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1951 - 1975
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1900 - 1925
1926 - 1950
1951 - 1975
1976 - 2000
2001 - 2020
1951 - 1956
The Catcher in the Rye
by
J. D. Salinger
Call Number: PS3537.A426 C3 2013
Publication Date: 1951
The Last Temptation of Christ
by
Nikos Kazantzakis
Call Number: PA5610.K39 L37
ISBN: 9780684852560
Publication Date: 1951
The End of the Affair
by
Graham Greene
Call Number: PR6013.R44 E5 2004
ISBN: 9780142437988
Publication Date: 1951
A Dance to the Music of Time
by
Anthony Powell
Call Number: PR6031.O74 D33
ISBN: 9780226677149
Publication Date: 1951-1975
Invisible Man
by
Ralph Ellison
Call Number: PS3555.L625 I5 1994
Publication Date: 1952
National Book Award winner
The Old Man and the Sea
by
Ernest Hemingway
Call Number: PS3515.E37 O52 1996
ISBN: 9780684830490
Publication Date: 1952
Pulitzer Prize winner
Wise Blood
by
Flannery O'Connor
Call Number: PS3565.C57 W5 2007
ISBN: 9780374530631
Publication Date: 1952
East of Eden
by
John Steinbeck
Call Number: PS3537.T3234 E3 2003
ISBN: 9780670033041
Publication Date: 1952
Go Tell It on the Mountain
by
James Baldwin
Call Number: PS3552.A45 G62 1995
Publication Date: 1953
Fahrenheit 451
by
Ray Bradbury
Call Number: PS3503.R167 F3
ISBN: 9781613832493
Publication Date: 1953
Lord of the Flies
by
William Golding
Call Number: PR6013.O35 L6 1999
ISBN: 9780140283334
Publication Date: 1954
The Lord of the Rings
by
J. R. R. Tolkien
Call Number: PR6039.O32 L6 & eBook
ISBN: 9780547951942
Publication Date: 1954-1955
Lolita
by
Vladímir Nabokov
Call Number: PS3527.A15 L6 1992
ISBN: 9780679410430
Publication Date: 1955
Naked Lunch
by
William S. Burroughs
Call Number: PS3552.U75 N3 2001
ISBN: 9780802116390
Publication Date: 1955
Seize the Day
by
Saul Bellow
Call Number: PS3503.E4488 S4 2003
ISBN: 9780142437612
Publication Date: 1956
Giovanni's Room
by
James Baldwin
Call Number: PS3552.A45 G5
ISBN: 9780345806567
Publication Date: 1956
1957 - 1962
On the Road
by
Jack Kerouac
Call Number: PS3521.E735 O5 2003
ISBN: 9780142437254
Publication Date: 1957
A Death in the Family
by
James Agee
Call Number: PS3501.G35 D43 1998
Publication Date: 1957
Pulitzer Prize winner
The Birds
by
Tarjei Vesaas; Torbjorn Stoverud (Translator); Michael Barnes (Translator)
Call Number: PT9088.V6 F813
ISBN: 9780914671206
Publication Date: 1957
Things Fall Apart
by
Chinua Achebe
Call Number: PR9387.9.A3 T5 1992
Publication Date: 1958
The Haunting of Hill House
by
Shirley Jackson
Call Number: PS3519.A392 H386 1987
ISBN: 9780899684307
Publication Date: 1959
National Book Award finalist
A Canticle for Leibowitz
by
Walter M. Miller
Call Number: PS3563.I4215 C3
ISBN: 9780553379266
Publication Date: 1959
To Kill a Mockingbird
by
Harper Lee
Call Number: PS3562.E353 T6 2010
ISBN: 9780061743528
Publication Date: 1960
Pulitzer Prize winner
Rabbit Run
by
John Updike
Call Number: PS3571.P4 R34
ISBN: 9780394442068
Publication Date: 1960
Stranger in a Strange Land
by
Robert A. Heinlein
Call Number: PS3515.E288 S76
ISBN: 9780441788385
Publication Date: 1961
A House for Mr. Biswas
by
V. S. Naipaul
Call Number: PR9272.9.N32 H6 2001
ISBN: 9780375707162
Publication Date: 1961
Catch-22
by
Joseph Heller
Call Number: PS3558.E476 C3 1999
ISBN: 9780684865133
Publication Date: 1961
A Clockwork Orange
by
Anthony Burgess
Call Number: PR6052.U638 C5 2012
Publication Date: 1962
The Golden Notebook
by
Doris Lessing
Call Number: PR6023.E833 G6 1994
Publication Date: 1962
One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest
by
Ken Kesey
Call Number: PS3561.E667 O5 1996
Publication Date: 1962
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
by
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn; H. T. Willetts (Translator)
Call Number: PG3488.O4 O3313
ISBN: 9780679444640
Publication Date: 1962
Pale Fire
by
Vladímir Nabokov
Call Number: PS3527.A15 P3
ISBN: 9780679410775
Publication Date: 1962
The Man in the High Castle
by
Philip Dick
Call Number: PS3554.I3 M26
ISBN: 9780679740674
Publication Date: 1962
1963 - 1975
Cat's Cradle
by
Kurt Vonnegut
Call Number: PS3572.O5 C38 1998
Publication Date: 1963
The Bell Jar
by
Sylvia Plath
Call Number: PS3566.L27 B4 1996b
Publication Date: 1963
The River Between
by
Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Call Number: PR9381.9.N45 R5
ISBN: 9780435905491
Publication Date: 1965
Ubik
by
Philip Dick
Call Number: PS 3554 .I3 U24
ISBN: 9780679736646
Publication Date: 1965
Dune
by
Frank Herbert
Call Number: PS3558.E63 D8
ISBN: 9780399128967
Publication Date: 1966
The Crying of Lot 49
by
Thomas Pynchon
Call Number: PS3566.Y55 C79 1999
Publication Date: 1966
Wide Sargasso Sea
by
Jean Rhys
Call Number: PR6035.H96 W5 1999b
ISBN: 9780393960129
Publication Date: 1966
One Hundred Years of Solitude
by
Gabriel García Márquez
Call Number: PQ8180.17.A73 C513 2006
ISBN: 9780060883287
Publication Date: 1967
Expensive People
by
Joyce Carol Oates
Call Number: PS3565.A8 E9 2006
Publication Date: 1968
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
by
Philip K. Dick
Call Number: PS3554.I3 D6
ISBN: 9780345404473
Publication Date: 1968
Slaughterhouse-Five
by
Kurt Vonnegut
Call Number: PS3572.O5 S6 1994
Publication Date: 1969
The Godfather
by
Mario Puzo
Call Number: PuzoM #1 (1st Floor - Popular Reading)
Publication Date: 1969
The Bluest Eye
by
Toni Morrison
Call Number: PS3563.O8749 B55 2000
Publication Date: 1970
Angle of Repose
by
Wallace Stegner
Call Number: PS3537.T316 A8 1992
Publication Date: 1971
Pulitzer Prize winner
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
by
Hunter S. Thompson; Ralph Steadman (Illustrator)
Call Number: PN4874.T444 A3 1998
Publication Date: 1972
Gravity's Rainbow
by
Thomas Pynchon
Call Number: PS3566.Y55 G7 2000
Publication Date: 1973
National Book Award winner
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