| Author/Date | Title |
| H.G. Wells, 1895 | |
| Theodor Herzl, 1896 | |
| Sarah Orne Jewett, 1896 | |
| Emile Durkheim, 1897 | |
| Bram Stoker, 1897 | |
| Henry James, 1898 | |
| Thorstein Veblen, 1899 | |
| L. Frank Baum, 1900 | |
| Sigmund Freud, 1900 | |
| Anton Chekhov, 1901 | |
| Joseph Conrad, 1901 | |
| Rudyard Kipling, 1901 | |
| Maurice Maeterlinck, 1901 | |
| Beatrix Potter, 1901 | |
| Arthur Conan Doyle, 1902 | |
| William James, 1902 | |
| Jacob Riis, 1902 | |
| W.E.B. Du Bois, 1903 | |
| Helen Keller, 1903 | |
| Max Weber, 1904 | |
| J.M. Barrie, 1906 | |
| Upton Sinclair, 1906 | |
| Henry Adams, 1907 | |
| Jane Addams, 1910 | |
| Marie Sklodowska Curie, 1910 | |
| G.K. Chesterton, 1911 | |
| Edgar Rice Burroughs, 1912 | |
| Zane Grey, 1912 | |
| Juan Ramón Jiménez, 1914 | |
| George Bernard Shaw, 1914 | |
| Gertrude Stein, 1914 | |
| Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1915 | |
| Frank Kafka, 1915 | |
| Arnold Toynbee, 1915 | |
| Lillian Wald, 1915 | |
| Edna St. Vincent Millay, 1917 | |
| William Butler Yeats, 1917 | |
| John Reed, 1919 | |
| Siegfried Sassoon, 1919 | |
| Agatha Christie, 1920 | |
| Edith Wharton, 1920 | |
| Luigi Pirandello, 1921 | |
| Albert Einstein, 1922 | |
| T.S. Eliot, 1922 | |
| James Joyce, 1922 | |
| Emily Post, 1922 | |
| Carrie Chapman Catt and Nettie Rogers Shuler, 1923 | |
| Kahlil Gibran, 1923 | |
| Jaroslav Hasek, 1920-23 | |
| P.G. Wodehouse, 1923 | |
| E.M. Forster, 1924 | |
| Thomas Mann, 1924 | |
| F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1925 | |
| Adolf Hitler, 1925-26 | |
| A.A. Milne, 1926 | |
| Marcel Proust, 1913-27 | |
| Bertrand Russell, 1927 | |
| Virginia Woolf, 1927 | |
| Havelock Ellis, 1901-28 | |
| | Author/Date | Title |
| Federico García Lorca, 1928 | |
| Margaret Mead, 1928 | |
| Erich Maria Remarque, 1928 | |
| Willa Cather, 1931 | |
| Irma S. Rombauer, 1931 | |
| Margaret Sanger, 1931 | |
| Lincoln Steffens, 1931 | |
| Aldous Huxley, 1932 | |
| James Hilton, 1933 | |
| Roger Tory Peterson, 1934 | |
| Dale Carnegie, 1936 | |
| John Maynard Keynes, 1936 | |
| Margaret Mitchell, 1936 | |
| John Dos Passos, 1937 | |
| J.R.R. Tolkien, 1937 | |
| Raymond Chandler, 1939 | |
| John Steinbeck, 1939 | |
| Nathanael West, 1939 | |
| Anna Akhmatova, 1935-40 | |
| Mohandas K. Gandhi, 1921-40 | |
| Ernest Hemingway, 1940 | |
| Richard Wright, 1940 | |
| James Agee and Walker Evans, 1941 | |
| Arthur Koestler, 1941 | |
| Albert Camus, 1942 | |
| Zora Neale Hurston, 1942 | |
| Jean-Paul Sartre, 1943 | |
| Betty Smith, 1943 | |
| Lillian Smith, 1944 | |
| Friedrich A. von Hayek, 1944 | |
| United Nations, 1945 | |
| William Faulkner, 1946 | |
| John Hersey, 1946 | |
| Benjamin Spock, 1946 | |
| W.H. Auden, 1947 | |
| Margaret Wise Brown, 1947 | |
| Anne Frank, 1947 | |
| Winston Churchill, 1948 | |
| Alan Paton, 1948 | |
| B.F. Skinner, 1948 | |
| Simone de Beauvoir, 1949 | |
| Aldo Leopold, 1949 | |
| Konrad Z. Lorenz, 1949 | |
| George Orwell, 1949 | |
| C.S. Lewis, 1950 | |
| J.D. Salinger, 1951 | |
| Samuel Beckett, 1952 | |
| Ralph Ellison, 1952 | |
| Paul Tillich, 1952 | |
| E.B. White, 1952 | |
| multiple authors, 1952 | |
| Ray Bradbury, 1953 | |
| Vladimir Nabokov, 1955 | |
| Edward Steichen and MoMA, 1955 | |
| Jorge Luis Borges, 1956 | |
| Grace Metalious, 1956 | |
| Milton Friedman, 1957 | |
| Jack Kerouac, 1957 | |
| Ayn Rand, 1957 | |
| | Author/Date | Title |
| Dr. Seuss, 1957 | |
| Chinua Achebe, 1958 | |
| John Kenneth Galbraith, 1958 | |
| Elie Wiesel, 1958 | |
| Paul Goodman, 1960 | |
| Harper Lee, 1960 | |
| Frantz Fanon, 1961 | |
| Robert A. Heinlein, 1961 | |
| Joseph Heller, 1961 | |
| Langston Hughes, 1961 | |
| Jane Jacobs, 1961 | |
| Anthony Burgess, 1962 | |
| Rachel Carson, 1962 | |
| Ezra Jack Keats, 1962 | |
| Ken Kesey, 1962 | |
| Doris Lessing, 1962 | |
| James Baldwin, 1963 | |
| Betty Friedan, 1963 | |
| Maurice Sendak, 1963 | |
| U.S. Surgeon General, 1964 | |
| Truman Capote, 1965 | |
| Malcolm X, 1965 | |
| Mao Zedong, 1966 | |
| Jean Rhys, 1966 | |
| Gabriel García Márquez, 1967 | |
| Timothy Leary, 1968 | |
| James Watson, 1968 | |
| Maya Angelou, 1969 | |
| Tayeb el-Salih, 1969 | |
| Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, 1969 | |
| Philip Roth, 1969 | |
| Jim Bouton, 1970 | |
| Dee Alexander Brown, 1970 | |
| Helen Leavitt, 1970 | |
| Robin Morgan, ed., 1970 | |
| E.F. Schumacher, 1973 | |
| Stephen King, 1974 | |
| Susan Brownmiller, 1975 | |
| V.S. Naipaul, 1975 | |
| Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, 1973-75 | |
| Bruno Bettelheim, 1976 | |
| Buchi Emecheta, 1976 | |
| Michael Herr, 1977 | |
| Toni Morrison, 1977 | |
| Ryszard Kapuscinski, 1978 | |
| Alice Walker, 1982 | |
| Elizabeth Bishop, 1983 | |
| Rigoberta Menchú, 1983 | |
| Marguerite Duras, 1984 | |
| Margaret Atwood, 1985 | |
| Patricia MacLachlan, 1985 | |
| Randy Shilts, 1987 | |
| Tom Wolfe, 1987 | |
| Alex Kotlowitz, 1991 | |
| Art Spiegelman, 1986-91 | |
| Ed Krol, 1992 | |
| Edward O. Wilson, 1992 | |
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