Publication Dates

“‘Classic.’ A book which people praise and don’t read.” — Mark Twain

Prior to 1900	1900-1909	1910-1919	1920-1929	1930-1939	1940-1949	1950-1959
1960-1969	1970-1979	1980-1989	1990-1999	2000-2009	2010-2019	2020-2026

Year	Title	Author	Genre	Rating	Banned?
1813	Pride and Prejudice	Jane Austen	Fiction		No
1867	The Guardian Angel	Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.	Fiction		No
1884	American Orations, Vol. 3	Alexander Johnson (editor)	History		No
1885	King Solomon’s Mines	H. Rider Haggard	Fiction		No
1889	Three Men in a Boat	Jerome K. Jerome	Fiction		No
1891	Life of Sitting Bull	W. Fletcher Johnson	History		No
1892	Colonel Starbottle’s Client and Some Other People	Bret Harte	Fiction – Anthology		No

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Year	Title	Author	Genre	Rating	Banned?
1900	The Influence of Christ in Modern Life	Newell Dwight Hillis	Religion		No
1901	Complete Life of William McKinley	Marshall Everett	Biography		No
1901	The Red Chancellor	Sir William Magnay	Fiction		No
1902	Glengarry School Days	Ralph Connor	Fiction		No
1903	The Hermit	Charles Clark Munn	Fiction		No
1906	The Castaway	Hallie Erminie Rives	Fiction		No
1907	The Spell of the Yukon	Robert Service	Poetry		No
1909	The Battle	Cleveland Moffett	Fiction		No
1909	The Calling of Dan Matthews	Harold Bell Wright	Fiction		No

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Year	Title	Author	Genre	Rating	Banned?
1911	Queed	Henry Sydnor Harrison	Fiction		No
1912	Hike and the Aeroplane	Sinclair Lewis	Fiction – Young Adult		No
1913	Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography	Theodore Roosevelt	Biography		No
1916	The Great War in Europe	Thomas H. Russell	History		No
1917	The Major	Ralph Collin	Fiction		No
1917	The Soul of a Bishop	H.G. Wells	Fiction		No
1918	Lord John in New York	C.N. Williamson and A.M. Williamson	Mystery		No
1919	In Secret	Robert W. Chambers	Fiction – War		No
1919	The Mark of Zorro	Johnston McCulley	Fiction – Western		No

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Year	Title	Author	Genre	Rating	Banned?
1920	The Mysterious Affair at Styles	Agatha Christie	Mystery		No
1922	The Secret Adversary	Agatha Christie	Mystery		No
1922	Babbitt	Sinclair Lewis	Fiction		No
1923	Murder on the Links	Agatha Christie	Mystery		No
1923	Bulldog Drummond’s Third Round	H.C. McNeile	Mystery		No
1923	Whose Body?	Dorothy L. Sayers	Mystery		No
1924	The Man in the Brown Suit	Agatha Christie	Mystery		No
1925	Gentlemen Prefer Blondes	Anita Loos	Fiction		No
1926	Revolt in the Desert	T.E. Lawrence	Biography		No
1927	Nine Years Among The Indians	Herman Lehmann	Biography		No
1927	Elmer Gantry	Sinclair Lewis	Fiction		No
1928	Whither Mankind	Charles A. Beard (editor)	Social Science		No
1928	Skyward	Richard E. Byrd	Aviation		No
1929	Dodsworth	Sinclair Lewis	Fiction		No

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Year	Title	Author	Genre	Rating	Banned?
1931	Knute Rockne: Man Builder	Harry A. Stuhldreher	Biography		No
1932	Introduction to Business	Clinton A. Reed & V. James Morgan	Social Science		No
1935	The Hollow Man	John Dickson Carr	Mystery		No
1935	Will Rogers	P.J. O’Brien	Biography		No
1936	The Bounty Trilogy	Charles Nordhoff & James Norman Hall	Fiction		No
1937	The Case of the Dangerous Dowager	Erle Stanley Gardner	Mystery		No
1937	Mystery of the 15 Sounds	Van Powell	Fiction – Young Adult		No
1938	With Malice Toward Some	Margaret Halsey	Biography		No
1939	Storm Over the Land	Carl Sandburg	History		No
1939	Peace, It’s Wonderful	William Saroyan	Fiction – Anthology		No

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Year	Title	Author	Genre	Rating	Banned?
1940	Kings Row	Henry Bellamann	Fiction		No
1940	Greatest Short Stories, Vol. I	P.F. Collier & Son (editor)	Anthology		No
1940	Greatest Short Stories, Vol. II	P.F. Collier & Son (editor)	Anthology		No
1940	Greatest Short Stories, Vol. III	P.F. Collier & Son (editor)	Anthology		No
1940	Greatest Short Stories, Vol. IV	P.F. Collier & Son (editors)	Anthology		No
1940	Airpower	Major Alford Williams	Aviation		No
1941	Myths After Lincoln	Lloyd Lewis	History		No
1941	H.M. Pulham, Esquire	John P. Marquand	Fiction		No
1941	Your Navy	Claude Banks Mayo	History		No
1941	A London Diary	Quentin Reynolds	History		No
1942	Mrs. Parkington	Louis Bromfield	Fiction		No
1942	Murder Behind the Mike	Raymond Leslie Goldman	Mystery		No
1942	Outlaws of the Moon	Edmond Hamilton	SciFi		No
1942	Wings Over The World	Leo Margulies (Editor)	Fiction – Young Adult		No
1942	Texas – A World in Itself	George Sessions Perry	History		No
1943	The Human Comedy	William Saroyan	Fiction		No
1944	Escape the Night	Mignon G. Eberhart	Mystery		No
1944	Some Of My Best Friends Are Soldiers	Margaret Halsey	Fiction		No
1944	The Uninvited	Dorothy MacArdle	Horror		No
1944	Brave Men	Ernie Pyle	History		No
1945	So Well Remembered	James Hilton	Fiction		No
1945	Big Red	Jim Kjelgaard	Young Adult		No
1945	Best Short Stories of Jack London	Jack London	Anthology		No
1946	Color Blind	Margaret Halsey	Social Science		Yes
1946	70,000 to One	Quentin Reynolds	History		No
1946	In A Dark Garden	Frank G. Slaughter	Fiction		No
1947	Command Decision	William Wister Haines	Fiction – War		No
1947	Nothing So Strange	James Hilton	Fiction		No
1947	Deadline Delayed	Overseas Press Club of America (editors)	History		No
1948	Crusade in Europe	Dwight Eisenhower	History		No
1948	Miracle of the Bells	Russell Janney	Fiction		No
1948	12 O’Clock High!	Beirne Lay, Jr. & Sy Bartlett	Fiction – War		No
1948	Best Sports Stories 1948	Irving T. Marsh & Edward Ehre	Sports		No
1949	Shakespeare of London	Marchette Chute	Biography		No
1949	The Chain	Paul I. Wellman	Fiction		No

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Year	Title	Author	Genre	Rating	Banned?
1951	The Dam Busters	Paul Brickhill	History		No
1951	Children of the Archbishop	Norman Collins	Fiction		No
1951	Pinnacle Jake	A.B. Snyder	Biography		No
1952	Adventures in Two Worlds	A.J. Cronin	Biography		No
1952	Executive Suite	Cameron Hawley	Fiction		No
1952	Escape From Colditz	P.R. Reid	History		No
1952	Midcentury Journey	William Shirer	History		No
1953	Hondo	Louis L’Amour	Western		No
1953	Inherit The Wind	Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee	Fiction		No
1953	On the Trail of the Space Pirates	Carey Rockwell	SciFi		No
1954	The Searchers	Alan Le May	Fiction – Western		No
1954	The Man Who Never Was	Ewen Montagu	History		No
1955	Hickory Dickory Dock	Agatha Christie	Mystery		No
1955	The Dagger, The Fish and Casey McKee	Electa Clark	Fiction – Young Adult		No
1955	A Thing of Beauty	A.J. Cronin	Fiction		No
1955	Year of Decisions	Harry S. Truman	Biography		No
1956	The Last Stitch	William Crosthwait	Biography		No
1957	The Edge of Darkness	Mary Ellen Clark	Fiction		No
1957	Rifles for Watie	Harold Keith	Fiction – Young Adult		No
1958	The Best of Everything	Rona Jaffe	Fiction		No
1958	Daybreak	Frank G. Slaughter	Fiction		No
1958	Creative Thinking	Charles S. Whiting	Social Science		No
1959	Lyrics On Several Occasions	Ira Gershwin	Arts		No

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Year	Title	Author	Genre	Rating	Banned?
1960	To Kill A Mockingbird	Harper Lee	Fiction		Yes
1960	The Crowded Sky	Hank Searls	Fiction		No
1961	Fate is the Hunter	Ernest K. Gann	Aviation		No
1962	Harm’s Way	James E. Bassett	Fiction – War		No
1962	Unwise Child	Randall Garrett	SciFi		No
1962	Me and Caleb	Franklyn E. Meyer	Fiction – Young Adult		No
1963	Fear On Trial	John Henry Faulk	Social Science		No
1963	The Case of the Amorous Aunt	Erle Stanley Gardner	Mystery		No
1963	Upon This Rock	Frank G. Slaughter	Fiction		No
1963	The Shoes of the Fisherman	Morris L. West	Fiction		No
1965	The Man From U.N.C.L.E.	Michael Avallone	Fiction		No
1965	Rattlesnakes	J. Frank Dobie	Natural Science		No
1967	The Death of the President	William Manchester	History		No
1968	Wind in the Wires	Duncan Grinnell-Milne	Aviation		No
1968	True Grit	Charles Portis	Western		No

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Year	Title	Author	Genre	Rating	Banned?
1970	Time and Again	Jack Finney	SciFi		No
1970	Countdown	Frank G. Slaughter	Fiction		No
1971	Hijack	Edward Wellen	SciFi		No
1972	Night of Delusions	Keith Laumer	SciFi		No
1972	Rule Britannia	Daphne du Maurier	Fiction		No
1977	At Random: The Reminiscences of Bennett Cerf	Bennett Cerf	Biography		No
1977	The Wars	Timothy Findley	Fiction – War		No
1978	Tim McCoy Remembers the West	Tim McCoy	Biography		No
1979	Conquest of the Skies	Carl Solberg	Aviation		No

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Year	Title	Author	Genre	Rating	Banned?
1982	Shoeless Joe	W.P. Kinsella	Fiction		No
1984	Nat King Cole	James Haskins	Biography		No
1985	Lonesome Dove	Larry McMurtry	Western		No
1986	Forrest Gump	Winston Groom	Fiction		Yes
1987	Myrna Loy – Being and Becoming	Myrna Loy	Biography		No
1988	Joe DiMaggio and the Summer of 41	Michael Seidel	Sports		No

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Year	Title	Author	Genre	Rating	Banned?
1992	Where is Joe Merchant?	Jimmy Buffett	Fiction		No
1992	The Cannibal Queen	Stephen Coonts	Aviation		No
1995	The 56th Evac Hospital	Lawrence D. Collins	History		No
1995	Victory at Sea	James F. Dunnigan Albert A. Nofi	History		No
1995	Lethal Passage	Erik Larson	Social Science		No
1995	Fighter Pilot’s Heaven	Donald S. Lopez	Aviation		No
1996	Airframe	Michael Crichton	Fiction		No
1996	A Reporter’s Life	Walter Cronkite	Biography		No

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Year	Title	Author	Genre	Rating	Banned?
2002	Jackie Robinson and the Integration of Baseball	Scott Simon	Sports		No
2002	The Greatest Flying Stories Ever Told	Lamar Underwood (Editor)	Aviation		No
2007	Introducing Agatha Raisin	M.C. Beaton	Mystery		No
2007	Bill of Wrongs	Molly Ivins & Lou Dubose	History		No
2007	The World Without Us	Alan Weisman	Social Science		No

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Year	Title	Author	Genre	Rating	Banned?
2012	Roll Me Up and Smoke Me When I Die	Willie Nelson	Biography		No
2013	Here, There, Elsewhere	William Least Heat-Moon	Travel		No
2014	The Bible and Science	Thomas Childs	Religion		No
2014	Christian Logic	Thomas Childs	Religion		No
2018	Was Jesus a Myth?	Thomas Childs	Religion		No
2018	Leadership in Turbulent Times	Doris Kearns Goodwin	History		No
2018	The Biggest Lie in the History of Christianity	Matthew Kelly	Religion		No

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Year	Title	Author	Genre	Rating	Banned?
2020	Haunted Houses	D.K. Publishing (editors)	Anthology		No
2020	Music By Max Steiner	Steven C. Smith	Biography		No
2020	The Way of Salt	Ash Warren	Sports		No
2023	Once Upon a Tome	Oliver Darkshire	Biography		No
2023	Mr. Texas	Lawrence Wright	Fiction		No
2024	Willie, Waylon, and the Boys	Brian Fairchild	Arts		No
2024	An Unfinished Love Story	Doris Kearns Goodwin	History		No
2024	The Jazz Men	Larry Tye	Arts		No

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