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New Yorker's List of Literature (Up to Early 2000s)

List of notable works as mentioned by New York Library staff/critics. I was mostly focusing on novels when putting together this list from source, so some poetry may have been skipped...
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Aaron's Rod (D.H. Lawrence)
Aaron's Rod
1
D.H. Lawrence
Absalom, Absalom! (William Faulkner)
Absalom, Absalom!
2
William Faulkner
Adam Bede (George Eliot)
Adam Bede
3
George Eliot
The Adventures of Augie March (Saul Bellow)
The Adventures of Augie March
4
Saul Bellow
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
5
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Aeneid (Virgil)
Aeneid
6
Virgil
Aesop's Fables (Aesop)
Aesop's Fables
7
Aesop
After the Fall (Arthur Miller)
After the Fall
8
Arthur Miller
Against the Grain (Joris-Karl Huysmans)
Against the Grain
9
Joris-Karl Huysmans
Age of Anxiety (W.H. Auden)
Age of Anxiety
10
W.H. Auden
Age of Innocence (Wharton, Edith)
Age of Innocence
11
Wharton, Edith
The Age of Reason (Jean-Paul Sartre)
The Age of Reason
12
Jean-Paul Sartre
Ah, Wilderness! (Eugene O'Neill)
Ah, Wilderness!
13
Eugene O'Neill
The Alexandria Quartet (Lawrence Durrell)
The Alexandria Quartet
14
Lawrence Durrell
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Lewis Carroll)
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
15
Lewis Carroll
All My Sons (Arthur Miller)
All My Sons
16
Arthur Miller
All Quiet on the Western Front (Erich Maria Remarque)
All Quiet on the Western Front
17
Erich Maria Remarque
All's Well That Ends Well (William Shakespeare)
All's Well That Ends Well
18
William Shakespeare
All the Kings Men (Robert Penn Warren)
All the Kings Men
19
Robert Penn Warren
All the Pretty Horses (Cormac McCarthy)
All the Pretty Horses
20
Cormac McCarthy
The Ambassadors (Henry James)
The Ambassadors
21
Henry James
The American
The American
22
American Buffalo by David Mamet
American Buffalo by David Mamet
23
An American Dream (Norman Mailer)
An American Dream
24
Norman Mailer
An American Tragedy (Theodore Dreiser)
An American Tragedy
25
Theodore Dreiser
The Anatomy Lesson (Philip Roth)
The Anatomy Lesson
26
Philip Roth
The Anatomy of Melancholy (Robert Burton)
The Anatomy of Melancholy
27
Robert Burton
Andersonville (MacKinlay Kantor)
Andersonville
28
MacKinlay Kantor
Angels in America (Tony Kushner)
Angels in America
29
Tony Kushner
Animal Farm (George Orwell)
Animal Farm
30
George Orwell
Annabel Lee (Edgar Allan Poe)
Annabel Lee
31
Edgar Allan Poe
Anna Christie (Eugene O'Neill)
Anna Christie
32
Eugene O'Neill
Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy)
Anna Karenina
33
Leo Tolstoy
Anna of the Five Towns (Arnold Bennett)
Anna of the Five Towns
34
Arnold Bennett
Antic Hay (Aldous Huxley)
Antic Hay
35
Aldous Huxley
Antigone (Sophocles)
Antigone
36
Sophocles
Anthony and Cleopatra (William Shakespeare)
Anthony and Cleopatra
37
William Shakespeare
Appointment in Samarra (John O'Hara)
Appointment in Samarra
38
John O'Hara
Arcadia (Tom Stoppard)
Arcadia
39
Tom Stoppard
Areopagitica (John Milton)
Areopagitica
40
John Milton
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