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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
524 books — 780 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)
593 books — 410 voters

A Countess Below Stairs by Eva IbbotsonHattie Big Sky by Kirby LarsonRilla of Ingleside by L.M. MontgomeryUprising by Margaret Peterson HaddixIn the Shadow of Blackbirds by Cat Winters
YA Fiction set in the 1910s
148 books — 77 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
99 books — 67 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 Historical Fiction set in the 1910s
178 books — 43 voters
The Let Them Theory by Mel RobbinsThe Women by Kristin HannahThe Correspondent by Virginia EvansThe Wedding People by Alison EspachThe Housemaid by Freida McFadden
2025: What PEOPLE born BEFORE 1970 Have Read So Far
318 books — 39 voters

Five Children on the Western Front by Kate SaundersCharlotte Sometimes by Penelope FarmerPoppy by Mary HooperA Rose for the ANZAC Boys by Jackie FrenchWar Horse by Michael Morpurgo
World War I in Children's Fiction
87 books — 30 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

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
33 books — 24 voters
Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins ReidLove Twists and Knots by Jo-Anne CarriereWe Are All Guilty Here by Karin SlaughterThe Ghostwriter by Julie ClarkEducated by Tara Westover
2026: What PEOPLE born BEFORE 1970 have read so far
277 books — 20 voters

Peter Pan by J.M. BarrieThe Magic City by E. NesbitThe Magic World by E. NesbitThe Scarecrow of Oz by L. Frank BaumTik-Tok of Oz by L. Frank Baum
Children's Fantasy of the 1910s
20 books — 17 voters
Lenin by Victor SebestyenThe Russian Revolution by Sean McMeekin1917 by Boris Dralyuk1917 by Arthur HermanOctober by China Miéville
Books about 1917 published in 2017
22 books — 6 voters

The State and Revolution by Vladimir LeninImperialism by Vladimir LeninLenin by Victor SebestyenThe Russian Revolution by Richard PipesTrotsky in New York, 1917 by Kenneth D. Ackerman
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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