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Early Twentieth Century
1901 to 1940 C.E.

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Date Title Author Country Type
1901 Kim Rudyard Kipling England Novel
Buddenbrooks Thomas Mann Germany Novel
The Three Sisters Anton Chekhov Russia Drama
Resurrection Leo Tolstoy Russia Novel
The Dance of Death August Strindberg Sweden Drama
1902 Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad England Novel
The Hound of the Baskervilles Arthur Conan Doyle England Novel
1903 The Cherry Orchard Anton Chekhov Russia Drama
Man and Superman George Bernard Shaw Ireland Drama
The Way of All Flesh Samuel Butler England Novel
The Riddle of the Sands Erskine Childers England Novel
The Ambassadors Henry James USA Novel
The Call of the Wild Jack London USA Novel
1904 Riders to the Sea John Millington Synge Ireland Drama
Nostromo Joseph Conrad England Novel
The Golden Bowl Henry James USA Novel
The Sea Wolfe Jack London USA Novel
Cabbages and Kings O. Henry USA Stories
1905 Songs of Life and Hope Rubén Darío Nicaragua Poetry
The Voysey Inheritance Harley Granville-Barker England Drama
Major Barbara George Bernard Shaw Ireland Drama
The House of Mirth Edith Wharton USA Novel
1906 The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard Anatole France France Novel
The Jungle Upton Sinclair USA Novel
1906-28 The Forsyte Saga John Galsworthy England Novels
1907 Songs of a Sourdough Robert Service Canada Poetry
Mother Maxim Gorky Russia Novel
The Playboy of the Western World John Millington Synge Ireland Drama
The Secret Agent Joseph Conrad England Novel
The Longest Journey E.M. Forster England Novel
The Education of Henry Adams Henry Adams USA Memoir
1908 Anne of Green Gables Lucy Maude Montgomery Canada Novel
The Old Wives’ Tale Arnold Bennett England Novel
The Man Who Was Thursday G.K. Chesterton England Novel
A Room With a View E.M. Forster England Novel
Tono Bungay H.G. Wells England Novel
1909 Penguin Island Anatole France France Novel
1910 Howards End E.M. Forster England Novel
Jean-Christophe Romain Rolland France Novel
1911 The Innocence of Father Brown G.K. Chesterton England Stories
Under Western Eyes Joseph Conrad England Novel
Ethan Frome Edith Wharton USA Novel
1911-14 Hail and Farewell George Moore Ireland Novels
1912 Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town Stephen Leacock Canada Stories
Death in Venice Thomas Mann Germany Novel
The Gods are Athirst Anatole France France Novel
Zuleika Dobson Max Beerbohm England Novel
Poetical Works Robert Bridges England Poetry
Gitanjali: Song Offerings Rabindranath Tagore India Poetry
Riders of the Purple Sage Zane Grey USA Novel
1912-22 In Search of Lost Time Marcel Proust France Novels
1913 The Lost Domain Henry Alain-Fournier France Novel
Le Grand Meaulnes Henri Alain-Fournier France Novel
My Childhood Maxim Gorky Russia Memoir
Son and Lovers D.H. Lawrence England Novel
1914 Platero and I Juan Ramón Jiménez Spain Poetry
Dubliners James Joyce Ireland Stories
Tarzan of the Apes Edgar Rice Burroughs USA Novel
1915 The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock T.S. Eliot England Poem
The Good Soldier Ford Maddox Ford England Novel
The Rainbow D.H. Lawrence England Novel
Of Human Bondage W. Somerset Maughham England Novel
The Thirty-Nine Steps John Buchan Scotland Novel
Spoon River Anthology Edgar Lee Masters USA Poetry
1916 Under Fire Henri Barbusse France Novel
The Underdogs Mariano Azuela Mexico Novel
The Metamorphosis Franz Kafka Czech. Novel
Pygmalion George Bernard Shaw Ireland Drama
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man James Joyce Ireland Novel
The Brook Kerith George Moore Ireland Novel
Chicago Poems Carl Sandburg USA Poetry
1917 La Jeune Parque Paul Valéry France Poetry
A Cloud in Trousers Vladimir Mayakovsky Russia Poetry
1918 The Breasts of Tiresias Guillaume Apollinaire France Drama
The Twelve Alexander Blok Russia Poetry
Poems Gerard Manley Hopkins England Poetry
My Ántonia Willa Cather USA Novel
The Magnificent Ambersons Booth Tarkington USA Novel
1919 The True Story of Ah Q Lu Hsun China Novella
The Moon and Sixpence W. Somerset Maughham England Novel
Winesburg, Ohio Sherwood Anderson USA Novel
1920 Poems Wilfred Owen England Poetry
Cheri Colette France Novel
Main Street Sinclair Lewis USA Novel
A Few Figs from Thistles Edna St. Vincent Millay USA Poetry
The Age of Innocence Edith Wharton USA Novel
1920-23 The Good Soldier Schweik Jaroslav Hasek Czech. Novels
1921 Six Characters in Search of an Author Luigi Pirandello Italy Drama
Women in Love D.H. Lawrence England Novel
Héloïse and Abelard George Moore Ireland Novel
Poems Marianne Moore USA Poetry
1922 The Kiss of the Leper Francois Mauriac France Novel
Ulysses James Joyce Ireland Novel
The Worm Ouroboros E.R. Eddison England Novel
The Waste Land T.S. Eliot England Poetry
The Garden Party and Other Stories Katherine Mansfield New Zealand Stories
Babbitt Sinclair Lewis USA Novel
The Facade Edith Sitwell USA Novel
Tales of the Jazz Age F. Scott Fitzgerald USA Stories
1923 Duino Elegies Rainer Maria Rilke Germany Poetry
The Confessions of Zeno Italo Svevo Italy Novel
Chapeyev Dmitry Furmanov Russia Novel
Saint Joan George Bernard Shaw Ireland Drama
New Hampshire Robert Frost USA Poetry
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening Robert Frost USA Poem
Tulips and Chimneys e.e. cummings USA Poetry
Harmonium Wallace Stevens USA Poetry
1924 Juno and the Paycock Sean O'Casey Ireland Drama
The Magic Mountain Thomas Mann Germany Novel
The Iron Flood Alexander Serafimovich Russia Novel
A Passage to India E.M. Forster England Novel
So Big Edna Ferber USA Novel
Billy Budd, Foretopman Herman Melville USA Novel
1925 The Trial Franz Kafka Czech. Novel
Residence on Earth and Other Poems Pablo Neruda Chile Poetry
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd Agatha Christie England Novel
The Hollow Men T.S. Eliot England Poetry
Parade’s End Ford Maddox Ford England Novel
Mrs Dalloway Virginia Woolf England Novel
An American Tragedy Theodore Dreiser USA Novel
The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald USA Novel
In Our Time Ernest Hemingway USA Stories
Arrowsmith Sinclair Lewis USA Novel
1925-70 The Cantos Ezra Pound USA Poetry
1926 The Castle Franz Kafka Czech. Novel
Orpheus Jean Cocteau France Drama
The Counterfeiters André Gide France Novel
The Plough and the Stars Eugene O’Casey Ireland Drama
Winnie-the-Pooh A.A. Milne England Stories
The Sun Also Rises Ernest Hemingway USA Novel
1927 Jalna Mazo de la Roche Canada Novel
To the Lighthouse Virginia Woolf England Novel
Steppenwolf Herman Hesse Germany Novel
Death Comes for the Archbishop Willa Cather USA Novel
Elmer Gantry Sinclair Lewis USA Novel
The Killers Ernest Hemingway USA Story
The Bridge of San Luis Rey Thornton Wilder USA Novel
1928 Strange Fugitive Morley Callaghan Canada Novel
The Three-Penny Opera Bertolt Brecht Germany Drama
All Quiet on the Western Front Erich Maria Remarque Germany Novel
Nadja André Breton France Novel
And Quiet Flows the Don Mikhail Sholokov Russia Novel
Lady Chatterley’s Lover D.H. Lawrence England Novel
Point Counter Point Aldous Huxley England Novel
The Tower W.B. Yeats Ireland Poetry
1928-35 Gypsy Ballads Federico Garcia Lorca Spain Poetry
1929 The Time of Indifference Alberto Moravia Italy Novel
Children of the Game Jean Cocteau France Novel
A High Wind in Jamaica Richard Hughes England Novel
A Farewell to Arms Ernest Hemingway USA Novel
The Sound and the Fury William Faulkner USA Novel
Look Homeward, Angel Thomas Wolfe USA Novel
1929-43 Peter the Great Alexy Tolstoy Russia Novel
1930 Cakes and Ale W. Somerset Maughham England Drama
Private Lives Noel Coward England Drama
As I Lay Dying William Faulkner USA Novel
The Maltese Falcon Dashiell Hammett USA Novel
Destry Rides Again Max Brand USA Novel
The Bridge Hart Crane USA Poetry
1930-36 USA John Dos Passos USA Novels
1930-43 The Man Without Qualities Robert Musil Austria Novels
1931 The Family Pa Chin China Novel
The Waves Virginia Woolf England Novel
Night Flight Antoine de Saint-Exupery France Novel
The Good Earth Pearl S. Buck USA Novel
That Evening Sun Go Down William Faulkner USA Story
At the Mountains of Madness H.P. Lovecraft USA Novel
1932 Brave New World Aldous Huxley England Novel
Journey to the End of the Night Louis-Ferdinand Céline France Novel
Viper’s Tangle Francois Mauriac France Novel
The Crime of Inspector Maigret Georges Simenon France Novel
Tobacco Road Erskine Caldwell USA Novel
The Thin Man Dashiell Hammett USA Novel
Guys and Dolls Damon Runyan USA Stories
1932-35 The Studs Lonigan Trilogy James T. Farrell USA Novels
1933 Blood Wedding Federico Garcia Lorca Spain Drama
Man’s Fate André Malraux France Novel
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas Gertrude Stein USA Novel
Miss Lonelyhearts Nathaniel West USA Novel
1933-51 Le Réel Louis Aragon France Novels
1934 Such is My Beloved Morley Callaghan Canada Novel
How the Steel Was Tempered Nikolai Ostrovsky Russia Novel
A Handful of Dust Evelyn Waugh England Novel
I, Claudius Robert Graves England Novel
Tender is the Night F. Scott Fitzgerald USA Novel
Appointment in Samarra John O’Hara USA Novel
Tropic of Cancer Henry Miller USA Novel
The Postman Always Rings Twice James M. Cain USA Novel
1934-35 Independent People Halldór Laxness Iceland Novel
1935 The Tower of Babels Elias Canetti Belgium Novel
Old Tales Retold Lu Hsun China Stories
Murder in the Cathedral T.S. Eliot England Drama
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre B. Traven Mexico Novel
Call It Sleep Henry Roth USA Novel
Awake and Sing! Clifford Odets USA Drama
1936 Rickshaw Boy Lao She China Novel
Eyeless in Gaza Aldous Huxley England Novel
Absalom, Absalom! William Faulkner USA Novel
The Snows of Kilimanjaro Ernest Hemingway USA Story
Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell USA Novel
1937 Out of Africa Isak Dinesen Denmark Memoir
The Hobbitt J.R.R. Tolkien England Novel
Bread and Wine Ignazio Silone Italy Novel
Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck USA Novel
The Red Pony John Steinbeck USA Stories
1938 Falling of Trees Gabriela Mistral Chile Poetry
Rebecca Daphne du Maurier England Novel
Brighton Rock Graham Greene England Novel
Scoop Evelyn Waugh England Novel
The Years Virginia Woolf England Novel
Nausea Jean-Paul Sartre France Novel
The Death of the Heart Elizabeth Bowen Ireland Novel
Human Poems Cesar Vallejo Peru Poetry
The Fathers Allen Tate USA Novel
Our Town Thornton Wilder USA Drama
1939 The Mask of Dimitrios Eric Ambler England Novel
Mother Courage and her Children Bertolt Brecht Germany Drama
Finnegans Wake James Joyce Ireland Novel
At Swim-Two-Birds Flann O’Brien Ireland Novel
The Day of the Locust Nathaniel West USA Novel
The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck USA Novel
The Big Sleep Raymond Chandler USA Novel
The Little Foxes Lillian Hellman USA Drama
Pale Horse, Pale Rider Katherine Anne Porter USA Stories
1940 The Don Flows Home to the Sea Mikhail Sholokov Russia Novel
The Power and the Glory Graham Greene England Novel
Darkness at Noon Arthur Koestler England Novel
Another Time W.H. Auden England Poetry
For Whom the Bell Tolls Ernest Hemingway USA Novel
Native Son Richard Wright USA Novel
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter Carson McCullers USA Novel
Native Son Richard Wright USA Novel
 

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