Lists of Bests: Kira Bazhkova's "Books of the Century" http://www.listsofbests.com/list/100701 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, published by Oxford University Press http://legacy.www.nypl.org/research/chss/events/booklist.html Tue, 21 May 2013 09:00:06 GMT en-us 0 50 134 50 0 Three Sisters http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7806283 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7806283"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/513UKWsMTlL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Anton Chekhov</div> Remembrance of Things Past, Vol. 1 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2962016 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2962016"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51gqVvBoQXL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Marcel Proust</div> Tender Buttons: Objects, Food, Rooms http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9018275 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9018275"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51dHa5f-eoL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Gertrude Stein</div> The Metamorphosis http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/8895790 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/8895790"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41kNPlpK6ML._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Franz Kafka</div> Renascence and Other Poems (Dover Thrift Editions) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/14660 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/14660"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51%2BR49mgpCL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Edna St. Vincent Millay</div> The Wild Swans at Coole http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/8855388 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/8855388"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/517q5Gt2ddL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Butler Yeats</div> Six Characters in Search of an Author http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/8895960 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/8895960"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/414zT0r0aAL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Luigi Pirandello</div> Works of T. S. Eliot. The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, Gerontion, The Waste Land, Portrait of a Lady & more (Mobi Collected Works) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7744527 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7744527"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51k2er-o1%2BL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div> Ulysses http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/8843834 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/8843834"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51XwKnaG9mL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James Joyce</div> The Magic Mountain http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19088 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19088"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Rn5-TdvQL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Thomas Mann</div> THE GREAT GATSBY by F. Scott Fitzgerald http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/619511 <div id="position">11</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> To the Lighthouse (Oxford World's Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7406229 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7406229"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/4147a6rn18L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Virginia Woolf</div> Gypsy Ballads http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/8550142 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/8550142"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41i68fLk8dL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Federico Garcia Lorca</div> Native Son (Perennial Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7253750 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7253750"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51QH0ZDJ2DL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Richard Wright</div> The Portable Faulkner (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3711 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3711"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41TMBQ5CKZL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Faulkner</div> The Age of Anxiety: A Baroque Eclogue (W.H. Auden: Critical Editions) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7474848 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7474848"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51jrRjt670L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by W. H. Auden</div> Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24042 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24042"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41ni0rjq9PL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Samuel Beckett</div> Invisible Man http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18757 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18757"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41RYVHiPOdL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ralph Ellison</div> Lolita, 50th Anniversary Edition http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18659 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18659"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41gMT3BaWiL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Vladimir Nabokov</div> Collected Fictions http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3029 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3029"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41zmca4VOxL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jorge Luis Borges</div> On the Road (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/961415 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/961415"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41xQQeTc-QL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jack Kerouac</div> One Hundred Years of Solitude (Oprah's Book Club) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1011067 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1011067"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41V0EWG4YXL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Gabriel Garcia Marquez</div> Portnoy's Complaint http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18979 <div id="position">23</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18979"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41tT96B5yfL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Philip Roth</div> Song of Solomon http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/56284 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/56284"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41k3CtamoXL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Toni Morrison</div> The Life of the Bee http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7773020 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7773020"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41psP8K3iFL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Maurice Maeterlinck</div> Marie Curie, Radioactivity http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/8774653 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/8774653"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41oMZu1JisL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div> The Meaning of Relativity, Fifth Edition: Including the Relativistic Theory of the Non-Symmetric Field (Princeton Science Library) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/86730 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/86730"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/515SPQHAF9L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Albert Einstein</div> Peterson Field Guide to Birds of Eastern and Central North America http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7556041 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7556041"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51rN2xIvCoL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Roger Tory Peterson</div> A Sand County Almanac: With Essays on Conservation http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/169505 <div id="position">29</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/169505"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51IW2KtklyL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Aldo Leopold</div> King Solomon's Ring, New Light on Animal Ways (Apollo Editions, A-16) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/8146664 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/8146664"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/410z%2Bxji5CL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Konrad Z. Lorenz</div> Silent Spring http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/17212 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/17212"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41jGyELkLbL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Rachel Carson</div> The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/20851 <div id="position">32</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/20851"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Mo9F57U-L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James D. Watson</div> The Diversity of Life (Questions of Science) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7468127 <div id="position">33</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7468127"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61CFZSrNn0L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Edward O. Wilson</div> The battle with the slum http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/8208207 <div id="position">34</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/8208207"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51JwS0xRAWL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jacob A. 1849-1914 Riis</div> The Souls of Black Folk http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/8252024 <div id="position">35</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/8252024"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/31oCsLO7DTL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by W.E.B. Du Bois</div> The Jungle: Complete and Unabridged by Upton Sinclair http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7597680 <div id="position">36</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7597680"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51tTB8kRGWL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Upton Sinclair</div> 20 Years at Hull-House http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7519132 <div id="position">37</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7519132"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51tF0NxOv8L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jane Addams</div> The House On Henry Street http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/8014130 <div id="position">38</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/8014130"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41SRqMVGFXL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Lillian D. Wald</div> The Autobiography of Lincoln Steffens (California Legacy Book) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2075316 <div id="position">39</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2075316"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41CGFC9H7GL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Lincoln Steffens</div> 1919: Volume Two of the U.S.A. Trilogy http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/127863 <div id="position">40</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/127863"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41Qvd%2Bk4veL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Dos Passos</div> The Grapes of Wrath http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/466410 <div id="position">41</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/466410"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41adOkkXUzL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Steinbeck</div> Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: The American Classic, in Words and Photographs, of Three Tenant Families in the Deep South http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/17156 <div id="position">42</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/17156"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41Sl4MwpYrL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Walker Evans</div> Strange Fruit http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1045173 <div id="position">43</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1045173"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51NtlowvzIL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Lillian Smith</div> Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized System http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/49120 <div id="position">44</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/49120"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41KgVyN3LeL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Paul Goodman</div> The Fire Next Time http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18887 <div id="position">45</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18887"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41dnVAkD28L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James Baldwin</div> The Autobiography of Malcolm X http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7433537 <div id="position">46</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7433537"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/516EC2CZ0mL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alex Haley</div> And the Band Played on http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/583781 <div id="position">47</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/583781"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51CUNddmETL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Randy Shilts</div> There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in The Other America http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10025 <div id="position">48</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10025"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51jWTjpJonL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alex Kotlowitz</div> Lord Jim: A Tale http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/8746459 <div id="position">49</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/8746459"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51PPzoLvOnL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joseph Conrad</div> Kim (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/8193055 <div id="position">50</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/8193055"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/5150D-7vCrL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Rudyard Kipling</div>