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Description: books published during the 1920s decade (1920–1929)

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Rank Title Author Added

1

The Great Gatsby

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

82,994 members

1,304 reviews

3.8

5 Members: smcwl, sturlington, alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

2

A Passage to India

by E. M. Forster

13,968 members

167 reviews

3.8

5 Members: smcwl, sturlington, alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

3

The House at Pooh Corner

9,880 members

91 reviews

½ 4.4

5 Members: smcwl, sturlington, alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

4

The Age of Innocence

by Edith Wharton

15,826 members

336 reviews

4

3 Members: smcwl, sturlington, alex68

5

by Virginia Woolf

23,295 members

376 reviews

3.8

3 Members: alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

6

by Yevgeny Zamyatin

9,998 members

247 reviews

3.8

4 Members: smcwl, sturlington, alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

7

The Sun Also Rises

by Ernest Hemingway

25,728 members

374 reviews

3.8

4 Members: smcwl, alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

8

Winnie-the-Pooh

15,973 members

223 reviews

½ 4.3

4 Members: smcwl, alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

9

27,467 members

377 reviews

4

2 Members: alex68, ahef1963

10

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

by Agatha Christie

12,117 members

384 reviews

4.1

4 Members: sturlington, alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

11

Lady Chatterley's Lover

by D. H. Lawrence

15,339 members

242 reviews

½ 3.5

4 Members: smcwl, alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

12

by Kahlil Gibran

16,391 members

192 reviews

4.1

3 Members: sturlington, alex68, ahef1963

13

The Threepenny Opera

by Bertolt Brecht

1,806 members

21 reviews

3.9

3 Members: smcwl, alex68, ahef1963

14

by George Bernard Shaw

2,560 members

28 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: smcwl, alex68, ahef1963

15

The Sound and the Fury

by William Faulkner

19,539 members

247 reviews

4

2 Members: alex68, ahef1963

16

by Nella Larsen

3,570 members

133 reviews

3.8

3 Members: sturlington, alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

17

Decline and Fall

by Evelyn Waugh

3,991 members

63 reviews

3.9

3 Members: smcwl, alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

18

Lolly Willowes, or The Loving Huntsman

by Sylvia Townsend Warner

1,942 members

92 reviews

3.8

2 Members: sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda

19

The Most Dangerous Game

by Richard Connell

899 members

60 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

20

To the Lighthouse

by Virginia Woolf

20,328 members

312 reviews

3.9

2 Members: alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

21

Six Characters in Search of an Author

by Luigi Pirandello

1,655 members

38 reviews

3.8

2 Members: alex68, ahef1963

22

The Scarlet Pimpernel

by Baroness Orczy

10,049 members

211 reviews

4

3 Members: alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

23

22,879 members

270 reviews

4

2 Members: alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

24

by Aldous Huxley

2,203 members

50 reviews

½ 3.3

2 Members: smcwl, ManWithAnAgenda

25

by Hermann Hesse

15,231 members

215 reviews

4

2 Members: alex68, ahef1963

26

A High Wind in Jamaica

by Richard Hughes

2,378 members

70 reviews

3.9

2 Members: alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

27

The Bridge of San Luis Rey

by Thornton Wilder

5,392 members

129 reviews

3.8

2 Members: sturlington, alex68

28

by Ursula Parrott

279 members

13 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: GrammaPollyReads

29

A Farewell to Arms

by Ernest Hemingway

25,700 members

282 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: alex68, ahef1963

30

The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes

by Arthur Conan Doyle

3,337 members

54 reviews

3.9

2 Members: smcwl, ManWithAnAgenda

31

Chéri and The Last of Chéri

1,133 members

18 reviews

3.9

2 Members: alex68, ahef1963

32

by D. H. Lawrence

7,643 members

57 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: smcwl, alex68

33

Kristin Lavransdatter

by Sigrid Undset

3,438 members

79 reviews

4.2

2 Members: smcwl, alex68

34

The Forsyte Saga

by John Galsworthy

2,789 members

44 reviews

4.1

2 Members: alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

35

A Room of One's Own

by Virginia Woolf

14,129 members

204 reviews

4.1

2 Members: alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

36

Orlando: A Biography

by Virginia Woolf

12,413 members

203 reviews

3.9

2 Members: alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

37

The Painted Veil

by W. Somerset Maugham

3,814 members

154 reviews

3.9

2 Members: alex68, ahef1963

38

This Side of Paradise

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

10,603 members

89 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: smcwl, alex68

39

In Search of Lost Time

by Marcel Proust

4,371 members

50 reviews

½ 4.6

Member: alex68

40

The Enormous Room

by E. E. Cummings

1,668 members

29 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

41

by Sinclair Lewis

5,655 members

101 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: smcwl, alex68

42

Carry On, Jeeves

by P. G. Wodehouse

3,906 members

83 reviews

4.1

2 Members: alex68, ahef1963

43

by Ernest Hemingway

3,706 members

37 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: smcwl, alex68

44

The Mysterious Affair at Styles

by Agatha Christie

10,999 members

351 reviews

3.8

2 Members: alex68, ahef1963

45

The Story of Doctor Dolittle

by Hugh Lofting

4,817 members

48 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: smcwl, alex68

46

The Inimitable Jeeves

by P. G. Wodehouse

3,873 members

93 reviews

4

2 Members: alex68, ahef1963

47

by Ford Madox Ford

1,990 members

29 reviews

3.8

2 Members: alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

48

The Blue Castle

by L. M. Montgomery

3,612 members

133 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: alex68, ahef1963

49

The Enchanted April

by Elizabeth von Arnim

3,496 members

141 reviews

4

2 Members: alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

50

The Professor's House

by Willa Cather

2,204 members

55 reviews

3.8

2 Members: smcwl, alex68

51

The Secret Adversary

by Agatha Christie

5,079 members

164 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: alex68, ahef1963

52

Goodbye to All That

by Robert Graves

4,168 members

74 reviews

4

2 Members: alex68, ahef1963

53

The Grandmothers: A Family Portrait

by Glenway Wescott

81 members

1 review

½ 3.5

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

54

Love and Friendship

420 members

9 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: alex68, ahef1963

55

The Glimpses of the Moon

by Edith Wharton

1,146 members

31 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

56

The Magic Mountain

11,235 members

195 reviews

4.2

Member: alex68

57

The Tower Treasure

by Franklin W. Dixon

5,012 members

52 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

58

The Apple of the Eye

by Glenway Wescott

11 members

½ 3.7

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

59

Goodbye, Wisconsin

by Glenway Wescott

49 members

1 review

4.2

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

60

The Velveteen Rabbit

by Margery Williams

17,007 members

238 reviews

4.2

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

61

Zeno's Conscience

4,094 members

57 reviews

3.8

Member: alex68

62

1,186 members

48 reviews

4

Member: sturlington

63

The Silver Spoon

by John Galsworthy

316 members

6 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

64

Berlin Alexanderplatz

by Alfred Döblin

3,140 members

43 reviews

3.8

Member: alex68

65

898 members

32 reviews

3.8

Member: alex68

66

All Quiet on the Western Front

by Erich Maria Remarque

22,091 members

443 reviews

4.1

Member: alex68

67

The White Monkey

by John Galsworthy

349 members

10 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

68

Raggedy Ann and Andy and the Camel with the Wrinkled Knees

by Johnny Gruelle

208 members

3 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

69

Sodom and Gomorrah

by Marcel Proust

3,048 members

44 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: alex68

70

by John Galsworthy

370 members

7 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

71

by Marcel Proust

2,449 members

31 reviews

½ 4.5

Member: alex68

72

The Mystery of Cabin Island

by Franklin W. Dixon

2,184 members

16 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

73

The Shore Road Mystery

by Franklin W. Dixon

2,720 members

22 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

74

The Missing Chums

by Franklin W. Dixon

3,329 members

17 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

75

Letters to a Young Poet

by Rainer Maria Rilke

7,815 members

128 reviews

4.2

Member: alex68

76

The Secret of the Caves

by Franklin W. Dixon

2,206 members

13 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

77

The Good Soldier Švejk

by Jaroslav Hašek

3,966 members

72 reviews

4

Member: alex68

78

The Secret of the Old Mill

by Franklin W. Dixon

3,759 members

20 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

79

The House on the Cliff

by Franklin W. Dixon

4,034 members

26 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

80

The Guermantes Way

by Marcel Proust

3,159 members

45 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: alex68

81

Hunting for Hidden Gold

by Franklin W. Dixon

3,148 members

14 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

82

The Boxcar Children

by Gertrude Chandler Warner

11,224 members

116 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

83

An American Tragedy

by Theodore Dreiser

4,377 members

53 reviews

3.9

Member: alex68

84

2,663 members

22 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: alex68

85

9,605 members

119 reviews

3.9

Member: alex68

86

Fräulein Else

by Arthur Schnitzler

462 members

8 reviews

3.8

Member: alex68

87

The Decline of the West

by Oswald Spengler

713 members

17 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: alex68

88

Les faux-monnayeurs

1,585 members

13 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: alex68

89

by Herman Melville

3,011 members

60 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: alex68

90

by Virginia Woolf

2,671 members

39 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: alex68

91

And Quiet Flows the Don

by Mikhail Sholokhov

1,814 members

24 reviews

4

Member: alex68

92

The Captive / The Fugitive

by Marcel Proust

1,362 members

30 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: alex68

93

The Devil in the Flesh

by Raymond Radiguet

1,289 members

24 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: alex68

94

by Mikhail Bulgakov

3,762 members

77 reviews

3.9

Member: alex68

95

Raggedy Andy Stories

by Johnny Gruelle

669 members

2 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

96

by Martin Heidegger

5,122 members

39 reviews

4.1

Member: alex68

97

Raggedy Ann's Wishing Pebble

by Johnny Gruelle

71 members

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

98

by Arthur Schnitzler

2,121 members

34 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: alex68

99

Beloved Belindy

by Johnny Gruelle

42 members

1 review

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

100

Moments of Being

by Virginia Woolf

1,248 members

13 reviews

4.2

Member: alex68

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