My Century of Books List

My Century of Books list (currently updating)

1900 The Wallet of Kai Lung by Ernest Bramah

1901 The Psychopathology of Everyday Life  by Sigmund Freud (kindle)

1902 The Sport of the Gods by Paul Laurence Dunbar

1903 Ideas of Good and Evil by W.B. Yeats

1904 Napoleon of Notting Hill by G.K. Chesterton

1905 The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

1906 Botchan by Natsume Soseki (kindle)

1907 Dead Love Has Chains by Mary Elizabeth Braddon

1908 Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

1909 Three Lives by Gertrude Stein

1910 Anarchism and Other Essays by Emma Goldman (kindle)

1911 My First Summer in the Sierra by John Muir

1912 The Serious Game by Hjalmar Soderberg (kindle)

1913 O Pioneers! by Willa Cather

1914 Locus Solus by Raymond Roussel

1915 The Underdogs by Mariano Azuela

1916 Virginia by Ellen Glasgow

1917 The Rise of David Levinsky by Abraham Cahan

1918 Hell Screen and Other Stories by Ryunosuke Akutagawa

1919 The American Language by H.L. Mencken

1920 The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie

1921 Flappers and Philosophers by F. Scott Fitzgerald

1922 The Worm Ouroboros by E.R.Eddison

1923 Cane by Jean Toomer

1924 Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair by Pablo Neruda

1925 Tales from Silver Lands by Charles Finger

1926 You Can’t Win by Jack Black

1927 Smoky the Cowhorse by Will James

1928 Rosa Luxemborg by Paul B.

1929 Living by Henry Green

1930 Poems by W.H. Auden

1931 Chaka by Thomas Mofolo

1932 Stamboul Train by Graham Greene

1933 Werewolf of Paris by Guy Endore

1934 I, Claudius by Robert Graves

1935 Enter a Murderer by Ngaio Marsh

1936 Nightwood by Djuna Barnes

1937 Serve it XX by MFK Fisher

1938 Alamut by Vladimir Bartol

1939 Good Morning, Midnight by Jean Rhys

1940 Kallocain by Karin Boye

1941 Blood on the Forge by William Attaway

1942 Mythology by Edith Hamilton

1943 Near to the Wild Heart by Clarice Lispector

1944 Makioka Sisters by Tanazaki Junichiro

1945 By Grand Central Station I Sat Down And Wept by Elizabeth Smart

1946 Adventures in Time and Space by Raymond J. Healy and J. Francis McComas

1947 Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata

1948 Ashes and Diamonds by Jerzy Andrjezewski

1949 Hero With a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell

1950 Labyrinth of Solitude by Pablo Neruda

1951 Uncle Isaiah by Russell Kirk

1952 Night Roads by Gaito Gazdanov

1953 Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow

1954 Eagle of the Ninth by Rosemary Sutclif

1955 The Less Deceived by Philip Larkin

1956 Palace Walk by Nguib Mafousz

1957 Difficulty of Being by Jean Coceau

1958 The White Bird Passes by Jessie Kesson

1959 Magic Christian by Terry Southern

1960 To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

1961 Nutshell Library by Maurice Sendak

1963 Eichmann in Jerusalem by Hannah Arendt

1964 Forever Flowing by Vasily Grossman

1965 Despair by Vladimir Nabokov

1966 Human Landscapes From My Country by Nazim Hikmet

1970 King: A Critical Biography by David L. Lewis

1971 Death of the Fox by George Garrett

1972 Harlem Renaissance by Nathan Huggins

1973 The Dead All Have the Same Skin by Boris  Vian

1974 Deeper Into Movies by Pauline Kael

1975 Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delany

1976 Edith Wharton: A Biography by R.W.B. Lewis

1977 Simple Justice: The History of Brown vs Board of Education by Rachel ??

1978 Everything in its Path by Kai T. Erickson

1979 The Bretheren: Inside the Supreme Court by Bob Woodward

1980 Rites of Passage by William Golding

1981 With the Old Breed E.B. Sledge

1982 Toy City by Lee Dong-ha

1983 Entertaining Satan by John Paul ??

1984 Night by Bilge Karasu

1985 Life and Times of Cotton Mather by Rober Silverwood

1986 Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

1987 Our Twisted Hero by Yi Munyo

1988 Fathers and Children Michael Rogin

1989 Playing for Thrills by Wang Shuo

1990 American Food by Evan Jones

1991 Imajica by Clive Barker

1992 Fate of Liberty by Mark E. Neely

1993 Viruses of the Mind by Richard Dawkins

1994 Directed by Dorothy Arzner by XX

1995 Diane Arbus: A Biography by Patricia Bosworth

1996 Dream of a Unified Field by Jorie Graham

1997 Baltimore Blues by Laura Lippman

1998 Street of Lost Footsteps by Lyonell Trouillot

1999 sputnik sweetheart by murikami

2000 A Squatter’s Tale Ike Oguine