The Best Of The 20th Century (TIME Magazine)

Best Children Books:

1.      Charlotte’s Web

2.      The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis;

3.      A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle

Best TV Shows

1.      The Simpsons, created by Matt Groening (1989- )

2.      The Mary Tyler Moore Show;

3.      The CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite

Best Dances

1.      The Four Temperaments by George Balanchine (1946)

2.      Esplanade by Paul Taylor;

3.      Jardin aux Lilas by Antony Tudor

Best Films

1.      Citizen Kane, directed by and starring Orson Welles (1941)

2.      Day for Night by Francois Truffaut;

3.      Chinatown by Roman Polanski

Best Novels

1.      Ulysses by James Joyce (1922)

2.      One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez;

3.      Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

Best Nonfiction Books

1.      The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1974)

2.      The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank;

3.      The Double Helix by James Watson

Best Operas

1.      Peter Grimes by Benjamin Britten (1945)

2.      Wozzeck by Alban Berg;

3.      Madama Butterfly by Giacomo Puccini

Best Comedies

1.      Routine "Who's on First?" by Abbott and Costello (1938)

2.      "Dead Parrot," Monty Python;

3.      "Rope Tricks," Will Rogers

Best Songs

1.      Strange Fruit by Billie Holiday (1939)

2.      Corcovado by Antonio C. Jobim;

3.      A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall by Bob Dylan

Best Designs

1.      The Eames molded plywood chair, designed by Charles Eames (1946)

2.      The S-1 steam locomotive by Raymond Loewy;

3.      the Swatch watch

Best Plays

1.      Six Characters in Search of an Author by Luigi Pirandello (1921)

2.      Man and Superman by George Bernard Shaw;

3.      Long Day's Journey into Night by Eugene O'Neill

Best Classical Compositions

1.      Symphony of Psalms by Igor Stravinsky (1930)

2.      String Quartet in F Major by Maurice Ravel;

3.      Appalachian Spring by Aaron Copland

Best Poems

1.      The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot (1922)

2.      The Second Coming by W.B. Yeats;

3.      Home Burial by Robert Frost

Best Paintings

1.      The Red Studio by Henri Matisse (1911)

2.      Still-Life with Chair Caning by Pablo Picasso;

3.      Dog Barking at the Moon by Joan Miro

Best Sculptures

1.      Bird in Space by Constantin Brancusi (this version c. 1941)

2.      Guitar by Pablo Picasso;

3.      The Chariot by Alberto Giacometti

Best Buildings

1.      The chapel at Ronchamp, France by Le Corbusier (1955)

2.      The Seagram Building by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe;

3.      Fallingwater by Frank Lloyd Wright

Best Albums

1.      Exodus by Bob Marley & the Wailers (1977)

2.      Kind of Blue by Miles Davis;

3.      Are You Experienced? by Jimi Hendrix

Best Photographs

1.      Place de l'Europe, Paris by Henri Cartier-Bresson (1932)

2.      Identifying the Dead, Russian Front by Dmitri Baltermants;

3.      Wall Street by Paul Strand