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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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