Boston Public Library's 100 Most Influential Books of the Century

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Philosophy Of New Music (1949) af Theodor W. Adorno
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (1939) af James Agee
Alcoholics Anonymous (1939) af Alcoholics Anonymous
Råb det fra bjergene (1953) af James Baldwin
Det andet køn (1953) af Simone de Beauvoir
Patterns of Culture (1934) af Ruth Benedict
The Engineering of Consent (1955) af Edward L. Bernays
Our Bodies, Ourselves: A Book By and For Women (1970) af Boston Women's Health Book Collective
Jeg og du (1923) af Martin Buber
A clockwork orange (1962) af Anthony Burgess
Den fremmede (1942) af Albert Camus
How to Win Friends & Influence People (1936) af Dale Carnegie
Det tavse forår (1962) af Rachel Carson
Reflections from Captivity (Southeast Asia Translation Series) (1978) af Phan Bio Chau
The Cherry Orchard (1904) af Anton Chekhov
Mastering the Art of French Cooking (Two-volume set) (1961) af Julia Child
Syntactic Structures (1957) af Noam Chomsky
2001 (1968) af Arthur C. Clarke
Kærlighedens glæder : en bog om kunsten at elske (1972) af Alex Comfort
Mørkets hjerte (1899) af Joseph Conrad
Looking at the Dance (1949) af Edwin Denby
The School and Society (1899) af John Dewey
Genetics and the Origin of Species (1947) af Theodosius Dobzhansky
Relativity: The Special and General Theory (1916) af Albert Einstein
Prufrock and Other Observations (1917) af T. S. Eliot
Den store Gatsby (1925) af F. Scott Fitzgerald
Anne Frank's dagbog (1947) af Anne Frank
Man's Search for Meaning (1946) af Viktor Frankl
The Golden Bough (1890) af James George Frazer
Drømmetydning bind 1-2 (1900) af Sigmund Freud
The Masters and the Slaves: A Study in the Development of Brazilian Civilization (1956) af Gilberto Freyre
The Feminine Mystique (1963) af Betty Friedan
Satyagraha in South Africa (1950) af M. K. Gandhi
Hundrede års ensomhed (1967) af Gabriel Garcia Marquez
I skyggen af mennesket (1971) af Jane Goodall
Creatures That Once Were Men (1918) af Maxim Gorky
Mænd er fra Mars, kvinder er fra Venus : to køn, to sprog, to verdener : sådan når I hinanden (1992) af John Gray
Art and Culture: Critical Essays (1961) af Clement Greenberg
Rødder (1976) af Alex Haley
Smoking and Health: Report of the Advisory Committee to the Surgeon General of the Public Health Service (1964) af and Welfare U.S. Department of Education Health
Væren og tid (1927) af Martin Heidegger
Solen går sin gang (1926) af Ernest Hemingway
Steppeulven (1927) af Hermann Hesse
Min kamp. Bind 1: Et opgør. Bind 2: Den nationalsocialistiske bevægelse. (1925) af Adolf Hitler
Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking (1907) af William James
Encyclicals of Pope John XXIII (1980) af John XXIII
Ulysses (1922) af James Joyce
Det ubevidste (1912) af C. G. Jung
Processen (1925) af Franz Kafka
Vejene (1957) af Jack Kerouac
The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money (1936) af John Maynard Keynes
Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (1948) af Alfred C. Kinsey
Mørke midt på dagen (1940) af Arthur Koestler
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962) af Thomas S. Kuhn
Lady Chatterleys elsker (1960) af D. H. Lawrence
Den gyldne bog (1962) af Doris Lessing
The Raw and the Cooked: Introduction to a Science of Mythology: I (1964) af Claude Lévi-Strauss
Babbitt (1922) af Sinclair Lewis
Det såkaldt onde (1963) af Konrad Lorenz
Menneskets lod (1933) af André Malraux
Troldfjeldet (1924) af Thomas Mann
Motivation and Personality (1954) af Abraham H. Maslow
Coming of Age in Samoa (1928) af Margaret Mead
The Seven Storey Mountain (1948) af Thomas Merton
The Power Elite (1956) af C. Wright Mills
The Montessori Method (1912) af Maria Montessori
A Critique of the Theory of Evolution (2009) af Thomas Hunt Morgan
Lolita (1955) af Vladimir Nabokov
1984 (1949) af George Orwell
Conditioned Reflexes (1927) af I. P. Pavlov
Judgment and reasoning in the child (1959) af Jean Piaget
Seks Personer søger en Forfatter : et uskrevet Skuespil (1921) af Luigi Pirandello
På sporet af den tabte tid (1913) af Marcel Proust
Og verden skælvede (1957) af Ayn Rand
Ti dage der rystede verden (1919) af John Reed
Orgasmens funktion : den biologiske energis seksualøkonomiske grundproblemer (1961) af Wilhelm Reich
How the Other Half Lives (1890) af Jacob A. Riis
Forbandede ungdom (1951) af J. D. Salinger
Happiness in Marriage (1926) af Margaret Sanger
Væren og Intet - et essay om fænomenologisk ontologi (1943) af Jean-Paul Sartre
Intelligent Life in the Universe (1962) af I. S. Shklovskii
Junglen (1906) af Upton Sinclair
Beyond Freedom & Dignity (1971) af B. F. Skinner
Gulag øhavet (1973) af Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The Decline of the West (1918) af Oswald Spengler
Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care (1945) af Benjamin Spock
Vredens druer (1939) af John Steinbeck
The History of the Standard Oil Company: Briefer Version (1966) af Ida M. Tarbell
Citater fra formand Mao Tse-Tung (1968) af Mao Tse-Tung
Theory of Games and Economic Behavior (1944) af John Von Neumann
The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA (1969) af James D. Watson
Behaviorism (1925) af John B. Watson
Cybernetics, or, Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine (1948) af Norbert Wiener
A Room of One's Own (1929) af Virginia Woolf
Native Son (1940) af Richard Wright

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