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The Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldWinnie-the-Pooh by A.A. MilneAll Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria RemarqueThe Sun Also Rises by Ernest HemingwaySiddhartha by Hermann Hesse
Best Books of the Decade: 1920s
758 books — 1,135 voters
Ceremony of Innocence by Stephen W. AsherA Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty SmithThe Paris Wife by Paula McLainThe Diviners by Libba BrayThe Chaperone by Laura Moriarty
Best 1920s Historical Fiction
219 books — 331 voters

1776 by David McCulloughTeam of Rivals by Doris Kearns GoodwinLife In Instalments by Danielle SartorelliBattle Cry of Freedom by James M. McPhersonJohn Adams by David McCullough
U.S. History Reading List
484 books — 202 voters
The Diviners by Libba BrayThese Violent Delights by Chloe GongBright Young Things by Anna GodbersenLair of Dreams by Libba BraySpeak Easy, Speak Love by McKelle George
YA Fiction set in the 1920s
103 books — 115 voters

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldThe Diviners by Libba BrayThe Snow Child by Eowyn IveyA Language of Dragons by S.F. WilliamsonThe Painted Veil by W. Somerset Maugham
Fiction Set in 1920s
169 books — 109 voters
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldBright Young Things by Anna GodbersenZ by Therese Anne FowlerThe Paris Wife by Paula McLainThe Diviners by Libba Bray
Jazz Age Historical Fiction
151 books — 100 voters

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldMary, Everything by Cassandra YorkeSpeak Easy, Anne by Brandy D. AndersonBitter Spirits by Jenn BennettRomancing the Rumrunner by Michelle McLean
1920s Romance
151 books — 70 voters
The Garden Party and Other Stories by Katherine MansfieldThe Waste Land by T.S. EliotSiddhartha by Hermann HesseThe Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams BiancoUlysses by James Joyce
Best of 1922
68 books — 64 voters

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldThe Trial by Franz KafkaThe Secret of Chimneys by Agatha ChristieCarry On, Jeeves by P.G. WodehouseMrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
Best Books 1925
65 books — 63 voters
The Night Circus by Erin MorgensternJonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna ClarkeThe Prestige by Christopher PriestThe Magician's Lie by Greer MacallisterThings Half in Shadow by Alan Finn
Magicians in Historical Fiction
65 books — 61 voters

Steppenwolf by Hermann HesseTo the Lighthouse by Virginia WoolfNow We Are Six by A.A. MilneArchy and Mehitabel by Don MarquisAmerika by Franz Kafka
Best Books 1927
65 books — 50 voters
Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise BrownMadeline by Ludwig BemelmansMake Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskeyThe Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix PotterThe Little Engine That Could by Watty Piper
Picture Books of the 1940s and Before
300 books — 44 voters

Winnie-the-Pooh by A.A. MilneThe Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha ChristieThese Old Shades by Georgette HeyerClouds of Witness by Dorothy L. SayersThe Blue Castle by L.M. Montgomery
Best Books 1926
71 books — 42 voters
Howards End by E.M. ForsterA Room with a View by E.M. ForsterA Room of One’s Own by Virginia WoolfMrs. Dalloway by Virginia WoolfTo the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
Bloomsbury
110 books — 41 voters

The Chosen and the Beautiful by Nghi VoBeautiful Little Fools by Jillian CantorThe Great Gatsby by Fred FordhamLocal Heavens by K.M. FajardoNick by Michael Farris Smith
The Great Gatsby Retellings, Sequels, & Prequels
27 books — 37 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
311 books — 36 voters

Poirot Investigates by Agatha ChristieA Passage to India by E.M. ForsterWhen We Were Very Young by A.A. MilneThe Magic Mountain by Thomas MannBilly Budd, Sailor by Herman Melville
Best Books 1924
52 books — 32 voters
The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha ChristieThe Age of Innocence by Edith WhartonThe Story of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh LoftingThe Wreath by Sigrid UndsetR.U.R. by Karel Čapek
Best Books 1920
61 books — 31 voters

All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria RemarqueThe House at Pooh Corner by A.A. MilneLady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. LawrenceOrlando by Virginia WoolfThe Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club by Dorothy L. Sayers
Best Books 1928
77 books — 30 voters
War Horse by Michael MorpurgoThe Winter of Red Snow by Kristiana GregoryIsabel by Carolyn MeyerThe Girl Who Chased Away Sorrow by Ann RinaldiNumber the Stars by Lois Lowry
Historical Fiction for Children
125 books — 30 voters

Ship of Dolls by Shirley ParenteauDolls of Hope by Shirley ParenteauMonkey Town by Ronald KiddThe Secret School by AviSnakes and Stones by Lisa Fowler
Middle Grade Fiction set in the 1920s
55 books — 28 voters
Death of an Officer by Mark EllisJazz by Toni MorrisonWild Women and the Blues by Denny S. BryceDarkness and the Devil Behind Me by Persia WalkerHarlem Redux by Persia Walker
Adult Historical Fiction Set In the 1920's By African-Americans
24 books — 27 voters

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldTender Is the Night by F. Scott FitzgeraldThis Side of Paradise by F. Scott FitzgeraldThe Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott FitzgeraldThe Collected Poems by Langston Hughes
The Roaring Twenties
19 books — 25 voters
The Haunting by Kristin FultonGlinda of Oz by L. Frank BaumThe Midnight Folk by John MasefieldThe Voyages of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh LoftingWinnie-the-Pooh by A.A. Milne
Children's Fantasy of the 1920s
28 books — 22 voters

Steele's Battalion by John D. BeattySilence for the Dead by Simone St. JamesThe Haunting of Maddy Clare by Simone St. JamesThe Warm Hands of Ghosts by Katherine ArdenLost Among the Living by Simone St. James
World War One + 1920s Ghost Stories
22 books — 21 voters
Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha ChristieThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldRebecca by Daphne du MaurierLost Horizon by James HiltonGone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Between-the-Wars
267 books — 20 voters

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel HawthorneThe Wind in the Willows by Kenneth GrahamePride and Prejudice by Jane AustenIvanhoe by Walter ScottThe Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
Mentioned in Downton Abbey
38 books — 16 voters
Daily Life in the United States, 1920-1940 by David E. KyvigBelow Stairs by Margaret PowellWoodsmoke and Pigeon Pie by Joan KentKing's Cross Kid by Victor GreggSingled Out by Virginia Nicholson
Everyday Lives in History: 1920s
63 books — 13 voters

Twopence to Cross the Mersey by Helen ForresterGrowing Up by Russell BakerA Girl from Yamhill by Beverly ClearyThe Dream by Harry BernsteinLittle Heathens by Mildred Armstrong Kalish
Great Depression Memoirs
45 books — 12 voters
Goodbye to All That by Robert GravesThe Cultural Renaissance in Ukraine by Mykola KhvylovyA Room of One’s Own by Virginia WoolfRussia in the Shadows by H.G. WellsLetters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
Non-Fiction Published in Decade: 1920s
72 books — 10 voters

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