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. 151.
    Dispatches
    by Michael Herr

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  2. 152.
    The Complete Maus: A Survivor's Tale
    by Art Spiegelman

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  3. 153.
    The Country of the Pointed Firs
    by Sarah Orne Jewett

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  4. 155.
    The Innocence of Father Brown
    by G. K. Chesterton

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  5. 156.
    Platero y yo/Platero and I: Platero and I
    by Juan Ramon Jimenez

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  6. 157.
    Pygmalion (Penguin Classics)
    by George Bernard Shaw

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  7. 158.
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  8. 159.
    The Inimitable Jeeves
    by P.G. Wodehouse

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  9. 160.
    Winnie-the-Pooh (Pooh Original Edition)
    by A. A. Milne

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  10. 161.
    Shadows on the Rock (Willa Cather Scholarly Edition)
    by Willa Cather

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  11. 162.
    Joy of Cooking
    by Irma S. Rombauer and Marion Rombauer Becker

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  12. 163.
    The Hobbit
    by J.R.R. Tolkien

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  13. 164.
    Goodnight Moon, 60th Anniversary Edition
    by Margaret Wise Brown

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  14. 165.
    To Kill a Mockingbird
    by Harper Lee

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  15. 166.
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    The Best of Simple
    by Langston Hughes

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  16. 167.
    The Complete Poems, 1927-1979
    by Elizabeth Bishop

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  17. 169.
    A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (P.S.)
    by Betty Smith

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  18. 170.

  19. 171.
    The Catcher in the Rye
    by J.D. Salinger

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  20. 172.
    Charlotte's Web
    by E. B. White

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  21. 173.
    The Snowy Day
    by Ezra Jack Keats

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  22. 174.
    Where the Wild Things Are

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  23. 175.
    Sarah, Plain and Tall
    by Patricia MacLachlan

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