A Century of Books

1900:
1901:
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1903:
1904:
1905: Doctor Glas by Hjalmar Söderbeerg, tr. Paul B. Austin
1906:
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1911:
1912: Alexander's Bridge by Willa Cather
1913:
1914:
1915: The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
1916:
1917: Parnassus on Wheels by Christopher Morley
1918:
1919:
1920: Fear by Stefan Zweig
1921:
1922: Jacob's Room by Virginia Woolf
1923:
1924: The Man in the Brown Suit by Agatha Christie
1925:
1926:
1927:
1928: Grey Mask by Patricia Wentworth
1929: The Man in the Queue by Josephine Tey
1930:
1931: Maigret in Holland by Georges Simenon
1932: Cheerful Weather for the Wedding by Julia Strachey
1933: Flush by Virginia Woolf
1934:
1935: Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
1936:
1937:
1938:
1939:
1940:
1941: Evil Under the Sun by Agatha Christie
1942: The Lieutenant's Lady by Bess Streeter Aldrich
1943: The Last of Summer by Kate O'Brien
1944:
1945:
1946:
1947:
1948:
1949: Khirbet Khizeh by S. Yizhar
1950: There's No Home by Alexander Baron
1951: Transit by Anna Seghers
1952:
1953: Guard Your Daughters by Diana Tutton
1954:
1955:
1956: Wildfire at Midnight by Mary Stewart
1957:
1958: My Face the World to See by Alfred Hayes
1959:
1960:
1961: Everything Flows by Vasily Grossman
1962: A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
1963: Up the Junction by Nell Dunn
1964:
1965: Airs Above Ground by Mary Stewart
1966:
1967:
1968: The Wall by Marlen Haushofer
1969:
1970:
1971:
1972: My Michael by Amos Oz (English translation)
1973: Maus I by Art Spiegelman
1974: Cashelmara by Susan Howatch
1975: Turtle Diary by Russell Hoban
1976: Legend in Green Velvet by Elizabeth Peters
1977: The Wars by Timothy Findley
1978:
1979:
1980:
1981: A Countess Below Stairs by Eva Ibbotson
1982:
1983: Pitch Dark by Renata Adler
1984: Testing the Current by William McPherson
1985: Crampton Hodnet by Barbara Pym
1986: A Summons to Memphis by Peter Taylor
1987:
1988:
1989: The Quincunx by Charles Palliser
1990:
1991: Letters from Constance by Mary Hocking
1992: At Weddings and Wakes by Alice McDermott
1993: A Grave Talent by Laurie King
1994:
1995: Total Chaos by Jean-Claude Izzo
1996: Hotel Paradise by Martha Grimes
1997: The Black Flower by Howard Bahr
1998: The Moor by Laurie King
1999: Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami