1913


Swann’s Way (In Search of Lost Time, #1)
Sons and Lovers
Pygmalion
The Custom of the Country
The Lodger
The Lions of Fifth Avenue
Le Grand Meaulnes
My Childhood
O Pioneers!
The Gods of Mars (Barsoom #2)
Petersburg
Scott's Last Expedition: The Journals
The Mystery of Dr. Fu-Manchu (Fu Manchu #1)
Trent's Last Case (Philip Trent, #1)
Laddie: A True Blue Story (Library of Indiana Classics)
Peter Pan by J.M. BarrieThe Magic City by E. NesbitThe Emerald City of Oz by L. Frank BaumThe Patchwork Girl of Oz by L. Frank BaumTik-Tok of Oz by L. Frank Baum
Children's Fantasy of the 1910s
20 books — 17 voters
All-of-a-Kind Family by Sydney TaylorListening for Lions by Gloria WhelanHattie Big Sky by Kirby LarsonVoyage on the Great Titanic by Ellen Emerson WhiteAnastasia by Carolyn Meyer
Middle Grade Fiction set in the 1910s
178 books — 43 voters

A Countess Below Stairs by Eva IbbotsonHattie Big Sky by Kirby LarsonRilla of Ingleside by L.M. MontgomeryIn the Shadow of Blackbirds by Cat WintersUprising by Margaret Peterson Haddix
YA Fiction set in the 1910s
147 books — 80 voters

The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson BurnettThe Metamorphosis by Franz KafkaPeter Pan by J.M. BarrieHowards End by E.M. ForsterMy Ántonia by Willa Cather
Best Books of the Decade: 1910s
524 books — 780 voters
Pollyanna by Eleanor Hodgman PorterPygmalion by George Bernard ShawThe Custom of the Country by Edith WhartonO Pioneers! by Willa CatherThe Patchwork Girl of Oz by L. Frank Baum
Best Books 1913
52 books — 30 voters

“ In the sleepy village of Lower Newton Falls, as they had promised their mother they would do the night before, the Lowery brothers [ages 12,10] rose early, ate their breakfast, packed their books, and headed straight for school. When a mile later they reached the turn in the lane that led to the schoolhouse, only Jack Lowery took it; Eddie [the younger brother] stopped and handed Jack his book bag. 'I'm not going,' said Eddie. 'What are you talking about?' 'I'm going to the [Brookline Golf] clu ...more ”
― Mark Frost, The Greatest Game Ever Played

C.G. Jung
“ Should we will error? You should not, but you do will that error which you take for the best truth, as men have always done. ”
― C.G. Jung, The Red Book: Liber Novus

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