Best 20th Century Books as of 1924

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A public survey in 1924 in which readers were asked to name the best books published since 1900. From Literary Digest International Book Review, March 1924.
1
Ethan Frome
by Edith Wharton
10,625 members
239 reviews
½ 3.6
5 Members
smcwl, merrystar, PaulCranswick, ahef1963, NinieB
2
The Call of the Wild
by Jack London
22,734 members
345 reviews
3.8
4 Members
smcwl, PaulCranswick, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
3
The Wind in the Willows
by Kenneth Grahame
27,678 members
365 reviews
4.1
4 Members
smcwl, PaulCranswick, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
4
The Forsyte Saga
by John Galsworthy
2,786 members
44 reviews
4.1
3 Members
PaulCranswick, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda
5
Pygmalion
by George Bernard Shaw
7,675 members
94 reviews
3.9
3 Members
smcwl, PaulCranswick, ahef1963
6
The Old Wives' Tale
by Arnold Bennett
1,671 members
27 reviews
3.9
3 Members
PaulCranswick, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
7
Main Street
by Sinclair Lewis
4,530 members
79 reviews
3.8
3 Members
smcwl, PaulCranswick, NinieB
8
Of Human Bondage
by W. Somerset Maugham
9,391 members
165 reviews
4.1
3 Members
PaulCranswick, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
9
The Way of All Flesh
by Samuel Butler
4,039 members
45 reviews
½ 3.6
2 Members
PaulCranswick, NinieB
10
The Admirable Crichton
by J. M. Barrie
265 members
7 reviews
½ 3.6
2 Members
smcwl, merrystar
11
O. Henry's Short Stories [unknown edition]
by O. Henry
215 members
2 reviews
4.2
2 Members
ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
12
One of Ours
by Willa Cather
1,397 members
43 reviews
3.8
2 Members
smcwl, NinieB
13
Lord Jim
by Joseph Conrad
10,148 members
127 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
PaulCranswick, ahef1963
14
Maria Chapdelaine
by Louis Hémon
560 members
8 reviews
½ 3.6
2 Members
smcwl, ahef1963
15
The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains
by Owen Wister
2,642 members
48 reviews
3.8
Member
merrystar
16
Green Mansions
by W. H. Hudson
1,898 members
28 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
17
Confessions of a Book-Lover
by Maurice Francis Egan
28 members
4
Member
smcwl
18
Men of the old stone age
by Henry Fairfield Osborn
28 members
3
Member
smcwl
19
The Jungle
by Upton Sinclair
13,330 members
146 reviews
3.8
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
20
The Collected Poems of Rupert Brooke
by Rupert Brooke
321 members
5 reviews
½ 3.4
Member
ahef1963
21
Kim
by Rudyard Kipling
10,179 members
215 reviews
3.8
Member
PaulCranswick
22
Up from Slavery
by Booker T. Washington
5,023 members
44 reviews
4
Member
smcwl
23
Growth of the Soil
by Knut Hamsun
2,044 members
51 reviews
4.1
Member
PaulCranswick
24
Penguin Island
by Anatole France
968 members
22 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
smcwl
25
The American Language: An Inquiry into the Development of English in the United States
by H. L. Mencken
761 members
3 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
smcwl
26
The Shuttle
by Frances Hodgson Burnett
501 members
24 reviews
4
Member
smcwl
27
The Crisis
by Winston Churchill
345 members
5 reviews
3.8
Member
smcwl
28
The Judge
by Rebecca West
269 members
11 reviews
½ 3.4
Member
smcwl
29
Beasts, Men and Gods
by Ferdinand Ossendowski
209 members
9 reviews
3.9
Member
smcwl
30
Joanna Godden
by Sheila Kaye-Smith
163 members
1 review
½ 3.7
Member
smcwl
31
The Bent Twig
by Dorothy Canfield
81 members
4 reviews
3.9
Member
smcwl
32
Eben Holden
by Irving Bacheller
77 members
½ 3.6
Member
smcwl
33
The Outline of Literature
by John Drinkwater
50 members
Member
smcwl
34
Java Head
by Joseph Hergesheimer
48 members
4.1
Member
smcwl
35
A Certain Rich Man
by William Allen White
30 members
Member
smcwl
36
Joseph Vance : an ill-written autobiography
by William De Morgan
20 members
Member
smcwl
37
Orthodoxy
by G. K. Chesterton
7,639 members
56 reviews
4.2
38
The Varieties of Religious Experience
by William James
5,845 members
44 reviews
3.9
39
Spoon River Anthology
by Edgar Lee Masters
3,894 members
46 reviews
4
40
The Education of Henry Adams
by Henry Adams
3,071 members
47 reviews
3.8
41
The Outline of History
by H. G. Wells
2,495 members
17 reviews
½ 3.7
42
The Story of Mankind
by Hendrik Willem van Loon
1,813 members
24 reviews
½ 3.5
43
The Shepherd of the Hills
by Harold Bell Wright
1,347 members
21 reviews
3.9
44
Jurgen: A Comedy of Justice
by James Branch Cabell
1,090 members
24 reviews
½ 3.7
45
Queen Victoria
by Lytton Strachey
1,040 members
8 reviews
3.8
46
Penrod
by Booth Tarkington
893 members
19 reviews
3.8
47
Under Fire
by Henri Barbusse
892 members
25 reviews
3.9
48
The Mysterious Stranger; or, The Chronicle of Young Satan
by Mark Twain
687 members
27 reviews
4
49
The Harvester
by Gene Stratton-Porter
614 members
10 reviews
4.2
50
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez
457 members
6 reviews
½ 3.7
51
The Hill of Dreams
by Arthur Machen
423 members
8 reviews
3.8
52
Life of Christ
by Giovanni Papini
406 members
10 reviews
½ 3.7
53
Theodore Roosevelt's Letters to His Children
by Theodore Roosevelt
378 members
5 reviews
4.2
54
Memoirs of a Midget
by Walter De la Mare
354 members
3 reviews
½ 3.4
55
Abraham Lincoln
by Lord Charnwood
344 members
4 reviews
½ 3.3
56
Jean-Christophe
by Romain Rolland
337 members
5 reviews
3.8
57
The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come
by John Fox, Jr.
333 members
3 reviews
½ 3.6
58
The Blue Bird
by Maurice Maeterlinck
307 members
7 reviews
½ 3.5
59
His Family
by Ernest Poole
263 members
10 reviews
3.8
60
The Americanization of Edward Bok
by Edward Bok
222 members
5 reviews
3
61
The Genius
by Theodore Dreiser
181 members
7 reviews
½ 3.6
62
The Dynasts
by Thomas Hardy
148 members
2 reviews
½ 3.7
63
The Amazing Interlude
by Mary Roberts Rinehart
140 members
5 reviews
½ 3.6
64
The Covered Wagon
by Emerson Hough
133 members
1 review
½ 3.5
66
The Life of John Marshall (4-volume set)
by Albert J. Beveridge
94 members
3
67
The Broad Highway
by Jeffery Farnol
93 members
5 reviews
½ 3.5
68
The Garden of Allah
by Robert Hichens
88 members
2 reviews
½ 3.3
69
The Cathedral
by Hugh Walpole
82 members
1 review
½ 3.6
70
If Winter Comes
by A. S. M. Hutchinson
76 members
½ 3.5
71
The Mind in the Making
by James Harvey Robinson
69 members
2 reviews
3.8
72
The Simple Life
by Charles Wagner
62 members
4
73
Black Oxen
by Gertrude Atherton
62 members
1 review
3.8
74
White Shadows in the South Seas
by Frederick O'Brien
53 members
2 reviews
½ 4.4
75
Poems
by John Masefield
48 members
1 review
½ 4.3
76
The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page
by Burton J. Hendrick
47 members
2 reviews
½ 3.4
77
Casuals of the Sea
by William McFee
46 members
1 review
78
The Weavers
by Gilbert Parker
43 members
5
79
Riley Songs of Summer
by James Whitcomb Riley
43 members
½ 3.5
80
The Beloved Vagabond
by William John Locke
41 members
2 reviews
3.9
81
History of the World War: Sets
by Frank H. Simonds
37 members
½ 3.5
82
The Outline of Science: A Plain Story Simply Told [4-volume set]
by J. Arthur Thomson
35 members
½ 4.3
83
The Conquest of Fear
by Basil King
35 members
84
Queed
by Henry Sydnor Harrison
34 members
1 review
½ 3.7
85
The Great Hunger
by Johan Bojer
31 members
4
86
Joyce Kilmer: Poems, Essays and Letters, Edited with a Memoir, Two Volumes in One
by Joyce Kilmer
30 members
1 review
½ 2.5
87
Accepting the universe
by John Burroughs
29 members
2 reviews
½ 4.3
88
Merton of the Movies
by Harry Leon Wilson
29 members
½ 0.5
89
Upstream: An American Chronicle
by Ludwig Lewisohn
28 members
4
90
Doctor Nye of North Ostable
by Joseph C. Lincoln
28 members
0.8
91
Adventures in Friendship
by David Grayson
26 members
4
92
The Awakening of Helena Richie
by Margaret Deland
22 members
3
93
Vandemark's Folly
by Herbert Quick
17 members
1 review
3
94
Modern Democracies
by James Bryce
15 members
95
The greatness and decline of Rome
by Guglielmo Ferrero
14 members
1 review
5
97
The Middle of the Road
by Philip Gibbs
7 members
98
Interpretations of Literature
by Lafcadio Hearn
5 members
100
Life of John Hay (Complete in Two Volumes)
by William Roscoe Thayer
3 members
3