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Date Title Author Country Type
1901 Kim Rudyard Kipling England Novel
Buddenbrooks Thomas Mann Germany Novel
Resurrection Leo Tolstoy Russia Novel
1902 Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad England Novel
The Hound of the Baskervilles Arthur Conan Doyle England Novel
1903 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 Nostromo Joseph Conrad England Novel
The Golden Bowl Henry James USA Novel
The Sea Wolfe Jack London USA Novel
1905 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 Mother Maxim Gorky Russia Novel
The Secret Agent Joseph Conrad England Novel
The Longest Journey E.M. Forster England Novel
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 Under Western Eyes Joseph Conrad England Novel
Ethan Frome Edith Wharton USA Novel
1911-14 Hail and Farewell George Moore Ireland Novels
1912 Death in Venice Thomas Mann Germany Novel
The Gods are Athirst Anatole France France Novel
Zuleika Dobson Max Beerbohm England Novel
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
1913 Son and Lovers D.H. Lawrence England Novel
1914 Tarzan of the Apes Edgar Rice Burroughs USA Novel
1915 The Rainbow D.H. Lawrence England Novel
The Good Soldier Ford Maddox Ford England Novel
Of Human Bondage W. Somerset Maughham England Novel
The Thirty-Nine Steps John Buchan Scotland Novel
1916 Under Fire Henri Barbusse France Novel
The Underdogs Mariano Azuela Mexico Novel
The Metamorphosis Franz Kafka Czech. Novel
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man James Joyce Ireland Novel
The Brook Kerith George Moore Ireland Novel
1918 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 Cheri Colette France Novel
Main Street Sinclair Lewis USA Novel
The Age of Innocence Edith Wharton USA Novel
1920-23 The Good Soldier Schweik Jaroslav Hasek Czech. Novels
1921 Women in Love D.H. Lawrence England Novel
Héloïse and Abelard George Moore Ireland Novel
1922 The Kiss of the Leper Francois Mauriac France Novel
Ulysses James Joyce Ireland Novel
The Worm Ouroboros E.R. Eddison England Novel
Babbitt Sinclair Lewis USA Novel
The Facade Edith Sitwell USA Novel
1923 The Confessions of Zeno Italo Svevo Italy Novel
Chapeyev Dmitry Furmanov Russia Novel
1924 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
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd Agatha Christie England Novel
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
Arrowsmith Sinclair Lewis USA Novel
1926 The Castle Franz Kafka Czech. Novel
The Counterfeiters André Gide France Novel
The Sun Also Rises Ernest Hemingway USA Novel
1927 Jalna Mazo de la Roche Canada Novel
Steppenwolf Herman Hesse Germany Novel
To the Lighthouse Virginia Woolf England Novel
Elmer Gantry Sinclair Lewis USA Novel
Death Comes for the Archbishop Willa Cather USA Novel
The Bridge of San Luis Rey Thornton Wilder USA Novel
1928 Strange Fugitive Morley Callaghan Canada Novel
Lady Chatterley’s Lover D.H. Lawrence England Novel
Point Counter Point Aldous Huxley England Novel
Nadja André Breton France Novel
All Quiet on the Western Front Erich Maria Remarque Germany Novel
And Quiet Flows the Don Mikhail Sholokov Russia Novel
1929 A High Wind in Jamaica Richard Hughes England Novel
Children of the Game Jean Cocteau France Novel
The Time of Indifference Alberto Moravia Italy Novel
The Sound and the Fury William Faulkner USA Novel
A Farewell to Arms Ernest Hemingway USA Novel
Look Homeward, Angel Thomas Wolfe USA Novel
1929-43 Peter the Great Alexy Tolstoy Russia Novel
1930 As I Lay Dying William Faulkner USA Novel
The Maltese Falcon Dashiell Hammett USA Novel
Destry Rides Again Max Brand USA Novel
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
Night Flight Antoine de Saint-Exupery France Novel
The Waves Virginia Woolf England Novel
The Good Earth Pearl . Buck USA Novel
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
1932-35 The Studs Lonigan Trilogy James T. Farrell USA Novels
1933 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
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre B. Traven Mexico Novel
Call It Sleep Henry Roth USA Novel
1936 Rickshaw Boy Lao She China Novel
Eyeless in Gaza Aldous Huxley England Novel
Absalom, Absalom! William Faulkner USA Novel
Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell USA Novel
1937 The Hobbitt J.R.R. Tolkien England Novel
Bread and Wine Ignazio Silone Italy Novel
Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck USA Novel
1938 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
The Fathers Allen Tate USA Novel
1939 The Mask of Dimitrios Eric Ambler England Novel
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
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
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
1941 As For Me and My House Sinclair Ross Canada Novel
Herself Surprised Joyce Cary England Novel
1942 The Outsider Albert Camus Algeria Novel
To Be a Pilgrim Joyce Cary England Novel
1943 The Little Prince Antoine de Saint-Exupéry France Novella
The Fountainhead Ayn Rand USA Novel
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Betty Smith USA Novel
1944 Our Lady of the Flowers Jean Genet France Novel
The Horse’s Mouth Joyce Cary England Novel
1945 Two Solitudes Hugh MacLennan Canada Novel
The Tin Flute Gabrielle Roy Canada Novel
By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept Elizabeth Smart Canada Novel
Loving Henry Green England Novel
Animal Farm George Orwell England Novel
Gigi Colette France Novel
Magister Ludi (The Glass Bead Game) Herman Hesse Germany Novel
Black Boy Richard Wright USA Novel
1945-9 Roads to Freedom Jean-Paul Sartre France Novels
1946 Bridge on the Drina Ivo Andric Yugoslavia Novel
Zorba the Greek Nikos Kazantzakis Greece Novel
Mr. President Miguel Angel Asturias Guatemala Novel
Brideshead Revisited Evelyn Waugh England Novel
All the King’s Men Robert Penn Warren USA Novel
1946-59 Gormenghast Mervyn Peake England Novels
1947 Under the Volcano Malcolm Lowry Canada Novel
Who Has Seen the Wind? W.O. Mitchell Canada Novel
The Path to the Nest of Spiders Italo Calvino Italy Novel
Eustace and Hilda L.P. Hartley England Novel
Snow Country Yasunari Kawabata Japan Novel
1948 Cry, the Beloved Country Alan Paton South Africa Novel
The Heart of the Matter Graham Greene England Novel
The Naked and the Dead Norman Mailer USA Novel
Guard of Honor James Gould Cozzens USA Novel
1949 The Second Sex Simone de Beauvoir France Novel
Men of Maize Miguel Angel Asturias Guatemala Novel
Nineteen Eighty-Four George Orwell England Novel
The Third Man Graham Greene England Novel
The Man With the Golden Arm Nelson Algren USA Novel
The Sheltering Sky Paul Bowles USA Novel
Shane Jack Schaefer USA Novel
1950 Cabbagetown Hugh Garner Canada Novel
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe C.S. Lewis England Novel
A Town Like Alice Nevil Shute England Novel
 

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