Index by Time Period

21st Century

2020’s
2010’s
2000’s

20th Century

1990’s
1980’s
1970’s
1960’s
1950’s
1940’s
1930’s
1920’s
1910’s
1900’s

19th Century

1890’s
1880’s
1870’s
1860’s
1850’s
1840’s
1830’s
1820’s
1810’s
1800’s

Pre-19th Century

Pre-Printing Press

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21st Century

20th Century

1990’s

1999 – Reason for hope: A spiritual journey by Jane Goodall
1998 – The meaning of flowers by Gretchen Scoble and Ann Field
1998 – Riptide by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
1997 – 100 flowers and how they got their names by Diana Wells
1997 – Vegetarian cooking for everyone by Deborah Madison
1996 – Sperm wars: Infidelity, sexual conflict, and other bedroom battles by Robin Baker
1995 – The golden compass by Philip Pullman
1995 – Relic by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
1994 – Naturalist by Edward O. Wilson
1994 – Wizard’s first rule by Terry Goodkind
1993 – The shipping news by Annie Proulx
1992 – The wives of Henry VIII by Antonia Fraser
1991 – A year in Provence by Peter Mayle
1990 – Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton

1980’s

1989 – The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan †
1988 – Manufacturing consent by Noam Chomsky and Edward S. Herman
1986 – Howl’s moving castle Diana Wynne Jones †
1985 – The handmaid’s tale by Margaret Atwood
1985 – Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
1984 – The hunt for Red October by Tom Clancy
1982 – The color purple by Alice Walker
1982 – The good old boys by Elmer Kelton
1980 – The name of the rose by Umberto Eco †

1970’s

1979 – The hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy by Douglas Adams
1979 – Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
1978 – A contract with God and other tenement stories by Will Eisner
1977 – Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko
1975 – Crocodile on the sandbank by Elizabeth Peters
1974 – The chocolate war by Robert Cormier
1974 – Helter skelter: The true story of the Manson murders by Vincent Bugliosi †
1974 – Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard †
1972 – All creatures great and small by James Herriot
1972 – Watership Down by Richard Adams
1971 – In the shadow of Man by Jane Goodall
1970 – Bury my heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown

1960’s

1969 – The Betty Crocker cookbook by the General Mills Betty Crocker Kitchens
1969 – I know why the caged bird sings by Maya Angelou
1969 – Slaughterhouse-five by Kurt Vonnegut
1969 – Ubik by Philip K. Dick
1968 – The double helix: A personal account of the discovery of the structure of DNA by James D. Watson
1968 – Dragonflight by Anne McCaffrey
1968 – Slouching towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion †
1968 – A wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
1967 – The owl service by Alan Garner
1967 – Rosemary’s baby by Ira Levin
1966 – Season of migration to the north by Tayeb Salih †
1966 – Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
1964 – A moveable feast by Ernest Hemingway
1964 – The personality of the cat and The personality of the dog ed. by Brandt Aymar
1964 – A single man by Christopher Isherwood †
1963 – The bell jar by Sylvia Plath
1962 – A clockwork orange by Anthony Burgess
1962 – The guns of August by Barbara W. Tuchman
1962 – One flew over the cuckoo’s nest by Ken Kesey †
1961 – The phantom tollbooth by Norton Juster †
1960 – The rise and fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer

1950’s

1959 – The haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
1958 – Night by Elie Wiesel
1958 – The once and future king by T.H. White
1957 – How the Grinch stole Christmas by Dr. Seuss
1956 – Train to Pakistan by Khushwant Singh †
1954 – The lord of the rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
1953 – The silent world by Jacques-Yves Cousteau †
1953 – Under Milk Wood by Dylan Thomas
1952 – East of Eden by John Steinbeck
1951 – Foundation by Isaac Asimov
1951 – The sea around us by Rachel Carson
1950 – The Martian chronicles by Ray Bradbury

1940’s

1946 – Man’s search for meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
1945 – Animal farm by George Orwell
1945 – The egg and I by Betty MacDonald
1943 – Le petit prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
1942 – West with the night by Beryl Markham
1940 – The story of my experiments with truth by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
1940 – A tree grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith

1930’s

1939 – And then there were none by Agatha Christie
1939 – How green was my valley by Richard Llewellyn
1939 – Old Possum’s book of practical cats by T.S. Eliot
1938 – Better than beauty: A guide to charm by Helen Valentine and Alice Thompson
1938 – Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
1937 – The blind owl by Sadegh Hedayat
1937 – Their eyes were watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
1936 – Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner
1936 – Gone with the wind by Margaret Mitchell
1934 – The postman always rings twice by James M. Cain
1934 – The Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
1932 – Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons †
1931 – The good earth by Pearl S. Buck
1930 – The Maltese falcon by Dashiell Hammett
1930 – Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome †

1920’s

1929 – Passing by Nella Larsen †
1928 – The call of Cthulhu by H.P. Lovecraft
1928 – Orlando by Virginia Woolf
1924 – Gentlemen prefer blondes by Anita Loos
1923 – Cane by Jean Toomer †
1920 – The story of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting

1910’s

1919 – The mark of Zorro by Johnston McCulley †
1914 – Letters of a woman homesteader by Elinore Pruitt Stewart
1912 – Tess of the d’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
1911 – Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie

1900’s

1908 – Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
1907 – The enchanted castle by E. Nesbit
1905 – The house of mirth by Edith Wharton
1905 – The Scarlet Pimpernel by Emmuska Orczy †
1902 – The life and adventures of Santa Claus by L. Frank Baum
1902 – A little princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett †
1900 – Up from slavery by Booker T. Washington

19th Century

1890’s

1899 – The awakening by Kate Chopin
1899 – Fairy and folk tales of the Irish peasantry by W.B. Yeats
1898 – Hawaii’s story by Hawaii’s queen by Lili’uokalani
1898 – The turn of the screw by Henry James
1895 – The time machine by H.G. Wells
1894 – The jungle book by Rudyard Kipling
1894 – Tevye the Milkman by Sholem Aleichem †
1894 – The wood beyond the world by William Morris
1892 – The adventures and memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
1892 – The yellow wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
1890 – The picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

1880’s

1887 – Ten days in a mad-house by Nellie Bly
1883 – The merry adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle
1883 – Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

1870’s

1878 – Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
1877 – Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
1871 – Middlemarch by George Eliot

1860’s

1869 – Lorna Doone by R.D. Blackmore
1865 – Alice’s adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
1862 – Goblin market by Christina Rossetti
1861 – Incidents in the life of a slave girl by Harriet Jacobs

1850’s

1854 – North and south by Elizabeth Gaskell
1851 – Moby Dick by Herman Melville

1840’s

1847 – Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
1847 – Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
1844 – The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
1844 – The three musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

1830’s

1839 – Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin
1836 – The little mermaid by Hans Christian Andersen
1833 – Eugénie Grandet by Honoré de Balzac †
1831 – The hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo

1820’s

1827 – The birds of America by John James Audubon
1820 – The legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving

1810’s

1815 – The complete Brothers Grimm fairy tales by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm

1800’s

Pre-19th Century

1798 – The rime of the ancient mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
1767 – The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, gentleman by Laurence Sterne
1609 – Shakespeare’s sonnets by William Shakespeare
1605 – Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes †

Pre-Printing Press

c. 1390 – Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Anonymous, transl. by Simon Armitage
c. 1010 – The tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu †
c. 900 – The Arabian nights by Anonymous, transl. by Antoine Galland and Edward William Lane, ed. by Muhsin al-Musawi †

BCE

c. 600 BCE – Poems and fragments by Sappho