Awards search:Boston Public Library's 100 Most Influential Books of the Century

- Roots

by Alex Haley
Paperback, 1980
Tags
American history, history, historical fiction, slavery, biography, genealogy, racism, African-American
Collection
Wishlist
Status
Available
Call number
929.20973

Lolita

by Vladimir Nabokov
Paperback, 1981
Tags
American literature, fiction, Russian literature, sexuality, unreliable narrator
Collection
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Status
Available
Call number
813.54

Mein Kampf

by Adolf Hitler
Hardcover, 1943
Tags
Germany, autobiography, World War II, history, fascism, antisemitism
Collection
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Status
Available
Call number
943.086092

1984

by George Orwell
Paperback, 1949
Tags
Signet Classics, Signet Classics 1, English literature, fiction, dystopia, speculative fiction, alienation, allegory, totalitarianism, science fiction, futurism — 1 more, politics
Collection
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Status
Available
Call number
823.912

A Clockwork Orange

by Anthony Burgess
Paperback, 1996
Tags
Penguin 20th-century Classics, Penguin Classics, English literature, fiction, dystopia, speculative fiction, postmodernism, satire, science fiction, gangs, counterculture
Collection
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Status
Available
Call number
823.914

Steppenwolf

by Hermann Hesse
Paperback, 1969
Tags
German literature, fiction, alienation, historical fiction, existentialism, werewolf
Collection
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Status
Available
Call number
833.912

The Stranger

by Albert Camus
Paperback, 1963
Tags
French literature, fiction, existentialism, crime, alienation, North Africa, absurdism
Collection
Your library
Series
Cycle of the Absurd (1)
Status
Available
Call number
843.914

The Trial

by Franz Kafka
Paperback, 1998
Tags
Penguin 20th-century Classics, Penguin Classics, German literature, fiction, surrealism, allegory, Czech literature, existentialism
Collection
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Status
Available
Call number
833.912

The Trial

by Franz Kafka
Hardcover, 1964
Tags
Modern Library Classics, German literature, fiction, allegory, alienation, Czech literature, surrealism, absurdism, dystopia, speculative fiction
Collection
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Status
Available
Call number
833.912

Heart of Darkness

by Joseph Conrad
Paperback, 1963
Tags
English literature, fiction, colonialism, Africa, frame story, unreliable narrator
Collection
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Status
Available
Call number
823.912

The Great Gatsby

by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Paperback, 1974
Tags
American literature, fiction, decadence, unreliable narrator, modernism
Collection
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Status
Available
Call number
813.52

On the Road

by Jack Kerouac
Paperback, 1958
Tags
American literature, fiction, roman à clef, autobiographical fiction, travel writing, beat, counterculture
Collection
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Status
Available
Call number
813.54

The Jungle

by Upton Sinclair
Paperback, 1960
Tags
Signet Classics, Signet Classics 1, American literature, fiction, immigrants, socialism, historical fiction, poverty, social reform, Chicago
Collection
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Status
Available
Call number
813.52

I and Thou

by Martin Buber
Paperback, 1987
Tags
Judaica, metaphysics, deity, philosophy, other classics series, mysticism, ontology, philosophy of religion, existentialism
Collection
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Status
Available
Call number
181.06

The Interpretation of Dreams

by Sigmund Freud
Paperback, 1980
Tags
psychology, sleep & dreams, psychoanalysis
Collection
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Status
Available
Call number
150

How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York

by Jacob A. Riis
Paperback, 1997
Tags
Penguin Classics, Penguin black 2, sociology, urban studies, poverty, New York, social history, history, photography, labor, immigrants — 1 more, journalism
Collection
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Status
Available
Call number
305.569097471

The Feminine Mystique

by Betty Friedan
Paperback, 1963
Tags
women, sociology, psychology, feminism, human rights, gender
Collection
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Status
Available
Call number
305.420973

One Hundred Years of Solitude

by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Paperback, 1971
Tags
Latin American literature, fiction, magical realism, speculative fiction, epic, Columbian literature, Bard books, family saga
Collection
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Status
Available
Call number
863.64

Go Tell It on the Mountain

by James Baldwin
Paperback, 1993
Tags
Penguin 20th-century Classics, Penguin Classics, American literature, fiction, racism, African-American
Collection
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Status
Available
Call number
813.54

Native Son: And How Bigger Was Born

by Richard Wright
Paperback, 1993
Tags
American literature, fiction, African-American, crime, racism, Chicago, Harlem Renaissance
Collection
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Status
Available
Call number
813.52

The Grapes of Wrath

by John Steinbeck
Paperback, 1978
Tags
Penguin Classics, American literature, fiction, agriculture, historical fiction, immigrants, poverty, California, Great Depression
Collection
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Status
Available
Call number
813.52

The Grapes of Wrath

by John Steinbeck
Hardcover, 1939
Tags
Modern Library Classics, American literature, fiction, agriculture, historical fiction, immigrants, poverty, California, Great Depression
Collection
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Status
Available
Call number
813.52

The Grapes of Wrath (Facsimile edition)

by John Steinbeck
Hardcover, 1990
Tags
American literature, fiction, agriculture, historical fiction, poverty, California, Great Depression
Collection
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Status
Available
Call number
813.52

Ulysses

by James Joyce
Paperback, 1995
Tags
Penguin 20th-century Classics, Penguin Classics, English literature, fiction, Irish literature, epic, Ireland, modernism
Collection
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Status
Available
Call number
823.912

Being and Nothingness: A Phenomenological Essay on Ontology

by Jean-Paul Sartre
Paperback, 1978
Tags
philosophy, metaphysics, existentialism, ontology, phenomenology, French philosophy
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
111.1

Being and Time: A Translation of Sein and Zeit

by Martin Heidegger
Paperback, 1996
Tags
philosophy, metaphysics, ontology, time, phenomenology, existentialism, German philosophy
Collection
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Status
Available
Call number
111

The Double Helix

by James D. Watson
Paperback, 1969
Tags
biology, biography, history of science, history, evolution, genetics, chemistry, Mentor book
Collection
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Status
Available
Call number
576

Cherry Orchard

by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Paperback, 1965
Tags
Russian literature, drama
Collection
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Status
Available
Call number
808

Lady Chatterley's Lover

by D. H. Lawrence
Paperback, 1959
Tags
English literature, fiction, erotica
Collection
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Status
Available
Call number
823.912

In the Shadow of Man

by Jane Van Lawick Goodall
Paperback, 1971
Tags
zoology, East Africa, primates, anthropology, ethology
Collection
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Status
Available
Call number
599.885

Ten Days That Shook the World

by John Reed
Paperback, 1986
Tags
Russia, communism, Russian Revolution, memoir, journalism, history
Collection
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Status
Available
Call number
947.084

- Darkness at Noon

by Arthur Koestler
Paperback, 1960
Tags
German literature, fiction, historical fiction, Russia, communism, totalitarianism, Signet Classics, Signet Classics 1
Collection
Wishlist
Series
Koestler's Trilogy (2)
Status
Available
Call number
823.912

The Sun Also Rises

by Ernest Heminway
Paperback, 1986
Tags
other classics series, American literature, fiction, Spain, roman à clef, historical fiction, World War I, modernism
Collection
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Status
Available
Call number
813.52

Silent Spring

by Rachel Carson
Paperback, 1999
Tags
Penguin Classics, Penguin 20th-century Classics, natural history, ecology, sustainability, environment
Collection
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Status
Available
Call number
363.7384

Babbitt

by Sinclair Lewis
Paperback, 1961
Tags
Signet Classics, Signet Classics 1, American literature, fiction, satire
Collection
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Status
Available
Call number
813.52

Quotations From Chairman Mao Tse-Tung

by Mao Zedong
Paperback, 1967
Tags
China, socialism, politics, aphorisms, quotations, Marxism, philosophy, political philosophy
Collection
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Status
Available
Call number
951.05092

The Golden Notebook

by Doris Lessing
Paperback, 1971
Tags
English literature, fiction, journal, women, feminism
Collection
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Status
Available
Call number
823.914

Beyond Freedom & Dignity

by B. F. Skinner
Paperback, 1972
Tags
psychology, civilization, freedom, philosophy, personality
Collection
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Status
Available
Call number
150.19434

The Raw and the Cooked: an introduction to the science of mytholgy

by Claude Lévi-Strauss
Paperback, 1970
Tags
mythology, Native American, anthropology, structuralism, ethnology, social theory, Brazil, Torchbook
Collection
Your library
Series
Mythologiques (Volume 1)
Status
Available
Call number
299.8

- Theory of Games and Economic Behavior

by John von Neumann
Paperback, 2007
Tags
economics, game theory, mathematics, statistics
Collection
Wishlist
Status
Available
Call number
330.015193

Man's Fate

by Andre Malraux
Paperback, 1969
Tags
French literature, fiction, existentialism, China
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
843.912

Man's Estate

by Andre Malraux
Paperback, 1978
Tags
Penguin Classics, Penguin Modern Classics, French literature, fiction, existentialism, China
Collection
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Status
Available
Call number
843.912

The Masters and the Slaves: A Study in the Development of Brazilian Civilization

by Gilberto Freyre
Paperback, 1966
Tags
slavery, Brazil, Portugal, sociology, colonialism, history
Collection
Your library
Series
Coleção Documentos Brasileiros
Status
Available
Call number
981

Atlas Shrugged

by Ayn Rand
Paperback, 1985
Tags
American literature, fiction, dystopia, speculative fiction, philosophy, epic, capitalism, objectivism
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
813.52

The History of the Standard Oil Company

by Ida M. Tarbell
Paperback, 1966
Tags
business, American history, history, Torchbook
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
338.76223820973

The Catcher in the Rye

by J. D. Salinger
Paperback, 1981
Tags
American literature, fiction, coming of age, boarding school, alienation, New York, unreliable narrator
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
813.54

The Magic Mountain

by Thomas Mann
Paperback, 1955
Tags
Modern Library Classics, German literature, fiction, coming of age
Collection
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Status
Available
Call number
833.912

Coming of Age in Samoa

by Margaret Mead
Paperback, 1973
Tags
anthropology, Oceania, ethnography, cultural anthropology, sociology
Collection
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Status
Available
Call number
306.099613

The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation I - II

by Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn
Paperback, 1973
Tags
crime, Russia, prison, communism, gulag, autobiography, history
Collection
Your library
Series
The Gulag Archipelago (Volume 1, Parts I-II)
Status
Available
Call number
365.450947

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

by Thomas S. Kuhn
Paperback, 1970
Tags
philosophy of science, intellectual history, history, epistemology, history of science, scientific revolution
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
501
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