1940s

2
1984
by George Orwell
84,420 members
1,290 reviews
4.2
17 Members
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3
The Stranger
by Albert Camus
36,547 members
509 reviews
3.9
14 Members
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4
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
by Anne Frank
12,963 members
244 reviews
4.1
11 Members
roby72, sturlington, souloftherose, thecoroner, elkiedee, alex68, cej1027, starbox, ahef1963, Laura1124, ManWithAnAgenda
5
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
by Carson McCullers
11,005 members
248 reviews
4
10 Members
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6
Cry, the Beloved Country
by Alan Paton
9,696 members
185 reviews
4
7 Members
hipdeep, inge87, edwinbcn, souloftherose, ahef1963, kara.shamy, Laura1124
7
The Little Prince
by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
46,327 members
778 reviews
4.2
8 Members
norabelle414, roby72, sturlington, thecoroner, alex68, cej1027, starbox, ahef1963
8
Brideshead Revisited
by Evelyn Waugh
12,898 members
265 reviews
4
9 Members
edwinbcn, roby72, sturlington, thecoroner, alex68, starbox, ahef1963, Laura1124, ManWithAnAgenda,merrystar
9
Fictions
by Jorge Luis Borges
7,883 members
116 reviews
½ 4.4
6 Members
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10
For Whom the Bell Tolls
by Ernest Hemingway
19,508 members
187 reviews
3.9
8 Members
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11
I Capture the Castle
by Dodie Smith
9,433 members
295 reviews
4.1
6 Members
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12
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
by Betty Smith
16,992 members
452 reviews
½ 4.3
7 Members
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13
Death of a Salesman
by Arthur Miller
12,609 members
117 reviews
½ 3.6
7 Members
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14
Goodnight Moon
by Margaret Wise Brown
19,845 members
695 reviews
4.2
7 Members
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15
Stuart Little
by E. B. White
15,753 members
148 reviews
3.8
7 Members
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16
Pippi Longstocking
by Astrid Lindgren
11,106 members
160 reviews
4
7 Members
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17
The Screwtape Letters
by C. S. Lewis
8,191 members
94 reviews
4.1
6 Members
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18
Blueberries for Sal
by Robert McCloskey
8,555 members
148 reviews
4.2
6 Members
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19
Other Voices, Other Rooms
by Truman Capote
2,624 members
52 reviews
3.8
6 Members
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20
The Glass Menagerie
by Tennessee Williams
6,762 members
71 reviews
½ 3.7
6 Members
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21
Native Son
by Richard Wright
7,949 members
101 reviews
4
5 Members
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22
Cannery Row
by John Steinbeck
10,158 members
191 reviews
4
6 Members
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23
The Plague
by Albert Camus
19,002 members
250 reviews
4
5 Members
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24
Curious George
by H. A. Rey
7,049 members
93 reviews
3.9
6 Members
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25
Under the Volcano
by Malcolm Lowry
4,534 members
91 reviews
3.8
4 Members
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26
The Second Sex
by Simone de Beauvoir
2,514 members
17 reviews
4.1
4 Members
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27
Dangling Man
by Saul Bellow
1,034 members
13 reviews
½ 3.4
5 Members
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28
Doctor Faustus
by Thomas Mann
4,247 members
45 reviews
4.2
3 Members
roby72, thecoroner, alex68
29
Invisible Man
by Ralph Ellison
16,658 members
213 reviews
4
4 Members
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30
The Death of Virgil
by Hermann Broch
1,224 members
13 reviews
4
3 Members
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31
The Once and Future King
by T. H. White
15,789 members
209 reviews
4.1
5 Members
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Explanations
sturlington : the omnibus was published in 1958
32
The Naked and the Dead
by Norman Mailer
4,246 members
47 reviews
3.9
4 Members
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33
The Power and the Glory
by Graham Greene
7,944 members
126 reviews
3.9
5 Members
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34
The Bridge on the Drina
by Ivo Andrić
2,495 members
66 reviews
4.2
4 Members
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35
No Exit
by Jean-Paul Sartre
1,137 members
18 reviews
4
4 Members
Myyst, sturlington, ahef1963, kara.shamy
36
A Streetcar Named Desire
by Tennessee Williams
8,320 members
96 reviews
3.9
4 Members
hipdeep, Myyst, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
37
The Makioka Sisters
by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki
2,243 members
44 reviews
4.1
4 Members
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38
Suite Française
by Irène Némirovsky
10,081 members
347 reviews
4
4 Members
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39
The Razor's Edge
by W. Somerset Maugham
6,393 members
120 reviews
4.1
4 Members
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40
The Thurber Carnival
by James Thurber
2,643 members
34 reviews
4.2
3 Members
hipdeep, edwinbcn, fundevogel
41
Christ Stopped at Eboli
by Carlo Levi
2,045 members
45 reviews
4
3 Members
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42
The Case of Charles Dexter Ward
by H. P. Lovecraft
1,695 members
33 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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43
Conversations in Sicily
by Elio Vittorini
704 members
10 reviews
½ 3.6
3 Members
roby72, thecoroner, alex68
44
The Tartar Steppe
by Dino Buzzati
2,625 members
59 reviews
4.1
3 Members
roby72, thecoroner, alex68
45
Confessions of a Mask
by Yukio Mishima
2,679 members
46 reviews
3.9
3 Members
roby72, thecoroner, alex68
46
Good Evening, Mrs. Craven: The Wartime Stories of Mollie Panter-Downes
by Mollie Panter-Downes
505 members
24 reviews
4.2
2 Members
inge87, souloftherose
47
House of Liars
by Elsa Morante
206 members
4 reviews
3.9
3 Members
roby72, thecoroner, alex68
48
The President
by Miguel Ángel Asturias
1,056 members
19 reviews
4
3 Members
roby72, thecoroner, alex68
49
Farewell, My Lovely
by Raymond Chandler
4,616 members
106 reviews
4.1
2 Members
Bretzky1, ManWithAnAgenda
50
The Aleph
by Jorge Luis Borges
2,384 members
64 reviews
4.2
2 Members
alex68, raperper
51
Finn Family Moomintroll
by Tove Jansson
2,574 members
51 reviews
½ 4.3
2 Members
merrystar, souloftherose
52
Miracle on 34th Street
by Valentine Davies
1,004 members
19 reviews
3.8
3 Members
hipdeep, merrystar, ManWithAnAgenda
53
The Wayward Bus
by John Steinbeck
2,163 members
42 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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54
Beautiful Antonio
by Vitaliano Brancati
223 members
3 reviews
½ 3.7
3 Members
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55
Lettere di una novizia
by Guido Piovene
36 members
1 review
½ 3.7
3 Members
roby72, thecoroner, alex68
56
Palladian
by Elizabeth Taylor
291 members
13 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
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57
The Lady in the Lake
by Raymond Chandler
3,405 members
66 reviews
4
3 Members
roby72, alex68, ManWithAnAgenda
58
Saplings
by Noel Streatfeild
343 members
17 reviews
3.9
2 Members
souloftherose, elkiedee
59
Don Giovanni in Sicilia
by Vitaliano Brancati
226 members
4 reviews
½ 3.6
3 Members
roby72, thecoroner, alex68
60
Men and Not Men
by Elio Vittorini
390 members
7 reviews
½ 3.7
3 Members
roby72, thecoroner, alex68
61
Agostino
by Alberto Moravia
490 members
15 reviews
½ 3.3
3 Members
roby72, thecoroner, alex68
62
A View of the Harbour
by Elizabeth Taylor
605 members
35 reviews
4
2 Members
souloftherose, elkiedee
63
The Pursuit of Love
by Nancy Mitford
2,008 members
69 reviews
3.9
2 Members
merrystar, starbox
64
A Time to Kill
by Ennio Flaiano
229 members
6 reviews
½ 3.6
3 Members
roby72, thecoroner, alex68
65
The Invention of Morel
by Adolfo Bioy Casares
2,640 members
82 reviews
3.9
3 Members
roby72, thecoroner, alex68
66
The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath
by H. P. Lovecraft
1,323 members
16 reviews
3.8
2 Members
raperper, ManWithAnAgenda
67
Four Quartets
by T. S. Eliot
3,382 members
41 reviews
½ 4.3
2 Members
hipdeep, alex68
68
The Little White Horse
by Elizabeth Goudge
2,658 members
54 reviews
4.1
2 Members
merrystar, souloftherose
69
The High Window
by Raymond Chandler
2,896 members
52 reviews
4
2 Members
Bretzky1, ManWithAnAgenda
70
House-Bound
by Winifred Peck
129 members
3 reviews
½ 3.5
2 Members
souloftherose, elkiedee
71
If This Is a Man
by Primo Levi
6,186 members
99 reviews
½ 4.3
2 Members
Myyst, alex68
72
The Reluctant Widow
by Georgette Heyer
1,593 members
65 reviews
3.8
2 Members
inge87, merrystar
73
Gigi [single story]
by Colette
171 members
5 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
inge87, alex68
74
Life of Galileo
by Bertolt Brecht
2,310 members
16 reviews
3.8
2 Members
hipdeep, Myyst
75
Delta Wedding
by Eudora Welty
1,030 members
23 reviews
½ 3.6
2 Members
inge87, Laura1124
76
Alicia: My Story
by Alicia Appleman-Jurman
654 members
11 reviews
4.2
Member
dara85
77
One Fine Day
by Mollie Panter-Downes
359 members
16 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
inge87
78
Hiroshima (original edition)
by John Hersey
2,233 members
44 reviews
4.1
2 Members
hipdeep, alex68
79
The Little House
by Virginia Lee Burton
5,858 members
134 reviews
½ 4.3
2 Members
sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda
80
Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle
by Betty MacDonald
4,970 members
43 reviews
4.1
2 Members
merrystar, ManWithAnAgenda
81
The Long Winter
by Laura Ingalls Wilder
10,591 members
97 reviews
4.2
2 Members
merrystar, ManWithAnAgenda
82
Joseph and His Brothers: The Stories of Jacob, Young Joseph, Joseph in Egypt, Joseph the Provider
by Thomas Mann
1,137 members
19 reviews
4
2 Members
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Explanations
ManWithAnAgenda : Published 1933
83
Silverlock
by John Myers Myers
1,038 members
20 reviews
3.9
2 Members
merrystar, ManWithAnAgenda
84
The Sheltering Sky
by Paul Bowles
4,419 members
81 reviews
3.8
2 Members
sturlington, alex68
85
Chess Story
by Stefan Zweig
4,183 members
119 reviews
4.1
2 Members
Myyst, alex68
86
The Beautiful Summer
by Cesare Pavese
597 members
16 reviews
½ 3.5
2 Members
roby72, alex68
87
Horton Hatches the Egg
by Dr. Seuss
4,708 members
57 reviews
4.1
2 Members
sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda
88
Now, Voyager
by Olive Higgins Prouty
218 members
9 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
sturlington
89
Caligula
by Albert Camus
416 members
11 reviews
3.9
2 Members
Myyst, alex68
90
The Thief's Journal
by Jean Genet
1,524 members
5 reviews
3.9
2 Members
thecoroner, alex68
91
The Black Stallion
by Walter Farley
5,242 members
60 reviews
4
2 Members
sturlington, alex68
92
My Enemy's Cradle
by Sara Pennypacker
485 members
23 reviews
3.9
Member
dara85
93
The White Deer
by James Thurber
330 members
3 reviews
4.1
Member
fundevogel
94
The Uninvited
by Dorothy Macardle
259 members
18 reviews
4.1
Member
sturlington
95
The Pearl
by John Steinbeck
13,625 members
206 reviews
½ 3.5
2 Members
alex68, ManWithAnAgenda
96
Montana 1948
by Larry Watson
1,651 members
74 reviews
3.9
Member
dara85
97
Dust Tracks on a Road: An Autobiography
by Zora Neale Hurston
1,442 members
18 reviews
4.1
Member
sturlington
98
Der Tod von Reval
by Werner Bergengruen
40 members
2 reviews
3.9
Member
inge87
99
Laura
by Vera Caspary
586 members
25 reviews
3.9
Member
sturlington
100
The City and the Pillar {original}
by Gore Vidal
194 members
1 review
½ 3.6
Member
ManWithAnAgenda