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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)
587 books — 404 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
My Ántonia by Willa CatherEminent Victorians by Lytton StracheyThe Magnificent Ambersons by Booth TarkingtonThe Education of Henry Adams by Henry AdamsA Moon for the Misbegotten by Eugene O'Neill
Best Books 1918
42 books — 18 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
83 books — 13 voters

All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria RemarqueUnbroken by Laura HillenbrandThe Longest Day by Cornelius RyanBirdsong on Holbeck Moor by Billy MorrisThe Rape of Nanking by Iris Chang
10 best novels of the two World Wars...
32 books — 11 voters
Sandra by Heidi KöngäsTäällä Pohjantähden alla 1–3 by Väinö LinnaLahtarit by Anneli KantoKylmien kyytimies by Antti TuuriVeriruusut by Anneli Kanto
Suomen sisällissota 1918
41 books — 9 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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