The Booklist Century 100 Books, 100 Years
Booklist is a publication of the American Library Association that provides critical reviews of books and audiovisual materials for all ages. It was started in 2005, its primary audience consists of libraries, educators, and booksellers. For their 100th anniversary they selected one book from each year since their founding for the impact it had on society. https://www.booklistonline.com/The-Booklist-Century-100-Books-100-Years-Bill-Ott/pid=1534783
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Ulysses
James Joyce · 1920 · 39 lists
- 2
Lolita
Vladimir Nabokov · 1955 · 38 lists
- 3
Nineteen Eighty-Four
George Orwell · 1948 · 36 lists
- 4
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gabriel García Márquez · 1967 · 33 lists
- 5
To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee · 1960 · 33 lists
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The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger · 1951 · 32 lists
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The Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck · 1939 · 32 lists
- 8
Catch-22
Joseph Heller · 1961 · 29 lists
- 9
In Search of Lost Time
Marcel Proust · 1913 · 29 lists
- 10
Invisible Man
Ralph Ellison · 1952 · 29 lists
- 11
The Sound and the Fury
William Faulkner · 1929 · 26 lists
- 12
Midnight’s Children
Salman Rushdie · 1981 · 25 lists
- 13
To The Lighthouse
Virginia Woolf · 1927 · 25 lists
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The Handmaid’s Tale
Margaret Atwood · 1985 · 23 lists
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The Lord of the Rings
J.R.R. Tolkien · 1954 · 23 lists
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The Stranger
Albert Camus · 1942 · 23 lists
- 17
Gone With the Wind
Margaret Mitchell · 1936 · 22 lists
- 18
The Sun Also Rises
Ernest Hemingway · 1926 · 22 lists
- 19
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Zora Neale Hurston · 1937 · 22 lists
- 20
The Color Purple
Alice Walker · 1982 · 20 lists
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Native Son
Richard Wright · 1940 · 18 lists
- 22
The Magic Mountain
Thomas Mann · 1924 · 18 lists
- 23
In Cold Blood
Truman Capote · 1965 · 16 lists
- 24
The Corrections
Jonathan Franzen · 2001 · 16 lists
- 25
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
James Joyce · 1916 · 15 lists
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Animal Farm
George Orwell · 1945 · 15 lists
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The Maltese Falcon
Dashiell Hammett · 1929 · 15 lists
- 28
Song of Solomon
Toni Morrison · 1977 · 14 lists
- 29
My Ántonia
Willa Cather · 1918 · 13 lists
- 30
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams · 1979 · 13 lists
- 31
The World According to Garp
John Irving · 1979 · 12 lists
- 32
All Quiet on the Western Front
Erich Maria Remarque · 1929 · 11 lists
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Howards End
E. M. Forster · 1910 · 11 lists
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The Adventures of Augie March
Saul Bellow · 1953 · 11 lists
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The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
Michael Chabon · 2000 · 10 lists
- 36
The Diary of a Young Girl
Anne Frank · 1947 · 10 lists
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The Things They Carried
Tim O'Brien · 1990 · 10 lists
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Alex Haley · 1968 · 9 lists
- 39
The Little Prince
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry · 1943 · 9 lists
- 40
The Metamorphosis
Franz Kafka · 1915 · 9 lists
- 41
Women in Love
D.H. Lawrence · 1920 · 9 lists
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Lady Chatterley's Lover
D.H. Lawrence · 1900 · 8 lists
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The Da Vinci Code
Dan Brown · 2003 · 8 lists
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The House of Mirth
Edith Wharton · 1905 · 8 lists
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The Jungle
Upton Sinclair · 1906 · 8 lists
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Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret
Judy Blume · 1970 · 7 lists
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Silent Spring
Rachel Carson · 1962 · 7 lists
- 48
The Godfather
Mario Puzo · 1969 · 7 lists
- 49
The Joy Luck Club
Amy Tan · 1989 · 7 lists
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The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
C.S. Lewis · 1950 · 7 lists
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The Satanic Verses
Salman Rushdie · 1988 · 7 lists
- 52
The Education of Henry Adams
Henry Adams · 1777 · 6 lists
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The Postman Always Rings Twice
James M. Cain · 1934 · 6 lists
- 54
Anne of Green Gables
Lucy Maud Montgomery · 1908 · 5 lists
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Hunter S. Thompson · 1971 · 5 lists
- 56
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
James Agee · 1941 · 5 lists
- 57
Tarzan of the Apes
Edgar Rice Burroughs · 1912 · 5 lists
- 58
The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care
Benjamin Spock · 1946 · 5 lists
- 59
The Lovely Bones
Alice Sebold · 2002 · 5 lists
- 60
The Prophet
Kahlil Gibran · 1923 · 5 lists
- 61
High Fidelity
Nick Hornby · 1995 · 4 lists
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The Cat in the Hat
Dr. Seuss · 1957 · 4 lists
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Fear of Flying
Erica Jong · 1973 · 3 lists
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Little House on the Prairie
Laura Ingalls Wilder · 1935 · 3 lists
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Peyton Place
Grace Metalious · 1956 · 3 lists
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Sexual Behavior in the Human Male
Alfred C. Kinsey · 1948 · 3 lists
- 68
Smiley’s People
John Le Carré · 1979 · 3 lists
- 69
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
Tom Wolfe · 1968 · 3 lists
- 70
The Elements of Style
E. B. White, William Strunk Jr. · 1920 · 3 lists
- 71
The Secret Garden
Frances Hodgson Burnett · 1911 · 3 lists
- 72
The Yearling
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings · 1938 · 3 lists
- 73
A Bell for Adano
John Hersey · 1944 · 2 lists
- 74
Histoire de Babar
Jean de Brunhoff · 1999 · 2 lists
- 75
Left Behind
Tim LaHaye · 2023 · 2 lists
- 76
My Fight for Birth Control
Margaret Sanger · 1931 · 2 lists
- 77
My First Summer in the Sierra
John Muir · 1998 · 2 lists
- 78
Notes of a Native Son
James Baldwin · 1955 · 2 lists
- 79
Prufrock and Other Observations
T.S. Eliot · 1917 · 2 lists
- 80
The Titan
Theodore Dreiser · 2007 · 1 list
- 81
A Lesson Before Dying
Ernest J. Gaines · 1993 · 0 lists
- 82
All the Presidents Men
Bob Woodward, Carl Bernstein · 1974 · 0 lists
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And the Band Played On
Randy Shilts · 1987 · 0 lists
- 84
Blue Highways
William Least Heat-Moon · 1981 · 0 lists
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Bright Lights, Big City
Jay McInerney · 1984 · 0 lists
- 86
Cold Mountain
Charles Frazier · 1997 · 0 lists
- 87
Galileos Daughter
Dava Sobel · 1999 · 0 lists
- 88
Harriet the Spy
Louise Fitzhugh · 1960 · 0 lists
- 89
Maus
Art Spiegelman · 1986 · 0 lists
- 90
Roots
Alex Haley · 1861 · 0 lists
- 91
Salems Lot
Stephen King · 1975 · 0 lists
- 92
The 9/11 Commission Report
9/11 Commission · 2004 · 0 lists
- 93
The Feminine Mystique
Betty Friedan · 1963 · 0 lists
- 94
The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald · 1925 · 0 lists
- 95
The Pentagon Papers
New York Times · 2004 · 0 lists
- 96
There Are No Children Here
Alex Kotlowitz · 1991 · 0 lists
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Truman
David McCullough · 1992 · 0 lists
- 98
Waiting to Exhale
Terry McMillan · 1992 · 0 lists