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
The Age of Innocence
Siddhartha
Passing
All Quiet on the Western Front
Orlando
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Hercule Poirot, #4)
The Sound and the Fury
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

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
292 books — 41 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

How paltry are the traces left behind by a life, even one concentrated around those supposed things of permanence called words. We spend our time upon the earth and then disappear, and only one one-thousandth of what we were lasts. We send all those bottles out into the ocean and so few wash up on shore.
john darnton, Almost a Family: A Memoir

Ellen Read
I like the word yet,” Niamh said. “Yet is hopeful, don’t you think?
Ellen Read, The Butterfly's Cocoon

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