The above linked article is an older article, but I was looking for suggestions for Modern Classics bookclub. All of these books are newer than 1950, but are older than 20 years old. I have read some of them, and I want to read some of them. I got a few suggestions for what to request for Modern Classic bookclub, which was my goal.
Excellent Women by Barbara Pym (1952)
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison (1952)
The Crucible by Arthur Miller (1953)
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (1953)
A Kiss Before Dying by Ira Levin (1953)
Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett (1953)
Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead by Barbara Comyns (1954)
A Good Man is Hard to Find by Flannery O’Connor (1955)
The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith (1955)
The Fountain Overflows by Rebecca West (1956)
Night by Elie Wiesel (1956)
Palace Walk by Naguib Mafouz (1956)
The Assistant by Bernard Malamud (1957)
Memories of a Catholic Girlhood by Mary McCarthy (1957)
On the Road by Jack Kerouac (1957)
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe (1958)
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson (1959)
A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry (1959)
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (1960)
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller: (1961)
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark (1961)
Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates (1961)
Cassandra at the Wedding by Dorothy Baker (1962)
The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing (1962)
Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov (1962)
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath (1963)
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin (1963)
Hopscotch by Julio Cortázar (1963)
The Sailor Who Fell From Grace with the Sea by Yukio Mishima (1963)
The Spy Who Came in From the Cold by John le Carré (1963)
A Personal Matter by Kenzaburō Ōe (1964)
The Woman in the Dunes by Kobo Abe (1964)
The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X, Alex Haley (1965)
The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon (1965)
Stoner by John Williams (1965)
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote (1966)
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys (1966)
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez (1967)
A Sport and a Pastime by James Salter (1967)
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K. Dick (1968)
Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion (1968)
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou (1969)
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin (1969)
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut (1969)
84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff (1970)
Lives of Girls and Women by Alice Munro (1971)
Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya (1972)
The Summer Book by Tove Jansson (1972)
An Unsuitable Job for a Woman by P. D. James (1972)
The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1973)
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard (1974)
The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston (1976)
Too Loud a Solitude by Bohumil Hrabal (1976)
Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko (1977)
The Hour of the Star by Clarice Lespector (1977)
The Shining by Stephen King (1977)
The Sea, The Sea by Iris Murdoch (1978)
If On a Winter’s Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino (1979)
Kindred by Octavia Butler (1979)
Sophie’s Choice by William Styron (1979)
Clear Light of Day by Anita Desai (1980)
Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson (1980)
The Transit of Venus by Shirley Hazzard: (1980)
Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie (1981)
So Long a Letter by Mariama Bâ (1981)
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond Carver (1981)
The Color Purple by Alice Walker (1982)
The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende (1982):
Look at Me by Anita Brookner (1983)
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco (1983)
The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros (1984)
Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich (1984)
The Lover by Marguerite Duras (1984)
Nights at the Circus by Angela Carter (1984)
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera (1984)
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy (1985)
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood (1985)
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (1985)
Anagrams by Lorrie Moore (1986)
Beloved by Toni Morrison (1987)
Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza by Gloria Anzaldúa (1987)
A Small Place by Jamaica Kincaid (1988)
The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan (1989)
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro (1989)
Animal Dreams by Barbara Kingsolver (1990)
The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien (1990)
Possession by A. S. Byatt (1990)
How the García Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia Alvarez (1991)
The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje (1992)
Jesus’ Son by Denis Johnson (1992)
The Secret History by Donna Tartt (1992)
The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven by Sherman Alexie (1993)
A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth (1993)
Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat (1994)
Blindness by José Saramago (1995)
The Rings of Saturn by W. G Sebald (1995)
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace (1996)
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy (1997)
I Love Dick by Chris Kraus (1997)
Underworld by Don Delillo (1997)
bookworm at the gym 