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This extensive list appears in The New York Public Library Desk Reference, Third Edition, 1998. Works are listed by categories that comprise Landmarks of Modern Literature; Nature's Realm; Protest and Progress; Colonialism and Its Aftermath; Mind and Spirit; Popular Cuture and Mass Entertainment; Women Rise; Economics and Technology; Utopias and Dystopias; War, Holocaust, Totalitarianism; Optimism, Joy, Gentility; Favorites of Childhood and Youth. Within each category, works are listed in order of the date of publication.
LANDMARKS OF
MODERN LITERATURE
1901 Anton Chekhov
The Three Sisters. 1901
1913- Marcel Proust
Remembrance of Things Past (1913-27)
1914 Gertrude Stein
Tenders Buttons: Objects Food Rooms
1915 Franz Kafka
The Metamorphosis
1917 Edna St. Vincent Millay
Renascence and Other Poems
1917 William Butler Yeats
The Wild Swans at Coole
1921 Luigi Pirandello
Six Characters in Search of an Author
1922 T.S. Eliot
The Waste Land
1922 James Joyce
Ulysses
1924 Thomas Mann
The Magic Mountain
1925 F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
1927 Virginia Woolf
To the Lighthouse
1928 Federico Garcia Lorca
Gypsy Ballads
1940 Richard wright
Native Son
1946 William Faulkner
The Portable Faulkner
1947 W.H. Auden
The Age of Anxiety: A Baroque Eclogue
1952 Samuel Beckett
Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts
1952 Ralph Ellison
Invisible Man. 1952
1955 Vladimir Nabokov
Lolita
1956 Jorge Luis Borges
Fictions (2nd augmented edition)
1957 Jack Kerouac
On the Road
1967 Gabriel Garcia Marquez
One Hundred Years of Solitude
1969 Philip Roth
Portnoy's Complaint
1977 Toni Morrison
Song of Solomon
NATURE'S REALM
1901 Maurice Maeterlinck
The Life of the Bee
1910 Marie Sklodowska Curie
Treatise on Radioactivity
1922 Albert Einstein
The Meaning of Relativity
1934 Roger Tory Peterson
A Field Guide to the Birds
1949 Aldo Leopold
A Sand County Almanac
1949 Konrad Z. Lorenz
King Solomon's Ring: New Light on Animal Ways
1962 Rachel Carson
Silent Spring
1964 "Surgeon General's Report" Smoking and
Health
1968 James Watson
The Double Helix: A personal Account of the
Discovery of the Structure of DNA
1992 Edward O. Wilson
The Diversity of Life
PROTEST AND PROGRESS
1902 Jacob Riis
The Battle with the Slum
1903 W.E.B. Du Bois
The Souls of Black Folk
1906 Upton Sinclair
The Jungle
1910 Jane Addams
Twenty Years at Hull-House
1915 Lilian Wald
The House on Henry Street
1931 Lincoln Steffens
The Autobiography of Lincoln Steffens
1937 John Dos Passos
U.S.A.
1939 John Steinbeck
The Grapes of Wrath
1941 James Agee, Walker Evans Let Us Now
Praise Famous Men
1944 Lilian Smith
Strange Fruit
1960 Paul Goodman
Growing Up Absurd
1963 James Baldwin
The Fire Next Time
1965 Malcolm X
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
1987 Randy Shilts
And the Band Played On
1991 Alex Kotlowitz
There Are No Children Here
COLONIALISM AND ITS AFTERMATH
1900 Joseph Conrad
Lord Jim
1901 Rudyard Kipling
Kim
1921- Mohandas Gandhi
Non-Violent Resistance (1921-40)
1924 E.M. Forster
A Passage to India
1942 Albert Camus
The Stranger
1945 United Nations
United Nations Charter
1948 Alan Paton
Cry, the Beloved Country
1955 Edward Steichen
The Family of Man: The Photographic Exhibition
Created by Edward Steichen for The Museum
of Modern Art
1958 Chinua Achebe
Things Fall Apart
1961 Franz Fanon
The Wretched of the Earth
1966 Jean Rhys
Wide Sargasso Sea
1969 Tayeb el-Salih
Season of Migration to the North
1975 V.S. Naipaul
Guerillas
1976 Buchi Emecheta
The Bride Price
1978 Ryszard Kapuscinski
The Emperor
1983 Rigoberta Menchu
I, Rigoberta Menchu
1984 Margaret Duras
The Lover
MIND AND SPIRIT
1897 Emile Durkheim
Suicide: A Study in Sociology
1900 Sigmund Freud
The Interpretation of Dreams
1901- Havelock Ellis
Studies in the Psychology of Sex (1901-28)
1902 William James
The Varieties of Religious Experience: A
Study in Human Nature
1923 Kahlil Gibran
The Prophet
1927 Bertrand Russell
Why I Am Not aChristian
1928 Margaret Mead
Coming of Age in Samoa
1943 Jean-Paul Sartre
Being and Nothingness
1946 Benjamin Spock
The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child
Care
1952 The Holy Bible
Revised Standard Version
1952 Paul Tillich
The Courage to Be
1962 Ken Kesey
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
1968 Timothy Leary
The Politics of Ecstacy
1969 Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
On Death and Dying
1976 Bruno Bettelheim
The Use of Enchantment
POPULAR CULTURE AND MASS ENTERTAINMENT
1897 Bram Stoker
Dracula
1898 Henry James
The Turn of the Screw
1902 Arthur Conan Doyle
The Hound of the Baskervilles
1912 Edgar Rice Burroughs
Tarzan of the Apes
1912 Zane Grey
Riders of the Purple Sage
1920 Agatha Christie
The Mysterious Affair at Styles
1936 Dale Carnegie
How to Win Friends and Influence People
1939 Raymond Chandler
The Big Sleep
1939 Nathanael West
The Day of the Locust
1956 Grace Metalious
Peyton Place
1957 Dr. Seuss
The Cat in the Hat
1961 Robert A. Heinlein
Stranger in a Strange Land
1965 Truman Capote
In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple
Murder and Its Consequences
1970 Jim Bouton
Ball Four: My Life and Hard Time Throwing
the Knuckleball in the Big Leagues
1974 Stephen King
Carrie
1987 Tom Wolfe
The Bonfire of the Vanities
WOMEN RISE
1920 Edith Wharton
The Age of Innocence
1923 Carrie Chapman Catt, Nettie Woman Suffrage and Politics:
The Inner Story
Rogers Ahuler
of the Suffrage Movement
1931 Margaret Sanger
My Fight for Birth Control
1942 Zora Neale Hurston
Dust Tracks on a Road
1949 Simone de Beauvoir
The Second Sex
1962 Doris Lessing
The Golden Notebook
1963 Betty Friedan
The Feminine Mystique
1969 Maya Angelou
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
1970 Robin Morgan, editor
Sisterhood is Powerful: An Anthology of
Writings from the Women's Liberation
Movement
1975 Susan Brownmiller
Against Our Will: Men, Woman and Rape
1982 Alice Walker
The Color Purple
ECONOMICS AND TECHNOLOGY
1899 Thorstein Veblen
The Theory of the Leisure Class: An
Economic Study of Institutions
1904 Max Weber
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of
Capitalism
1907 Henry Adams
The Education of Henry Adams
1936 John Maynard Keynes
The General Theory of Employment, Interest
and Money
1944 Friedrich A. von Hayek
The Road to Serfdom
1957 Milton Friedman
A Theory of the Consumption Function
1958 John Kenneth Galbraith
The Affluent Society
1961 Jane Jacobs
The Death and Life of Great American Cities
1970 Helen Leavitt
Superhighway-Superhoax
1973 E.F. Schumacher
Small Is Beautiful: A Study of Economics
as if People Mattered
1992 Ed Krol
The Whole Internet: Users Guide and Catalog
UTOPIAS AND DYSTOPIAS
1895 H. G. Wells
The Time Machine
1896 Theodor Herzl
The Jewish State
1900 L. Frank Baum
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
1906 J. M. Barrie
Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens
1915 Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Herland
1932 Aldous Huxley
Brave New World
1933 James Hilton
Lost Horizon
1948 B. F. Skinner
Walden Two
1949 George Orwell
Nineteen Eighty-Four
1953 Ray Bradbury
Fahrenheit 451
1957 Ayn Rand
Atlas Shrugged
1962 Anthony Burgess
A Clockwork Orange
1985 Margaret Atwood
The Handmaid's Tale
WAR, HOLOCAUST, TOTALITARIANISM
1915 Arnold Toynbee
Armenian Atrocities: The Murder of a Nation
1919 John Reed
Ten Days That Shook the World
1919 Siegfried Sassoon
The War Poems
1920- Jaroslav Hasek
The Good Soldier Schweik (1920-23)
1925- Adolf Hitler
Mein Kampf (1925-26)
1928 Erich Maria Remarque
All Quiet on the Western Front
1935- Anna Akhmatova
Requiem (1935-40)
1940 Ernest Hemingway
For Whom the Bell Tolls
1941 Arthur Koestler
Darkness at Noon
1946 John Hersey
Hiroshima
1947 Anne Frank
The Diary of a Young Girl
1948 Winston Churchill
The Gathering Storm
1958 Elie Wiesel
Night
1966 Mao Zedong
Quotations from Chairman Mao
1970 Dee Alexander Brown
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian
History of the American West
1973- Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An
Experiment in Literary Investigation (1973-75)
1977 Michael Herr
Dispatches
1986- Art Spiegelman
Maus: A Survivor's Tale (2 vols. 1986-91)
OPTIMISM, JOY, GENTILITY
1896 Sarah Orne Jewett
The Country of the Pointed Firs
1903 Helen Keller
The Story of My Life
1911 G. K. Chesterton
The Innocence of Father Brown
1914 Juan Ramon Jimenez
Platero and I: An Andalusian Elegy
1922 Emily Post
Etiquette in Society, in Business, in Politics,
and at Home
1923 P. G. Wodehouse
The Inimitable Jeeves
1926 A. A. Milne
Winnie-the-Pooh
1931 Willa Cather
Shadows on the Rock
1931 Irma S. Rombauer
The Joy of Cooking: A Compilation of
Reliable Recipes with a Casual Culinary Chat
1937 J. R. R. Tolkien
The Hobbit
1947 Margaret Wise Brown
Goodnight Moon
1960 Harper Lee
To Kill a Mockingbird
1961 Langston Hughes
The Best of Simple
1983 Elizabeth Bishop
The Complete Poems, 1927-1979
FAVORITES OF CHILDHOOD AND YOUTH
1901 Beatrix Potter
The Tale of Peter Rabbit
1943 Betty Smith
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
1950 C. S. Lewis
The Lion, the Witch and the Wadrobe
1951 J. D. Salinger
The Catcher in the Rye
1952 E. B. White
Charlotte's Web
1962 Ezra Jack Keats
The Snowy Day
1963 Maurice Sendak
Where the Wild Things Are
1985 Patricia Mac Lachlan
Sarah, Plain and Tall
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