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Twentieth Century Books
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The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as twentieth-century)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,930,290 ratings — published 1925
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as twentieth-century)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,479,840 ratings — published 1949
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as twentieth-century)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,566,694 ratings — published 1945
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as twentieth-century)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,900,013 ratings — published 1960
Rebecca (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 20 times as twentieth-century)
avg rating 4.25 — 722,988 ratings — published 1938
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as twentieth-century)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,900,647 ratings — published 1951
Mrs. Dalloway (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as twentieth-century)
avg rating 3.78 — 357,557 ratings — published 1925
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as twentieth-century)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,842,590 ratings — published 1937
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as twentieth-century)
avg rating 3.99 — 2,081,572 ratings — published 1932
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as twentieth-century)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,431,342 ratings — published 1985
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 14 times as twentieth-century)
avg rating 3.87 — 947,534 ratings — published 1955
Fahrenheit 451 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 14 times as twentieth-century)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,846,318 ratings — published 1953
The Haunting of Hill House (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as twentieth-century)
avg rating 3.81 — 396,176 ratings — published 1959
Murder on the Orient Express (Hercule Poirot, #10)
by (shelved 14 times as twentieth-century)
avg rating 4.20 — 734,168 ratings — published 1934
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as twentieth-century)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,226,642 ratings — published 1963
East of Eden (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as twentieth-century)
avg rating 4.44 — 641,624 ratings — published 1952
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as twentieth-century)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,434,423 ratings — published 1915
The Sun Also Rises (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as twentieth-century)
avg rating 3.79 — 494,803 ratings — published 1926
To the Lighthouse (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as twentieth-century)
avg rating 3.81 — 215,250 ratings — published 1927
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as twentieth-century)
avg rating 3.64 — 164,324 ratings — published 1916
Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as twentieth-century)
avg rating 4.00 — 126,827 ratings — published 1945
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as twentieth-century)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,485,696 ratings — published 1969
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as twentieth-century)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,206,677 ratings — published 1954
The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
by (shelved 12 times as twentieth-century)
avg rating 4.41 — 3,157,395 ratings — published 1954
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as twentieth-century)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,033,490 ratings — published 1992
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as twentieth-century)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,407,581 ratings — published 1942
Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 12 times as twentieth-century)
avg rating 3.98 — 491,587 ratings — published 1987
On the Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as twentieth-century)
avg rating 3.61 — 448,939 ratings — published 1957
Dubliners (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as twentieth-century)
avg rating 3.83 — 176,757 ratings — published 1914
The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings, #2)
by (shelved 11 times as twentieth-century)
avg rating 4.50 — 1,128,320 ratings — published 1954
We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as twentieth-century)
avg rating 3.91 — 296,823 ratings — published 1962
The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings, #3)
by (shelved 11 times as twentieth-century)
avg rating 4.58 — 1,043,602 ratings — published 1955
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as twentieth-century)
avg rating 4.28 — 753,388 ratings — published 1982
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as twentieth-century)
avg rating 3.99 — 387,203 ratings — published 1937
Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as twentieth-century)
avg rating 3.85 — 251,980 ratings — published 1958
The End of the Affair (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as twentieth-century)
avg rating 3.90 — 70,870 ratings — published 1951
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as twentieth-century)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,463,546 ratings — published 1937
Giovanni’s Room (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as twentieth-century)
avg rating 4.34 — 254,515 ratings — published 1956
A Room with a View (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as twentieth-century)
avg rating 3.89 — 201,985 ratings — published 1908
The A.B.C. Murders (Hercule Poirot, #13)
by (shelved 10 times as twentieth-century)
avg rating 4.03 — 201,406 ratings — published 1936
Wide Sargasso Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as twentieth-century)
avg rating 3.59 — 107,147 ratings — published 1966
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as twentieth-century)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,316,211 ratings — published 1952
The Trial (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as twentieth-century)
avg rating 3.94 — 396,709 ratings — published 1925
Catch-22 (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as twentieth-century)
avg rating 3.99 — 887,721 ratings — published 1961
Ulysses (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as twentieth-century)
avg rating 3.76 — 138,048 ratings — published 1922
The Remains of the Day (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as twentieth-century)
avg rating 4.14 — 361,178 ratings — published 1989
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as twentieth-century)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,199,612 ratings — published 1947
A Passage to India (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as twentieth-century)
avg rating 3.67 — 85,959 ratings — published 1924
The Left Hand of Darkness (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as twentieth-century)
avg rating 4.10 — 221,348 ratings — published 1969
Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as twentieth-century)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,115,750 ratings — published 1908
“Education, all smoothly say, is the production of useful citizens. But, good God, what on earth is a useful citizen just now?”
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“We’d gotten off on the subject of writers―from T.H. White and Tolkien to Edgar Allan Poe, another favorite. “My dad says Poe’s a second-rate writer,” I said. “That he’s the Vincent Price of American Letters. But I don’t think that’s fair.”
“No, it isn’t,” said Hobie, seriously pouring himself a cup of tea. “Even if you don’t like Poe―he invented the detective story. And science fiction. In essence, he invented a huge part of the twentieth century. I mean―honestly, I don’t care as much for him as I did as when I was a boy, but even if you don’t like him you can’t dismiss him as a crank.”
― The Goldfinch
“No, it isn’t,” said Hobie, seriously pouring himself a cup of tea. “Even if you don’t like Poe―he invented the detective story. And science fiction. In essence, he invented a huge part of the twentieth century. I mean―honestly, I don’t care as much for him as I did as when I was a boy, but even if you don’t like him you can’t dismiss him as a crank.”
― The Goldfinch
