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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
765 books — 1,129 voters
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty SmithThe Diviners by Libba BrayThe Paris Wife by Paula McLainThe Chaperone by Laura MoriartyThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Best 1920s Historical Fiction
197 books — 274 voters

1776 by David McCulloughTeam of Rivals by Doris Kearns GoodwinBattle Cry of Freedom by James M. McPhersonJohn Adams by David McCulloughA People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn
U.S. History Reading List
449 books — 152 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
90 books — 109 voters

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldThe Diviners by Libba BrayThe Snow Child by Eowyn IveyThe Painted Veil by W. Somerset MaughamThe Haunting of Maddy Clare by Simone St. James
Fiction Set in 1920s
164 books — 103 voters
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldBright Young Things by Anna GodbersenZ by Therese Anne FowlerBeautiful Days by Anna GodbersenThe Lucky Ones by Anna Godbersen
Jazz Age Historical Fiction
143 books — 95 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
149 books — 69 voters
The Night Circus by Erin MorgensternJonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna ClarkeThe Prestige by Christopher PriestWhen Secrets Bloom by Patricia FurstenbergThe Magician's Lie by Greer Macallister
Magicians in Historical Fiction
53 books — 64 voters

The Garden Party and Other Stories by Katherine MansfieldThe Waste Land by T.S. EliotThe Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams BiancoUlysses by James JoyceThe Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Best of 1922
68 books — 61 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
61 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
62 books — 48 voters
Steele's Battalion by John D. BeattyThe Haunting of Maddy Clare by Simone St. JamesLost Among the Living by Simone St. JamesSilence for the Dead by Simone St. JamesThe Warm Hands of Ghosts by Katherine Arden
World War One + 1920s Ghost Stories
21 books — 46 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
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 Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
Best Books 1926
69 books — 40 voters

Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise BrownMadeline by Ludwig BemelmansThe Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix PotterMake Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskeyThe Little Engine That Could by Watty Piper
Picture Books of the 1940s and Before
291 books — 40 voters
The Chosen and the Beautiful by Nghi VoBeautiful Little Fools by Jillian CantorThe Great Gatsby by Fred FordhamNick by Michael Farris SmithJay the Great by Benjamin Frost
The Great Gatsby Retellings, Sequels, & Prequels
25 books — 33 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
60 books — 31 voters
A Passage to India by E.M. ForsterPoirot Investigates by Agatha ChristieWhen We Were Very Young by A.A. MilneThe Magic Mountain by Thomas MannThe Man in the Brown Suit by Agatha Christie
Best Books 1924
50 books — 30 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
78 books — 28 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
53 books — 26 voters

War Horse by Michael MorpurgoIsabel by Carolyn MeyerThe Girl Who Chased Away Sorrow by Ann RinaldiNumber the Stars by Lois LowryThe Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare
Historical Fiction for Children
123 books — 26 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
18 books — 24 voters

The Let Them Theory by Mel RobbinsThe Wedding People by Alison EspachEverything Is Tuberculosis by John GreenAll the Sinners Bleed by S.A. CosbyIn a Dark, Dark Wood by Ruth Ware
2025: What PEOPLE born BEFORE 1970 Have Read So Far
303 books — 24 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
258 books — 16 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
36 books — 15 voters
Only Yesterday by Frederick Lewis AllenBelow 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
65 books — 11 voters

Jazz by Toni MorrisonWild Women and the Blues by Denny S. BryceDarkness and the Devil Behind Me by Persia WalkerHarlem Redux by Persia WalkerBlack Orchid Blues by Persia Walker
Adult Historical Fiction Set In the 1920's By African-Americans
17 books — 11 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
43 books — 10 voters

A Room of One’s Own by Virginia WoolfGoodbye to All That by Robert GravesThe Last of the Mill Creeks, and Early Life in Northern Calif... by Sim MoakThe Cultural Renaissance in Ukraine by Mykola KhvylovyRussia in the Shadows by H.G. Wells
Non-Fiction Published in Decade: 1920s
67 books — 6 voters
The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha ChristieThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldThe Sun Also Rises by Ernest HemingwayAll Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria RemarqueThe Waste Land by T.S. Eliot
A Century of Reading: 1920s
44 books — 4 voters

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