literature by year - 20th century

1900

the story of a farm girl and her dog who are swept up in a cyclone and carried to a fantastical land

1911

a novel, first published serially, about an unloved young girl born in British India and sent to her uncle's house in England after she is orphaned by cholera

1925

stereotypically assigned in high school English classes, it tells the story of the narrator's neighbor on Long Island, a millionaire obsessed with reuniting winning back a former lover

1926

a whodunit narrated by a British doctor who becomes the companion of the detective investigating the titular death of a wealthy widower

1929

a novel set during the Italian campaign of WWI, following the romance of an American lieutenant with an English nurse

1934

a three stanza poem about plums that had been left in an icebox

1937

a fantasy children's novel about a journey, as well as a precursor to a novel in the same universe aimed at adult audiences, which was later adapted into a massively successful series of films

1945

an allegorical novel about the politics of the Soviet Union as told via anthropomorphic animals

1950

the first of seven books in a series, it recounts the story of four siblings helping a talking lion based on Jesus Christ save a fantastical land

1955

a play about the memories and revelations that come to light when an alcoholic son and his wife pay a visit to his terminally ill father

1966

the story of an orphan boy who goes on a whimsical journey with a gigantic fruit

1967

a magical realism novel about a family living in the fictional Colombian town founded by its patriarch

1979

a gothic novel about four siblings secretly imprisoned in their grandparents' manor home after the death of their father

1985

set in a near-future patriarchal dystopia, it follows a member of a class of women forced to bear children for the ruling class

1992

the story of a nurse caring for a mysterious patient in an Italian villa after WWII has ended in the European, but not Pacific, theater