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The 20th Century in 200 Books - Page 2

An attempt of mine to measure literary/cultural impact of 20th century works through a combination of average rating and number of ratings, as determined by information provided by my Goodreads' library. One book per author (might've fudged that), roughly ordered by decade, each decade getting twenty works a piece (so, list items 1-20 published 1900-1909, 21-40 published 1910-1919, etc (hopefully)). Some of these works I heartily dislike, others definitely veer more towards the cultural impact than the literary, and the whole endeavor is horrendously biased in many a way, but the idea was to let the numbers do (most of) the talking, and talk they certainly did.
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The Twelve Chairs (Ilya Ilf)
The Twelve Chairs (Ilya Ilf)
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The Lost Lunar Baedeker: Poems of Mina Loy (Mina Loy)
The Lost Lunar Baedeker: Poems of Mina Loy (Mina Loy)
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Steppenwolf (Hermann Hesse)
Steppenwolf (Hermann Hesse)
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Storm of Steel (Ernst Jünger and Michael Hofmann)
Storm of Steel (Ernst Jünger and Michael Hofmann)
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We (Yevgeny Zamyatin)
We (Yevgeny Zamyatin)
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Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (Ludwig Wittgenstein)
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (Ludwig Wittgenstein)
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All Quiet on the Western Front (Erich Maria Remarque)
All Quiet on the Western Front (Erich Maria Remarque)
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The Enchanted April (Elizabeth Von Arnim)
The Enchanted April (Elizabeth Von Arnim)
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Death Comes for the Archbishop (Willa Cather)
Death Comes for the Archbishop (Willa Cather)
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Passing (Nella Larsen)
Passing (Nella Larsen)
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Zeno's Conscience (Italo Svevo)
Zeno's Conscience (Italo Svevo)
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The Sun Also Rises (Ernest Hemingway)
The Sun Also Rises (Ernest Hemingway)
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Cane (Jean Toomer)
Cane (Jean Toomer)
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A High Wind in Jamaica (Richard Hughes)
A High Wind in Jamaica (Richard Hughes)
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Scaramouche (Rafael Sabatini)
Scaramouche (Rafael Sabatini)
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Lolly Willowes (Sylvia Townsend Warner)
Lolly Willowes (Sylvia Townsend Warner)
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Elmer Gantry (Sinclair Lewis)
Elmer Gantry (Sinclair Lewis)
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Parade's End (Ford Madox Ford)
Parade's End (Ford Madox Ford)
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Story of the Eye (Georges Bataille)
Story of the Eye (Georges Bataille)
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Precious Bane (Mary Webb)
Precious Bane (Mary Webb)
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Gone With the Wind (Margaret Mitchell)
Gone With the Wind (Margaret Mitchell)
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Rebecca (Daphne Du Maurier)
Rebecca (Daphne Du Maurier)
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Swami and Friends (R. K. Narayan)
Swami and Friends (R. K. Narayan)
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I, Claudius (Robert Graves)
I, Claudius (Robert Graves)
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Murder on the Orient Express (Agatha Christie)
Murder on the Orient Express (Agatha Christie)
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Johnny Got His Gun (Dalton Trumbo)
Johnny Got His Gun (Dalton Trumbo)
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War With the Newts (Karel Čapek)
War With the Newts (Karel Čapek)
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In Praise of Shadows (Junichiro Tanizaki)
In Praise of Shadows (Junichiro Tanizaki)
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Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
70
Absalom, Absalom! (William Faulkner)
Absalom, Absalom! (William Faulkner)
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The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
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Their Eyes Were Watching God (Zora Neale Hurston)
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Zora Neale Hurston)
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Nausea (Jean-Paul Sartre)
Nausea (Jean-Paul Sartre)
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Invitation to a Beheading (Vladimir Nabokov)
Invitation to a Beheading (Vladimir Nabokov)
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At Swim-Two-Birds (Flann O'Brien)
At Swim-Two-Birds (Flann O'Brien)
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And Quiet Flows the Don (Mikhail Sholokhov)
And Quiet Flows the Don (Mikhail Sholokhov)
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Independent People (Halldór Laxness)
Independent People (Halldór Laxness)
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Alamut (Vladimir Bartol)
Alamut (Vladimir Bartol)
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Testament of Youth (Vera Brittain)
Testament of Youth (Vera Brittain)
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The Radetzky March (Joseph Roth)
The Radetzky March (Joseph Roth)
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