Lists of Bests: New York Public Library Books of the Century http://www.listsofbests.com/list/14060 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) Thu, 12 Nov 2009 04:52:54 GMT en-us 0 50 175 50 0 Three Sisters: A Play http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24066 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24066"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0802132766.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056491830_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov</div> Remembrance of Things Past Vol.I, II & III http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2162794 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2162794"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000FJNY9U.01-A31QYZNEM8AGJT._SCTHUMBZZZ_V37566424_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Marcel Proust</div> Tender Buttons: Objects, Food, Rooms (Sun & Moon Classics (Paperback)) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2304247 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2304247"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1557130930.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056516136_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Gertrude Stein</div> The Metamorphosis: Great Books Edition (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3013 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3013"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140283366.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Franz Kafka</div> Renascence And Other Poems http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2166202 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2166202"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1417903538.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.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/192848 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/192848"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1419188003.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by W. B. Yeats</div> Six Characters in Search of an Author: Methuen Student Edition (Methuen Student Editions) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/980292 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/980292"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0413772683.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Luigi Pirandello</div> The Waste Land (Norton Critical Editions) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11043 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11043"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0393974995.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by T. S. Eliot</div> Ulysses (Penguin Modern Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3466 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3466"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141182806.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.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://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679772871.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Thomas Mann</div> The Great Gatsby http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21233 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21233"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0743273567.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by F. Scott Fitzgerald</div> To the Lighthouse (Annotated) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1007836 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1007836"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0156030470.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1119999750_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Virginia Woolf</div> Gypsy Ballads: Romancero Gitano (Hispanic Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1640398 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1640398"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0856684910.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1083862198_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Federico Garcia Lorca</div> Native Son (Perennial Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/57190 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/57190"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/006083756X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Richard A. 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://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/014243728X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Faulkner</div> The Age of Anxiety: A Baroque Eclogue http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2184063 <div id="position">16</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by W.H. Auden</div> Waiting for Godot http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2781205 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2781205"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/015GFMFRQTL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Samuel Beckett</div> Invisible Man: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/962378 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/962378"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375507914.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V44539344_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ralph Ellison</div> Lolita (Everyman's Library (Cloth)) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18439 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18439"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679410430.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056464690_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Vladimir Nabokov</div> Fictions (Penguin Modern Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2335921 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2335921"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141183845.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jorge Luis Borges</div> On the Road http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2525 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2525"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140042598.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1131418748_.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/1119 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1119"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060740450.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.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://images.amazon.com/images/P/0679756450.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.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://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/140003342X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Toni Morrison</div> The Life of the Bee http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1527642 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1527642"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0898753759.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056506446_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Maurice Maeterlinck</div> Treatise on Radioactivity http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2184114 <div id="position">26</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Marie Curie</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://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0691120277.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Albert Einstein</div> A Field Guide to the Birds of Eastern and Central North America http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/114320 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/114320"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0395740460.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div> A Sand County Almanac (Outdoor Essays & Reflections) 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://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0195146174.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Aldo Leopold</div> King Solomon's Ring: New Light on Animals' Ways http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/244731 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/244731"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0452011752.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1132613997_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Konrad 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://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0618249060.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Rachel Carson</div> Smoking and Health - Report of the Advisory Committee to the Surgeon General of the Public Health Service http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1592313 <div id="position">32</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by EDUCATION, AND WELFARE U. S. DEPT. OF HEALTH</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">33</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/20851"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/074321630X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James D. Watson</div> The Diversity of Life http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10921 <div id="position">34</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10921"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0393319407.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Edward O. Wilson</div> The battle with the slum / by Jacob A. Riis. http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/903563 <div id="position">35</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/903563"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1418188638.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V52444003_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Michigan Historical Reprint Series</div> The Souls of Black Folk (Norton Critical Editions) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11042 <div id="position">36</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11042"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/039397393X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by W. E. B. Du Bois</div> The Jungle (Enriched Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/118690 <div id="position">37</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/118690"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0743487621.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Upton Sinclair</div> Twenty Years at Hull House: With Autobiographical Notes http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2184162 <div id="position">38</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2184162"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1406504920.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jane Addams</div> The House on Henry Street (Philanthropy and Society) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2184165 <div id="position">39</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Lillian D. Wald</div> Autobiography of Lincoln Steffens (California Legacy Book) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2075316 <div id="position">40</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2075316"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1597140163.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1139920283_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Lincoln Steffens</div> U.S.A.: The 42nd Parallel / 1919 / The Big Money (Library of America) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/33684 <div id="position">41</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/33684"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1883011140.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V60062379_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Dos Passos</div> The Grapes of Wrath (Centennial Edition) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3555 <div id="position">42</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3555"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0142000663.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Steinbeck</div> Let Us Now Praise Famous Men http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2184174 <div id="position">43</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2184174"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000GQW074.01-A1LZXPWE6BBXAN._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James and Walker Evans Agee</div> Strange fruit,: A novel by Lillian Smith http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1477727 <div id="position">44</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Lillian Eugenia Smith</div> Growing Up Absurd http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2184181 <div id="position">45</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Paul Goodman</div> The Fire Next Time http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1476236 <div id="position">46</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1476236"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000EMZWV6.01-A1JQ2SS9DAVEHA._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James Baldwin</div> The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Penguin Modern Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/112301 <div id="position">47</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/112301"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141185430.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Malcolm X</div> And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5933 <div id="position">48</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5933"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0312241356.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.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">49</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10025"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0385265565.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V43040799_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alex Kotlowitz</div> Lord Jim (Penguin Modern Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/59258 <div id="position">50</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/59258"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141183543.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joseph Conrad</div>