1910s


The Metamorphosis
The Secret Garden
Dubliners
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Swann’s Way (In Search of Lost Time, #1)
Howards End
Ethan Frome
My Ántonia
Peter Pan (Peter Pan, #2)
Winesburg, Ohio
Pygmalion
Death in Venice
The 39 Steps (Richard Hannay, #1)
Sons and Lovers
O Pioneers!
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James JoyceRinkitink in Oz by L. Frank BaumRelativity by Albert EinsteinUnderstood Betsy by Dorothy Canfield FisherThe Real Mother Goose by Blanche Fisher Wright
Best Books 1916
46 books — 19 voters
Britain and the Dictators by Robert William Seton-WatsonL'esploratore del Duce. Le avventure di Giuseppe Tucci e la p... by Enrica GarzilliThe Genoa Conference by Carole FinkL'esploratore del Duce. Le avventure di Giuseppe Tucci e la p... by Enrica GarzilliFallen Bastions by G.E.R. Gedye
Best Books on the Inter War period
5 books — 3 voters

My Ántonia by Willa CatherEminent Victorians by Lytton StracheyThe Magnificent Ambersons by Booth TarkingtonThe Education of Henry Adams by Henry AdamsA Moon for the Misbegotten by Eugene O'Neill
Best Books 1918
42 books — 18 voters
The Metamorphosis by Franz KafkaAnne of the Island by L.M. MontgomeryThe Valley of Fear by Arthur Conan DoyleThe 39 Steps by John BuchanOf Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham
Best Books 1915
52 books — 35 voters

The Night Circus by Erin MorgensternJonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna ClarkeThe Prestige by Christopher PriestWhen Secrets Bloom by Patricia  FurstenbergThe Magician's Lie by Greer Macallister
Magicians in Historical Fiction
53 books — 64 voters
The Art of Escaping by Erin  CallahanCarter Beats the Devil by Glen David GoldThe Confabulist by Steven GallowayThe Seance by Iain LawrenceRagtime by E.L. Doctorow
Houdini in Fiction
41 books — 12 voters

Marie Stopes
From the body of the loved one's simple, sweetly colored flesh, which our animal instincts urge us to desire, there springs not only the wonder of a new bodily life, but also the enlargement of the horizon of human sympathy and the glow of spiritual understanding which one could never have attained alone. ...more
Marie Stopes, Married Love