Acton Memorial Library 1890-2015 125 Years * 125 Books 1890 Henry James The Tragic Muse 1913 Willa Cather O Pioneers! 1891 Howard Pyle Men of Iron 1914 James Joyce Dubliners 1892 Charlotte Perkins The Yellow Wallpaper 1915 Somerset Maugham Of Human Bondage Gilman 1893 Stephen Crane Maggie, a Girl of the Streets 1916 James Joyce A Portrait of the Artist as a 1894 Mark Twain The Tragedy of Pudd’nhead Young Man Wilson 1917 P.G. Wodehouse The Man with Two Left Feet and 1895 H.G. Wells The Time Machine Other Stories 1896 Sarah Orne Jewett The Country of the Pointed Firs 1918 Willa Cather My Antonia 1897 Bram Stoker Dracula 1919 Sherwood Anderson Winesburg, Ohio 1898 Henry James The Turn of the Screw 1920 Edith Wharton The Age of Innocence 1899 Kate Chopin The Awakening 1921 Booth Tarkington Alice Adams 1900 Theodore Dreiser Sister Carrie 1922 James Joyce Ulysses 1901 Rudyard Kipling Kim 1923 Dorothy L. Sayers Whose Body? 1902 Arthur Conan Doyle The Hound of the Baskervilles 1924 Herman Melville Billy Budd 1903 Jack London The Call of the Wild 1925 F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby 1904 Henry James The Golden Bowl 1926 Ernest Hemingway The Sun Also Rises 1905 Edith Wharton The House of Mirth 1927 Thornton Wilder The Bridge of San Luis Rey 1906 Upton Sinclair The Jungle 1928 Virginia Woolf Orlando 1907 Joseph Conrad The Secret Agent 1929 William Faulkner The Sound and the Fury 1908 E.M. Forster A Room with a View 1930 Dashiell Hammett The Maltese Falcon 1909 Gene Stratton A Girl of the Limberlost 1931 Pearl Buck The Good Earth Porter 1932 Aldous Huxley Brave New World 1910 E.M. Forster Howard’s End 1933 Gertrude Stein The Autobiography of Alice B. 1911 Edith Wharton Ethan Frome Toklas 1912 Zane Grey Riders of the Purple Sage 1934 F. Scott Fitzgerald Tender is the Night 1935 John Steinbeck Tortilla Flat 1977 Marilyn French The Women’s Room 1936 Margaret Mitchell Gone with the Wind 1978 John Irving The World According to Garp 1937 Zora Neale Hurston Their Eyes Were Watching God 1979 Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the 1938 Marjorie Kinnan The Yearling Galaxy Rawlings 1980 Marilynne Robinson Housekeeping 1939 John Steinbeck The Grapes of Wrath 1981 Raymond Carver What We Talk About When We 1940 Thomas Wolfe You Can’t Go Home Again Talk About Love 1941 Carson McCullers Reflections in a Golden Eye 1982 Alice Walker The Color Purple 1942 William Faulkner Go Down Moses 1983 Marion Zimmer The Mists of Avalon 1943 Betty Smith A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Bradley 1944 Joyce Cary The Horse’s Mouth 1984 Sandra Cisneros The House on Mango Street 1945 George Orwell Animal Farm 1985 Larry McMurtry Lonesome Dove 1946 Robert Penn All the King’s Men 1986 Art Spiegelman Maus: A Survivor’s Tale Warren 1987 Toni Morrison Beloved 1947 James Michener Tales of the South Pacific 1988 Barbara Kingsolver The Bean Trees 1948 Norman Mailer The Naked and the Dead 1989 Kazuo Ishiguro The Remains of the Day 1949 George Orwell 1984 1990 Tim O’Brien The Things They Carried 1950 John Hersey The Wall 1991 Diana Gabaldon Outlander 1951 J.D. Salinger The Catcher in the Rye 1992 Michael Ondaatje The English Patient 1952 John Steinbeck East of Eden 1993 Ernest J. Gaines A Lesson before Dying 1953 James Baldwin Go Tell it on the Mountain 1994 Alice Munro Open Secrets 1954 J.R.R. Tolkien The Fellowship of the Ring 1995 Richard Ford Independence Day 1955 Vladimir Nabokov Lolita 1996 David Foster Infinite Jest 1956 Allen Ginsberg Howl and Other Poems Wallace 1957 Jack Kerouac On the Road 1997 Annie Proulx Brokeback Mountain 1958 Bernard Malamud The Magic Barrel 1998 J.K. Rowling Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s 1959 William S. Naked Lunch Stone Burroughs 1999 Ha Jin Waiting 1960 Harper Lee To Kill a Mockingbird 2000 Michael Chabon The Amazing Adventures of 1961 Joseph Heller Catch 22 Kavalier and Clay 1962 Ken Kesey One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s 2001 Jonathan Franzen The Corrections Nest 2002 Ann Patchett Bel Canto 1963 Mary McCarthy The Group 2003 Jhumpa Lahiri The Namesake 1964 Saul Bellow Herzog 2004 Marilynne Robinson Gilead 1965 Frank Herbert Dune 2005 Zadie Smith On Beauty 1966 Bernard Malamud The Fixer 2006 Alice Munro The View from Castle Rock 1967 William Styron The Confessions of Nat Turner 2007 Junot Diaz The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar 1968 Arthur C. Clarke 2001: A Space Odyssey Wao 1969 Kurt Vonnegut Slaughterhouse-Five 2008 Elizabeth Strout Olive Kitteridge 1970 James Dickey Deliverance 2009 Paul Harding Tinkers 1971 Wallace Stegner Angle of Repose 2010 Ken Follett Fall of Giants 1972 Eudora Welty The Optimist’s Daughter 2011 Téa Obreht The Tiger’s Wife 1973 Thomas Pynchon Gravity’s Rainbow 2012 Adam Johnson The Orphan Master’s Son 1974 Michael Shaara The Killer Angels 2013 Donna Tartt The Goldfinch 1975 E.L. Doctorow Ragtime 2014 Anthony Doerr All the Light We Cannot See 1976 Alex Haley Roots: The Saga of an American 2015 Harper Lee Go Set a Watchman Family .