Huh, interesting. I don't think I've ever even heard of most of the specific books from the 1900s-1910s, although I knew some of the authors, and the only one from the 1920s I've read is The Bridge of San Luis Rey. From the 1930s, I've read The Good Earth, Gone With the Wind, and The Grapes of Wrath, but then there's another really big gap where I haven't read any of the ones from the 1940s-1960s. After that: Ragtime, Return of the Jedi Storybook (!), I think one of the Jean Auel books but I can't remember which one, and that's it. Apparently I fail at bestsellers...