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A Century of Reading: 100 Books Through the Decades
1909-1918 |
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| 1. L. Frank Baum | The Road to Oz |
| 2. Lucy Maud Montgomery | Anne of Avonlea |
| 3. Gene Stratton-Porter | A Girl of the Limberlost |
| 4. Jane Addams | Twenty Years at Hull House |
| 5. E.M. Forster | Howards End |
| 6. Francis Hodgson Burnett | The Secret Garden |
| 7. Edith Wharton | Ethan Frome |
| 8. James Weldon Johnson | The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man |
| 9. Willa Cather | O Pioneers! |
| 10. Henry Adams | The Education of Henry Adam |
1919-1928 |
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| 1. Sherwood Anderson | Winesburg, Ohio |
| 2. W. Somerset Maugham | The Moon and Sixpence |
| 3. Robert Frost | Miscellaneous Poems |
| 4. Elizabeth Von Arnim | Enchanted April |
| 5. Margery Williams | The Velveteen Rabbit |
| 6. Theodore Dreiser | An American Tragedy |
| 7. F. Scott Fitzgerald | The Great Gatsby |
| 8. Ernest Hemingway | The Sun Also Rises |
| 9. A.A. Milne | Winnie-the-Pooh |
| 10. Virginia Woolf | Orlando |
1929-1938 |
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| 1. Erich Maria Remarque | All Quiet on the Western Front |
| 2. Dashiell Hammett | The Maltese Falcon |
| 3. Aldous Huxley | Brave New World |
| 4. Laura Ingalls Wilder | Little House in the Big Woods, Little House on the Prairie |
| 5. Agatha Christie | Murder on the Orient Express |
| 6. Isak Dinesen | Out of Africa |
| 7. Zora Neale Hurston | Their Eyes Were Watching God |
| 8. John Steinbeck | Of Mice and Men |
| 9. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings | The Yearling |
| 10. Thornton Wilder | Our Town |
1939-1948 |
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| 1. John Steinbeck | The Grapes of Wrath |
| 2. Graham Greene | The Power and the Glory |
| 3. Carson McCullers | The Heart is a Lonely Hunter |
| 4. Richard Wright, | Native Son |
| 5. Antoine de Saint-Exupery | The Little Prince |
| 6. Betty Smith | A Tree Grows in Brooklyn |
| 7. Astrid Lindgren | Pippi Longstocking |
| 8. George Orwell | Animal Farm |
| 9. Anne Frank | The Diary of Anne Frank |
| 10. Norman Mailer | The Naked and the Dead |
1949-1958 |
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| 1. Shirley Jackson | The Lottery and Other Stories |
| 2. Arthur Miller | Death of a Salesman |
| 3. C.S. Lewis | The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe |
| 4. J.D. Salinger | Catcher in the Rye |
| 5. Ralph Ellison | Invisible Man |
| 6. E.B. White | Charlotte's Web |
| 7. Ray Bradbur | Fahrenheit 451 |
| 8. William Golding | Lord of the Flies |
| 9. Patricia Highsmith | The Talented Mr. Ripley |
| 10. Chinua Achebe | Things Fall Apart |
1959-1968 |
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| 1. Lorraine Hansberry | A Raisin in the Sun |
| 2. Harper Lee | To Kill a Mockingbird |
| 3. John Updike | Rabbit, Run |
| 4. Roald Dahl | James and the Giant Peach |
| 5. Joseph Heller | Catch-22 |
| 6. Ken Kesey | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest |
| 7. Sylvia Plath | The Bell-Jar |
| 8. Shel Silverstein | The Giving Tree |
| 9. Gabriel Garcia Marquez | One Hundred Years of Solitude |
| 10. Chaim Potok | The Chosen |
1969-1978 |
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| 1. Kurt Vonnegut | Slaughterhouse-Five |
| 2. Judy Blume | Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret |
| 3. Wallace Stegner | Angle of Repose |
| 4. Richard Adams | Watership Down |
| 5. Annie Dillard, | Pilgrim at Tinker Creek |
| 6. Madeleine L'Engel | A Wind in the Door |
| 7. E.L. Doctorow | Ragtime |
| 8. Alex Haley | Roots |
| 9. Toni Morrison | Song of Solomon |
| 10. John Irving | The World According to Garp |
1979-1988 |
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| 1. William Styron | Sophie's Choice |
| 2. Salman Rushdie | Midnight's Children |
| 3. Raymond Carver | Cathedral |
| 4. Sandra Cisneros | The House on Mango Street |
| 5. Margaret Atwood | The Handmaid's Tale |
| 6. Garrison Keillor | Lake Wobegon Days |
| 7. Larry McMurtry | Lonesome Dove |
| 8. Toni Morrison | Beloved |
| 9. Gary Paulson | Hatchet |
| 10. Ann Tyler | The Accidental Tourist |
1989-1998 |
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| 1. Kazuo Ishiguro | Remains of the Day |
| 2. Amy Tan | The Joy Luck Club |
| 3. A.S. Byatt | Possession |
| 4. Michael Ondaatje | The English Patient |
| 5. Richard Ford | Independence Day |
| 6. Frank McCourt | Angela's Ashes |
| 7. Philip Pullman | The Golden Compass |
| 8. Rohinton Mistry | A Fine Balance |
| 9. J.K. Rowling | Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone |
| 10. Barbara Kingsolver | The Poisonwood Bible |
1999-present |
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| 1. Jonathan Lethem | Motherless Brooklyn |
| 2. Lemony Snicket | A Series of Unfortunate Events |
| 3. Philip Roth | The Human Stain |
| 4. Yann Martel | Life of Pi |
| 5. Ian McEwan | Atonement |
| 6. Alice Sebold | The Lovely Bones |
| 7. Mark Haddon | The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time |
| 8. Susanna Clarke | Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell |
| 9. Marilynne Robinson | Gilead |
| 10. Khaled Hosseini | A Thousand Splendid Suns |
1909-1918 | 1919-1928 | 1929-1938 | 1939-1948 | 1949-1958
1959-1968 | 1969-1978 | 1979-1988 | 1989-1998 | 1999-Present
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