to their grave.”
―
Are like the names of extinct birds
Or peasant-women's quaint old charms
For bringing lovers to their arms,
Which would be only pretty save
That they bring thousands to their grave.”
―
“The beauty of the twentieth century is the charm of the hospital, the grace of the cemetery, of consumption and emaciation. I admit that I have submitted to it all; worse, I have loved with all my heart.”
― Monsieur de Phocas
― Monsieur de Phocas
