Kira Bazhkova's "Books of the Century"

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The following is a complete list of the titles included in the exhibition Books of the Century at The New York Public Library’s Center for the Humanities, May 20, 1995-July 13, 1996, and in The New York Public Library’s Books of the Century, published by Oxford University Press

http://legacy.www.nypl.org/research/chss/events/booklist.html

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  1. 1.
    Three Sisters
    by Anton Chekhov
  2. 2.
    Remembrance of Things Past, Vol. 1
    by Marcel Proust
  3. 3.
    Tender Buttons: Objects, Food, Rooms
    by Gertrude Stein
  4. 4.
    The Metamorphosis
    by Franz Kafka
  5. 5.
    Renascence and Other Poems (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Edna St. Vincent Millay
  6. 6.
    The Wild Swans at Coole
    by William Butler Yeats
  7. 7.
    Six Characters in Search of an Author
    by Luigi Pirandello
  9. 9.
    Ulysses
    by James Joyce
  10. 10.
    The Magic Mountain
    by Thomas Mann
  11. 11.
  12. 12.
    To the Lighthouse (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Virginia Woolf
  13. 13.
    Gypsy Ballads
    by Federico Garcia Lorca
  14. 14.
    Native Son (Perennial Classics)
    by Richard Wright
  15. 15.
    The Portable Faulkner (Penguin Classics)
    by William Faulkner
  17. 17.
    Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts
    by Samuel Beckett
  18. 18.
    Invisible Man
    by Ralph Ellison
  19. 19.
    Lolita, 50th Anniversary Edition
    by Vladimir Nabokov
  20. 20.
    Collected Fictions
    by Jorge Luis Borges
  21. 21.
    On the Road (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)
    by Jack Kerouac
  22. 22.
    One Hundred Years of Solitude (Oprah's Book Club)
    by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  23. 23.
    Portnoy's Complaint
    by Philip Roth
  24. 24.
    Song of Solomon
    by Toni Morrison
  25. 25.
    The Life of the Bee
    by Maurice Maeterlinck
  26. 26.
    Marie Curie, Radioactivity

  28. 28.
    Peterson Field Guide to Birds of Eastern and Central North America
    by Roger Tory Peterson
  29. 29.
    A Sand County Almanac: With Essays on Conservation
    by Aldo Leopold
  30. 30.
  31. 31.
    Silent Spring
    by Rachel Carson
  33. 33.
    The Diversity of Life (Questions of Science)
    by Edward O. Wilson
  34. 34.
    The battle with the slum
    by Jacob A. 1849-1914 Riis
  35. 35.
    The Souls of Black Folk
    by W.E.B. Du Bois
  36. 36.
    The Jungle: Complete and Unabridged by Upton Sinclair
    by Upton Sinclair
  37. 37.
    20 Years at Hull-House
    by Jane Addams
  38. 38.
    The House On Henry Street
    by Lillian D. Wald
  39. 39.
    The Autobiography of Lincoln Steffens (California Legacy Book)
    by Lincoln Steffens
  40. 40.
    1919: Volume Two of the U.S.A. Trilogy
    by John Dos Passos
  41. 41.
    The Grapes of Wrath
    by John Steinbeck
  43. 43.
    Strange Fruit
    by Lillian Smith
  44. 44.
  45. 45.
    The Fire Next Time
    by James Baldwin
  46. 46.
    The Autobiography of Malcolm X
    by Alex Haley
  47. 47.
    And the Band Played on
    by Randy Shilts
  49. 49.
    Lord Jim: A Tale
    by Joseph Conrad
  50. 50.
    Kim (Penguin Classics)
    by Rudyard Kipling

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