Century
20th c.
176 works in this collection, sorted chronologically.
Buddenbrooks
Thomas Mann · 1901 AD
The Counterfeiters
André Gide · 1902 AD
Lucky Per
Henrik Pontoppidan · 1904 AD
The Peasants
Władysław Reymont · 1904 AD
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
Max Weber · 1905 AD
The Wonderful Adventures of Nils
Selma Lagerlöf · 1906 AD
The Bonds of Interest
Jacinto Benavente · 1907 AD
Creative Evolution
Henri Bergson · 1907 AD
Poems (Yeats: Collected)
W.B. Yeats · 1908 AD
Orthodoxy
G.K. Chesterton · 1908 AD
The Man Who Was Thursday
G.K. Chesterton · 1908 AD
The Meaning of Truth (selected)
Rudolf Christoph Eucken · 1908 AD
Penguin Island / The Gods Are Athirst
Anatole France · 1908 AD
The Long Journey
Johannes V. Jensen · 1908 AD
Reflections on Violence
Georges Sorel · 1908 AD
Olympian Spring
Carl Spitteler · 1910 AD
Poems (Tagore: Gitanjali)
Rabindranath Tagore · 1912 AD
Jean-Christophe
Romain Rolland · 1912 AD
In Search of Lost Time
Marcel Proust · 1913 AD
Reeds in the Wind
Grazia Deledda · 1913 AD
Pygmalion / Saint Joan
George Bernard Shaw · 1913 AD
Dubliners
James Joyce · 1914 AD
Platero and I / Selected Poems
Juan Ramón Jiménez · 1914 AD
The Metamorphosis
Franz Kafka · 1915 AD
A Portrait of the Artist
James Joyce · 1916 AD
Relativity: The Special and the General Theory
Albert Einstein · 1916 AD
Meek Heritage
Frans Eemil Sillanpää · 1919 AD
Storm of Steel
Ernst Jünger · 1920 AD
The Growth of the Soil
Knut Hamsun · 1920 AD
Main Street / Babbitt
Sinclair Lewis · 1920 AD
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
Ludwig Wittgenstein · 1921 AD
Six Characters in Search of an Author
Luigi Pirandello · 1921 AD
Ulysses
James Joyce · 1922 AD
The Waste Land
T.S. Eliot · 1922 AD
Siddhartha
Hermann Hesse · 1922 AD
Kristin Lavransdatter
Sigrid Undset · 1922 AD
The Forsyte Saga
John Galsworthy · 1922 AD
The Magic Mountain
Thomas Mann · 1924 AD
Anabasis / Selected Poems
Saint-John Perse · 1924 AD
The Trial
Franz Kafka · 1925 AD
The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald · 1925 AD
Mrs Dalloway
Virginia Woolf · 1925 AD
The Cantos
Ezra Pound · 1925 AD
The Castle
Franz Kafka · 1926 AD
Thérèse Desqueyroux
François Mauriac · 1927 AD
Being and Time
Martin Heidegger · 1927 AD
And Quiet Flows the Don
Mikhail Sholokhov · 1928 AD
The Sound and the Fury
William Faulkner · 1929 AD
The Revolt of the Masses
José Ortega y Gasset · 1930 AD
The Life of Arseniev / Dark Avenues
Ivan Bunin · 1930 AD
The Good Earth
Pearl S. Buck · 1931 AD
Brave New World
Aldous Huxley · 1932 AD
Journey to the End of the Night
L.-F. Céline · 1932 AD
The Worker
Ernst Jünger · 1932 AD
The Concept of the Political
Carl Schmitt · 1932 AD
The Book of Disquiet / Poetry of the Heteronyms
Fernando Pessoa · 1934 AD
Independent People
Halldór Laxness · 1935 AD
Auto-da-Fé (Die Blendung)
Elias Canetti · 1935 AD
Selections from the Prison Notebooks
Antonio Gramsci · 1935 AD
The Thibaults
Roger Martin du Gard · 1936 AD
The Hobbit
J.R.R. Tolkien · 1937 AD
Being and Nothingness / Nausea
Jean-Paul Sartre · 1938 AD
Finnegans Wake
James Joyce · 1939 AD
Mother Courage and Her Children
Bertolt Brecht · 1941 AD
The Stranger
Albert Camus · 1942 AD
Selected Poems
Salvatore Quasimodo · 1942 AD
The Family of Pascual Duarte / The Hive
Camilo José Cela · 1942 AD
Four Quartets
T.S. Eliot · 1943 AD
The Little Prince
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry · 1943 AD
Ficciones
Jorge Luis Borges · 1944 AD
Selected Poems (Aleixandre)
Vicente Aleixandre · 1944 AD
The Road to Serfdom
Friedrich Hayek · 1944 AD
Animal Farm
George Orwell · 1945 AD
Collected Poems
Gabriela Mistral · 1945 AD
Phenomenology of Perception
Maurice Merleau-Ponty · 1945 AD
History of Western Philosophy
Bertrand Russell · 1945 AD
The Bridge on the Drina
Ivo Andrić · 1945 AD
Only Yesterday / Selected Stories
Shmuel Yosef Agnon · 1945 AD
Poems (Mistral: Selected)
Gabriela Mistral · 1945 AD
Man's Search for Meaning
Viktor Frankl · 1946 AD
Men of Maize / El Señor Presidente
Miguel Ángel Asturias · 1946 AD
Return to Ithaca
Eyvind Johnson · 1946 AD
The Plague
Albert Camus · 1947 AD
O the Chimneys / Selected Poems
Nelly Sachs · 1947 AD
No Longer Human
Osamu Dazai · 1948 AD
Snow Country
Yasunari Kawabata · 1948 AD
1984
George Orwell · 1949 AD
The Aleph
Jorge Luis Borges · 1949 AD
The Second Sex
Simone de Beauvoir · 1949 AD
Canto General
Pablo Neruda · 1950 AD
Barabbas
Pär Lagerkvist · 1950 AD
The Labyrinth of Solitude / Selected Poems
Octavio Paz · 1950 AD
The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger · 1951 AD
The Old Man and the Sea
Ernest Hemingway · 1952 AD
East of Eden
John Steinbeck · 1952 AD
Waiting for Godot
Samuel Beckett · 1952 AD
Invisible Man
Ralph Ellison · 1952 AD
The Second World War (6 vols)
Winston Churchill · 1953 AD
Lord of the Flies
William Golding · 1954 AD
The Lord of the Rings
J.R.R. Tolkien · 1954 AD
Selected Poems (Tranströmer)
Tomas Tranströmer · 1954 AD
Lolita
Vladimir Nabokov · 1955 AD
Pedro Páramo
Juan Rulfo · 1955 AD
Tristes Tropiques
Claude Lévi-Strauss · 1955 AD
Palace Walk (Cairo Trilogy)
Naguib Mahfouz · 1956 AD
Long Day's Journey Into Night / Mourning Becomes Electra
Eugene O'Neill · 1956 AD
Aniara
Harry Martinson · 1956 AD
Doctor Zhivago
Boris Pasternak · 1957 AD
Voss / The Tree of Man
Patrick White · 1957 AD
Things Fall Apart
Chinua Achebe · 1958 AD
The Leopard
G.T. di Lampedusa · 1958 AD
The Tin Drum
Günter Grass · 1959 AD
To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee · 1960 AD
The Flanders Road
Claude Simon · 1960 AD
Catch-22
Joseph Heller · 1961 AD
Ride the Tiger
Julius Evola · 1961 AD
Collected Poems (Seferis)
Giorgos Seferis · 1961 AD
A Clockwork Orange
Anthony Burgess · 1962 AD
Collected Stories / The Slave
Isaac Bashevis Singer · 1962 AD
The Golden Notebook
Doris Lessing · 1962 AD
The Sailor Who Fell from Grace
Yukio Mishima · 1963 AD
The Clown / Group Portrait with Lady
Heinrich Böll · 1963 AD
The Lyrics: 1961-2012
Bob Dylan · 1963 AD
A Personal Matter
Kenzaburō Ōe · 1964 AD
Herzog / Humboldt's Gift
Saul Bellow · 1964 AD
Stoner
John Williams · 1965 AD
Dune
Frank Herbert · 1965 AD
Death and the King's Horseman / A Dance of the Forests
Wole Soyinka · 1965 AD
The Homecoming / Betrayal
Harold Pinter · 1965 AD
The Crying of Lot 49
Thomas Pynchon · 1966 AD
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gabriel García Márquez · 1967 AD
The Master and Margarita
Mikhail Bulgakov · 1967 AD
The Society of the Spectacle
Guy Debord · 1967 AD
Selected Poems (Seifert)
Jaroslav Seifert · 1967 AD
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Philip K. Dick · 1968 AD
Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut · 1969 AD
Spring Snow (Sea of Fertility)
Yukio Mishima · 1969 AD
Slow Homecoming / The Goalie's Anxiety
Peter Handke · 1970 AD
Accidental Death of an Anarchist / Mistero Buffo
Dario Fo · 1970 AD
A Theory of Justice
John Rawls · 1971 AD
The Gulag Archipelago
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn · 1973 AD
Gravity's Rainbow
Thomas Pynchon · 1973 AD
Fatelessness
Imre Kertész · 1975 AD
Collected Poems (Montale)
Eugenio Montale · 1975 AD
Missing Person / Suspended Sentences
Patrick Modiano · 1978 AD
A Bend in the River
V.S. Naipaul · 1979 AD
July's People / Burger's Daughter
Nadine Gordimer · 1979 AD
Collected Poems (Elytis)
Odysseas Elytis · 1979 AD
A Confederacy of Dunces
John Kennedy Toole · 1980 AD
The Name of the Rose
Umberto Eco · 1980 AD
The Book of the New Sun
Gene Wolfe · 1980 AD
Desert / The Prospector
J.M.G. Le Clézio · 1980 AD
Collected Poems (Miłosz)
Czesław Miłosz · 1980 AD
The War of the End of the World
Mario Vargas Llosa · 1981 AD
The Piano Teacher
Elfriede Jelinek · 1983 AD
Blood Meridian
Cormac McCarthy · 1985 AD
Satantango
László Krasznahorkai · 1985 AD
Love in the Time of Cholera
Gabriel García Márquez · 1985 AD
Beloved
Toni Morrison · 1987 AD
Red Sorghum / Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out
Mo Yan · 1987 AD
Collected Poems (Brodsky)
Joseph Brodsky · 1987 AD
The Remains of the Day
Kazuo Ishiguro · 1989 AD
Omeros
Derek Walcott · 1990 AD
Soul Mountain
Gao Xingjian · 1990 AD
American Psycho
Bret Easton Ellis · 1991 AD
Selected Poems (Glück)
Louise Glück · 1992 AD
Paradise / Afterlives
Abdulrazak Gurnah · 1994 AD
Blindness
José Saramago · 1995 AD
Industrial Society and Its Future
Ted Kaczynski · 1995 AD
Collected Poems (Heaney)
Seamus Heaney · 1995 AD
Infinite Jest
David Foster Wallace · 1996 AD
Collected Poems (Szymborska)
Wisława Szymborska · 1996 AD
My Name Is Red / Snow
Orhan Pamuk · 1998 AD
I See Satan Fall Like Lightning
René Girard · 1999 AD
Disgrace
J.M. Coetzee · 2003 AD
Selected Stories
Alice Munro · 2012 AD