A Century of Books
1906 - 2005

1906 The Jungle, Upton Sinclair
1907 The Education of Henry Adams, Henry Adams B ADAMS
1908 The Elusive Pimpernel, Baroness Emmuska Orczy
1909 The Prince and the Pauper, Mark Twain
1910 Howard’s End, E. M. Forster

1911 Under Western Eyes, Joseph Conrad
1912 Tarzan of the Apes, Edgar Rice Burroughs
1913 Swann’s Way, Marcel Proust
1914 The Valley of Fear: a Sherlock Holmes Novel, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
1915 The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka
1916 Democracy and Education: an Introduction to the philosophy of Education, John Dewey 370.1 DEW
1917 The Return of the Native, Thomas Hardy
1918 My Ántonia, Willa Cather
1919 Winesburg, Ohio, Sherwood Anderson
1920 Women in Love, D. H. Lawrence

1921 Three Soldiers, John Dos Passos
1922 Ulysses, James Joyce
1923 The Prophet, Kahlil Gibran 892.3 GIB
1924 The Magic Mountain, Thomas Mann
1925 The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
1926 The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway
1927 To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf
1928 All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque
1929 The Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner
1930 The Maltese Falcon, Dashiell Hammett

1931 The Good Earth, Pearl S. Buck
1932 Lady Chatterley’s Lover, D. H. Lawrence
1933 Lost Horizon, James Hilton
1934 The Postman Always Rings Twice, James M. Cain
1935 Of Time and the River: a Legend of Man’s Hunger in His Youth, Thomas Wolfe
1936 Gone With the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
1937 Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston
1938 Rebecca, Dame Daphne du Maurier
1939 The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck
1940 Native Son, Richard Wright

1941 Botany Bay, Charles Nordhoff
1942 The Stranger, Albert Camus
1943 A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Betty Smith
1944 A Bell for Adano, John Hersey
1945 Animal Farm, George Orwell
1946 All the King’s Men, Robert Penn Warren
1947 Tales of the South Pacific, James A. Michener
1948 The Naked and the Dead, Norman Mailer
1949 1984, George Orwell
1950 Jubilee Trail, Gwen Bristow

1951 The Catcher in the Rye, J. D. Salinger
1952 Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison
1953 The Adventures of Augie March, Saul Bellow
1954 The Fellowship of the Ring, J. R. R. Tolkien
1955 The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit, Sloan Wilson
1956 Peyton Place, Grace Metalious
1957 A Death in the Family, James Agee
1958 Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
1959 The Haunting of Hill House, Shirley Jackson
1960 To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee

1961 Catch-22, Joseph Heller
1962 Silent Spring, Rachel Carson 363.7384 CAR
1963 The Feminine Mystique, Betty Friedan 305.42 FRI
1964 You Only Live Twice, Ian Fleming
1965 The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Malcolm X BX
1966 In Cold Blood, Truman Capote 364.1523 CAP
1967 The Confessions of Nat Turner, William Styron
1968 Hunter’s Green, Phyllis Whitney
1969 The Godfather, Mario Puzo
1970 QB VII, Leon Uris

1971 The Winds of War, Herman Wouk
1972 The Optimist’s Daughter, Eudora Welty
1973 Fear of Flying, Erica Jong
1974 All the President’s Men, Carl Bernstein 364.132 BER
1975 Salem’s Lot, Stephen King
1976 Roots, Alex Haley 929.2 HAL
1977 Song of Solomon, Toni Morrison
1978 The World According to Garp, John Irving
1979 Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
1980 Smiley’s People, John le Carré

1981 Noble House: a Novel of Contemporary Hong Kong, James Clavell
1982 The Color Purple, Alice Walker
1983 Blue Highways: A Journey into America, William Least Heat Moon 917.3 HEA
1984 Bright Lights, Big City, Jay McInerney
1985 The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood
1986 The Prince of Tides, Pat Conroy
1987 And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic, Randy Shilts 362.1969792 SHI
1988 The Satanic Verses, Salman Rushdie
1989 The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan
1990 The Things They Carried, Tim O’Brien

1991 The Firm, John Grisham
1992 Truman, David McCullough B Truman
1993 A Lesson Before Dying, Ernest J. Gaines
1994 Waiting to Exhale, Terry McMillan
1995 Left Behind: A Novel of the Earth’s Last Days, Tim F. LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins
1996 Executive Orders, Tom Clancy
1997 Cold Mountain, Charles Frazier
1998 Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, J. K. Rowling
1999 Galileo’s Daughter, Dava Sobel 520.92 SOB
2000 The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, Michael Chabon
2001 Empire Falls, Richard Russo
2002 The Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold
2003 The Known World, Edward P. Jones
2004 R is for Ricochet, Sue Grafton
2005 The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion 813.54 DID