The Best Of The Century
This is one of the 759 lists we use to generate our main The Greatest Books list.
About this list
TIME, 9 Books
This list is from Time Magazine from Dec. 31, 1999. This lists the best books of the 20th century. It only has Children's Books, Fiction, and non-fiction, and only lists 1 book as the winner, and the rest as runners up
This list was originally published in 1999 and was added to this site over 1 year ago.
| Rank | Book | Authors | Year | Country | Language | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 102 | Charlotte's Web | E. B. White | 1952 | American | English | |
| 1 | Ulysses | James Joyce | 1922 | Irish | English | |
| 206 | The Gulag Archipelago | Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn | 1973 | Russian | Russian | |
| 234 | The Chronicles of Narnia | C. S. Lewis | 1950 | British | English | |
| 293 | A Wrinkle In Time | Madeleine L'Engle | 1962 | American | English | |
| 5 | One Hundred Years of Solitude | Gabriel García Márquez | 1967 | Colombian | Spanish | |
| 14 | Lolita | Vladimir Nabokov | 1955 | American | English | |
| 113 | The Diary of a Young Girl | Anne Frank | 1947 | Dutch | Dutch | |
| 304 | The Double Helix | James D. Watson | 1968 | American | English |