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Osservatori Esterni's Best Books of the 1900s

"If you are short of ideas and you wander around the bookstores with a sleepwalker air, we offer you this ranking with the best books published in every decade of the 1900s. A list with the titles to read and with the most important authors of the last century, with many of the most beautiful masterpieces of all time"
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84, Charing Cross Road (Helene Hanff)
84, Charing Cross Road
1
Helene Hanff
1984 (George Orwell)
1984
2
George Orwell
2001: A Space Odyssey (Arthur C. Clarke)
2001: A Space Odyssey
3
Arthur C. Clarke
Absolute Beginners (Colin Macinnes)
Absolute Beginners
4
Colin Macinnes
Age of Iron (J.M. Coetzee)
Age of Iron
5
J.M. Coetzee
Alberta and Jacob (Cora Sandel)
Alberta and Jacob
6
Cora Sandel
All About H. Hatterr (G.V. Desani)
All About H. Hatterr
7
G.V. Desani
All the Names (Jose Saramago)
All the Names
8
Jose Saramago
All the Pretty Horses (Cormac McCarthy)
All the Pretty Horses
9
Cormac McCarthy
All Souls (Javier Marías)
All Souls
10
Javier Marías
Almost Transparent (Ryu Murakami)
Almost Transparent
11
Ryu Murakami
The Ambassadors (Henry James)
The Ambassadors
12
Henry James
American Pastoral (Philip Roth)
American Pastoral
13
Philip Roth
American Psycho (Bret Easton Ellis)
American Psycho
14
Bret Easton Ellis
An Artist of the Floating World (Kazuo Ishiguro)
An Artist of the Floating World
15
Kazuo Ishiguro
An Instant in the Wind (Andre Brink)
An Instant in the Wind
16
Andre Brink
And the Ass Saw the Angel (Nick Cave)
And the Ass Saw the Angel
17
Nick Cave
Animal Farm (George Orwell)
Animal Farm
18
George Orwell
Anniversaries: From a Year in the Life of Gesine Cresspahl (Uwe Johnson)
Anniversaries: From a Year in the Life of Gesine Cresspahl
19
Uwe Johnson
The Annotated Hobbit (J. R. R. Tolkien)
The Annotated Hobbit
20
J. R. R. Tolkien
The Apes of God (Wyndham Lewis)
The Apes of God
21
Wyndham Lewis
Arturo's Island (Elsa Morante)
Arturo's Island
22
Elsa Morante
At the Mountains of Madness and Other Tales of Terror (H.P. Lovecraft)
At the Mountains of Madness and Other Tales of Terror
23
H.P. Lovecraft
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (Gertrude Stein)
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
24
Gertrude Stein
Auto-Da-Fé (Elias Canetti)
Auto-Da-Fé
25
Elias Canetti
Autumn of the Patriarch (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
Autumn of the Patriarch
26
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Back (Henry Green)
Back
27
Henry Green
Baltasar and Blimunda (Jose Saramago)
Baltasar and Blimunda
28
Jose Saramago
Barney's Version (Mordecai Richler)
Barney's Version
29
Mordecai Richler
Bell Jar (Sylvia Plath)
Bell Jar
30
Sylvia Plath
Bestiary (Julio Cortázar)
Bestiary
31
Julio Cortázar
The Big Sleep (Raymond Chandler)
The Big Sleep
32
Raymond Chandler
The Black Dahlia (James Ellroy)
The Black Dahlia
33
James Ellroy
Black Dogs (Ian McEwan)
Black Dogs
34
Ian McEwan
Blindness (José Saramago)
Blindness
35
José Saramago
Blindness (Henry Green)
Blindness
36
Henry Green
The Blue Angel (Heinrich Mann)
The Blue Angel
37
Heinrich Mann
The Bonfire of the Vanities (Tom Wolfe)
The Bonfire of the Vanities
38
Tom Wolfe
Bonjour Tristesse (Francoise Sagan)
Bonjour Tristesse
39
Francoise Sagan
The Book of Disquiet (Fernando Pessoa)
The Book of Disquiet
40
Fernando Pessoa
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