1914


Dubliners
The Lifeboat
Kokoro
Platero y yo
The Dead
Niebla
The Trial
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
The Summer Before the War
The Burning of the World: A Memoir of 1914
The Guns of August
Land of Marvels
Spoon River Anthology
When the Day Comes (Timeless, #1)
Vladimir Mayakovsky: Tragedy in Two Acts with a Prologue and Epilogue
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
530 books — 776 voters
Five Children on the Western Front by Kate SaundersCharlotte Sometimes by Penelope FarmerA Rose for the ANZAC Boys by Jackie FrenchWar Horse by Michael MorpurgoPrivate Peaceful by Michael Morpurgo
World War I in Children's Fiction
83 books — 28 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
177 books — 43 voters
The Trigger by Tim ButcherAll Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria RemarqueThe War in Our Hearts by Eva SeylerThe Guns of August by Barbara W. TuchmanStorm of Steel by Ernst Jünger
WWI Good Reads
72 books — 55 voters

The Best Christmas Present in the World by Michael MorpurgoChristmas in the Trenches by John  McCutcheonGifts of War by Mackenzie FordAnd the Soldiers Sang by J. Patrick LewisMeetings in No Man's Land by Malcolm Brown
1914 Christmas Truce
7 books — 3 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
135 books — 79 voters

Romain Rolland
I would rather have this life of combat than the moral calm and mournful stupor of these last years. God give me struggle, enemies, howling crowds, all the combot of which I am capable.
Romain Rolland, Correspondence, Diary Entries and Reflections, 1915-40

Marques Rebelo
1914. A grande ambição carnavalesca era usar lança-perfume. Havia tubos para crianças, finos como dedos. Bisnagava-se até cachorro! Na terça-feira gorda, o chão da Avenida tinha um palmo de confetes, os préstitos eram o delírio do ouropel — clarins, marchas triunfais, fogos-de-bengala, caracolantes ginetes abrindo os cortejos — gato, baeta, carapicu! — bamboleantes sóis, planetas, constelações, Vulcano, Júpiter, Netuno, mitológicos deuses paralisados em gestos de sarrafo e papelão, giratórias e ...more
Marques Rebelo, O Trapicheiro

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