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20th Century Books
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The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 988 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 3.93 � 5,621,253 ratings � published 1925
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 825 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.20 � 5,088,910 ratings � published 1949
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 774 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.26 � 6,575,284 ratings � published 1960
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 765 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.00 � 4,247,118 ratings � published 1945
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 715 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 3.80 � 3,744,462 ratings � published 1951
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 602 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.03 � 1,267,226 ratings � published 1942
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 583 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 3.89 � 2,708,142 ratings � published 1937
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 569 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 3.99 � 1,977,977 ratings � published 1932
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 566 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 3.87 � 902,127 ratings � published 1955
Fahrenheit 451 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 544 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 3.97 � 2,647,424 ratings � published 1953
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 543 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 3.89 � 1,288,506 ratings � published 1915
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 505 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.10 � 1,431,286 ratings � published 1969
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 501 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.06 � 1,107,592 ratings � published 1963
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 496 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 3.70 � 3,073,081 ratings � published 1954
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 494 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.15 � 2,248,945 ratings � published 1985
Mrs. Dalloway (Hardcover)
by (shelved 488 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 3.79 � 331,016 ratings � published 1925
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 471 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 3.81 � 1,240,071 ratings � published 1952
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (Paperback)
by (shelved 455 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.29 � 4,282,137 ratings � published 1937
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 438 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.33 � 2,313,385 ratings � published 1943
Rebecca (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 433 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.25 � 680,995 ratings � published 1938
The Master and Margarita (Paperback)
by (shelved 426 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.29 � 390,535 ratings � published 1967
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
by (shelved 417 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.47 � 10,868,862 ratings � published 1997
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 412 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.12 � 1,048,138 ratings � published 1967
To the Lighthouse (Paperback)
by (shelved 412 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 3.81 � 202,023 ratings � published 1927
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 385 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.20 � 4,002,778 ratings � published 1947
The Grapes of Wrath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 381 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.02 � 957,440 ratings � published 1939
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, #2)
by (shelved 359 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.43 � 4,268,994 ratings � published 1998
The Trial (Paperback)
by (shelved 356 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 3.95 � 365,954 ratings � published 1925
Catch-22 (Paperback)
by (shelved 335 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 3.99 � 863,525 ratings � published 1961
The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
by (shelved 331 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.40 � 2,993,640 ratings � published 1954
A Clockwork Orange (Paperback)
by (shelved 330 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.00 � 745,366 ratings � published 1962
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 330 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 3.64 � 159,036 ratings � published 1916
A Room of One’s Own (Paperback)
by (shelved 322 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.22 � 237,270 ratings � published 1929
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3)
by (shelved 320 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.58 � 4,581,810 ratings � published 1999
And Then There Were None (Paperback)
by (shelved 317 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.28 � 1,504,530 ratings � published 1939
The Sun Also Rises (Paperback)
by (shelved 315 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 3.79 � 472,419 ratings � published 1926
Ulysses (Paperback)
by (shelved 310 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 3.77 � 136,727 ratings � published 1922
Waiting for Godot (Paperback)
by (shelved 310 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 3.84 � 214,024 ratings � published 1952
The Remains of the Day (Paperback)
by (shelved 306 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.14 � 334,593 ratings � published 1989
Dubliners (Paperback)
by (shelved 305 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 3.84 � 166,900 ratings � published 1914
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)
by (shelved 301 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.23 � 1,942,943 ratings � published 1979
East of Eden (Paperback)
by (shelved 300 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.42 � 584,824 ratings � published 1952
All Quiet on the Western Front (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 299 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.10 � 492,392 ratings � published 1928
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 293 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.16 � 908,205 ratings � published 1992
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 292 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.27 � 726,762 ratings � published 1982
On the Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 291 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 3.61 � 432,087 ratings � published 1957
The Plague (Paperback)
by (shelved 289 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.02 � 292,554 ratings � published 1947
Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 287 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 3.84 � 282,798 ratings � published 1958
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 286 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.20 � 759,649 ratings � published 1962
Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 286 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 3.97 � 467,042 ratings � published 1987
“The present viewpoint is that Stalin proved to be the most resolute leader, that the Soviet Union exerted undue influence in reshaping the map of postwar Europe, and that a war purportedly begun to defend the independence of small European nations ended up by sacrificing them. The question â€� did Stalin outwit and outjostle Roosevelt and Churchill â€� will remain one of the enigmas of the 20th century.”
― A Short History of the Twentieth Century
― A Short History of the Twentieth Century
“Someone should write an erudite essay on the moral, physical, and esthetic effect of the Model T Ford on the American nation. Two generations of Americans knew more about the Ford coil than the clitoris, about the planetary system of gears than the solar system of stars. With the Model T, part of the concept of private property disappeared. Pliers ceased to be privately owned and a tire pump belonged to the last man who had picked it up. Most of the babies of the period were conceived in Model T Fords and not a few were born in them. The theory of the Anglo Saxon home became so warped that it never quite recovered.”
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