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Books over the Century

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Year published
Author
Book initials
Answer
1901
Rudyard Kipling
K
Kim
1902
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
THOTB
The Hound of the Baskervilles
1903
Jack London
TCOTW
The Call of the wild
1904
Beatrix Potter
TTOBB
The tale of Benjamin Bunny
1905
Frances Hodgson Burnett
ALP
A little princess
1906
E. Nesbit
TRC
The Railway Children
1907
Beatrix Potter
TTOTK
The tale of Tom Kitten
1908
Kenneth Grahame
TWITW
The wind in the willows
1909
L. Frank Baum
TRTO
The road to Oz
1910
E.M. Forster
HE
Howard's End
1911
J.M. Barrie
PP
Peter Pan
1912
Thomas Mann
DIV
Death in Venice
1913
D. H. Lawrence
SAL
Sons and Lovers
1914
James Joyce
D
Dubliners
1915
Frank Kafka
TM
The Metamorphosis
1916
James Joyce
APOTAAAYM
A portrait of the artist as a young man
1917
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
HLB
His last bow
1918
Frank Kafka
ITPC
In the penal colony
1919
P. G. Wodehouse
MMJ
My man Jeeves
1920
Hugh Lofting
TSODD
The story of Doctor Dolittle
1921
F. Scott Fitzgerald
TCCOBB
The curious case of Benjamin Button
1922
James Joyce
U
Ulysses
1923
Kahlil Gibran
TP
The prophet
1924
E. M. Forster
APTI
A passage to India
1925
F. Scott Fitzgerald
TGG
The great Gatsby
1926
A. A. Milne
WTP
Winnie the Pooh
1927
Virginia Woolf
TTL
To the lighthouse
1928
Erich MariaRemarque
AQOTWF
All quiet on the western front
1929
Ernest Hemingway
AFTA
A Farewell to Arms
1930
Dashiell Hammett
TMF
The Maltese falcon
1931
Pearl S. Buck
TGE
The good earth
1932
Aldous Huxley
BNW
Brave new world
1933
John Steinbeck
TRP
The red pony
1934
Agatha Chrisie
MOTOE
Murder on the Orient express
1935
Laura Ingalls Wilder
LHOTP
Little house on the prairie
1936
Margaret Mitchell
GWTW
Gone with the wind
1937
J. R. R. Tolkien
TH
The hobbit
1938
Daphne du Maurier
R
Rebecca
1939
Agatha Christie
ATTWN
And then there were none
1940
Ernest Hemingway
FWTBT
For whom the bell tolls
1941
Mary O'Hara
MFF
My friend Flicka
1942
Albert Camus
TS
The stranger
1943
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
TLP
The little prince
1944
Kathleen Winsor
FA
Forever Amber
1945
George Orwell
AF
Animal farm
1946
Arthur Miller
TC
The crucible
1947
Anne Frank
TDOAYG
The diary of a young girl
1948
Dodie Smith
ICTC
I capture the castle
1949
George Orwell
NEF
1984
1950
C. S. Lewis
TLTWATW
The lion, the witch and the wardrobe
1951
J. D. Salinger
TCITR
The catcher in the rye
1952
E. B. White
CW
Charlotte's web
1953
Ray Bradbury
F FFO
Fahrenheit 451
1954
William Golding
LOTF
Lord of the flies
1955
Vladimir Nabokov
L
Lolita
1956
C. S. Lewis
TCON
The Chronicles of Narnia
1957
Dr. Seuss
TCITH
The cat in the hat
1958
Truman Capote
BAT
Breakfast at Tiffany's
1959
Robert Bloch
P
Psycho
1960
Harper Lee
TKAM
To kill a mockingbird
1961
Joseph Heller
C TT
Catch 22
1962
Ken Kesey
OFOTCN
One flew over the cuckoo's nest
1963
Maurice Sendak
WTWTA
Where the wild things are
1964
Roald Dahl
CATCF
Charlie and the chocolate factory
1965
Frank Herbert
D
Dune
1966
Jean Rhys
WSS
Wide Sargasso sea
1967
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
OHYOS
One hundred years of solitude
1968
Arthur C. Clarke
TTAO:ASO
2001: a space odyssey
1969
Eric Carle
TVHC
The very hungry caterpillar
1970
Richard Bach
JLS
Jonathan Livingston Seagull
1971
William Peter Blatty
TE
The exorcist
1972
Richard Adams
WD
Watership down
1973
William Goldman
TPB
The princess bride
1974
Peter Benchley
J
Jaws
1975
Stephen King
SL
Salem's lot
1976
David Seltzer
TO
The omen
1977
Colleen McCullough
TTB
The thorn birds
1978
Ken Follett
EOTN
Eye of the needle
1979
Douglas Adams
THGTTG
The hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy
1980
Umberto Eco
TNOTR
The name of the rose
1981
Salman Rushdie
MC
Midnight's children
1982
Roald Dahl
TBFG
The BFG
1983
Susan Hill
TWIB
The Woman in black
1984
Tom Clancy
THFRO
The hunt for red October
1985
Margaret Atwood
THT
The handmaid's tale
1986
Stephen King
I
It
1987
Stephen King
M
Misery
1988
Stephen Hawking
ABHOT
A brief history of time
1989
Kazuo Ishiguro
TROTD
The remains of the day
1990
Michael Crichton
JP
Jurassic park
1991
Jung Chang
WS: TDOC
Wild swans:Three daughters of china
1992
Donna Tartt
TSH
The secret history
1993
James Patterson
ACAS
Along came a spider
1994
Nelson Mandela
LWTF
Long walk to freedom
1995
Philip Pullman
TGC
The golden compass
1996
George R. R. Martin
AGOT
A game of thrones
1997
J. K. Rowling
HPATPS
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's stone
1998
Bill Bryson
AWITW
A walk in the woods
1999
Tracy Chevalier
GWAPE
Girl with a pearl earring
2000
Dan Brown
AAD
Angels and demons
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Level 77
Nov 6, 2023
Great Quiz! But there's a typo in 1922: The correct spelling is Ulysses, not Ulysees.
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Level 50
Nov 7, 2023
thank you so much for your absolutely correct correction of my typo. All fixed now. Enjoy