100 Books for 100 Years...

Enjoy this list of 100 great books, and remember that most of them come in other formats, too -- such as audiobooks, DVDs, playaways, and ebooks!

1911: The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
1912: The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle
1913: O Pioneers!  by Willa Cather
1914: Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs
1915: The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford
1916: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
1917: Anne’s House of Dreams by L. M. Montgomery
1918: In Defense of Women by H. L. Mencken
1919: Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson
1920: Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence
1921: Six Characters in Search of an Author by Luigi Pirandello
1922: Siddhartha by Herman Hesse
1923: Bambi, a Life in the Woods by Felix Salten
1924: A Passage to India by E. M. Forester
1925: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
1926: Winnie the Pooh by A. A. Milne
1927: To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
1928: The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall
1929: All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
1930: The Secret of the Old Clock by Carolyn Keene
1931: Joy of Cooking by Irma Rombauer
1932: Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
1933: Lost Horizon by James Hilton
1934: Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
1935: Tortilla Flat by John Steinbeck
1936: Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
1937: The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkein
1938: The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
1939: Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats by T. S. Eliot
1940: Native Son by Richard Wright
1941: Make Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskey
1942: Seventeenth Summer by Maureen Daly
1943: The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
1944: The Razor’s Edge by Somerset Maugham
1945: Animal Farm by George Orwell
1946: The Street by Ann Petry
1947: A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
1948: Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
1949: The Lottery and Other Stories by Shirley Jackson
1950: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis
1951: The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
1952: Charlotte’s Web by E. B. White
1953: Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
1954: Horton Hears a Who by Dr. Seuss
1955: Eloise by Kay Thompson
1956: Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin
1957: On the Road by Jack Kerouac
1958: Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
1959: The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass
1960: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
1961: Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls
1962: A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
1963: The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
1964: Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh
1965: Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X
1966: In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
1967: The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton
1968: Corduroy by Don Freeman
1969: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
1970: Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West by Dee Brown
1971: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
1972: Watership Down by Richard Adams
1973: Sybil by Flora Rheta Schreiber
1974: Carrie by Stephen King
1975: Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt
1976: Roots by Alex Haley
1977: The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough
1978: The World According to Garp by John Irving
1979: Kindred by Octavia Butler
1980: Cosmos by Carl Sagan
1981: Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
1982: The Color Purple by Alice Walker
1983: The Witches by Roald Dahl
1984: The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
1985: The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
1986: Maus by Art Spiegelman
1987: Beloved by Toni Morrison
1988: Heidi Chronicles by Wendy Wasserstein
1989: Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
1990: The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien
1991: The Firm by John Grisham
1992: Waiting to Exhale by Terry McMillan
1993: When I Was Puerto Rican by Esmeralda  Santiago
1994: Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
1995: High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
1996: Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt
1997: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J. K. Rowling 
1998: The Hours by Michael Cunningham
1999: Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
2000: Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo
2001: Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
2002: Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
2003: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
2004: Knuffle Bunny by Mo Willems
2005: Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
2006: The Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan
2007: The Brief, Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
2008: The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
2009: Stitches: A Memoir by David Small
2010: Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green
2011: The Tiger’s Wife by Tea Obreht