20th century novels
In this modernist novel by James Joyce, the entire narrative takes place in Dublin on a single day: June 16, 1904.
What is Ulysses?
This author wrote The Catcher in the Rye, featuring the cynical protagonist Holden Caulfield.
Who is J.D. Salinger?
F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote this 1925 novel about a mysterious millionaire and his obsession with the elusive Daisy Buchanan.
What is The Great Gatsby?
This British author wrote the dystopian classics Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four.
Who is George Orwell?
This Jack Kerouac novel, published in 1957, was a defining work of the Beat Generation and famously written on a continuous 120-foot scroll of paper.
What is On the Road?
Known for This Side of Paradise and Tender is the Night, this author's sister famously noted in 1937 that he had "hats of every description".
Who is F. Scott Fitzgerald?
Margaret Atwood's 1985 dystopian novel features the totalitarian state of Gilead and women known as "Handmaids" who are forced into child-bearing servitude.
What is The Handmaid’s Tale?
This Nobel Prize winner's works include The Sound and the Fury and As I Lay Dying, often set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County.
Who is William Faulkner?
This 1954 William Golding novel depicts a group of British boys stranded on an uninhabited island and their disastrous attempt to govern themselves.
What is Lord of the Flies?
Virginia Woolf’s own publishing press famously turned down this controversial James Joyce novel because of its experimental style.
What is Ulysses?