books of the century reading list!
Derived from booksofthecentury.com, I plan to read at least two books from every decade -- about twenty in total! Books from the years that I have already read are listed in italics. If you have any recommendations of your own, please email me!

1900-1909
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, L. Frank Baum


Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
The Hound of the Baskervilles, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The House of Mirth, Edith Warton
The Interpretation of Dreams, Sigmund Freud


1910-1919
Call of the Wild, Jack London
O, Pioneers!, Willa Cather
The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka


1920-1929
The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
Winnie-the-Pooh, A.A. Milne


This Side of Paradise, F. Scott Fitzgerald
Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf
The Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner
A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway
The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway
Ulysses, James Joyce
Lady Chatterly's Lover, D.H. Lawrence


1930-1939
The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien
The Sword in the Stone, T.H. White


The Good Earth, Pearl S. Buck
Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
Gone With the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck
The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck
Tender is the Night, F. Scott Fitzgerald
Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier


1940-1949
1984, George Orwell
Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
For Whom the Bell Tolls, Ernest Hemingway
The Stranger, Albert Camus
Heart of the Matter, Graham Greene


1950-1959
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, C.S. Lewis
Charlotte's Web, E.B. White
Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury
Lord of the Flies, William Golding
The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien
On the Road, Jack Kerouac
The Cat in the Hat, Dr. Seuss


I, Robot, Isaac Asimov
The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger
Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
Howl, Allen Ginsberg
Naked Lunch, William S. Burroughs
Lieutenant Hornblower, C.S. Forester
The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway
Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe
Night, Elie Wiesel


1960-1969
Where the Wild Things Are, Maurice Sendak
The Chosen, Chaim Potok
2001: A Space Odyssey, Arthur C. Clarke


Rabbit, Run, John Updike
To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
Catch-22, Joseph Heller
The Agony and the Ecstasy, Irving Stone
A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Ken Kesey
The Crying of Lot 49, Thomas Pynchon
Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut
Man's Search for Meaning, Victor Frankl


1970-1979
The Crystal Cave, Mary Stewart
The Silmarillion, J.R.R. Tolkien & Christopher Tolkien


Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Richard Bach
Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
The Killer Angels, Michael Shaara
Ragtime, E.L. Doctorow


1980-1989


The Bourne Identity, Robert Ludlum
Cosmos, Carl Sagan
The Name of the Rose, Umberto Eco
The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera
The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood
Watchmen, Alan Moore
A Brief History of Time, Stephen Hawking
The Pillars of the Earth, Ken Follet


1990-1999
Star Wars: Episode 1, the Phantom Menace, Terry Brooks


The Things They Carried, Tim O'Brien
All the Pretty Horses, Cormac McCarthy
American Pastoral, Philip Roth
The Hours, Michael Cunningham
The Elegant Universe, Brian Greene
Timeline, Michael Crichton
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