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. 51.
    Kim
    by Rudyard Kipling

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  2. 52.
    Non-Violent Resistance
    by M. K. Gandhi

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  3. 53.
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    A passage to india
    by E M Forster

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  4. 54.
    The Stranger
    by Albert Camus

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  5. 55.
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    United Nations Charter

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  6. 56.
    Cry, the Beloved Country
    by Alan Paton

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  7. 57.
    The Family of Man
    by Edward Steichen

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  8. 58.
    Things Fall Apart: A Novel
    by Chinua Achebe

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  9. 59.
    The Wretched of the Earth
    by Frantz Fanon

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  10. 60.
    Wide Sargasso Sea (Essential.penguin)
    by Jean Rhys

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  11. 61.
    Season of Migration to the North: A Novel
    by Al-Tayyib Salih

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  12. 62.
    Guerillas. Roman.
    by V. S. Naipaul

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  13. 63.
    The Bride Price
    by Buchi Emecheta

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  14. 64.
    The Emperor
    by Ryszard Kapuscinski

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  15. 65.
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    I, Rigoberta MenchĂș
    by Rigoberta MenchĂș

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  16. 66.
    The Lover
    by Marguerite Duras

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  17. 67.
    Suicide
    by Emile Durkheim

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  18. 68.
    The Interpretation of Dreams
    by Sigmund Freud

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  19. 69.
    Studies in the Psychology of Sex
    by Havelock Ellis

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  20. 71.
    The Prophet (Kahlil Gibran Pocket Library Series)
    by Kahlil Gibran

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  21. 74.
    Being and Nothingness (Routledge Classics)
    by Jean-Paul Sartre

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  22. 75.
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    The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care
    by Benjamin Spock

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  23. 77.
    The Courage to Be
    by Paul Tillich

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  24. 78.
    One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
    by Ken Kesey

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  25. 79.
    The Politics of Ecstasy (Leary, Timothy)
    by Timothy Leary

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  26. 80.
    On Death and Dying (Scribner Classics)
    by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

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  27. 81.
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    The Uses of Enchantment (Penguin Psychology)
    by Bruno Bettelheim

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  28. 82.
    Bram Stoker's Dracula
    by Bram Stoker

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  29. 84.
    The Hound of the Baskervilles
    by Arthur Conan, Sir Doyle

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  30. 85.
    Tarzan of the Apes
    by Edgar Rice Burroughs

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  31. 86.
    Riders of the Purple Sage
    by Zane Grey

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  32. 87.
    Mysterious Affair at Styles: A Hercule Poirot Mystery
    by Agatha Christie

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  33. 88.
    How to Win Friends and Influence People
    by Dale Carnegie

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  34. 89.
    Gone with the Wind
    by Margaret Mitchell

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  35. 90.
    The Big Sleep
    by Raymond Chandler

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  36. 91.
    The Day of the Locust (Signet Classic)
    by Nathanael West

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  37. 92.
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    Peyton Place (Hardscrabble Books)
    by Grace Metalious

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  38. 93.
    The Cat In The Hat
    by Dr. Seuss

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  39. 94.
    Stranger in a Strange Land
    by Robert A. Heinlein

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  40. 95.
    Catch-22
    by Joseph Heller

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  41. 96.
    In Cold Blood
    by Truman Capote

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  42. 97.
    Ball Four: The Final Pitch
    by Jim Bouton

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  43. 98.
    Carrie
    by Stephen King

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  44. 99.
    The Bonfire of the Vanities
    by TOM WOLFE

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  45. 100.
    The Age of Innocence (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Edith Wharton

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