1900s


Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1)
A Room with a View
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Oz, #1)
The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sherlock Holmes, #5)
The House of Mirth
The Call of the Wild
The Great Gatsby
The Wind in the Willows
To Kill a Mockingbird
1984
The Jungle
A Little Princess
Animal Farm
The Catcher in the Rye
Of Mice and Men
Anne of Green Gables by L.M. MontgomeryA Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty  SmithFalling Angels by Tracy ChevalierThe Railway Children by E. NesbitThe Wings of the Dove by Henry James
Fiction Set in 1900s
19 books — 17 voters
The Nature of Fragile Things by Susan MeissnerOutrun the Moon by Stacey  Lee1906 by James DalessandroPaperQuake by Kathryn ReissEarthquake at Dawn Rev Pa by Kristiana Gregory
1906 San Francisco Earthquake
14 books — 9 voters

The Jungle by Upton SinclairThe Railway Children by E. NesbitPeter Pan in Kensington Gardens by J.M. BarrieThe Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher by Beatrix PotterIn the Days of the Comet by H.G. Wells
Best Books 1906
50 books — 23 voters
A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson BurnettThe Scarlet Pimpernel by Emmuska OrczyThe House of Mirth by Edith WhartonThe Return of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan DoyleWhite Fang by Jack London
Best Books 1905
56 books — 34 voters

Alix E. Harrow
Did women actually faint, I wondered, or was that an invention of bad Victorian novels and Friday night picture shows? Or perhaps women simply contrived to collapse at convenient moments to delay the burden of hearing and seeing and feeling, just for a little while. I sympathized.
Alix E. Harrow, The Ten Thousand Doors of January

Steven Magee
With the development of utility electricity for the masses in the 1900's, very few people realize that a new era of sickness and disease was unleashed that are collectively called radiation sickness. ...more
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