Best 20th Century Books

A selection of recommended 20th century books worth reading.

• The Book Club for Troublesome WomenMarie Bostwick
• Warmth of Other SunsIsabel Wilkerson
• Lion Women of TehranMarjan Kamali
• The Briar ClubKate Quinn
• The Gales of November The Untold Story of the Edmund FitzgeraldJohn U. Bacon
• The Color of Law A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated AmericaRichard Rothstein
• Tom LakeAnn Patchett
• This Is HappinessNiall Williams
• Farewell to Manzanar A True Story of Japanese American Experience During and After the World War II InternmentJeanne Wakatsuki Houston
• The Feminine MystiqueBetty Friedan
• The Boys in the Boat Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin OlympicsDaniel James Brown
• Storm KeeperKelly Rimmer
• Isaac's Storm A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in HistoryErik Larson
• Lion Women of TehranMarjan Kamali
• Violin Makers SecretEvie Woods
• The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust BowlTimothy Egan
• Go as a RiverShelley Read
• Hitler in Los AngelesSteven J Ross
• The Forgotten 500 The Untold Story of the Men Who Risked All for the Greatest Rescue Mission of World War IIGregory A. Freeman
• The Briar Club A NovelKate Quinn
• Operation Paperclip The Secret Intelligence Program that Brought Nazi Scientists to AmericaAnnie Jacobsen
• Trouble with Being BornE. M. Cioran
• Making of the Atomic BombRichard Rhodes
• Blackshirts & RedMichael Parenti
• Table for Two FictionsAmor Towles
• A Fever in the Heartland The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped ThemTimothy Egan
• Against All Odds A True Story of Ultimate Courage and Survival in World War IIAlex Kershaw
• Undefeated: Jim Thorpe and the Carlisle Indian School Football TeamSteve Sheinkin
• Death in the Jungle Murder, Betrayal, and the Lost Dream of JonestownCandace Fleming
• Short Hist of DecayE. M. Cioran
• Women of Arlington HallJane Healey
• Legacy of Ashes The History of the CIATim Weiner
• The Boys in the Boat Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin OlympicsDaniel James Brown
• The Warmth of Other Suns The Epic Story of America's Great MigrationIsabel Wilkerson
• Infinite Love StoryChanel Cleeton
• The Queens of Crime A NovelMarie Benedict
• All the Presidents MenBob Woodward, Carl Bernstein
• Day of BattleRick Atkinson
• All the Shah's Men An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East TerrorStephen Kinzer
• The Devil and Mrs Davenport a NovelPaulette Kennedy
• Ency of TolkienDavid Day
• Fallout Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War ShowdownSteve Sheinkin
• Freedom Dreams TwentiethRobin D.G. Kelley
• The Cold War A New HistoryJohn Lewis Gaddis
• Kissing the Sky a NovelLisa Patton
• Great InfluenzaJohn M. Barry
• Masters of the Air America's Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi GermanyDonald L. Miller
• A Harlem Wedding a Novel a Biographical Romance of Yolande Du Bois Forbidden LovTiffany L. Warren
• The Forgotten MidwifeLaura Anthony
• This Is HappinessNiall Williams
• One Summer America, 1927Bill Bryson
• Color of LawRichard Rothstein
• Last Train to Paradise Henry Flagler and the Spectacular Rise and Fall of the Railroad that Crossed an OceanLes Standiford
• Hardest Longest RaceEric Moskowitz
• Day After RoswellWilliam J. Birnes, Philip Corso
• Age of EntitlementChristopher Caldwell
• Half LifeRachel Beanland
• Where the Girls WereKate Schatz
• Prequel An American Fight Against FascismRachel Maddow
• Atlas of TolkienDavid Day