Книги 20 века: читалка

20th Century Books—the most important books of the last century on your phone. Over 1,500 novels, short stories, and poems from Russian and foreign literature of the 20th century: the Silver Age and Emigration, the American novel and European modernism, Japanese prose, and books by Nobel laureates. Download a book once and then read it offline, without internet access.

No subscription or registration required: each book opens in its entirety for free.

📚 1,500 BOOKS, 600 AUTHORS
• Russian Literature of the 20th Century: Bunin, Kuprin, Gorky, Andrei Bely, Zamyatin, Bulgakov, Zoshchenko, Paustovsky, Nabokov, Averchenko, Sasha Cherny, Fazil Iskander. • 20th-century foreign literature: Faulkner, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Steinbeck, Orwell, Camus, Hesse, Stefan Zweig, Somerset Maugham, Simone de Beauvoir, Gabriel Marquez, Jorge Borges.
• 20th-century Japanese literature: Yukio Mishima and Ryunosuke Akutagawa.
• Nobel laureates in literature: Bunin, Hesse, Faulkner, Hemingway, Camus, Steinbeck, Marquez.
• Humorous short stories by Averchenko and Zoshchenko – short, perfect for a trip.
• Search by title and author, bookshelves, favorites, and "Continue reading."

📖 20TH CENTURY READING
Worth-reading 20th-century books: Orwell's "1984" and "Animal Farm," Márquez's "One Hundred Years of Solitude," Hesse's "Steppenwolf," Faulkner's "The Sound and the Fury," Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby," Camus's "The Plague," Mishima's "The Golden Temple," Bunin's "Dark Alleys," Nabokov's "Mashenka" and "The Gift," and Zoshchenko's "The Blue Book." Dystopias, war and urban fiction, modernism and magical realism—iconic books of the century in one app.

🎧 READING ALOUD
You can listen to any book: the app will read it using Android's speech synthesis. Adjustable speed, a sleep timer, controls from the lock screen, and highlight the paragraph being read.

⚙️ READING
• Page turning animations or auto-scrolling.
• Book fonts, line spacing, and syllable breaks.
• Day, sepia, and night themes, custom colors, and a blue light filter.
• Scroll with volume buttons, "Keep screen on"; the app remembers where you left off.
• Backup—your books and settings won't be lost when you change smartphones.

✍️ QUOTES AND NOTES
Highlight a phrase to save a quote, note, or bookmark. Quotes are collected and turned into a shareable image. A dictionary and translation are available for the highlighted word.

📥 OFFLINE
Downloaded books remain on your device: on the subway, on a plane, or at your dacha without a connection. Only the books you have open take up space.

👤 WHO IT'S BEST FOR
• High school and college students: 20th-century literature from the 11th-grade curriculum and the Philology Department is at your fingertips.
• Those who have a list of "best books of the 20th century" and don't have time to search for them on websites.
• Fans of the Silver Age, émigré and American prose.
• Those who read on the go without internet or enjoy listening to books.

20th-century books – so you can finally read "1984," "One Hundred Years of Solitude," and "Steppenwolf," which everyone is talking about. Free, offline, and in full.