Post by Kristie on Sept 13, 2007 14:30:31 GMT -5
The following books were selected by the editors of Booklist Magazine to celebrate their 100th year of publication. The books were selected on the basis of their impact on our society.
1905 -- House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
1906 -- The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
1907 -- The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams
1908 -- Anne of Green Gables by LM Montgomery
1909 -- The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
1910 -- Howards End by EM Forster
1911 -- My First Summer in the Sierra by John Muir
1912 -- Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs
1913 -- Swann's Way by Marcel Proust
1914 -- The Titan by Theodore Dreiser
1915 -- Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
1916 -- Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
1917 -- Prufrock and Other Observations by TS Eliot
1918 -- My Antonia by Willa Cather
1919 -- Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson
1920 -- Women in Love by DH Lawrence
1921 -- My Fight for Birth Control by Margaret Sanger
1922 -- Ulysses by James Joyce
1923 -- The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
1924 -- Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
1925 -- The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald
1926 -- The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
1927 -- To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
1928 -- All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
1929 -- The Sound and the Fure by William Faulkner
1930 -- The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
1931 -- Joy of Cooking by Irma S Rombauer
1932 -- Lady Chatterly's Lover by DH Lawrence
1933 -- The Story of Babar by Jean de Brunhoff
1934 -- The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M Cain
1935 -- Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
1936 -- Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
1937 -- Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
1938 -- The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
1939 -- Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
1940 -- Native Son by Richard Wright
1941 -- Let Us Now Praise Famous Men by James Agee and Walker Evans
1942 -- The Stranger by Albert Camus
1943 -- The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
1944 -- A Bell for Adano by John Hersey
1945 -- Animal Farm by George Orwell
1946 -- Commonsense Book of Baby and Child Care by Benjamin Spock
1947 -- The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
1948 -- Sexual Behavior of the Human Male by Alfred Kinsey
1949 -- 1984 by George Orwell
1950 -- The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by CS Lewis
1951 -- Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger
1952 -- Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
1953 -- The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow
1954 -- The Fellowship of the Ring by JRR Tolkien
1955 -- Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin
1956 -- Peyton Place by Grace Metalious
1957 -- The Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss
1958 -- Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
1959 -- Elements of Style by William Strunk and EB White
1960 -- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
1961 -- Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
1962 -- Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
1963 -- The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan
1964 -- Harriet the Spy by Louis Fitzhugh
1965 -- The Autobiography of Malcolm X
1966 -- In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
1967 -- One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
1968 -- The Electric Kool-Aid Test by Tom Wolfe
1969 -- The Godfather by Mario Puzo
1970 -- Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret by Judy Blume
1971 -- The Pentagon Papers reported by the NY Times
1972 -- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S Thompson
1973 -- Fear of Flying by Erica Jong
1974 -- All the President's Men by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein
1975 -- Salem's Lot by Stephen King
1976 -- Roots by Alex Haley
1977 -- Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
1978 -- The World According to Garp by John Irving
1979 -- Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
1980 -- Smiley's People by John le Carre
1981 -- Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
1982 -- The Color Purple by Alice Walker
1983 -- Blue Highways by William Least Heat Moon
1984 -- Bright Lights, Big City by Jay McInerney
1985 -- The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
1986 -- Maus: A Survivor's Tale by Art Spiegelman
1987 -- And the Band Played On by Randy Shilts
1988 -- The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
1989 -- The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
1990 -- The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
1991 -- There Are No Children Here by Alex Kotlowitz
1992 -- Truman by David McCullough
1993 -- A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J Gaines
1994 -- Waiting to Exhale by Terry McMillan
1995 -- High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
1996 -- Left Behind by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B Jenkins
1997 -- Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
1998 -- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by JK Rowling
1999 -- Galileo's Daughter by Dava Sobel
2000 -- The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
2001 -- The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
2002 -- Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
2003 -- The DaVinci Code by Dan Brown
2004 -- The 9/11 Commission Report
I'm proud to say that this is a list that if I haven't read a book, it's probably on my TBR list. By my count, I've read 9. There's probably someone on these boards that has read close to all of them. Many of them sounded familiar as books mentioned throughout the threads.
1905 -- House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
1906 -- The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
1907 -- The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams
1908 -- Anne of Green Gables by LM Montgomery
1909 -- The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
1910 -- Howards End by EM Forster
1911 -- My First Summer in the Sierra by John Muir
1912 -- Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs
1913 -- Swann's Way by Marcel Proust
1914 -- The Titan by Theodore Dreiser
1915 -- Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
1916 -- Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
1917 -- Prufrock and Other Observations by TS Eliot
1918 -- My Antonia by Willa Cather
1919 -- Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson
1920 -- Women in Love by DH Lawrence
1921 -- My Fight for Birth Control by Margaret Sanger
1922 -- Ulysses by James Joyce
1923 -- The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
1924 -- Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
1925 -- The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald
1926 -- The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
1927 -- To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
1928 -- All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
1929 -- The Sound and the Fure by William Faulkner
1930 -- The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
1931 -- Joy of Cooking by Irma S Rombauer
1932 -- Lady Chatterly's Lover by DH Lawrence
1933 -- The Story of Babar by Jean de Brunhoff
1934 -- The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M Cain
1935 -- Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
1936 -- Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
1937 -- Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
1938 -- The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
1939 -- Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
1940 -- Native Son by Richard Wright
1941 -- Let Us Now Praise Famous Men by James Agee and Walker Evans
1942 -- The Stranger by Albert Camus
1943 -- The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
1944 -- A Bell for Adano by John Hersey
1945 -- Animal Farm by George Orwell
1946 -- Commonsense Book of Baby and Child Care by Benjamin Spock
1947 -- The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
1948 -- Sexual Behavior of the Human Male by Alfred Kinsey
1949 -- 1984 by George Orwell
1950 -- The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by CS Lewis
1951 -- Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger
1952 -- Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
1953 -- The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow
1954 -- The Fellowship of the Ring by JRR Tolkien
1955 -- Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin
1956 -- Peyton Place by Grace Metalious
1957 -- The Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss
1958 -- Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
1959 -- Elements of Style by William Strunk and EB White
1960 -- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
1961 -- Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
1962 -- Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
1963 -- The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan
1964 -- Harriet the Spy by Louis Fitzhugh
1965 -- The Autobiography of Malcolm X
1966 -- In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
1967 -- One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
1968 -- The Electric Kool-Aid Test by Tom Wolfe
1969 -- The Godfather by Mario Puzo
1970 -- Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret by Judy Blume
1971 -- The Pentagon Papers reported by the NY Times
1972 -- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S Thompson
1973 -- Fear of Flying by Erica Jong
1974 -- All the President's Men by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein
1975 -- Salem's Lot by Stephen King
1976 -- Roots by Alex Haley
1977 -- Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
1978 -- The World According to Garp by John Irving
1979 -- Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
1980 -- Smiley's People by John le Carre
1981 -- Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
1982 -- The Color Purple by Alice Walker
1983 -- Blue Highways by William Least Heat Moon
1984 -- Bright Lights, Big City by Jay McInerney
1985 -- The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
1986 -- Maus: A Survivor's Tale by Art Spiegelman
1987 -- And the Band Played On by Randy Shilts
1988 -- The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
1989 -- The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
1990 -- The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
1991 -- There Are No Children Here by Alex Kotlowitz
1992 -- Truman by David McCullough
1993 -- A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J Gaines
1994 -- Waiting to Exhale by Terry McMillan
1995 -- High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
1996 -- Left Behind by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B Jenkins
1997 -- Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
1998 -- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by JK Rowling
1999 -- Galileo's Daughter by Dava Sobel
2000 -- The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
2001 -- The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
2002 -- Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
2003 -- The DaVinci Code by Dan Brown
2004 -- The 9/11 Commission Report
I'm proud to say that this is a list that if I haven't read a book, it's probably on my TBR list. By my count, I've read 9. There's probably someone on these boards that has read close to all of them. Many of them sounded familiar as books mentioned throughout the threads.