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Recommended Reading: Novels since 1900: 1926 - 1950

1926 - 1932

The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
Call Number: PS3515.E37 S8 1996
Publication Date: 1926
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
Call Number: PR6045.O72 T6 1992
ISBN: 9780679405375
Publication Date: 1927
The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder
Call Number: PS3545.I345 B7
ISBN: 9780060580612
Publication Date: 1927
Steppenwolf by Herman Hesse
Call Number: PT2617.E85 S7
ISBN: 9780899664484
Publication Date: 1927
Orlando by Virginia Woolf
Call Number: PR6045.O72 O7
ISBN: 9780156031516
Publication Date: 1928
The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall
Call Number: PR6015.A33 W43
ISBN: 9780385416092
Publication Date: 1928
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
Call Number: PT 2635.E68 I45 1975
Publication Date: 1929
Also available as an ebook.
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
Call Number: PS3511.A86 S7
ISBN: 9780679600176
Publication Date: 1929
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
Call Number: PS3515.E37 F3
ISBN: 9781451658163
Publication Date: 1929
The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
Call Number: PS3515.A4347 M3 1992
Publication Date: 1930
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
Call Number: PS3511.A86 A85
ISBN: 9780679732259
Publication Date: 1930
U. S. A. by John Dos Passos
Call Number: PS3507.O743 A6
ISBN: 9781883011147
Publication Date: 1930-1936
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Call Number: PR6015.U9 B65
ISBN: 9780060850524
Publication Date: 1931
The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien
Call Number: PR6039.O32 H6
ISBN: 9780395071229
Publication Date: 1932
The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
Call Number: PS3503.U198 G6
ISBN: 9780743272933
Publication Date: 1931
Light in August by William Faulkner
Call Number: PS3511.A86 L5
ISBN: 9780679642480
Publication Date: 1932
Studs Lonigan: A Trilogy by James T. Farrell
Call Number: PS3511.A738 A6
ISBN: 9781931082556
Publication Date: 1932-1935

1933-1940

Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
Call Number: PS3525.I5454 T7 1987
ISBN: 9780802131782
Publication Date: 1934
I, Claudius by Robert Graves
Call Number: PR6013.R35 I2
ISBN: 9780679724773
Publication Date: 1934
Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner
Call Number: PS3511.A86 A6
ISBN: 9780679600725
Publication Date: 1936
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Call Number: PS3525.I972 G6 1964a
Publication Date: 1936
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award.
At the Mountains of Madness by Howard Phillips Lovecraft
Call Number: PS3523.O833 A6
ISBN: 9780870540387
Publication Date: 1936
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Call Number: PS3515.U789 T5
Publication Date: 1937
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Call Number: PS3537.T3234 O2
Publication Date: 1937
Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre; Lloyd Alexander (Translator)
Call Number: PQ2637.A82 N313
ISBN: 9780811201889
Publication Date: 1938
The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
Call Number: PS3505.H3224 B5 1992
ISBN: 9780394758282
Publication Date: 1939
Pale Horse, Pale Rider by Katherine Anne Porter
Call Number: PS3531.O752 P3 1990
ISBN: 9780151707553
Publication Date: 1939
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Call Number: PS3537.T3234 G8
ISBN: 9780143039433
Publication Date: 1939
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award.
Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo
Call Number: PS3539.R928 J5 2007
ISBN: 9780806528472
Publication Date: 1939
Winner of the National Book Award for Most Original Book.
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
Call Number: PS3525.A1772 H4 1993
Publication Date: 1940
Native Son by Richard Wright
Call Number: PS3545.R815 N25 1998
Publication Date: 1940
Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler; Daphne Hardy (Translator)
Call Number: PR6021.O4 D3
ISBN: 9781416540267
Publication Date: 1940

1941 - 1950

The Stranger by Albert Camus
Call Number: PQ2605.A3734 E813 1993
Publication Date: 1942
The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham
Call Number: PR6025.A86 R3 2003
Publication Date: 1944
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
Call Number: PR6045.A97 B7 1993
Publication Date: 1945
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Call Number: PR6029.R8 A63 1993
Publication Date: 1945
Winner of a Retrospective Hugo Award.
The Setting Sun by Osamu Dazai; Donald Keene (Translator)
Call Number: PL825.A8 S4
ISBN: 9780811200325
Publication Date: 1947
All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren
Call Number: PS3545.A748 A7
ISBN: 9780151011636
Publication Date: 1946
The Plague by Albert Camus
Call Number: PQ2605.A3734 P413
ISBN: 9780679720218
Publication Date: 1947
The Pearl by John Steinbeck
Call Number: PS3537.T3234 P4
Publication Date: 1947
The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer
Call Number: PS3525.A4152 N34 1998
Publication Date: 1948
Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
Call Number: PR9369.3.P37 C7
Publication Date: 1948
The Man with the Golden Arm by Nelson Algren
Call Number: PS3501.L4625 M3 1999
Publication Date: 1949
Winner of the National Book Award
The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles
Call Number: PS3552.O874 S5 1990
Publication Date: 1949
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
Call Number: PR6029.R8 N49
Publication Date: 1949

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