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20th century fiction

A Clockwork Orange (novel)
1962 novel by Anthony Burgess
A Confederacy of Dunces
1980 novel by John Kennedy Toole
A Dance of the Forests
Book by Wole Soyinka
A Dance to the Music of Time
Book series
A Farewell to Arms
1929 novel by Ernest Hemingway
A House for Mr Biswas
1961 book by V. S. Naipaul
A Passage to India
1924 novel by E. M. Forster
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
1916 novel by James Joyce
A Raisin in the Sun
Play by Lorraine Hansberry
A Room with a View
1908 novel by E. M. Forster
A Streetcar Named Desire
1947 play by Tennessee Williams
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (novel)
1943 semi-autobiographical novel by Betty Smith
Absalom, Absalom!
1936 novel by William Faulkner
Accidental Death of an Anarchist
Theatrical play by Dario Fo
All Quiet on the Western Front
Novel by Erich Maria Remarque
All the King's Men
1946 novel by Robert Penn Warren
American Psycho
1991 novel by Bret Easton Ellis
An American Tragedy
Novel by Theodore Dreiser
And Quiet Flows the Don
Epic novel in four volumes by Russian writer Michail Sholokhov
And Then There Were None
1939 mystery novel by Agatha Christie
Angels in America
1993 Pulitzer Prize–winning play by Tony Kushner
Animal Farm
1945 novella by George Orwell
Anne of Green Gables
1908 novel by Lucy Maud Montgomery
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.
Book by Judy Blume
As I Lay Dying
Novel by William Faulkner
Atlas Shrugged
1957 novel by Ayn Rand
Beloved (novel)
1987 novel by Toni Morrison
Berenstain Bears
Children's book series by Stan and Jan Berenstain
Berlin Alexanderplatz
Book by Alfred Döblin
Black Death
1947 novel by Albert Camus
Blood Meridian
1985 epic historical novel by Cormac McCarthy
Brave New World
1932 dystopian science fiction novel by Aldous Huxley
Brideshead Revisited
1945 book by Evelyn Waugh
Bridge to Terabithia (novel)
1977 children's novel by Katherine Paterson
Bridget Jones's Diary (novel)
1996 novel by Helen Fielding
Buddenbrooks
1901 novel by Thomas Mann
Buried Child
Literary work
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
1955 stage play by Tennessee Williams
Catch-22
1961 novel by Joseph Heller
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
1964 children's novel by Roald Dahl
Charlotte's Web
1952 children's novel by E. B. White
Cry, the Beloved Country
Book by Alan Paton
Cthulhu Mythos
Shared fictional universe based on the work of H. P. Lovecraft
Darkness at Noon
1940 novel by Arthur Koestler
Death of a Salesman
1949 play by Arthur Miller
Diary of a Madman
1918 short story by Lu Xun
Discworld
Comic fantasy book series by the English author Terry Pratchett
Doctor Faustus (novel)
1947 novel written by Thomas Mann
Doctor Zhivago (novel)
1957 novel by Boris Pasternak
Dubliners
1914 short story collection by James Joyce
Dune (novel)
1965 science fiction novel by Frank Herbert
Earthsea
Fantasy fiction series (1968–2001) by Ursula K. Le Guin
Ethan Frome
Novella by Edith Wharton
Fahrenheit 451
1953 dystopian novel by Ray Bradbury
Fences (play)
1985 American drama play
Ficciones
Short story collection by Jorge Luis Borges
Finnegans Wake
1939 novel by James Joyce
Flowers in the Attic
1979 novel by V. C. Andrews
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Novel by Ernest Hemingway from 1940
Fortress Besieged
Novel by Qian Zhongshu
Foucault's Pendulum
1988 novel by Umberto Eco
Foundation (book series)
Series of science-fiction books by Isaac Asimov
From Here to Eternity (novel)
1951 novel by James Jones
Glengarry Glen Ross
Play by David Mamet
Gone with the Wind (novel)
1936 novel by Margaret Mitchell
Goosebumps
Series of children's horror novels by R. L. Stine
Gravity's Rainbow
1973 novel by Thomas Pynchon
Green Eggs and Ham
1960 children's book by Dr. Seuss
Harry Potter
Series of fantasy novels by J. K. Rowling
Henderson the Rain King
Novel by Saul Bellow
Herzog (novel)
The novel is about Herzog, who faces the cruelty of marriage and ruins his life. Although Herzog struggles to get the things right. The novel also exposes the harsh reality of relationships.
His Dark Materials
Novel trilogy by Philip Pullman
How the Steel Was Tempered
Socialist realist novel written by Nikolai Ostrovsky
I, Claudius
1934 novel by Robert Graves
If on a winter's night a traveler
1979 novel by Italo Calvino
In Search of Lost Time
1913–1927 novel in seven volumes by Marcel Proust
Independent People
Novel by Halldór Laxness (1934, 1935)
Infinite Jest
1996 novel by David Foster Wallace
Invisible Man
1952 novel by Ralph Ellison
Jonathan Livingston Seagull
1960s story by Richard Bach
Journey to the End of the Night
Novel by Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Kim (novel)
Picaresque novel by Rudyard Kipling
Lady Chatterley's Lover
1928 novel by D. H. Lawrence
Light in August
1932 novel by William Faulkner
Little House on the Prairie
American series of children's books (1932–1971) and media franchise
LOLITA
Natural language processing system developed at Durham University, England
Long Day's Journey into Night
Drama play by Eugene O'Neill
Look Back in Anger
1956 play by John Osborne
Lord of the Flies
1954 novel by William Golding
Lucky Jim
Novel by Kingsley Amis
Main Street (novel)
1920 novel by Sinclair Lewis
Matilda (novel)
1988 children's book by Roald Dahl
Memoirs of Hadrian
Novel by Marguerite Yourcenar
Midnight's Children
1981 novel by Salman Rushdie
Molloy (novel)
Novel by Samuel Beckett
Mrs Dalloway
1925 novel by Virginia Woolf
Murder on the Orient Express
1934 novel by Agatha Christie
My Name Is Red
1998 Turkish novel by Orhan Pamuk
Native Son
1940 novel by Richard Wright
Nineteen Eighty-Four
1949 dystopian novel by George Orwell
Norwegian Wood (novel)
Fifth novel by Haruki Murakami
Nostromo
Novel by Joseph Conrad
Of Human Bondage
Novel by William Somerset Maugham
Of Mice and Men
Novella by John Steinbeck
On the Road
1957 novel by Jack Kerouac
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (novel)
1962 novel by Ken Kesey
One Hundred Years of Solitude
1967 novel by Gabriel García Márquez
Orlando: A Biography
Novel by Virginia Woolf
Outlander (novel)
First novel in Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon
Pale Fire
1962 novel by Vladimir Nabokov
Pedro Páramo
Novel by Juan Rulfo
Peter and Wendy
Book and play by J. M. Barrie
Pippi Longstocking (novel)
1945 novel by Astrid Lindgren
Portnoy's Complaint
1969 book by Philip Roth
Possession (Byatt novel)
1990 A.S. Byatt novel, Booker prize winner
Private Lives
Play by Noël Coward
Pygmalion (play)
1913 play by George Bernard Shaw
Rabbit, Run
Novel by John Updike
Rebecca (novel)
1938 novel by Daphne du Maurier
Red Sorghum (novel)
Chinese language 1986 novel by Mo Yan
Rickshaw Boy
Chinese novel by Lao She
Roots: The Saga of an American Family
Novel by Alex Haley
Season of Migration to the North
1966 novel by Tayeb Salih
Siddhartha (novel)
Novel by Hermann Hesse
Six Characters in Search of an Author
1921 Italian play
Slaughterhouse-Five
1969 novel by Kurt Vonnegut
Snow Country
Novel by Yasunari Kawabata
Song of Solomon (novel)
1977 novel by Toni Morrison
Sons and Lovers
1913 novel by DH Lawrence
Sophie's World
1991 novel by Jostein Gaarder
Steppenwolf (novel)
Novel by Hermann Hesse
Taipei People
Book by Pai Hsien-yung
Tender Is the Night
1934 novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Adventures of Augie March
Novel by Saul Bellow
The Age of Innocence
Novel by Edith Wharton
The Alchemist (novel)
Novel by Paulo Coelho
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
Novel by Michael Chabon, published in 2000; awarded Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2001
The Ambassadors
1903 novel by Henry James
The Bell Jar
1963 novel by Sylvia Plath
The Big Sleep (disambiguation)
Topics referred to by the same term
The Birthday Party (play)
1957 play written by Harold Pinter
The Bonfire of the Vanities
Novel by Tom Wolfe
The Book of Disquiet
1982 book by Fernando Pessoa
The Bridges of Madison County
1992 novel by Robert James Waller
The Call of the Wild
1903 novel by Jack London
The Castle (novel)
Novel by Franz Kafka
The Cat in the Hat
1957 children's book by Dr. Seuss
The Catcher in the Rye
1951 novel by J. D. Salinger
The Caucasian Chalk Circle
Theatre play by Bertolt Brecht
The Chronicles of Narnia
Series of children's fantasy novels by C. S. Lewis
The Color Purple
1982 novel by Alice Walker
The Crucible
1953 play by Arthur Miller
The Daughter of Time
1951 novel by Josephine Tey
The Dispossessed
1974 science fiction novel by Ursula K. Le Guin
The Egyptian
1945 novel by Finnish author Mika Waltari
The Forsyte Saga
Three novels by John Galsworthy
The Ginger Man
1955 novel by J. P. Donleavy
The Golden Notebook
Novel by Doris Lessing
The Good Earth
1931 novel by Pearl S. Buck
The Good Soldier
1915 novel by Ford Madox Ford
The Good Soldier Švejk
1921–23 novel by Jaroslav Hašek
The Grapes of Wrath
1939 American realist novel by John Steinbeck
The Great Gatsby
1925 novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Handmaid's Tale
1985 novel by Margaret Atwood
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
1940 novel by Carson McCullers
The Hobbit
1937 book by J. R. R. Tolkien
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Crime novel by Arthur Conan Doyle
The House of Mirth
1905 novel by Edith Wharton
The House of the Spirits
Novel by Isabel Allende
The Joy Luck Club (novel)
1989 novel by Amy Tan
The Last Samurai (novel)
Novel by Helen DeWitt
The Leopard
1958 novel by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
The Little Foxes
Play by Lillian Hellman
The Little Prince
1943 novella by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
The Lord of the Rings
1954–1955 fantasy novel by J. R. R. Tolkien
The Magic Mountain
1924 novel by Thomas Mann
The Maltese Falcon (novel)
1930 novel by Dashiell Hammett
The Man Without Qualities
Unfinished novel by Robert Musil
The Master and Margarita
Novel by Mikhail Bulgakov
The Metamorphosis
Novella by Franz Kafka (published 1915)
The Mousetrap
Murder mystery play by Agatha Christie
The Moviegoer
1961 novel by Walker Percy
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
1926 detective novel by Agatha Christie
The Mysterious Affair at Styles
1920 Poirot novel by Agatha Christie
The Naked and the Dead
1948 novel by Norman Mailer
The Name of the Rose
1980 historical novel by Umberto Eco
The Neverending Story
1979 novel by Michael Ende
The Odd Couple (play)
1965 stage play by Neil Simon
The Old Man and the Sea
Short novel by Ernest Hemingway
The Playboy of the Western World
Play by John Millington Synge
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (novel)
Novella by Muriel Spark
The Remains of the Day
Novel by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Satanic Verses
1988 novel by Salman Rushdie
The Sea of Fertility
Series of novels by Yukio Mishima
The Skin of Our Teeth
Play by Thornton Wilder
The Sound and the Fury
1929 novel by William Faulkner
The Stand
1978 novel by Stephen King
The Stranger (Camus novel)
1942 novel by Albert Camus
The Sun Also Rises
1926 novel by Ernest Hemingway
The Tale of Peter Rabbit
1901 book by Beatrix Potter
The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
Novel by Yukio Mishima
The Thorn Birds
1977 novel by Colleen McCullough
The Tin Drum
1959 novel by Günter Grass
The Trial
1925 novel by Franz Kafka
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
1984 Czech novel by Milan Kundera
The Vagina Monologues
Play by Eve Ensler
The Vampire Chronicles
Series of supernatural horror novels by Anne Rice
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Children's picture book by Eric Carle
The War of the Worlds
1898 science fiction novel by H. G. Wells
The Waves
1931 novel by Virginia Woolf
The Way of All Flesh
Semi-autobiographical Novel (1959) by Samuel Butler
The Wind in the Willows
1908 English children's novel by Kenneth Grahame
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
1994–1995 novel by Haruki Murakami
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
1900 children's novel by L. Frank Baum
The World According to Garp
Novel by John Irving
Their Eyes Were Watching God
1937 novel by Zora Neale Hurston
Things Fall Apart
Novel by Chinua Achebe
Till We Have Faces
1956 novel by C. S. Lewis
To Kill a Mockingbird
1960 novel by Harper Lee
To the Lighthouse
1927 novel by Virginia Woolf
Top Girls
Play written by Caryl Churchill
Tropic of Cancer (novel)
1934 novel by Henry Miller
U.S.A. (trilogy)
Series of novels written by John Dos Passos
Ulysses (novel)
Novel by James Joyce (1922)
Under the Volcano
Novel by Malcolm Lowry
Valley of the Dolls
Novel by Jacqueline Susann
Waiting for Godot
Play by Samuel Beckett
Where the Wild Things Are
1963 children's picture book by Maurice Sendak
Where's Wally?
English series of children's puzzle books
White Noise (novel)
Novel by Don DeLillo
White Teeth
2000 novel by Zadie Smith
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
1962 play by Edward Albee
Wide Sargasso Sea
Novel by Jean Rhys
Winnie-the-Pooh (book)
Book by A. A. Milne
Women in Love
1920 novel by D. H. Lawrence
You Can't Take It with You (play)
Comedic play by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart
Zeno's Conscience
Book by Italo Svevo
Zorba the Greek
Novel by Nikos Kazantzakis