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New York Public Library Books of the Century

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)
(found at: http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/events/booklist.html)

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1. Three Sisters: A Play
by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
  
2. Remembrance of Things Past Vol.I, II & III
by Marcel Proust
  
3. Tender Buttons: Objects, Food, Rooms (Sun & Moon Classics (Paperback))
by Gertrude Stein
  
4. The Metamorphosis: Great Books Edition (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)
by Franz Kafka
  
5. Renascence And Other Poems
by Edna St. Vincent Millay
  
6. The Wild Swans At Coole
by W. B. Yeats
  
7. Six Characters in Search of an Author: Methuen Student Edition (Methuen Student Editions)
by Luigi Pirandello
  
8. The Waste Land (Norton Critical Editions)
by T. S. Eliot
  
9. Ulysses (Penguin Modern Classics)
by James Joyce
  
10. The Magic Mountain
by Thomas Mann
  
11. The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  
12. To the Lighthouse (Annotated)
by Virginia Woolf
  
13. Gypsy Ballads: Romancero Gitano (Hispanic Classics)
by Federico Garcia Lorca
  
14. Native Son (Perennial Classics)
by Richard A. Wright
  
15. The Portable Faulkner (Penguin Classics)
by William Faulkner
  
16.
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 The Age of Anxiety: A Baroque Eclogue
by W.H. Auden
  
17. Waiting for Godot
by Samuel Beckett
  
18. Invisible Man: A Novel
by Ralph Ellison
  
19. Lolita (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
by Vladimir Nabokov
  
20. Fictions (Penguin Modern Classics)
by Jorge Luis Borges
  
21. On the Road
by Jack Kerouac
  
22. One Hundred Years of Solitude (Oprah's Book Club)
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  
23. Portnoy's Complaint
by Philip Roth
  
24. Song of Solomon
by Toni Morrison
  
25. The Life of the Bee
by Maurice Maeterlinck
  
26.
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 Treatise on Radioactivity
by Marie Curie
  
27. The Meaning of Relativity, Fifth Edition: Including the Relativistic Theory of the Non-Symmetric Field (Princeton Science Library)
by Albert Einstein
  
28. A Field Guide to the Birds of Eastern and Central North America  
29. A Sand County Almanac (Outdoor Essays & Reflections)
by Aldo Leopold
  
30. King Solomon's Ring: New Light on Animals' Ways
by Konrad Lorenz
  
31. Silent Spring
by Rachel Carson
  
32.
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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
  
33. The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA
by James D. Watson
  
34. The Diversity of Life
by Edward O. Wilson
  
35. The battle with the slum / by Jacob A. Riis.
by Michigan Historical Reprint Series
  
36. The Souls of Black Folk (Norton Critical Editions)
by W. E. B. Du Bois
  
37. The Jungle (Enriched Classics)
by Upton Sinclair
  
38. Twenty Years at Hull House: With Autobiographical Notes
by Jane Addams
  
39.
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 The House on Henry Street (Philanthropy and Society)
by Lillian D. Wald
  
40. Autobiography of Lincoln Steffens (California Legacy Book)
by Lincoln Steffens
  
41. U.S.A.: The 42nd Parallel / 1919 / The Big Money (Library of America)
by John Dos Passos
  
42. The Grapes of Wrath (Centennial Edition)
by John Steinbeck
  
43. Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
by James and Walker Evans Agee
  
44.
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 Strange fruit,: A novel by Lillian Smith
by Lillian Eugenia Smith
  
45.
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 Growing Up Absurd
by Paul Goodman
  
46. The Fire Next Time
by James Baldwin
  
47. The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Penguin Modern Classics)
by Malcolm X
  
48. And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic
by Randy Shilts
  
49. There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in The Other America
by Alex Kotlowitz
  
50. Lord Jim (Penguin Modern Classics)
by Joseph Conrad
  
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