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Authors and Their Works (1930 - 1964) Flashcards

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As I Lay Dying

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William Faulkner

1930

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The Maltese Falcon

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Dashiell Hammett

1930

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Civilization and Its Discontents

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Sigmund Freud

1930

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The Good Earth

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Pearl S. Buck

1931

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Pietr-le-Leton (Peter from Latvia) [Maigret novel]

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Georges Simenon

1931

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Boy

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James Hanley

1931

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Brave New World

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Aldous Huxley

1932

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Voyage au Bout de la Nuit (Journey to the End of the Night)

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Louis-Ferdinand Céline

1932

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Journey to the East

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Hermann Hesse

1932

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La Condition Humaine (Man’s Fate)

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André Malraux

1933

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The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas

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Gertrude Stein

1933

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Lost Horizon

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James Hilton

1933

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Testament of Youth

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Vera Brittain

1933

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A Glastonbury Romance

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John Cowper Powys

1933

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Tender Is the Night

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F. Scott Fitzgerald

1934

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I, Claudius

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Robert Graves

1934

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Tropic of Cancer

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Henry Miller

1934

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Lust for Life

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Irving Stone

1934

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The Thin Man

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Dashiell Hammett

1934

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Goodbye, Mr. Chips

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James Hilton

1934

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The Postman Always Rings Twice

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James M. Cain

1934

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Little House on the Prairie

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Laura Ingalls Wilder

1935

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Absalom, Absalom!

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William Faulkner

1936

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Gone with the Wind

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Margaret Mitchell

1936

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Jamaica Inn

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Daphne du Maurier

1936

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Of Mice and Men

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John Steinbeck

1937

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The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

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J. R. R. Tolkien

1937

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Journal d’un Curé de Campagne (Diary of a Country Priest)

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Georges Bernanos

1937

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29
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La Nausée

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Jean-Paul Sartre

1938

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30
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Brighton Rock

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Graham Greene

1938

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Scoop

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Evelyn Waugh

1938

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Tropic of Capricorn

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Henry Miller

1938

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The Sword in the Stone

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T. H. White

1938

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34
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Alamut

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Vladimir Bartol

1938

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Finnegans Wake

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James Joyce

1939

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36
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At Swim-Two-Birds

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Flann O’Brien

1939

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37
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The Grapes of Wrath

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John Steinbeck

1939

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38
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The Big Sleep

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Raymond Chandler

1939

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39
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Lark Rise

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Flora Thompson

1939

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The Day of the Locust

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Nathanael West

1939

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How Green Was My Valley

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Richard Llewellyn

1939

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42
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Darkness at Noon

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Arthur Koestler

1940

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The Power and the Glory

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Graham Greene

1940

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44
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For Whom the Bell Tolls

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Ernest Hemingway

1940

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The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

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Carson McCullers

1940

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46
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Native Son

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Richard Wright

1940

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47
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Between the Acts

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Virginia Woolf

1941

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Le Mythe de Sisyphe (The Myth of Sisyphus)

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Albert Camus

1942

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L’Étranger (The Stranger)

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Albert Camus

1942

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50
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Mythology

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Edith Hamilton

1942

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51
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Five on a Treasure Island (first in The Famous Five series)

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Enid Blyton

1942

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52
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Anti-Semite and Jew

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Jean-Paul Sartre

1943

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53
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Being and Nothingness

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Jean-Paul Sartre

1943

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54
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The Fountainhead

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Ayn Rand

1943

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Four Quartets

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T. S. Eliot

1943

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56
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Das Glasperlenspiel (The Glass Bead Game)

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Hermann Hesse

1943

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57
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No Exit

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Jean-Paul Sartre

1944

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58
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Our Lady of the Flowers

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Jean Genet

1944

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59
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A Bell for Adano

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John Hersey

1944

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60
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“The Glass Menagerie”

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Tennessee Williams

1944

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61
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Animal Farm

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George Orwell

1945

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A History of Western Philosophy And Its Connection with Political and Social Circumstances from the Earliest Times to the Present Day

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Bertrand Russell

1945

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63
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Brideshead Revisited

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Evelyn Waugh

1945

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64
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Lark Rise to Candleford

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Flora Thompson

1945

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65
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Cannery Row

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John Steinbeck

1945

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66
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The Iceman Cometh

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Eugene O’Neill

1946

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Zorba the Greek

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Nikos Kazantzakis

1946

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Critical Essays

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George Orwell

1946

69
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The Diary of a Young Girl

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Anne Frank

1947

70
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Doctor Faustus

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Thomas Mann

1947

71
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La Peste

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Albert Camus

1947

72
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A Streetcar Named Desire

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Tennessee Williams

1947

73
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The Heart of the Matter

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Graham Greene

1948

74
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The Naked and the Dead

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Norman Mailer

1948

75
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Still Glides the Stream

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Flora Thompson

1948

76
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Nineteen Eighty-Four

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George Orwell

1948-9

77
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Death of a Salesman

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Arthur Miller

1949

78
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The Martian Chronicles

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Ray Bradbury

1950

79
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The Bald Soprano

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Eugène Ionesco

1950

80
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The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

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C. S. Lewis

1950

81
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The Catcher in the Rye

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J. D. Salinger

1951

82
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The End of the Affair

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Graham Greene

1951

83
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Memoirs of Hadrian

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Marguerite Yourcenar

1951

84
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Porius

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John Cowper Powys

1951

85
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Waiting for Godot

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Samuel Beckett

1952

86
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The Old Man and the Sea

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Ernest Hemingway

1952

87
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Charlotte’s Web

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E. B. White

1952

88
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Wise Blood

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Flannery O’Connor

1952

89
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Casino Royale (First James Bond novel)

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Ian Fleming

1953

90
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The Adventures of Augie March

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Saul Bellow

1953

91
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Fahrenheit 451

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Ray Bradbury

1953

92
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The Go-Between

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L. P. Hartley

1953

93
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Battle Cry

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Leon Uris

1953

94
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The Crucible [Play]

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Arthur Miller

1953

95
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Lord of the Flies

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William Golding

1954

96
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The Fellowship of the Ring

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J. R. R. Tolkien

1954

97
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The Two Towers

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J. R. R. Tolkien

1954

98
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The Doors of Perception

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Aldous Huxley

1954

99
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Lucky Jim

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Kingsley Amis

1954

100
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My Left Foot

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Christy Brown

1954

101
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Diaries of a Dying Man

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William Soutar

1954

102
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Bonjour tristesse

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Françoise Sagan

1954

103
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Horton Hears A Who!

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Dr. Seuss

1954

104
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The Second World War

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Winston Churchill

1954

105
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Pedro Páramo

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Juan Rulfo

1955

106
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Lolita

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Vladimir Nabokov

1955

107
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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

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Tennessee Williams

1955

108
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Tunnel in the Sky

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Robert A. Heinlein

1955

109
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The Return of the King

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J. R. R. Tolkien

1955

110
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Peyton Place

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Grace Metalious

1956

111
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The Visit

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Friedrich Dürrenmatt

1956

112
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Long Day’s Journey into Night

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Eugene O’Neill

1956

113
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On the Road

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Jack Kerouac

1957

114
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Atlas Shrugged

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Ayn Rand

1957

115
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Pnin

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Vladimir Nabokov

1957

116
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Voss

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Patrick White

1957

117
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The Hawk in the Rain

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Ted Hughes

1957

118
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Doctor Zhivago

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Boris Pasternak

1957

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The Cat in the Hat

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Dr. Seuss

1957

120
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How The Grinch Stole Christmas

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Dr. Seuss

1957

121
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Things Fall Apart

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Chinua Achebe

1958

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Borstal Boy

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Brendan Behan

1958

123
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Il Gattopardo (The Leopard)

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Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

1958

124
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Exodus

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Leon Uris

1958

125
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Candy

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Terry Southern

1958

126
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The Dharma Bums

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Jack Kerouac

1958

127
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The Grass

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Claude Simon

1958

128
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The Guide

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R. K. Narayan

1958

129
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The Birthday Party [Play]

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Harold Pinter

1958

130
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Naked Lunch

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William S. Burroughs

1959

131
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The Tin Drum

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Günter Grass

1959

132
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Billiards at Half-past Nine

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Heinrich Böll

1959

133
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Rhinocéros (Rhinoceros)

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Eugène Ionesco

1959

134
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The Last of the Just

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André Schwarz-Bart

1959

135
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The Magic Christian

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Terry Southern

1959

136
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In the Labyrinth

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Alain Robbe-Grillet

1959

137
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A Canticle for Leibowitz

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Walter M. Miller, Jr.

1959

138
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The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich

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William L. Shirer

1960

139
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To Kill a Mockingbird

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Harper Lee

1960

140
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The Country Girls

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Edna O’Brien

1960

141
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Catch-22

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Joseph Heller

1961

142
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A House for Mr. Biswas

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V. S. Naipaul

1961

143
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Revolutionary Road

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Richard Yates

1961

144
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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

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Muriel Spark

1961

145
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Stranger in a Strange Land

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Robert A. Heinlein

1961

146
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Solaris

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Stanisław Lem

1961

147
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

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Ken Kesey

1962

148
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A Clockwork Orange

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Anthony Burgess

1962

149
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Pale Fire

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Vladimir Nabokov

1962

150
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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

1962

151
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The Golden Notebook

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Doris Lessing

1962

152
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Labyrinths

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Jorge Luis Borges

1962

153
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The Man in the High Castle

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Philip K. Dick

1962

154
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The Death of Artemio Cruz

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Carlos Fuentes

1962

155
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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

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Thomas Kuhn

1962

156
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The Time of the Doves

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Mercè Rodoreda

1962

157
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V.

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Thomas Pynchon

1963

158
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The Bell Jar

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Sylvia Plath

1963

159
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Cat’s Cradle

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Kurt Vonnegut

1963

160
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La Planete des Singes (Planet of the Apes)

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Pierre Boulle

1963

161
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Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man

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Marshall McLuhan

1964

162
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Little Big Man

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Thomas Berger

1964

163
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Flowers for Hitler

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Leonard Cohen

1964

164
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

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Roald Dahl

1964

165
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Last Exit to Brooklyn

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Hubert Selby, Jr.

1964

166
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Philadelphia, Here I Come! [Play]

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Brian Friel

1964

167
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The Whitsun Weddings

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Jean-Paul Sartre

1964

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