1920s


The Great Gatsby
Mrs. Dalloway
The Sun Also Rises
To the Lighthouse
The Paris Wife
The Diviners (The Diviners, #1)
The Trial
A Room of One’s Own
Passing
The Age of Innocence
Siddhartha
All Quiet on the Western Front
Orlando
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Hercule Poirot, #4)
The Sound and the Fury
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
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

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 — 1,136 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
53 books — 33 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

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