50 Best Books... defining the 20th century promotion.
Embargoed until 21st April.
| Book Title | Author | Publisher | ISBN |
| 1900s | |||
| Heart of Darkness | Joseph Conrad | OUP | 978-0-192-80172-2 |
| The Hound of the Baskervilles | Arthur Conan Doyle | OUP | 978-0-192-83519-2 |
| Kim | Rudyard Kipling | OUP | 978-0-192-83513-0 |
| Interpreting Dreams | Sigmund Freud | Penguin | 978-0-141-18708-5 |
| 1910s | |||
| The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists | Robert Tressel | HarperCollins | 978-0-00-720450-2 |
| Good Soldier | Ford Madox Ford | OUP | 978-0-192-83620-5 |
| Howards End | EM Forster | Penguin | 978-0-141-18213-1 |
| Penguin Book of 1st World War poetry | Penguin | 978-0-141-18190-5 | |
| 1920s | |||
| The Sun also rises | Ernest Hemingway | Arrow | 978-0-099-90850-0 |
| The Waste Land | TS Eliot | Faber | 978-0-571-09712-x |
| The Murder of Roger Ackroyd | Agatha Christie | HarperCollins | 978-0-00-651410-7 |
| The Great Gatsby | F. Scott Fitzgerald | OUP | 978-0-192-83269-6 |
| To the Lighthouse | Virginia Woolf | OUP | 978-0-192-80560-7 |
| Lady Chatterley's Lover | DH Lawrence | Penguin | 978-0-141-44149-8 |
| Relativity | Albert Einstein | Routledge | 978-0-415-25384-0 |
| 1930s | |||
| The Big Sleep | Raymond Chandler | Penguin | 978-0-140-10892-7 |
| The Grapes of Wrath | John Steinbeck | Penguin | 978-0-140-29292-3 |
| Right Ho Jeeves | PG Wodehouse | Penguin | 978-0-140-28409-6 |
| Brighton Rock | Graham Greene | Vintage | 978-0-099-47847-8 |
| Brave New World | Aldous Huxley | Vintage | 978-0-099-45816-6 |
| 1940s | |||
| The Naked & The Dead | Norman Mailer | HarperCollins | 978-0-00-720495-3 |
| The Outsider | Albert Camus | Penguin | 978-0-141-18250-6 |
| The Diary of a Young Girl | Anne Frank | Penguin | 978-0-140-26473-9 |
| 1984 | George Orwell | Penguin | 978-0-141-18776-1 |
| 1950s | |||
| Look Back in Anger | John Osborne | Faber | 978-0-571-03848-4 |
| Waiting for Godot | Samuel Beckett | Faber | 978-0-57-22911-5 |
| From Russia with Love | Ian Fleming | Penguin | 978-0-141-18760-0 |
| Day of the Triffids | John Wyndham | Penguin | 978-0-141-18541-5 |
| Catcher in the Rye | JD Salinger | Penguin | 978-0-140-23750-4 |
| Things Fall Apart | Chinua Achebe | Penguin | 978-0-141-02338-0 |
| 1960s | |||
| Ariel | Sylvia Plath | Faber | 978-0-571-08626-9 |
| Revolutionary Road | Richard Yates | Methuen | 978-0-413-75710-4 |
| Catch 22 | Joseph Heller | Vintage | 978-0-099-47731 |
| Portnoy's Complaint | Philip Roth | Vintage | 978-0-099-46686-4 |
| The Spy Who Came In From the Cold | John Le Carre | Hodder | 978-0-340-93757-0 |
| 1970s | |||
| The Female Eunuch | Germaine Greer | HarperCollins | 978-0-00-720501-1 |
| Zen & The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance | Robert M. Prisig | Vintage | 978-0-099-32261-0 |
| Carrie | Stephen King | Hodder | 978-0-340-92094-7 |
| Valley Of The Dolls | Jacqueline Susann | Little, Brown | 978-1-860-49887-9 |
| 1980s | |||
| The Wasp Factory | Iain Banks | Little, Brown | 978-0-349-10177-4 |
| Bonfire of the Vanities | Tom Wolfe | Macmillan | 978-0-330-30573-5 |
| Beloved | Toni Morrison | Vintage | 978-0-099-76011-5 |
| Money | Martin Amis | Vintage | 978-0-099-46188-3 |
| Midnight's Children | Salman Rushdie | Vintage | 978-0-099-57851-2 |
| Brief History of Time | Stephen Hawking | Transworld | 978-0-553-17521-9 |
| 1990s | |||
| Birthday Letters | Ted Hughes | Faber | 978-0-571-19473-5 |
| The Buddha of Suburbia | Hanif Kureishi | Faber | 978-0-571-16239-0 |
| No Logo | Naomi Klein | Harpercollins | 978-0-00-653040-4 |
| Bridget Jones' Diary | Helen Fielding | Macmillan | 978-0-330-33277-4 |
| Fever Pitch | Nick Hornby | Penguin | 978-0-140-29344-9 |
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