Awards search:Waterstones Books of the Century

The Color Purple

by Alice Walker
Paperback, 1982
Tags
fiction, contemporary fiction, mmpb, can't find our copy, coverguess mismatch
Series
The Color Purple Collection (1)
Call number
813/.54 19

1984

by George Orwell
Paperback, 1984
Tags
science fiction, dystopia, mmpb
Call number
823.912

Catch-22

by Joseph Heller
Paperback, 1970
Tags
fiction, satire, wwii, mmpb, coverguess unavailable
Series
Catch-22 (1)
Call number
813.54

The Gormenghast Novels

by Mervyn Laurence Peake
Hardcover, 1986
Tags
fantasy, gormenghast, omnibus, hb, coverguess mismatch
Series
Gormenghast (1-3)
Call number
823/.912 20

The Name of the Rose

by Umberto Eco
Paperback, 1983
Tags
fiction, translated, ftppl, tpb
Call number
853/.914 19

Watership Down

by Richard Adams
Paperback, 1975
Tags
fantasy, non-magical fantasy, no human characters, rabbits, mmpb, coverguess mismatch
Series
Watership Down (1)
Call number
823

Brave New World

by Aldous Huxley
Paperback, 1967
Tags
science fiction, dystopia, mmpb, coverguess unavailable
Call number
823.912

Midnight's Children

by Salman Rushdie
Paperback, 1991
Tags
fiction, magical realism, india, tpb, coverguess mismatch
Call number
823.914 20

Beloved

by Toni Morrison
Paperback, 1998
Tags
fiction, ghosts, slavery, tpb, can't find our copy, coverguess mismatch
Call number
813.54

Possession: a romance

by A. S. Byatt
Paperback, 2001
Tags
fiction, contemporary fiction, tpb
Call number
823.914 20

To Kill a Mockingbird

by Harper Lee
Paperback, 1982
Tags
fiction, jane's, pulitzer prize, mmpb, coverguess mismatch
Collection
Jane's
Series
To Kill a Mockingbird (1)
Call number
813.54

Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China

by Jung Chang
Paperback, 2003
Tags
nonfiction, memoir, history, china, chinese history, tpb
Call number
920.051 B 22

James and the Giant Peach

by Roald Dahl
Paperback, 2000
Tags
fantasy, children's, mmpb
Call number
823.914

One Hundred Years of Solitude

by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Paperback, 1998
Tags
jane's, fiction, magical realism, great first lines, translated, tpb
Collection
Jane's
Call number
863

A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to black holes

by Stephen Hawking
Paperback, 1990
Tags
nonfiction, physics, popular-level, tpb, coverguess unavailable
Call number
523.1

The Wasp Factory

by Iain Banks
Paperback, 1998
Tags
fiction, tpb, polarizing, never going to reread it, coverguess unavailable
Collection
Previously Owned
Call number
823/.914 21

A Prayer for Owen Meany

by John Irving
Paperback, 1990
Tags
fiction, contemporary fiction, mmpb
Call number
813.54

Corelli's Mandolin

by Louis De Bernières
Paperback, 1994
Tags
jane's, fiction, historical fiction, tpb
Collection
Jane's
Call number
823/.914

Long Walk to Freedom: The autobiography of Nelson Mandela

by Nelson Mandela
Paperback, 1995
Tags
autobiography, south africa, africa, nelson mandela, tpb
Call number
968.06/4/092

Slaughterhouse-five

by Kurt Vonnegut
Paperback, 1991
Tags
science fiction, wwii, mmpb, ftppl, coverguess unavailable
Call number
813.54

Tales of the City

by Armistead Maupin
Paperback, 1978
Tags
tales of the city, 01, lgbtq, san francisco, fiction, tpb, ftppl, coverguess unavailable
Series
Tales of the City (1)
Call number
813.54

The Lord of the Rings

by J. R. R. Tolkien
Paperback, 2003
Tags
lord of the rings, fantasy, middle-earth, epic fantasy, boxed set, tpb, coverguess mismatch
Series
The Lord of the Rings (Omnibus 1-3)
Call number
823/.912 22

The Handmaid's Tale

by Margaret Atwood
Paperback, 1991
Tags
science fiction, dystopia, mmpb
Series
The Handmaid's Tale (1)
Call number
813.54 21

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

by Douglas Adams
Paperback, 1985
Tags
h2g2, 01, science fiction, humor, mmpb, coverguess unavailable
Series
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1)
Call number
823.914

2001: A Space Odyssey

by Arthur C. Clarke
Paperback, 1982
Tags
space odyssey, 01, science fiction, mmpb
Series
The Odyssey Sequence (1)
Call number
823.914

The Hobbit

by J.R.R. Tolkien
Paperback, 1989
Tags
fantasy, middle-earth, mmpb, coverguess mismatch
Series
The Lord of the Rings (Prelude)
Call number
823.912

Dune

by Frank Herbert
Paperback, 1965
Tags
science fiction, hugo winner, nebula winner, alien ecology, desert, don't bother with the sequels, mmpb, coverguess unavailable
Series
Dune (1), Dune: Complete Chronology (14)
Call number
813.54
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