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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
534 books — 778 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)
588 books — 405 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
As Bright as Heaven by Susan MeissnerIn the Shadow of Blackbirds by Cat WintersThe Pull of the Stars by Emma DonoghueA Death-Struck Year by Makiia LucierThe Birth House by Ami McKay
1918 Flu Pandemic
98 books — 66 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 — 42 voters
The Let Them Theory by Mel RobbinsThe Wedding People by Alison EspachThe Housemaid by Freida McFaddenHere One Moment by Liane MoriartyEverything Is Tuberculosis by John Green
2025: What PEOPLE born BEFORE 1970 Have Read So Far
307 books — 30 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
No Safe Harbour by Julie LawsonTides of Honour by Genevieve GrahamBarometer Rising by Hugh MacLennanWho's a Scaredy-Cat! by Joan PayzantThe Warm Hands of Ghosts by Katherine Arden
Halifax Explosion Fiction
34 books — 25 voters

Anne's House of Dreams by L.M. MontgomeryUnderstood Betsy by Dorothy Canfield FisherThe Lost Princess of Oz by L. Frank BaumSummer by Edith WhartonParnassus on Wheels by Christopher Morley
Best Books 1917
48 books — 24 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
20 books — 17 voters

We Are All Guilty Here by Karin SlaughterEducated by Tara WestoverAtmosphere by Taylor Jenkins ReidA Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. SchwabPeople We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry
2026: What PEOPLE born BEFORE 1970 have read so far
86 books — 13 voters
Lenin by Victor SebestyenThe Russian Revolution by Sean McMeekin1917 by Boris DralyukOctober by China Miéville1917 by Arthur Herman
Books about 1917 published in 2017
22 books — 6 voters

The State and Revolution by Vladimir LeninImperialism by Vladimir LeninLenin by Victor SebestyenTrotsky in New York, 1917 by Kenneth D. AckermanThe Russian Revolution by Richard Pipes
Russia Under Lenin (1917-1924) Revolution & Civil War
99 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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