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The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson BurnettThe Metamorphosis by Franz KafkaPeter Pan by J.M. BarrieMy Ántonia by Willa CatherHowards End by E.M. Forster
Best Books of the Decade: 1910s
530 books — 775 voters
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria RemarqueA Farewell to Arms by Ernest HemingwayBirdsong by Sebastian FaulksThe Regeneration Trilogy by Pat BarkerMaisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear
WWI: The Great War (Historical Fiction)
540 books — 389 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
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

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
176 books — 42 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
82 books — 27 voters

The Let Them Theory by Mel RobbinsThe Wedding People by Alison EspachHere One Moment by Liane MoriartyEverything Is Tuberculosis by John GreenAll the Sinners Bleed by S.A. Cosby
2025: What PEOPLE born BEFORE 1970 Have Read So Far
327 books — 23 voters
Dubliners by James JoyceTik-Tok of Oz by L. Frank BaumKokoro by Natsume SōsekiPenrod by Booth TarkingtonPlatero and I by Juan Ramón Jiménez
Best Books 1914
49 books — 19 voters

The War in Our Hearts by Eva SeylerAll Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria RemarqueBirdsong on Holbeck Moor by Billy MorrisKingdoms Fall - The Laxenburg Message by Edward ParrLine of Fire by Barroux
World War I
76 books — 19 voters
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 BaumThe Magic World by E. Nesbit
Children's Fantasy of the 1910s
21 books — 18 voters

All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria RemarqueUnbroken by Laura HillenbrandThe Longest Day by Cornelius RyanLost Victories by Erich von MansteinBirdsong on Holbeck Moor by Billy Morris
10 best novels of the two World Wars...
32 books — 11 voters
Christmas in the Trenches by John McCutcheonThe Best Christmas Present in the World by Michael MorpurgoGifts 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

The Green Door by Mary Eleanor Wilkins FreemanThe Eternal Savage by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Children's Time Travel Fiction of the 1910s
2 books — 1 voter

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