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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  2. 102.
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    My Fight for Birth Control
    by Margaret Sanger

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  3. 103.
    Dust Tracks on a Road: An Autobiography (P.S.)
    by Zora Neale Hurston

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  4. 104.
    The Second Sex (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
    by Simone De Beauvoir

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  5. 106.
    The Feminine Mystique
    by Betty Friedan

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  6. 108.
    I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
    by Maya Angelou

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  7. 109.
    Against Our Will: Men, Women, and Rape
    by Susan Brownmiller

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  8. 110.
    The Color Purple
    by Alice Walker

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  9. 111.
    The Theory of the Leisure Class
    by Thorstein Veblen

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  10. 113.
    The Education of Henry Adams
    by Henry Adams

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  11. 114.
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    The General Theory of Employment, Interest And Money
    by John Maynard Keynes

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  12. 115.
    The Road to Serfdom Fiftieth Anniversary Edition
    by F. A. Hayek

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  13. 116.
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    A THEORY OF THE CONSUMPTION FUNCTION
    by MILTON FRIEDMAN

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  14. 117.
    The Affluent Society
    by John Kenneth Galbraith

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  15. 119.
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    Superhighway-Superhoax
    by Helen Leavitt

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  16. 122.
    The Time Machine
    by H. G. Wells

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  17. 123.
    The Jewish State
    by Theodor Herzl

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  18. 124.
    The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Modern Library Classics)
    by L. Frank Baum

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  19. 126.
    Herland and Selected Stories
    by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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  20. 127.
    Brave New World
    by Aldous Huxley

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  21. 128.
    Lost Horizon: A Novel
    by James Hilton

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  22. 129.
    Walden Two
    by B. F. Skinner

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  23. 130.
    Nineteen Eighty-four (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by George Orwell

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  24. 131.
    Fahrenheit 451
    by Ray Bradbury

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  25. 132.
    Atlas Shrugged
    by Ayn Rand

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  26. 133.
    A Clockwork Orange
    by Anthony Burgess

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  27. 134.
    The Handmaid's Tale: A Novel
    by Margaret Atwood

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  28. 135.
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    Armenian atrocities: The murder of a nation
    by Arnold Joseph Toynbee

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  29. 136.
    Ten Days that Shook the World (Dover Value Editions)
    by John Reed

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  30. 137.
    The War Poems of Siegfried Sassoon
    by Siegfried Sassoon

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  31. 138.
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    The Good Soldier Schweik
    by Jaroslav; Selver, Paul, trans.; Fiedler, Leslie A., fore. Hasek

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  32. 139.
    Mein Kampf
    by Adolf Hitler

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  33. 140.
    All Quiet on the Western Front
    by Erich Maria Remarque

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  34. 141.
    Requiem Edition Bilingue
    by Anna Akhmatova

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  35. 142.
    For Whom the Bell Tolls (Scribner Classics)
    by Ernest Hemingway

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  36. 143.
    Darkness at Noon
    by Arthur Koestler

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  37. 144.
    Hiroshima (Vintage)
    by John Hersey

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  39. 146.
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    THE SECOND WORLD WAR : THE GATHERING STORM.
    by WINSTON S. CHURCHILL

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  40. 147.
    Night (Oprah's Book Club)
    by Elie Wiesel

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  41. 148.
    Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung
    by Mao Tse-Tung

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  42. 150.
    The Gulag Archipelago: 1918-1956
    by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn

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