100 Books in 100 Years

(Shamelessly stolen from a book display at Waterstone’s in Amsterdam, which I took a picture of and then copied down, cause, so cool, right?)

1900: The Wizard of Oz, Frank L. Baum

1901: Kim, Rudyard Kipling

1902: The Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad

1903: Call of The Wild, Jack London

1904: Complete Plays, Anton Chekov

1905: House of Mirth, Edith Wharton

1906: The Railway Children, E. Nesbit

1907: The Aran Islands, J.M. Synge

1908: Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Graham

1909: Ann Veronica, H.G. Wells

1910: The Phantom of the Opera, Gaston Lereaux

1911: The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett

1912: Death in Venice, Thomas Mann

1913: Sons and Lovers, D.H. Lawrence

1914: The Ragged Trousered Philanthropist, Robert Tressell

1915: The 39 Steps, John Buchan

1916: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce

1917: His Last Bow, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

1918: My Antonia, Willa Cather

1919: Winesburg, Ohio, Sherwood Anderson

1920: The Mysterious Affair at Styles, Agatha Christie

1921: Flappers and Philosophers, F. Scott Fitzgerald

1922: The Waste Land, T.S. Eliot

1923: The Prophet, Kahlil Gibran

1924: A Passage to India, E.M. Forester

1925: The Trial, Franz Kafka

1926: Winnie the Pooh, A.A. Milne

1927: To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf

1928: Parade’s End, Ford Maddox Ford

1929: The Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner

1930: The Maltese Falcon, Dashiell Hammett

1931: The Good Earth, Pearl S. Buck

1932: Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons

1933: Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, Gertrude Stein

1934: I, Claudius, Robert Graves

1935: Little House on the Prairie, Laura Ingalls Wilder

1936: Gone With the Wind, Margaret Mitchell

1937: The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien

1938: Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier

1939: Goodbye to Berlin, Christopher Isherwood

1940: For Whom the Bell Tolls, Ernest Hemingway

1941: The Screwtype Letters, C.S. Lewis

1942: Myth of Sisyphus, Albert Camus

1943: The Little Prince, Antoine De Saint-Exupery

1944: Fiction, Jorge Luis Borges

1945: Animal Farm, George Orwell

1946: Titus Groan, Mervyn Peake

1947: Under the Volcano, Malcolm Lowry

1948: The Heart of the Matter, Graham Greene

1949: Death of a Salesman, Arthur Miller

1950: The Grass is Singing, Doris Lessing

1951: The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger

1952: Charlotte’s Web, E.B. White

1953: Farenheit 451, Ray Bradbury

1954: Lucky Jim, Kingsley Amis

1955: The Talented Mr. Ripley, Patricia Highsmith

1956: My Family and Other Animals, Gerald Durrell

1957: On the Road, Jack Kerouac

1958: Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe

1959: The Tin Drum, Gunther Grass

1960: To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee

1961: Catch-22, Joseph Heller

1962: A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess

1963: The Spy Who Came in From the Cold, John Le Carre’

1964: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl

1965: Dune, Frank Herbert

1966: The Master and Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov

1967: 100 Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez

1968: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, Philip K. Dick

1969: French Lieutenant’s Women, John Fowles

1970: Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Richard Bach

1971: The Day of the Jackal, Fredrick Forsythe

1972: Watership Down, Richard Adams

1973: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Robert Pirsig

1974: Carrie, Stephen King

1975: The Great Railway Bazaar, Paul Theroux

1976: The Selfish Gene, Richard Dawkins

1977: The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCullough

1978: The World According to Garp, John Irving

1979: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams

1980: The Name of the Rose, Umberto Eco

1981: Midnight’s Children, Salman Rushdie

1982: Schindler’s Ark, Thomas Kenneally

1983: The Colour of Magic, Terry Pratchett

1984: Money, Martin Amis

1985: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, Jeanette Winterson

1986: The Sportswriter, Richard Ford

1987: New York Trilogy, Paul Auster

1988: The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho

1989: The Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro

1990: The Buddha of Suburbia, Hanif Kureishi

1991: American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis

1992: The English Patient, Michael Ondaatje

1993: Trainspotting, Irvine Welsh

1994: Captain Corelli’s Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres

1995: Northern Lights, Philip Pullman

1996: The Beach, Alex Garland

1997: The God of Small Things, Arandhati Roy

1998: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles, Haruki Murakami

1999: The Girl With the Pearl Earring, Tracy Chevalier

(Previously, and also from Waterstone’s: 50 Books of a Well-Read Person)