Authors: 20th Century

1900s
Arthur Conan Doyle: The Return of Sherlock Holmes (1905)
H.G. Wells: The Door in The Wall (1906)
1910s
J.M. Barrie: Peter Pan (1911)
Frances Hodgson Burnett: The Secret Garden (1911)
1920s
Agatha Christie: Hercule Poirot series (1920-75)
Wilfred Owen: Dulce et Decorum Est (1920)
Virginia Woolf: Mrs Dalloway (1925)
Francis Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby (1925)
1930s
John Steinback: Of Mice and Men
J.R.R Tolkien: The Hobbit (1937)
Daphne Du Maurier: Rebecca (1938)
1940s
Winston Churchill: Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat (1940)
J.R. Priestley: An Inspector Calls (1945)
George Orwell: 1984 (1948)
1950s
C.S. Lewis: Chronicles of Narnia (1950-56)
Ray Bradbury: A Sound of Thunder (1952)
Dr. Suess: the Cat in The Hat (1957)
Roald Dahl: The Landlady (1959)
1960s
Harper Lee: To Kill A Mockingbird (1960)
Sylvia Plath: The Bell Jar (1963)
Frank Herbert: Dune (1965)
1970s
James Baldwin: If Beale Street Could Talk (1974)
Toni Morrison: Song of Solomon (1977)
Maya Angelou: And I Still Rise (1978)
1980s
Salam Rushdie: shame (1983)
Margaret Atwood: The Handmaid’s Tale (1985)
1990s
John Grisham: The Firm (1991)
J.K. Rowling: Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (1997)
Stan Lee?: Marvel comics (right through the decades)