Awards search:New York Public Library's Books of the Century

The Color Purple

by Alice Walker
Hardcover, 1982
Collection
Fiction
Series
The Color Purple Collection (1)
Call number
FIC WAL

The Illustrated Dracula (Penguin Illustrated Classics)

by Bram Stoker
Paperback, 2006
Collection
Children's/YA Fiction
Call number
JF STO

Lolita

by Vladimir Nabokov
Paperback, 1989
Collection
Fiction
Call number
FIC NAB

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

by Betty Smith
Paperback, 1998
Collection
Children's/YA Fiction
Call number
J FIC SMI

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

by Betty Smith
Hardcover, 1943
Collection
Fiction
Call number
FIC SMI

Catch-22

by Joseph Heller
Paperback, 1996
Collection
Fiction
Series
Catch-22 (1)
Call number
FIC HEL

Charlotte's Web

by E. B. White
Hardcover, 2012
Collection
Children's/YA Fiction
Call number
JF WHI

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

by Ken Kesey
Paperback, 1999
Collection
Fiction
Call number
FIC KES

Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts (Evergreen, E-33)

by Samue Beckett
Paperback, 1954
Collection
Drama/Essays/Humor
Call number
822 BEC

Invisible Man

by Ralph Ellison
Paperback, 1990
Collection
Fiction
Call number
FIC ELL

Song of Solomon

by Toni Morrison
Paperback, 1987
Collection
Fiction
Call number
FIC MOR

The Age of Innocence

by Edith Wharton
Paperback, 1986
Collection
Fiction
Call number
FIC WHA

The Great Gatsby

by F. Scott; Preface and Notes by Bruccoli Fitzgerald, Matthew J.
Paperback, 1953
Collection
Fiction
Call number
FIC FIT

To Kill a Mockingbird

by Harper Lee
Hardcover, 1999
Collection
Children's/YA Fiction
Series
To Kill a Mockingbird (1)
Call number
JF LEE

On the Road

by Jack Kerouac
Paperback, 1999
Collection
Fiction
Call number
FIC KER

In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences (6511257)

by Truman Capote
Hardcover, 1964
Collection
Nonfiction
Call number
364.15 CAP

Tender Buttons

by Gertrude Stein
Paperback, 2010
Collection
Poetry
Call number
811 STE

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West

by Dee Brown
Hardcover, 1970
Collection
Nonfiction
Call number
970 B

Fahrenheit 451: A Novel

by Ray Bradbury
Paperback, 2013
Collection
Fiction
Call number
FIC BRA

Sarah, Plain and Tall

by Patricia MacLachlan
Hardcover, 1985
Collection
Children's/YA Fiction
Series
Sarah, Plain and Tall (1)
Call number
J FIC MAC

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

by Maya Angelou
Paperback, 1969
Collection
Biography
Series
Maya Angelou's Autobiographies (1)
Call number
BIO ANGELOU

Where the Wild Things Are

by Maurice Sendak
Hardcover, 2012
Collection
Easy / Picturebooks
Call number
E S

Winnie-the-Pooh

by A. A. Milne
Hardcover, 1988
Collection
Children's/YA Fiction
Series
Winnie the Pooh (A.A. Milne Original) (1)
Call number
J FIC MIL

The Grapes of Wrath

by John Steinbeck
Hardcover, 1967
Collection
Fiction
Call number
FIC STE

The Turn of the Screw

by Henry James
Paperback, 1999
Collection
Fiction
Call number
FIC JAM

Ulysses

by James Joyce
Paperback, 1986
Collection
Fiction
Call number
FIC JOY

Kim

by Rudyard Kipling
Hardcover, 1943
Collection
Fiction
Call number
FIC KIP

The Bonfire of the Vanities

by Tom Wolfe
Paperback, 1988
Collection
Fiction
Call number
FIC WOL

And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic, 20th-Anniversary Edition

by Randy Shilts
Paperback, 2007
Collection
Nonfiction
Call number
362 SHI

The Complete Poems: 1927-1979

by Elizabeth Bishop
Paperback, 1983
Collection
Poetry
Call number
811 BIS

Lord Jim

by Joseph Conrad
Hardcover, 1979
Collection
Fiction
Call number
FIC CON

The Cat in the Hat

by Dr. Seuss
Hardcover, 1957
Collection
Early Readers
Series
The Cat in the Hat (1)
Call number
ER S

Silent Spring

by Rachel Carson
Hardcover, 1962
Collection
Nonfiction
Call number
550 CAR

Wide Sargasso Sea: A Novel

by Jean Rhys
Paperback, 1992
Collection
Fiction
Call number
FIC RHY

On Death And Dying

by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
Paperback, 1993
Collection
Nonfiction
Call number
153.9 KUB

Gone With the Wind

by Margaret Mitchell
Hardcover, 1936
Collection
Fiction
Call number
FIC MIT

Goodnight Moon

by Margaret Wise Brown
Hardcover, 1975
Collection
Easy / Picturebooks
Series
Goodnight Moon (2)
Call number
E B

The Snowy Day

by Ezra Jack Keats
Hardcover, 1976
Collection
Easy / Picturebooks
Series
Peter (1)
Call number
E K

Dust Tracks on a Road: An Autobiography (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)

by Zora Neale Hurston
Paperback, 2006
Collection
Drama/Essays/Humor
Call number
814 HUR

The Golden Notebook

by Doris May Lessing
Paperback, 1994
Collection
Fiction
Call number
FIC LES

The Handmaid's Tale

by Margaret Atwood
Paperback, 1986
Collection
Speculative Fiction
Series
The Handmaid's Tale (1)
Call number
SPEC FICT ATW

A Passage to India

by E. M. Forster
Paperback, 1984
Collection
Fiction
Call number
FIC FOR

Night

by Elie Wiesel
Paperback, 2006
Collection
Nonfiction
Series
The Night Trilogy (1)
Call number
940.53 W

The Country of the Pointed Firs

by Sarah Orne Jewett
Paperback, 1986
Collection
Fiction
Call number
FIC JEW

Atlas Shrugged

by Ayn Rand
Hardcover, 1967
Collection
Fiction
Call number
FIC RAN

Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl

by Anne Frank
Hardcover, 1967
Collection
Children’s/YA Biography
Call number
JB FRANK

The Hobbit

by J.R.R. Tolkien
Hardcover, 1966
Collection
Children's/YA Fiction
Series
The Lord of the Rings (Prelude)
Call number
JF TOL

The Catcher in the Rye

by J. D. Salinger
Hardcover, 1951
Collection
Fiction
Call number
FIC SAL

The Magic Mountain

by Thomas Mann
Hardcover, 1994
Collection
Fiction
Call number
FIC MAN

The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition

by Anne Frank
Hardcover, 1995
Collection
Nonfiction
Call number
940.53 FRANK
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