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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
759 books — 1,133 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
218 books — 330 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
475 books — 177 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
102 books — 114 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
167 books — 107 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
150 books — 99 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
150 books — 69 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
61 books — 60 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
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
22 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

Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise BrownMadeline by Ludwig BemelmansThe Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix PotterMake Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskeyBlueberries for Sal by Robert McCloskey
Picture Books of the 1940s and Before
300 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
26 books — 35 voters

The Let Them Theory by Mel RobbinsThe Wedding People by Alison EspachThe Housemaid by Freida McFaddenThe Women by Kristin HannahThe Correspondent by Virginia Evans
2025: What PEOPLE born BEFORE 1970 Have Read So Far
308 books — 34 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
124 books — 29 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

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
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
22 books — 25 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
266 books — 19 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

Critical Essays on Ayn Rand’s “We the Living” by Emre GurgenA 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 Khvylovy
Non-Fiction Published in Decade: 1920s
72 books — 11 voters
Below Stairs by Margaret PowellWoodsmoke and Pigeon Pie by Joan KentKing's Cross Kid by Victor GreggSingled Out by Virginia NicholsonThe Egg and I by Betty MacDonald
Everyday Lives in History: 1920s
61 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
44 books — 11 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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