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20th Cent. Lit. 1950
present
| Work | Date | Author |
|---|---|---|
| Slaughterhouse Five | 1969 | Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. |
| A Clockwork Orange | 1962 | Anthony Burgess |
| One Hundred Years of Solitude | 1967 | Gabriel Garcia Marquez |
| On the Road | 1957 | Jack Kerouac |
| The Catcher in the Rye | 1951 | J(erome) D(avid) Salinger |
| Lolita | 1955 | Vladimir Nabokov |
| Catch-22 | 1961 | Joseph Heller |
| To Kill a Mockingbird | 1960 | Harper Lee |
| Lord of the Rings Trilogy | 1954-1956 | J(ohn) R(onald) R(eull) Tolkien |
| Waiting for Godot | 1952 | Samuel Beckett |
| Invisible Man | 1952 | Ralph Ellison |
| Where the Red Fern Grown | 1961 | Wilson Rawls |
| Summer of my German Soldier | 1973 | Bette Greene |
| Jonathan Livingston Seagull | 1986 | Richard Bach |
| A Separate Peace | 1956 | John Knowles |
| The Color Purple | 1982 | Alice Walker |
| Lord of the Flies | 1952 | William Golding |
| Naked Lunch | 1959 | William S. Burroughs |
| Things Fall Apart | 1958 | Achebe |
| A Death in the Family | 1957 (Pulitzer) | James Agee |
| Go Tell it on the Mountain | 1953 | James Baldwin |
| Andersonville | 1955 | MacKinlay Kantor |
| Cat's Cradle | 1963 | Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. |
| One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest | 1962 | Ken Kesey |
| Humbolt's Gift | 1976 (Pulitzer) | Saul Bellow (1976 Nobel) |
| Augie March | 1953 | Saul Bellow (1976 Nobel) |
| The Good Earth | 1932 (Pulitzer) | Pearl Buck (1938 Nobel) |