Books for the Next Century
Books from the 20th Century chosen for an exhibition, called Books for the Next Century, by the University of Connecticut
A Clockwork Orange (1962)
Anthony Burgess: A Clockwork Orange
A Field Guide to the Birds (1934)
Roger Tory Peterson
A la recherche du temps perdu [Remembrance of Things Past] (3 vols.) (1913)
Marcel Proust
A Passage to India (1924)
E. M. Forster
A Sand County Almanac (1949)
Aldo Leopold
A Theory of the Consumption Function (1957)
Milton Friedman
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1943)
Betty Smith: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape (1975)
Susan Brownmiller: Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape
And the Band Played On (1987)
Randy Shilts
Arkhipelag Gulag, 1918-1956 [The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation] (1973)
Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
Armenian Atrocities: The Murder of a Nation (1915)
Arnold Toynbee
Atlas Shrugged (1957)
Ayn Rand: Atlas Shrugged
Ball Four: My Life and Hard Times Throwing the Knuckleball in the Big Leagues (1970)
Jim Bouton: Ball Four: My Life and Hard Times Throwing the Knuckleball in the Big Leagues
Brave New World (1932)
Aldous Huxley: Brave New World
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West (1970)
Dee Alexander Brown: Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
Carrie (1974)
Stephen King: Carrie
Catch-22 (1961)
Joseph Heller: Catch-22
Cesarz [The Emperor] (1978)
Ryszard Kapuscinski
Charlotte’s Web (1952)
E. B. White
Cien años de soledad [One Hundred Years of Solitude] (1967)
Gabriel García Márquez
Coming of Age in Samoa (1928)
Margaret Mead
Cry, the Beloved Country (1948)
Alan Paton
Darkness at Noon (1941)
Arthur Koestler: Darkness at Noon
Der Judenstaat [The Jewish State] (1896)
Theodor Herzl
Der Zauberberg [The Magic Mountain] (1924)
Thomas Mann
Die protestantische Ethik und der Geist des Kapitalismus [The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism]
(1904)
Max Weber
Die Traumdeutung [The Interpretation of Dreams] (1900)
Sigmund Freud: Die Traumdeutung [The Interpretation of Dreams]
Die Verwandlung [The Metamorphosis] (1915)
Franz Kafka
Dispatches (1977)
Michael Herr
Dracula (1897)
Bram Stoker: Dracula
Dust Tracks on a Road (1942)
Zora Neale Hurston
En attendant Godot [Waiting for Godot; A Tragicomedy in Two Acts] (1952)
Samuel Beckett
Er redete mit dem Vieh, den Vögeln und den Fischen: King Solomon’s Ring [King Solomon’s Ring: New Light on Animal Ways] (1949)
Konrad Z. Lorenz
Etiquette in Society, in Business, in Politics, and at Home (1922)
Emily Post
Fahrenheit 451 (1953)
Ray Bradbury: Fahrenheit 451
Ficciones [Fictions] (1944)
Jorge Luis Borges
For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940)
Ernest Hemingway
Gone with the Wind (1936)
Margaret Mitchell
Goodnight Moon (1947)
Margaret Wise Brown.: Goodnight Moon
Growing Up Absurd (1960)
Paul Goodman
Guerrillas (1965)
V. S. Naipaul
Herland (1915)
Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Herland
Het Achterhuis [The Diary of a Young Girl] Het Achterhuis [The Diary of a Young Girl] (1947)
Anne Frank
Hiroshima (1946)
John Hersey: Hiroshima
How to Win Friends and Influence People (1936)
Dale Carnegie
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969)
Maya Angelou: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Im Westen nichts Neues [All Quiet on the Western Front] (1928)
Erich Maria Remarque
In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences (1965)
Truman Capote
Invisible Man (1952)
Ralph Ellison
Jiménez, Juan Ramón. Platero y yo [Platero and I; An Andalusian Elegy] (1914)
Kim (1901)
Rudyard Kipling: Kim
La nuit [Night] (1958)
Elie Wiesel: La nuit [Night]
La vie des abeilles [The Life of the Bee] (1901)
Maurice Maeterlinck
L’amant [The Lover] (1984)
Marguerite Duras: L’amant [The Lover]
Le deuxième sexe [The Second Sex] (1949)
Simone de Beauvoir: Le deuxième sexe [The Second Sex]
Le suicide: étude de sociologie [Suicide: Study in Sociology] (1897)
Emile Durkheim
Les damnés de la terre [The Wretched of the Earth] (1961)
Frantz Fanon: Les damnés de la terre [The Wretched of the Earth]
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (1941)
James Agee and Walker Evans
L’étranger [The Stranger] (1942)
Albert Camus: L’étranger [The Stranger]
L’être et le néant [Being and Nothingness] (1943)
Jean-Paul Sartre: L’être et le néant [Being and Nothingness]
Lolita (1955)
Vladimir Nabokov
Lord Jim (1900)
Joseph Conrad
Lost Horizon (1933)
James Hilton
Maus: A Survivor’s Tale (1986)
Art Spiegelman
Mawsim al-Hijra ila al-Shamal [Season of Migration to the North] (1969)
Tayeb el-Salih
Me llamo Rigoberta Menchú y así me nació conciencia [I, Rigoberta Menchú] (1983)
Rigoberta Menchú: Me llamo Rigoberta Menchú y así me nació conciencia
[I, Rigoberta Menchú]
Mein Kampf (1925)
Adolf Hitler: Mein Kampf
My Fight for Birth Control (1931)
Margaret Sanger
Native Son (1940)
Richard Wright: Native Son
Nineteen Eighty-four (1949)
George Orwell: Nineteen Eighty-four
On Death and Dying (1969)
Elisabeth Kûbler-Ross: On Death and Dying
On the Road (1957)
Jack Kerouac
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1962)
Ken Kesey: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Osudy dobrého vojáka Svejka za svetové války [The Good Soldier Schweik] (1920)
Jaroslav Hasek
Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens (1906)
J. M. Barrie
Peyton Place (1956)
Grace Metalious
Portnoy’s Complaint (1969)
Philip Roth
Primer romancero gitano [Gypsy Ballads] (1928)
Federico García Lorca
Pygmalion (1914)
George Bernard Shaw
Quotations from Chairman Mao (1966)
Mao Zedong
Rekviem [Requiem] (1935)
Anna Akhmatova
Renascence and Other Poems (1917)
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Riders of the Purple Sage (1912)
Zane Grey: Riders of the Purple Sage
Sarah, Plain and Tall (1985)
Patricia MacLachlan: Sarah, Plain and Tall
Satyagraha [Non-Violent Resistance] (1921)
Mohandas K. Gandhi
Sei personaggi in cerca d’autore [Six Characters in Search of an Author] (1921)
Luigi Pirandello
Shadows on the Rock (1931)
Willa Cather
Silent Spring (1962)
Rachel Carson
Sisterhood Is Powerful: An Anthology of Writings from the Women’s Liberation Movement (1970)
Robin Morgan, editor
Small Is Beautiful: A Study of Economics as if People Mattered (1973)
E. F. Schumacher
Smoking and Health (known as The Surgeon General’s Report) (1964)
Song of Solomon (1977)
Toni Morrison
Strange Fruit (1944)
Lillian Smith
Stranger in a Strange Land (1961)
Robert A. Heinlein: Stranger in a Strange Land
Studies in the Psychology of Sex (1901)
Havelock Ellis
Superhighway – Super Hoax (1970)
Helen Leavitt
Tarzan of the Apes (1912)
Edgar Rice Burroughs: Tarzan of the Apes
Ten Days That Shook the World (1919)
John Reed
Tender Buttons: Objects Food Rooms (1914)
Gertrude Stein
The Affluent Society (1958)
John Kenneth Galbraith: The Affluent Society
The Age of Anxiety: A Baroque Eclogue (1947)
W. H. Auden
The Age of Innocence (1920)
Edith Wharton: The Age of Innocence
The Autobiography of Lincoln Steffens (1931)
Lincoln Steffens
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (1965)
Malcolm X: The Autobiography of Malcolm X
The Battle with the Slum (1902)
Jacob Riis
The Best of Simple (1961)
Langston Hughes: The Best of Simple
The Big Sleep (1939)
Raymond Chandler: The Big Sleep
The Bonfire of the Vanities (1987)
Tom Wolfe
The Bride Price (1976)
Buchi Emecheta
The Cat in the Hat (1957)
Dr. Seuss: The Cat in the Hat
The Catcher in the Rye (1951)
J. D. Salinger: The Catcher in the Rye
The Color Purple (1982)
Alice Walker
The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care (1946)
Dr. Benjamin Spock
The Complete Poems, 1927-1979 (1983)
Elizabeth Bishop: The Complete Poems, 1927-1979
The Country of the Pointed Firs (1896)
Sarah Orne Jewett: The Country of the Pointed Firs
The Courage to Be (1952)
Paul Tillich
The Day of the Locust (1939)
Nathanael West: The Day of the Locust
The Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961)
Jane Jacobs: The Death and Life of Great American Cities
The Diversity of Life (1992)
Edward O. Wilson
The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA (1968)
James Watson
The Education of Henry Adams (1907)
Henry Adams: The Education of Henry Adams
The Family of Man: The Photographic Exhibition Created by Edward Steichen for the Museum of Modern Art (1955)
Edward Steichen: The Family of Man: The Photographic Exhibition Created by Edward Steichen for the Museum of Modern Art
The Feminine Mystique (1963)
Betty Friedan: The Feminine Mystique
The Fire Next Time (1963)
James Baldwin: The Fire Next Time
The Gathering Storm (1948)
Winston Churchill
The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money (1936)
John Maynard Keynes
The Golden Notebook (1962)
Doris Lessing
The Grapes of Wrath (1939)
John Steinbeck: The Grapes of Wrath
The Great Gatsby (1925)
F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby
The Handmaid’s Tale (1985)
Margaret Atwood: The Handmaid’s Tale
The Hobbit (1937)
J. R. R. Tolkien: The Hobbit
The Holy Bible. Revised Standard Version (1952)
: The Holy Bible. Revised Standard Version
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902)
Arthur Conan Doyle: The Hound of the Baskervilles
The House on Henry Street (1915)
Lillian Wald
The Inimitable Jeeves (1923)
P. G. Wodehouse
The Innocence of Father Brown (1911)
G. K. Chesterton
The Joy of Cooking: A Compilation of Reliable Recipes with a Casual
Culinary Chat (1931)
Irma S. Rombauer: The Joy of Cooking: A Compilation of Reliable Recipes with a Casual Culinary Chat
The Jungle (1906)
Upton Sinclair: The Jungle
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (1950)
C. S. Lewis: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
The Meaning of Relativity (1922)
Albert Einstein
The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920)
Agatha Christie
The Politics of Ecstasy (1968)
Timothy Leary
The Portable Faulkner (1946)
William Faulkner
The Prophet (1923)
Kahlil Gibran: The Prophet
The Road to Serfdom (1944)
Friedrich A. von Hayek: The Road to Serfdom
The Snowy Day (1962)
Ezra Jack Keats: The Snowy Day
The Souls of Black Folk (1903)
W. E. B. Du Bois
The Story of My Life (1903)
Helen Keller: The Story of My Life
The Tale of Peter Rabbit (1901)
Beatrix Potter
The Theory of the Leisure Class: An Economic Study of Institutions (1899)
Thorstein Veblen: The Theory of the Leisure Class: An Economic Study of Institutions
The Time Machine (1895)
H. G. Wells: The Time Machine
The Turn of the Screw (1898)
Henry James: The Turn of the Screw
The Uses of Enchantment (1976)
Bruno Bettelheim: The Uses of Enchantment
The Varieties of Religious Experience: Study in Human Nature (1902)
William James: The Varieties of Religious Experience: Study in Human Nature
The War Poems (1919)
Siegfried Sassoon
The Waste Land (1922)
T. S. Eliot: The Waste Land
The Whole Internet: User’s Guide & Catalog (1992)
Ed Krol
The Wild Swans at Coole (1917)
William Butler Yeats
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900)
L. Frank Baum: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
There Are No Children Here (1991)
Alex Kotlowitz
Things Fall Apart (1958)
Chinua Achebe: Things Fall Apart
To Kill a Mockingbird (1960)
Harper Lee: To Kill a Mockingbird
To the Lighthouse (1927)
Virginia Woolf
Traité de radioactivité [Treatise on Radioactivity] (1910)
Marie Sklodowska Curie
Tri sestry (The Three Sisters) (1901)
Anton Chekhov
Twenty Years at Hull-House (1910)
Jane Addams
U.S.A. (1937)
John Dos Passos: U.S.A.
Ulysses (1922)
James Joyce
United Nations Charter (1945)
Walden Two (1948)
B. F. Skinner
Where the Wild Things Are (1963)
Maurice Sendak: Where the Wild Things Are
Why I Am Not a Christian (1927)
Bertrand Russell
Wide Sargasso Sea (1966)
Jean Rhys
Winnie-the-Pooh (1926)
A. A. Milne: Winnie-the-Pooh
Woman Suffrage and Politics: The Inner Story of the Suffrage Movement
Suffrage and Politics: The Inner Story of the Suffrage Movement (1923)