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1900-2021, 5 Novels Per Decade

A List of 5 books from every decade since 1900. (With one for luck from the 2020s). Either they are novels I know and love or ones I want to read which are pretty universally acclaimed.
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The Call of the Wild (Jack London)
The Call of the Wild
1
Jack London
The Wind in the Willows (Kenneth Grahame)
The Wind in the Willows
2
Kenneth Grahame
Anne of Green Gables (L.M. Montgomery)
Anne of Green Gables
3
L.M. Montgomery
The Hound of the Baskervilles (Conan Doyle)
The Hound of the Baskervilles
4
Conan Doyle
The Scarlett Pimpernel
The Scarlett Pimpernel
5
Howards End (E.M. Forster)
Howards End
6
E.M. Forster
The Metamorphosis (Franz Kafka)
The Metamorphosis
7
Franz Kafka
The Secret Garden (Frances Hodgson Burnett)
The Secret Garden
8
Frances Hodgson Burnett
In Search of Lost Time (Marcel Proust)
In Search of Lost Time
9
Marcel Proust
The Dubliners (James Joyce)
The Dubliners
10
James Joyce
Ulysses (James Joyce)
Ulysses
11
James Joyce
Goodbye to All That (Robert Graves)
Goodbye to All That
12
Robert Graves
The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
The Great Gatsby
13
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Mrs Dalloway (Virginia Woolf)
Mrs Dalloway
14
Virginia Woolf
All Quiet on the Western Front (Erich Maria Remarque)
All Quiet on the Western Front
15
Erich Maria Remarque
Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
Brave New World
16
Aldous Huxley
Rebecca (Daphne Du Maurier)
Rebecca
17
Daphne Du Maurier
The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)
The Grapes of Wrath
18
John Steinbeck
The Hobbit (J.R.R. Tolkien)
The Hobbit
19
J.R.R. Tolkien
Memoirs of an Infantry Officer (Siegfried Sassoon)
Memoirs of an Infantry Officer
20
Siegfried Sassoon
Brideshead Revisited (Evelyn Waugh)
Brideshead Revisited
21
Evelyn Waugh
Animal Farm (George Orwell)
Animal Farm
22
George Orwell
Titus Groan (Mervyn Peake)
Titus Groan
23
Mervyn Peake
Alone in Berlin (Hans Fallada)
Alone in Berlin
24
Hans Fallada
The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)
The Catcher in the Rye
25
J.D. Salinger
Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov)
Lolita
26
Vladimir Nabokov
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (C S Lewis)
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
27
C S Lewis
Gormenghast (Mervyn Peake)
Gormenghast
28
Mervyn Peake
Naked Lunch (William S. Burroughs)
Naked Lunch
29
William S. Burroughs
Things Fall Apart (Chinua Achebe)
Things Fall Apart
30
Chinua Achebe
A Clockwork Orange (Anthony Burgess)
A Clockwork Orange
31
Anthony Burgess
The Bell Jar (Sylvia Plath)
The Bell Jar
32
Sylvia Plath
Slaughterhouse-Five or the Children's Crusade (Kurt Vonnegut)
Slaughterhouse-Five or the Children's Crusade
33
Kurt Vonnegut
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Ken Kesey)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
34
Ken Kesey
Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
Catch-22
35
Joseph Heller
Child of God (Cormac McCarthy)
Child of God
36
Cormac McCarthy
Requiem for a Dream (Hubert Selby Jr.)
Requiem for a Dream
37
Hubert Selby Jr.
The Sea, the Sea (Iris Murdoch)
The Sea, the Sea
38
Iris Murdoch
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
39
Crash (J.G. Ballard)
Crash
40
J.G. Ballard
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