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BKLYN BookMatch 2016 Challenge: Read Through the Decades American Adult Fiction

Challenge yourself in 2016! This is a list of some of the best American fiction of the 20th century. The list runs from the 1990s backwards. This list was created by librarians with the Brooklyn Public Library as a 2016 Reading Challenge. Would you like your own personalized list of reading suggestions? Visit BKLYN BookMatch here:www.bklynpubliclibrary.org/readers-advisory

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The virgin suicides
Jeffrey Eugenides.
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1990s Selection

The bluest eye
Toni Morrison ; [with a foreword by the author].
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1970s Selection

Invisible man
Ralph Ellison.
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1950s Selection

The heart is a lonely hunter
Carson McCullers.
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1940s Selection

The sun also rises
Ernest Hemingway.
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1920s Selection

Winesburg, Ohio
by Sherwood Anderson ; with an introduction by Jeffrey Meyers.
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1910-1919 Selection

Sister Carrie
by Theodore Dreiser ; with an introduction by E.L. Doctorow.
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1900-1909 Selection