Book titles for authors born 1901 - 1950


297 The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac by Graham Farmelo

Dirac, Paul (1902 - 1984) English physicist

298 Of Mice and Men (1937)

Steinbeck, John - US novelist (1902 - 1968)

299 The Grapes of Wrath (1939)

Steinbeck, John - US novelist (1902 - 1968)

300 Brideshead Revisited (1945)

Waugh, Evelyn - English novelist & satirist (1903 - 1966)

301 1984

Orwell, George - English essayist, novelist, & satirist (1903 - 1950)

302 Animal Farm

Orwell, George - English essayist, novelist, & satirist (1903 - 1950)

303 The End of the Affair (1951)

Greene, Graham (1904 - 1991), English author, playwright and literary critic

304 Being and Nothingness (1943)

Sartre, Jean-Paul - French author & existentialist philosopher (1905 - 1980)

305 Nausea / La nausée (1938)

Sartre, Jean-Paul - French author & existentialist philosopher (1905 - 1980)

306 The Wall / Le mur (short-story collection) (1939)

Sartre, Jean-Paul - French author & existentialist philosopher (1905 - 1980)

307 Among Women Only (1949)

Pavese, Cesare - Italian author, novelist, & translator (1908 - 1950)

308 The Devil in the Hills (1948)

Pavese, Cesare - Italian author, novelist, & translator (1908 - 1950)

309 The Moon and the Bonfire (1950)

Pavese, Cesare - Italian author, novelist, & translator (1908 - 1950)

310 The Political Prisoner

Pavese, Cesare - Italian author, novelist, & translator (1908 - 1950)

311 Language, Truth, and Logic (1936)

Ayer, A. J. (Sir Alfred Jules "Freddie" Ayer, 1910 - 1989)

312 Reuben, Reuben (1964)

De Vries, Peter (1910 – 1993), American editor and novelist

313 Slouching Towards Kalamazoo (1983)

De Vries, Peter (1910 – 1993), American editor and novelist

314 The Blood of the Lamb (1961)

De Vries, Peter (1910 – 1993), American editor and novelist

315 Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man (1964)

McLuhan, Marshall - Canadian author, educator, & philosopher (1911 - 1980)

316 The Medium is the Massage: An Inventory of Effects (1967)

McLuhan, Marshall - Canadian author, educator, & philosopher (1911 - 1980)

317 Reflections on the Guillotine (Réflexions sur la guillotine) (Extended essay, 1957)

Camus, Albert (1913 - 1960) French existentialist author & philosopher

318 The Fall (La Chute) (1956)

Camus, Albert (1913 - 1960) French existentialist author & philosopher

319 The Myth of Sisyphus (Le Mythe de Sisyphe) (1942) (non-fiction)

Camus, Albert (1913 - 1960) French existentialist author & philosopher

320 The Stranger (L'Étranger, often translated as The Outsider) (1942)

Camus, Albert (1913 - 1960) French existentialist author & philosopher

321 Naked Lunch (1959)

Burroughs, William S. - US author (1914 - 1997)

322 Invisible Man (1952)

Ellison, Ralph Waldo (1914 – 1994), American novelist, literary critic, scholar and writer

323 Biology and Man's Estimation of Himself

Medawar, Sir Peter Brian (1915 – 1987), Brazilian/British biologist

324 On `The Effecting of All Things Possible'

Medawar, Sir Peter Brian (1915 – 1987), Brazilian/British biologist

325 Does Ethology Throw Any Light on Human Behaviour?

Medawar, Sir Peter Brian (1915 – 1987), Brazilian/British biologist

326 The Future of Man: the last of six lectures of the same title. This one is on "exosomatic'' (i.e., mental) evolution and heredity.

Medawar, Sir Peter Brian (1915 – 1987), Brazilian/British biologist

327 Review of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin's The Phenomenon of Man

Medawar, Sir Peter Brian (1915 – 1987), Brazilian/British biologist

328 Technology and Evolution

Medawar, Sir Peter Brian (1915 – 1987), Brazilian/British biologist

329 A View from the Bridge (1955)

Miller, Arthur - US dramatist (1915 - 2005)

330 Death of a Salesman (1949)

Miller, Arthur - US dramatist (1915 - 2005)

331 The Crucible (1953)

Miller, Arthur - US dramatist (1915 - 2005)

332 Myth & Christianity, Ritual in (1953)

Watts, Alan Wilson (1915 – 1973), British philosopher, writer, and speaker, best known as an interpreter and populariser of Eastern philosophy for a Western audience

333 The Way of Zen (1957)

Watts, Alan Wilson (1915 – 1973), British philosopher, writer, and speaker, best known as an interpreter and populariser of Eastern philosophy for a Western audience

334 The New Alchemy (1958)

Watts, Alan Wilson (1915 – 1973), British philosopher, writer, and speaker, best known as an interpreter and populariser of Eastern philosophy for a Western audience

335 From Time to Eternity (1960)

Watts, Alan Wilson (1915 – 1973), British philosopher, writer, and speaker, best known as an interpreter and populariser of Eastern philosophy for a Western audience

336 Alan Watts Lectures and Essays (1960)

Watts, Alan Wilson (1915 – 1973), British philosopher, writer, and speaker, best known as an interpreter and populariser of Eastern philosophy for a Western audience

337 The Joyous Cosmology (1962)

Watts, Alan Wilson (1915 – 1973), British philosopher, writer, and speaker, best known as an interpreter and populariser of Eastern philosophy for a Western audience

338 Book On The Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are (1966)

Watts, Alan Wilson (1915 – 1973), British philosopher, writer, and speaker, best known as an interpreter and populariser of Eastern philosophy for a Western audience

339 Psychedelics and Religious Experience (1968)

Watts, Alan Wilson (1915 – 1973), British philosopher, writer, and speaker, best known as an interpreter and populariser of Eastern philosophy for a Western audience

340 The Philosophies of Asia (1995)

Watts, Alan Wilson (1915 – 1973), British philosopher, writer, and speaker, best known as an interpreter and populariser of Eastern philosophy for a Western audience

341 A Psychedelic Experience

Watts, Alan Wilson (1915 – 1973), British philosopher, writer, and speaker, best known as an interpreter and populariser of Eastern philosophy for a Western audience

342 The Soul-Searchers

Watts, Alan Wilson (1915 – 1973), British philosopher, writer, and speaker, best known as an interpreter and populariser of Eastern philosophy for a Western audience

343 Childhood's End (1953)

Clarke, Arthur C. - English physicist & science fiction author (1917- 2008)

344 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

Clarke, Arthur C. - English physicist & science fiction author (1917- 2008)

345 Rendezvous with Rama (1972) (BSFA and Nebula Awards winner, 1973; Hugo, Campbell, and Locus Awards winner, 1974)

Clarke, Arthur C. - English physicist & science fiction author (1917- 2008)

346 The Fountains of Paradise (1979) (Hugo Award winner, BSFA nominee, 1979; and Nebula Award winner, Locus Award nominee, 1980)

Clarke, Arthur C. - English physicist & science fiction author (1917- 2008)

347 2010: Odyssey Two (1982) (Hugo and Locus Awards nominee, 1983)

Clarke, Arthur C. - English physicist & science fiction author (1917- 2008)

348 2061: Odyssey Three (1987)

Clarke, Arthur C. - English physicist & science fiction author (1917- 2008)

349 3001: The Final Odyssey (1997)

Clarke, Arthur C. - English physicist & science fiction author (1917- 2008)

350 The Gulag Archipelago (three volumes) (1973–1978)

Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr - Russian author & dissident in US (1918 - 2008)

351 The Golden Notebook (1962)

Lessing, Doris (b.1919)

352 The Catcher in the Rye (1951)

Salinger, J. D. - US novelist & short story author (1919 - )

353 Foundation Series: Foundation. 1951; Foundation and Empire. 1952. (Published with the title 'The Man Who Upset the Universe' as a 35c Ace paperback, D-125, in about 1952); Second Foundation. 1953.

Asimov, Isaac (1920 - 1992) US science fiction novelist & scholar

354 Galactic Empire series: Pebble in the Sky 1950; The Stars, Like Dust 1951; The Currents of Space 1952

Asimov, Isaac (1920 - 1992) US science fiction novelist & scholar

355 Robot series: The Caves of Steel. 1954. (first Elijah Baley SF-crime novel);
The Naked Sun. 1957 (second Elijah Baley SF-crime novel); The Robots of Dawn. 1983. (third Elijah Baley SF-crime novel); Robots and Empire. 1985. (sequel to the Elijah Baley trilogy)

Asimov, Isaac (1920 - 1992) US science fiction novelist & scholar

356 Extended Foundation series: Foundation's Edge. 1982; Foundation and Earth. 1986; (last of the Foundation series); Prelude to Foundation.(occurs before Foundation); Forward the Foundation. 1993. (occurs after Prelude to Foundation and before Foundation)

Asimov, Isaac (1920 - 1992) US science fiction novelist & scholar

357 Nightfall and Other Stories. 1969 (Nightfall was voted by the Science Fiction Writers of America the best short science fiction story of all time)

Asimov, Isaac (1920 - 1992) US science fiction novelist & scholar

358 I, Robot. 1950

Asimov, Isaac (1920 - 1992) US science fiction novelist & scholar

359 Fahrenheit 451 (1953)

Bradbury, Ray (1920 - ) US science fiction author

360 Breakfast of Champions, or Goodbye Blue Monday (1973)

Vonnegut, Kurt - US novelist (1922 - 2007)

361 Cat's Cradle (1963)

Vonnegut, Kurt - US novelist (1922 - 2007)

362 Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death (1969)

Vonnegut, Kurt - US novelist (1922 - 2007)

363 Catch-22 (1961)

Heller, Joseph - US novelist (1923 - 1999)

364 The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge, 1968

Castaneda, Carlos Arana (1925 – 1998), Peruvian-American author and student of anthropology

365 A Separate Reality: Further Conversations with Don Juan, 1971.

Castaneda, Carlos Arana (1925 – 1998), Peruvian-American author and student of anthropology

366 Journey to Ixtlan: The Lessons of Don Juan, 1972.

Castaneda, Carlos Arana (1925 – 1998), Peruvian-American author and student of anthropology

367 Tales of Power, 1974.

Castaneda, Carlos Arana (1925 – 1998), Peruvian-American author and student of anthropology

368 The Second Ring of Power, 1977.

Castaneda, Carlos Arana (1925 – 1998), Peruvian-American author and student of anthropology

369 The Eagle's Gift, (Continuing with his fellow apprentices; and then alone with La Gorda.) 1981

Castaneda, Carlos Arana (1925 – 1998), Peruvian-American author and student of anthropology

370 The Fire From Within (Don Juan's 'Second Attention' teachings through to the 'Final Meeting' in 1973.) 1984

Castaneda, Carlos Arana (1925 – 1998), Peruvian-American author and student of anthropology

371 The Power of Silence: Further Lessons of Don Juan, 1987

Castaneda, Carlos Arana (1925 – 1998), Peruvian-American author and student of anthropology

372 The Art of Dreaming, (Review of don Juan's lessons in dreaming.) 1993

Castaneda, Carlos Arana (1925 – 1998), Peruvian-American author and student of anthropology

373 The Wheel of Time: Shamans of Ancient Mexico, Their Thoughts About Life, Death and the Universe, 1998. (Selected quotations from the first eight books.)

Castaneda, Carlos Arana (1925 – 1998), Peruvian-American author and student of anthropology

374 Magical Passes: The Practical Wisdom of the Shamans of Ancient Mexico, (Body movements for breaking the barriers of normal perception) 1998

Castaneda, Carlos Arana (1925 – 1998), Peruvian-American author and student of anthropology

375 The Active Side of Infinity, (Memorable events of his life.) 1999

Castaneda, Carlos Arana (1925 – 1998), Peruvian-American author and student of anthropology

376 Love in the Time of Cholera (1985)

Márquez, Gabriel José de la Concordia García (b.1927), Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist

377 One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967)

Márquez, Gabriel José de la Concordia García (b.1927), Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist

378 (1967) The Responsibility of Intellectuals

Chomsky, Noam (1928 - ) US activist & linguist

379 (1969) American Power and the New Mandarins

Chomsky, Noam (1928 - ) US activist & linguist

380 (1973) Counter-Revolutionary Violence – Bloodbaths in Fact & Propaganda

Chomsky, Noam (1928 - ) US activist & linguist

381 (1983, 1999) The Fateful Triangle: The United States, Israel, and the Palestinians.

Chomsky, Noam (1928 - ) US activist & linguist

382 (1986) Pirates and Emperors: International Terrorism and the Real World

Chomsky, Noam (1928 - ) US activist & linguist

383 (1986) The Race to Destruction: Its Rational Basis

Chomsky, Noam (1928 - ) US activist & linguist

384 (1988, 2002) Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media

Chomsky, Noam (1928 - ) US activist & linguist

385 (1989) Necessary Illusions.

Chomsky, Noam (1928 - ) US activist & linguist

386 (1992) Deterring Democracy

Chomsky, Noam (1928 - ) US activist & linguist

387 (1993) Rethinking Camelot: JFK, the Vietnam War, and U.S. Political Culture.

Chomsky, Noam (1928 - ) US activist & linguist

388 (1994) World Orders, Old and New.

Chomsky, Noam (1928 - ) US activist & linguist

389 (1999) Profit over People: Neoliberalism and Global Order

Chomsky, Noam (1928 - ) US activist & linguist

390 (2002, 2003). Understanding Power: The Indispensable Chomsky

Chomsky, Noam (1928 - ) US activist & linguist

391 (2003) Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance.

Chomsky, Noam (1928 - ) US activist & linguist

392 (2003) Middle East Illusions: Including Peace in the Middle East? Reflections on Justice and Nationhood

Chomsky, Noam (1928 - ) US activist & linguist

393 (2005) Chomsky on Anarchism Chomsky, Noam (1928 - ) US activist & linguist

394 (2005) Government in the Future.

Chomsky, Noam (1928 - ) US activist & linguist

395 (2005) Imperial Ambitions: Conversations on the Post-9/11 World.

Chomsky, Noam (1928 - ) US activist & linguist

396 (2006) Failed States: The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy

Chomsky, Noam (1928 - ) US activist & linguist

397 (2010) Gaza in Crisis: Reflections on Israel's War Against the Palestinians

Chomsky, Noam (1928 - ) US activist & linguist

398 (2011) 9-11: Was There An Alternative?

Chomsky, Noam (1928 - ) US activist & linguist

399 (2012) Making the Future: Occupations, Interventions, Empire and Resistance.

Chomsky, Noam (1928 - ) US activist & linguist

400 Companero: The Life and Death of Che Guevara, by Jorge G. Castañeda, 1st Vintage Books, 1998

Guevara, Che - Latin American (Argentine-born) revolutionary & guerrilla leader (1928 - 1967)

401 The Man in the High Castle

Dick, Philip K. (1928 - 1982) US science fiction author

402 A Scanner Darkly

Dick, Philip K. (1928 - 1982) US science fiction author

403 VALIS

Dick, Philip K. (1928 - 1982) US science fiction author

404 Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said

Dick, Philip K. (1928 - 1982) US science fiction author

405 Ubik

Dick, Philip K. (1928 - 1982) US science fiction author

406 Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Dick, Philip K. (1928 - 1982) US science fiction author

407 The Transmigration of Timothy Archer (1982)

Dick, Philip K. (1928 - 1982) US science fiction author

408 The Naked Ape: A Zoologist's Study of the Human Animal (1967)

Morris, Desmond (b.1928), British zoologist

409 The Diary of a Young Girl

Frank, Anne - German Jewish diarist (1929 - 1945)

410 Beloved (1987) - Pulitzer Prize Winner

Morrison, Toni - US novelist (1931 - ), first African-American Nobel Prize winner

411 The Emperor's New Mind: Concerning Computers, Minds, and The Laws of Physics (1989)

Penrose, Roger (b.1931), English mathematical physicist

412 Philosophy of Religion: Selected Writings (1978)

Rowe, William L. (b.1931), professor emeritus of philosophy at Purdue University who specialises in the philosophy of religion

413 The Human Encounter With Death (1977) with Joan Halifax

Grof, Stanislav (b.1931), Czechoslovakian psychiatrist

414 LSD Psychotherapy (1980)

Grof, Stanislav (b.1931), Czechoslovakian psychiatrist

415 Beyond Death: The Gates Of Consciousness (1981)

Grof, Stanislav (b.1931), Czechoslovakian psychiatrist

416 The Name of the Rose (Il nome della rosa, 1980)

Eco, Umberto (1932 - ) Italian novelist & semiotician

417 The Illuminatus! Trilogy (1975)

Wilson, Robert Anton (1932 – 2007), American author and polymath - novelist, philosopher, psychologist, essayist, editor, playwright, poet, futurist, civil libertarian and self-described agnostic mystic

418 Quantum Psychology (1990)

Wilson, Robert Anton (1932 – 2007), American author and polymath - novelist, philosopher, psychologist, essayist, editor, playwright, poet, futurist, civil libertarian and self-described agnostic mystic

419 The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark. Ballantine Books, March 1996

Sagan, Carl - US astronomer & popularizer of astronomy (1934 - 1996)

420 Cosmos (1980)

Sagan, Carl - US astronomer & popularizer of astronomy (1934 - 1996)

421 Contact (1985)

Sagan, Carl - US astronomer & popularizer of astronomy (1934 - 1996)

422 Messengers of Deception: UFO Contacts and Cults (1979)

Vallee, Jacques Fabrice (b.1939) French venture capitalist, computer scientist, author, ufologist and former astronomer

423 The Selfish Gene (1976)

Dawkins, Richard - British ethologist, geneticist, & popularizer of genetics (1941- )

424 The Blind Watchmaker (1986)

Dawkins, Richard - British ethologist, geneticist, & popularizer of genetics (1941- )

425 River out of Eden (1995)

Dawkins, Richard - British ethologist, geneticist, & popularizer of genetics (1941- )

426 Climbing Mount Improbable (1996)

Dawkins, Richard - British ethologist, geneticist, & popularizer of genetics (1941- )

427 Unweaving the Rainbow (1998)

Dawkins, Richard - British ethologist, geneticist, & popularizer of genetics (1941- )

428 The Ancestor's Tale. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. 2004

Dawkins, Richard - British ethologist, geneticist, & popularizer of genetics (1941- )

429 The God Deusion (2006)

Dawkins, Richard - British ethologist, geneticist, & popularizer of genetics (1941- )

430 The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution. Free Press (United States), Transworld (United Kingdom and Commonwealth). 2009

Dawkins, Richard - British ethologist, geneticist, & popularizer of genetics (1941- )

431 The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True. Free Press (United States), Bantam Press (United Kingdom). 2011

Dawkins, Richard - British ethologist, geneticist, & popularizer of genetics (1941- )

432 Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon (Penguin Group 2006)

Dennett, Daniel Clement (b.1942), American philosopher, writer and cognitive scientist

433 The Golden Ratio: The Story of Phi, the World's Most Astonishing Number (2002).

Livio, Mario (b. 1945), astrophysicist and author of works that popularize science and mathematics.

434 1992 - Food of the Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge - A Radical History of Plants, Drugs, and Human Evolution

McKenna, Terence Kemp (1946 – 2000), American philosopher, psychonaut, researcher, teacher, lecturer and writer

435 1993 - True Hallucinations: Being an Account of the Author’s Extraordinary Adventures in the Devil’s Paradise

McKenna, Terence Kemp (1946 – 2000), American philosopher, psychonaut, researcher, teacher, lecturer and writer

436 The Global Brain Awakens: Our Next Evolutionary Leap, (1983)

Russell, Peter (b.1946), British author

437 The White Hole in Time: Our Future Evolution and the Maning of Now (1993)

Russell, Peter (b.1946), British author

438 From Science to God: A Physicist's Journey into the Mystery of Consciousness, (2002)

Russell, Peter (b.1946), British author

439 The Satanic Verses

Rushdie, Salman (2) - British (Indian-born) author (1947 - )

440 Neuromancer (1984)

Gibson, William Ford (b.1948). American-Canadian speculative fiction novelist

441 Hostage to History: Cyprus from the Ottomans to Kissinger (1984)

Hitchens, Christopher (1949 – 2011), English American author, essayist and journalist

442 The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice (1995)

Hitchens, Christopher (1949 – 2011), English American author, essayist and journalist

443 Letters to a Young Contrarian (2001)

Hitchens, Christopher (1949 – 2011), English American author, essayist and journalist

444 God is Not Great (2007)

Hitchens, Christopher (1949 – 2011), English American author, essayist and journalist

445 The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Non-Believer (2007)

Hitchens, Christopher (1949 – 2011), English American author, essayist and journalist

446 Hitch-22: A Memoir (2010)

Hitchens, Christopher (1949 – 2011), English American author, essayist and journalist

447 Arguably: Essays by Christopher Hitchens (2011)

Hitchens, Christopher (1949 – 2011), English American author, essayist and journalist

448 Mortality (2012)

Hitchens, Christopher (1949 – 2011), English American author, essayist and journalist

449 Pharmacotheon: Entheogenic Drugs, Their Plant Sources and History (1993)

Ott, Jonathan (b. 1949), U.S. ethnobotanist, writer, translator, publisher, natural products chemist and botanical researcher in the area of entheogens

450 Fingerprints of the Gods: The Evidence of Earth's Lost Civilization (1995)

Hancock, Graham (b.1950), British writer and journalist

451 Brains and Realities (2006)

Alfred, Jay - neuro scientist

452 The Psychology of Nations Partridge, G.E.

453 The Penguin Dictionary of Curious and Interesting Numbers (1986)

Wells, David


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