New York Public Library 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. The books are divided into:
  • Landmarks of Modern Literature (1-24)
  • Nature’s Realm (25-34)
  • Protest & Progress (35-49)
  • Colonialism and Its Aftermath (50-66)
  • Mind & Spirit (67-81)
  • Popular Culture & Mass Entertainment (82-99)
  • Women Rise (100-110)
  • Economics & Technology (111-121)
  • Utopias & Dystopias (122-134)
  • War-Holocaust-Totalitarianism (135-152)
  • Optimism-Joy-Gentility (153-167)
  • Favorites of Childhood and Youth (168-175)

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  1. 1.
    Three Sisters: A Play
    by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

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  2. 2.
    Remembrance of Things Past Vol.I, II & III
    by Marcel Proust

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  3. 5.
    Renascence And Other Poems
    by Edna St. Vincent Millay

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  4. 6.
    The Wild Swans At Coole
    by W. B. Yeats

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  5. 8.
    The Waste Land (Norton Critical Editions)
    by T. S. Eliot

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  6. 9.
    Ulysses (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by James Joyce

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  7. 10.
    The Magic Mountain
    by Thomas Mann

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  8. 11.
    The Great Gatsby
    by F. Scott Fitzgerald

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  9. 12.
    To the Lighthouse (Annotated)
    by Virginia Woolf

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  10. 13.
    Gypsy Ballads: Romancero Gitano (Hispanic Classics)
    by Federico Garcia Lorca

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  11. 14.
    Native Son (Perennial Classics)
    by Richard A. Wright

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  12. 15.
    The Portable Faulkner (Penguin Classics)
    by William Faulkner

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    The Age of Anxiety: A Baroque Eclogue
    by W.H. Auden

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  14. 17.
    Waiting for Godot
    by Samuel Beckett

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  15. 18.
    Invisible Man: A Novel
    by Ralph Ellison

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  16. 19.
    Lolita (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
    by Vladimir Nabokov

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  17. 20.
    Fictions (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Jorge Luis Borges

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  18. 21.
    On the Road
    by Jack Kerouac

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  19. 22.
    One Hundred Years of Solitude (Oprah's Book Club)
    by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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  20. 23.
    Portnoy's Complaint
    by Philip Roth

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  21. 24.
    Song of Solomon
    by Toni Morrison

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  22. 25.
    The Life of the Bee
    by Maurice Maeterlinck

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    Treatise on Radioactivity
    by Marie Curie

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  24. 29.
    A Sand County Almanac (Outdoor Essays & Reflections)
    by Aldo Leopold

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  25. 30.
    King Solomon's Ring: New Light on Animals' Ways
    by Konrad Lorenz

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  26. 31.
    Silent Spring
    by Rachel Carson

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    Smoking and Health - Report of the Advisory Committee to the Surgeon General of the Public Health Service
    by EDUCATION, AND WELFARE U. S. DEPT. OF HEALTH

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  28. 34.
    The Diversity of Life
    by Edward O. Wilson

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  29. 35.
    The battle with the slum / by Jacob A. Riis.
    by Michigan Historical Reprint Series

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  30. 36.
    The Souls of Black Folk (Norton Critical Editions)
    by W. E. B. Du Bois

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  31. 37.
    The Jungle (Enriched Classics)
    by Upton Sinclair

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  32. 38.
    Twenty Years at Hull House: With Autobiographical Notes
    by Jane Addams

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    The House on Henry Street (Philanthropy and Society)
    by Lillian D. Wald

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  34. 40.
    Autobiography of Lincoln Steffens (California Legacy Book)
    by Lincoln Steffens

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  35. 42.
    The Grapes of Wrath (Centennial Edition)
    by John Steinbeck

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  36. 43.
    Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
    by James and Walker Evans Agee

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    Strange fruit,: A novel by Lillian Smith
    by Lillian Eugenia Smith

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    Growing Up Absurd
    by Paul Goodman

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  39. 46.
    The Fire Next Time
    by James Baldwin

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  42. 50.
    Lord Jim (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Joseph Conrad

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Changed... — 43 weeks ago

The Gilbert analysis of Ulysses to the actual book Ulysses.


Perlle
East Hampton

corrections — 1 year ago

I found a lot of missing and incorrect versions and titles in the list. I went through the list comparison. It should be more accurate now.