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Jazz Age Books
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The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 166 times as jazz-age)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,773,180 ratings — published 1925
Tender Is the Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as jazz-age)
avg rating 3.77 — 147,467 ratings — published 1934
The Beautiful and Damned (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as jazz-age)
avg rating 3.73 — 64,039 ratings — published 1922
This Side of Paradise (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as jazz-age)
avg rating 3.63 — 79,019 ratings — published 1920
The Paris Wife (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as jazz-age)
avg rating 3.82 — 303,390 ratings — published 2011
Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald (ebook)
by (shelved 31 times as jazz-age)
avg rating 3.86 — 58,293 ratings — published 2013
The Sun Also Rises (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as jazz-age)
avg rating 3.79 — 484,978 ratings — published 1926
A Moveable Feast (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as jazz-age)
avg rating 4.02 — 163,978 ratings — published 1964
The Diviners (The Diviners, #1)
by (shelved 21 times as jazz-age)
avg rating 3.94 — 101,236 ratings — published 2012
Bright Young Things (Bright Young Things, #1)
by (shelved 20 times as jazz-age)
avg rating 3.65 — 13,210 ratings — published 2010
Save Me the Waltz (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as jazz-age)
avg rating 3.52 — 4,493 ratings — published 1932
Gods of Jade and Shadow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as jazz-age)
avg rating 3.88 — 75,385 ratings — published 2019
A Certain Age (A Certain Age, #1)
by (shelved 14 times as jazz-age)
avg rating 3.65 — 12,042 ratings — published 2016
Flappers and Philosophers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as jazz-age)
avg rating 3.96 — 5,317 ratings — published 1920
Wild Women and the Blues (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as jazz-age)
avg rating 3.77 — 7,401 ratings — published 2021
Tales of the Jazz Age (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as jazz-age)
avg rating 3.88 — 8,246 ratings — published 1922
Zelda (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as jazz-age)
avg rating 3.82 — 10,413 ratings — published 1970
The Chosen and the Beautiful (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as jazz-age)
avg rating 3.55 — 18,591 ratings — published 2021
The Ghosts of Eden Park: The Bootleg King, the Women Who Pursued Him, and the Murder That Shocked Jazz-Age America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as jazz-age)
avg rating 3.69 — 6,876 ratings — published 2019
Lair of Dreams (The Diviners, #2)
by (shelved 12 times as jazz-age)
avg rating 4.11 — 33,663 ratings — published 2015
The Chaperone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as jazz-age)
avg rating 3.88 — 63,860 ratings — published 2012
Flapper: A Madcap Story of Sex, Style, Celebrity, and the Women Who Made America Modern (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as jazz-age)
avg rating 3.84 — 3,439 ratings — published 2006
Rules of Civility (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as jazz-age)
avg rating 4.09 — 264,741 ratings — published 2011
The Love of the Last Tycoon (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as jazz-age)
avg rating 3.63 — 13,675 ratings — published 1941
Careless People: Murder, Mayhem, and the Invention of The Great Gatsby (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as jazz-age)
avg rating 3.63 — 2,257 ratings — published 2013
Cocaine Blues (Phryne Fisher, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as jazz-age)
avg rating 3.84 — 28,692 ratings — published 1989
The Other Typist (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as jazz-age)
avg rating 3.55 — 19,324 ratings — published 2013
The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as jazz-age)
avg rating 4.01 — 36,631 ratings — published 2010
Everybody Was So Young: Gerald and Sara Murphy: A Lost Generation Love Story (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as jazz-age)
avg rating 4.06 — 2,570 ratings — published 1998
A Farewell to Arms (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as jazz-age)
avg rating 3.82 — 346,715 ratings — published 1929
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as jazz-age)
avg rating 3.61 — 6,944 ratings — published 1925
Beautiful Days (Bright Young Things, #2)
by (shelved 9 times as jazz-age)
avg rating 3.84 — 5,672 ratings — published 2011
Vixen (Flappers, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as jazz-age)
avg rating 3.74 — 8,188 ratings — published 2010
The Girls at the Kingfisher Club (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as jazz-age)
avg rating 3.80 — 4,813 ratings — published 2014
Fallen Beauty (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as jazz-age)
avg rating 3.76 — 1,514 ratings — published 2014
Flappers: Six Women of a Dangerous Generation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as jazz-age)
avg rating 3.87 — 1,586 ratings — published 2013
Beautiful Little Fools (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as jazz-age)
avg rating 4.01 — 13,763 ratings — published 2022
The Wicked City (The Wicked City, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as jazz-age)
avg rating 3.66 — 10,358 ratings — published 2017
Before the Devil Breaks You (The Diviners, #3)
by (shelved 7 times as jazz-age)
avg rating 4.25 — 20,604 ratings — published 2017
Dollface (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as jazz-age)
avg rating 3.77 — 3,065 ratings — published 2013
The Basil and Josephine Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as jazz-age)
avg rating 3.95 — 869 ratings — published 1928
Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as jazz-age)
avg rating 4.00 — 124,442 ratings — published 1945
Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin: Writers Running Wild in the Twenties (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as jazz-age)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,448 ratings — published 2004
Ingenue (Flappers, #2)
by (shelved 7 times as jazz-age)
avg rating 3.85 — 3,227 ratings — published 2011
Dead Dead Girls (Harlem Renaissance Mystery, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as jazz-age)
avg rating 3.21 — 6,028 ratings — published 2021
These Violent Delights (These Violent Delights, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as jazz-age)
avg rating 3.80 — 166,695 ratings — published 2020
The Short Stories (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as jazz-age)
avg rating 4.22 — 14,893 ratings — published 1920
Supreme City: How Jazz Age Manhattan Gave Birth to Modern America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as jazz-age)
avg rating 4.16 — 413 ratings — published 2014
Everybody Behaves Badly: The True Story Behind Hemingway’s Masterpiece The Sun Also Rises (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as jazz-age)
avg rating 3.99 — 2,766 ratings — published 2016
Saint Mazie (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as jazz-age)
avg rating 3.65 — 7,018 ratings — published 2015
“Jazz as Herman has come to know it is part of the big come-on. Get ‘em in and get ‘em loaded. Get ‘em loaded and get ‘em laid. Get ‘em laid and get ‘em out. And all the while the band made noise, laid down the beat. When you got laid, you jazzed your girl, but you didn’t want to the hit the street with jazz still on our pants… and, what the hell, jazz is jazz… and the dance floor and the tables, too, completely filled and the temperature going up and up, the faces of the dancers shining with sweat and excitement. Because they’ve surrendered as well, all of them, the booze beginning to take hold, its toxic contents roaring through their veins, mounting into the heads topped with brilliantined hair or bobbed, the girls’ cheeks flushed like rose petals and the flush creeping down their swanlike necks, past the strings of paste that for tonight are agreed to be the real thing.”
― 1929
― 1929
“It really was a whole generation who were listening to Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk, Ella Fitzgerald, Sonny Rollins, James Moody, Fats Navarro and, a little bit later on, Mongo Santamaría and Chuck Berry, and these dozen or so guys gave them a voice. They led the way. They wrote what a whole generation wanted to read. The time was right and they seized the day by writing about their lives. They travelled, they got into scrapes, they got arrested, they got wasted … and they wrote about it.
Isn’t that something?”
― Wrong Planet - Searching for your Tribe
Isn’t that something?”
― Wrong Planet - Searching for your Tribe
