Western Literature since 1945
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Book List: Western Literature since 1945
1945
Robert Frost, A Masque of Reason
Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie
1946
Robert Penn Warren, All the King's Men
Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles
1947
John Steinbeck, The Pearl
1948
Truman Capote, Other Voices, Other Rooms
William Faulkner, Intruder in the Dust
1949
Shirley Jackson, The Lottery and Other Stories
1950
Gore Vidal, Dark Green, Bright Red
1951
J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
1952
Ralph Ellison, The Invisible Man
Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea
Bernard Malamud, The Natural
Flannery O'Connor, Wise Blood
John Steinbeck, East of Eden
Kurt Vonnegut, Player Piano
1953
James Baldwin, Go Tell It on the Mountain
Saul Bellow, The Adventures of Augie March
Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
William S. Burroughs, Junky
Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye
1954
William Golding, Lord of the Flies
J. R. R. Tolkien,
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
1955
William Gaddis, The Recognitions
Graham Greene, The Quiet American
1956
Allen Ginsberg, Howl and Other Poems
Meyer Levin, Compulsion
1957
John Cheever, The Wapshot Chronicle
Jack Kerouac, On the Road
1958
Samuel Beckett, The Unnamable
Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany's
1959
John Knowles, A Separate Peace
John Updike, The Same Door
1960
Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
1961
Cyprian Ekwensi, Jagua Nana
Gabriel García Márquez, No One Writes to the Colonel and Other Stories
1962
Stan Lee and Steve Ditko, Amazing Fantasy #15, Introducing Spider-Man
W. H. Auden, The Dyer's Hand
1963
Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
L. Sprague de Camp (ed.), Swords and Sorcery
John le Carré, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
1964
Saul Bellow, Herzog
Richard E. Kim, The Martyred
1965
Alex Haley and Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Philip K. Dick, The Three Stigmata Of Palmer Eldritch
1966
Bernard Malamud, The Fixer
Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49
Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., A Thousand Days
1967
Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude
V. S. Naipaul, The Mimic Men
Roger Zelazny, Lord of Light
1968
Tom Wolfe, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
N. Scott Momaday, House Made of Dawn
Anthony Powell, The Military Philosophers
Arthur C. Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey
1969
Mario Puzo, The Godfather
Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
1970
James Dickey, Deliverance
Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye
1971
Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Kofi Awoonor, This Earth, My Brother
Frederick Forsyth, The Day of the Jackal
Flannery O'Connor, The Complete Stories
1972
John Howard Yoder, The Politics of Jesus
Paul Theroux, Saint Jack
1973
Joseph Payne Brennan, Stories of Darkness and Dread
Cormac McCarthy, Child of God
Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow
1974
Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Stephen King, Carrie
Piers Paul Read, Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors
1975
Donald Barthelme, The Dead Father
William Gaddis, J R
E. L. Doctorow, Ragtime
1976
Maxine Hong Kingston, The Woman Warrior
Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire
1977
Joan Didion, A Book of Common Prayer
Stephen King, The Shining
1978
John Cheever, The Stories of John Cheever
Ken Follett, Eye of the Needle
John Irving, The World According to Garp
Hubert Selby, Jr., Requiem for a Dream
1979
Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
V. C. Andrews, Flowers in the Attic
Norman Mailer, The Executioner's Song
1980
Pat Conroy, The Lords of Discipline
Björn Kurtén, Dance of the Tiger
1981
Raymond Carver, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
Thomas Harris, Red Dragon
Robert Olen Butler, The Alleys of Eden
1982
Thomas Keneally, Schindler's Ark
W. P. Kinsella, Shoeless Joe
1983
Sandra Cisneros, The House on Mango Street
William Kennedy, Ironweed
Terry Eagleton, Literary Theory: An Introduction
1984
J. G. Ballard, Empire of the Sun
Tom Clancy, The Hunt for Red October
Louise Erdrich, Love Medicine
Stephen King & Peter Straub, The Talisman
Robert Ludlum, The Aquitaine Progression
1985
Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale
Don Delillo, White Noise
Ursula K. Le Guin, Always Coming Home
1986
Thomas Bernhard, Extinction
Shūsaku Endō, Scandal
1987
Tom Wolfe, The Bonfire of the Vanities
Clive Barker, Weaveworld
T. C. Boyle, World's End
1988
Michael Blake, Dances with Wolves
Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
1989
Hanan al-Shaykh, Women of Sand and Myrrh
E. L. Doctorow, Billy Bathgate
Andy Warhol and Pat Hackett, The Andy Warhol Diaries
1990
Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park
James Ellroy, L.A. Confidential
Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried
1991
Louis Begley, Wartime Lies
Tom Clancy, The Sum of All Fears
Don DeLillo, Mao II
John Grisham, The Firm
1992
Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient
Alasdair Gray, Poor Things
Stephen King, Dolores Claiborne
1993
Michael Azerrad, Come as You Are: The Story of Nirvana
Annie Proulx, The Shipping News
Stephen E. Ambrose, Band of Brothers
Tom Clancy, Without Remorse
Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides
1994
James Redfield, The Celestine Prophecy
Antonio Damasio, Descartes' Error
1995
Umberto Eco, The Island of the Day Before
Wayne C. Booth, Gregory G. Colomb, Joseph M. Williams, The Craft of Research
1996
Douglas Coupland, Polaroids from the Dead
John Darnton, Neanderthal
Alessandro Vezzosi, Leonardo da Vinci: The Mind of the Renaissance
1997
Peter Carey, Jack Maggs
Charles Frazier, Cold Mountain
Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now
1998
Alice McDermott, Charming Billy
Michael Cunningham, The Hours
Antony Beevor, Stalingrad
1999
J. M. Coetzee, Disgrace
Bernard Cornwell, Stonehenge: A Novel of 2000 BC
2000
Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies
Mohsin Hamid, Moth Smoke
Peter Carey, True History of the Kelly Gang
2001
Yann Martel, The Life of Pi
Richard Russo, Empire Falls
Andrew Solomon, The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression
2002
Paul Auster, The Book of Illusions
Stephen L. Carter, The Emperor of Ocean Park
Rick Warren, The Purpose Driven Life
2003