Classic Authors of the 20th Century—Primarily 1950-2000
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BEST BOOK TO READ FIRST |
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The Monkeywrench Gang |
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A Death in the Family |
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Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon |
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Lucky Jim |
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Go Tell It on the Mountain |
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The Sea Birds Are Still Alive: Collected Stories |
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The Floating Opera |
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Sixty Stories |
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Waiting for Godot (play) |
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The Sheltering Sky |
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Dreaming of Babylon |
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Ham on Rye |
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A Clockwork Orange |
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Naked Lunch |
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If On a Winter’s Night a Traveler |
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Breakfast at Tiffany’s |
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Burning Your Boats: the Collected Short Stories |
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Where I’m Calling From: Selected Stories |
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The Songlines |
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The Stories of John Cheever |
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Family Happiness |
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Keys of the Kingdom |
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The Roald Dahl Omnibus |
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Fifth Business |
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Deliverance |
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Stones for Ibarra |
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A Yellow Raft in Blue Water |
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Advise and Consent |
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Justine |
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Invisible Man |
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The Bookshop |
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An Angel at My Table (biography) |
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Agape Agape |
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Mrs. ‘Arris Goes to Paris |
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October Light |
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In This House of Brede |
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Lord of the Flies |
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The Heart of the Matter |
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Roots |
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Catch-22 |
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The Lottery; and Other Stories |
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The Thin Red Line |
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Zorba the Greek |
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On the Road |
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest |
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Darkness at Noon |
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Being There |
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The Periodic Table |
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Gift from the Sea (nonfiction) |
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The Naked and the Dead |
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The Assistant |
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They Came Like Swallows |
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The Group |
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The Heart is a Lonely Hunter |
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Chesapeake |
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The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea |
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The Pursuit of Love |
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A Fairly Honourable Defeat |
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Lolita |
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A Spy in the House of Love |
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The Complete Stories |
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Appointment in Samarra |
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Doctor Zhivago |
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Cry, the Beloved Country |
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The Moviegoer |
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Pale Horse, Pale Rider:: Three Short Novels |
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My Name is Asher Lev |
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A Dance to the Music of Time |
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Complete Collected Stories |
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The Godfather |
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Excellent Women |
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Barney’s Version |
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The Trees |
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Call It Sleep |
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Catcher in the Rye |
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Journal of a Solitude (biography) |
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The Jewel in the Crown |
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The Emigrants |
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Blood Tie |
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The Young Lions |
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The Stone Diaries |
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The Collected Stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer |
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn |
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Strangers and Brothers |
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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich |
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The Light in the Piazza |
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Crossing to Safety |
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Sophie’s Choice |
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A Summons to Memphis |
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QB VII |
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Slaughterhouse-five |
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The Word |
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All the King’s Men |
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The Ponder Heart |
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The Camomile Lawn |
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Voss |
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Night |
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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (play) |
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The Caine Mutiny |
