Awards search:A Century of Reading by LitHub

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

by J. K Rowling
Hardcover, 2000
Tags
novel, Wizarding World, fantasy, fiction, wizards, gifts from Ørjan, oversized box, Harry Potter chest, box set, boarding school, hidden world — 7 more, magic school, illustrated fiction, dragons, merfolk, ressurection, ghosts, Hugo Award (best novel)
Series
Harry Potter (4)

Nineteen eighty-four

by George Orwell
Paperback, 1954
Tags
fiction, novel, authoritarianism, dystopia, distant future, psychology, romance, thriller, mass surveillance, dictatorship, Penguin Classics — 4 more, doublespeak, propaganda, Orwellian, Prometheus Award

Brave New World

by Aldous Huxley
Paperback, 2006
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fiction, novel, dystopia, utopia, distant future, mind control, authoritarianism, science fiction, sex, Shakespeare, biography — 2 more, class divide, tragedy

To Kill a Mockingbird

by Harper Lee
Paperback, 2006
Tags
fiction, novel, racism, legal drama, miscarriage of justice, childhood, scapegoat, rape, bildungsroman, period story, 1930s — 3 more, Americana, Pulitzer Prize, young adult novel
Series
To Kill a Mockingbird (1)

Cloud Atlas

by David Mitchell
Paperback, 2012
Tags
dystopia, reincarnation, fiction, quest, science fiction, nesting narrative, novel, period story, Cloud Atlas

Fahrenheit 451

by Ray Bradbury
Paperback, 1980
Tags
fiction, novel, dystopia, science fiction, Prometheus Award, authoritarianism, book burning, redemption story, Hugo Award (best novel)

Peter Pan

by Sir James Matthew Barrie
Hardcover, 2015
Tags
gifts from Sarah, narrator with personality, fiction, children's story, childhood, Peter Pan, illustrated fiction, pop-up book, fairy tales, MinaLima Books, piracy — 5 more, kidnapping, fantasy, book with inserts, fairies, parenthood
Series
Peter Pan (3)

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

by L. Frank Baum
Paperback, 2018
Tags
fiction, novel, Wizard of Oz, children's story, quest, child discovers new world, witchcraft, long walk, unlikely friends, fantasy, Oz
Series
Oz (1), Oz : Famous Forty (book 1)

The Maltese Falcon

by Dashiell Hammett
Paperback, 1977
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fiction, novel, detective story, unscroupled protagonist, noir, femme fatale, mystery, murder mystery, conspiracy thriller, world's greatest secretary trope, Knights Hospitaller — 4 more, treasure hunt, crime, crime drama, scapegoat
Series
Sam Spade

The Fellowship of the Ring, being the first part of The Lord of the Rings

by J. R. R. Tolkien
Paperback, 2001
Tags
Middle-earth, fiction, fantasy, quest, Lord of the Rings, novel, long walk, wizards, good vs. evil, Collins Classics, Prometheus Award
Series
The Lord of the Rings (1)

The Catcher in the Rye

by J. D. Salinger
Paperback, 1991
Tags
fiction, bildungsroman, on the run, coming of age, novel, Americana, young adult novel
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