20th Century English Literature Famous Books & Writers List

English Literature in 20th Century List of Famous Authors with Their Works - Check here the list of famous/great authors and books of English Literature in the twentieth century. This list includes all sections of English literature - novel, short story, poetry, drama, poetic play, biography, autobiography, criticism, fiction, non-fiction prose, etc.

The list also includes writers/authors, poet and dramatists who belong to British Literature, American Literature, African Literature, Anglo-Indian Literature, Australian Literature, Canadian Literature, and Commonwealth Literature in 20th century.

English Literature in 20^th Century: List of Major Works and Writers

There are many questions that come in our mind when we talk about it - Who is the greatest writer of the 20th century? What is the greatest novel of the 20th century? Who is the greatest English writer? Who is the greatest poet of the 20th century? What is the famous book of the 20th century?

But we have prepared this list on the ground that who have contributed English literature in 20th century with their work. So, there is no comparison between the authors/writers or the books they had written during the period. Here is a compiled list of works and their authors belong to English literature in the 20th century.

20th Century English Literature List of Famous Authors & Books
Year	Book	Author
1900	Lord Jim	Joseph Conrad
1901	Kim	Rudyard Kipling
1902	Heart of Darkness	Joseph Conrad
1903	The Ambassadors	Henry James
1904	John Bull’s Other Island (play)	George Bernard Shaw
1905	Where Angels Fear to Tread	E. M. Forster
1906	Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens	J. M. Barrie
1907	The Playboy of the Western World	J. M. Synge
1908	The Man Who Was Thursday	G. K. Chesterton
1909	Tono-Bungay	H. G. Wells
1910	Howards End	E. M. Forster
1911	Under Western Eyes	Joseph Conrad
1912	The Trespasser	D. H. Lawrence
1913	Sons and Lovers	D. H. Lawrence
1913	Gitanjali (Song Offering) (poetry)	Rabindranath Tagore
1914	North of Boston (poetry)	Robert Frost
1915	Of Human Bondage	Somerset Maugham
1916	A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man	James Joyce
1917	Prufrock and Other Observations	T. S. Eliot
1918	Eminent Victorians (biography)	Lytton Strachey
1919	Winesburg, Ohio (the first ‘lost generation’ novel)	Sherwood Anderson
1920	Anna Christie (play)	Eugene O’Neill
1921	The Forsyte Saga	John Galsworthy
1922	Ulysses	James Joyce
1922	The Waste Land	T. S. Eliot
1923	Three Soldiers	John Dos Passos
1924	A Passage to India	E. M. Forster
1925	Mrs. Dalloway	Virginia Woolf
1925	The Great Gatsby	F. Scott Fitzgerald
1926	Seven Pillars of Wisdom	T. E. Lawrence
1927	To the Lighthouse	Virginia Woolf
1928	Sailing to Byzantium (The Tower) (poetry)	W. B. Yeats
1928	Lady Chatterley’s Lover (banned until 1963)	D. H. Lawrence
1929	A Farewell to Arms	Earnest Hemingway
1930	As I Lay Dying	William Faulkner
1931	The Good Earth	Pearl S. Buck
1932	Brave New World	Aldous Huxley
1933	The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas	Gertrude Stein
1934	Tropic of Cancer	Henry Miller
1935	Eyeless in Gaza (published in 1936)	Aldous Huxley
1936	Coolie	Mulkraj Anand
1936	Absalom, Absalom!	William Faulkner
1937	Of Mice and Men	John Steinbeck
1938	Brighton Rock	Graham Greene
1939	The Grapes of Wrath	John Steinbeck
1940	Native Son	Richard Wright
1940	The Power and the Glory	Graham Greene
1941	China Sky	Pearl S. Buck
1942	Put Out More Flags	Evelyn Waugh
1943	Caught	Henry Green
1944	Love in Idleness (play)	Terence Rattigan
1945	Animal Farm	George Orwell
1946	Deaths and Entrances (poetry)	Dylan Thomas
1947	A Streetcar Named Desire (play)	Tennessee Williams
1948	The Heart of the Matter	Graham Greene
1949	Nineteen Eighty-Four	George Orwell
1949	Death of A Salesman	Arthur Miller
1950	Nothing	Henry Green
1951	The Old Man and the Sea (published in 1952)	Earnest Hemingway
1952	Invisible Man	Raloh Ellison
1953	Waiting for Godot (play premiered in English in 1955)	Samuel Beckett
1954	Lord of the Flies	William Golding
1954	Lucky Jim (the most famous ‘angry young man’ novel)	Kingsley Amis
1955	Lolita	Vladimir Nabokov
1956	Look Back in Anger (the first ‘angry young man’ play)	John Osborne
1957	The Birthday Party (published in 1959)	Harold Pinter
1958	The Guide	R. K. Narayan
1958	Things Fall Apart	Chinua Achebe
1959	Goodbye, Columbus	Philip Roth
1960	To Kill a Mockingbird	Harper Lee
1961	Catch-22	Joseph Heller
1962	The Golden Notebook	Doris Lessing
1963	The Bell Jar	Sylvia Plath
1964	Herzog	Saul Bellow
1965	An American Dream	Norman Mailer
1966	Valley of the Dolls	Jacqueline Susann
1967	A Grain of Wheat	Ngugi wa Thiongo
1968	The Public Image	Muriel Spark
1969	The French Lieutenant’s Woman	John Fowles
1970	One Hundred Years of Solitude (in Spanish 1967)	Gabriel Garcia Marquez
1971	In a Free State	V. S. Naipaul
1972	G	John Berger
1973	Season of Anomy	Wole Soyinka
1974	If Beale Street Could Talk	James Baldwin
1975	Humboldt’s Gift	Saul Bellow
1976	Death and the King’s Horseman	Wole Soyinka
1977	Song of Solomon	Toni Morrision
1978	The Sea, the Sea	Iris Murdoch
1979	The Unlimited Dream Company	J. G. Ballard
1980	Earthly Powers	Anthony Burgess
1981	Midnight’s Children	Salman Rushdie
1982	The Color Purple	Alice Walker
1983	The Name of the Rose (translated in English in 1983)	Umberto Eco
1983	Waterland	Graham Swift
1984	Money	Martin Amis
1985	Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit	Jeanette WInterson
1986	The Old Devils	Kingsley Amis
1987	The Alchemist (published in English 1993)	Paulo Coelho
1988	Oscar and Lucinda	Peter Carey
1988	The Satanic Verses	Salman Rushdie
1989	The Remains of the Day	Kazuo Ishiguro
1990	The Buddha of Suburbia	Hanif Kureishi
1990	Possession	A. S. Byatt
1991	Generation X : Tales for an Accelerated Culture	Douglas Coupland
1992	The English Patient	Michael Ondaatje
1993	The Client	John Grisham
1993	A Suitable Boy	Vikram Seth
1994	How Late It Was, How Late	James Kelman
1995	The Calcutta Chromosome	Amitav Ghosh
1996	Infinite Jest	David Foster Wallace
1997	Underworld	Don DeLillo
1997	The God of Small Things	Arundhati Roy
1998	Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard	Kiran Desai
1999	The Ground Beneath Her Feet	Salman Rushdie
2000	Riding the Bullet (world’s first mass market e-book)	Stephen King

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