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Description: books published during the 1920s decade (1920–1929)
Members: 4 participating members
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1

The Great Gatsby

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

69,686 members

1,134 reviews

3.8

4 Members: sturlington, alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

2

by Virginia Woolf

19,887 members

325 reviews

3.9

3 Members: alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

3

A Passage to India

by E. M. Forster

12,107 members

137 reviews

3.8

4 Members: sturlington, alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

4

The Sun Also Rises

by Ernest Hemingway

22,337 members

324 reviews

3.8

4 Members: sturlington, alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

5

23,345 members

334 reviews

4

2 Members: alex68, ahef1963

6

Winnie-the-Pooh

12,888 members

201 reviews

½ 4.3

4 Members: sturlington, alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

7

The House at Pooh Corner (Winnie-the-Pooh)

8,082 members

75 reviews

½ 4.4

4 Members: sturlington, alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

8

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

by Agatha Christie

9,464 members

303 reviews

4.1

4 Members: sturlington, alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

9

Lady Chatterley's Lover

by D. H. Lawrence

13,251 members

212 reviews

½ 3.5

4 Members: sturlington, alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

10

The Most Dangerous Game [short fiction]

by Richard Connell

703 members

51 reviews

½ 3.7

4 Members: sturlington, alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

11

by Kahlil Gibran

13,708 members

161 reviews

4.1

3 Members: sturlington, alex68, ahef1963

12

The Mysterious Affair at Styles

by Agatha Christie

8,414 members

270 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: sturlington, alex68, ahef1963

13

The Age of Innocence

by Edith Wharton

13,454 members

296 reviews

4

2 Members: sturlington, alex68

14

by Yevgeny Zamyatin

8,157 members

205 reviews

3.9

3 Members: sturlington, alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

15

A Room of One's Own

by Virginia Woolf

11,933 members

164 reviews

4.1

3 Members: sturlington, alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

16

The Sound and the Fury

by William Faulkner

16,783 members

221 reviews

4

2 Members: alex68, ahef1963

17

The Enormous Room

by E. E. Cummings

1,415 members

26 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda

18

The Secret Adversary

by Agatha Christie

4,222 members

136 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: sturlington, alex68, ahef1963

19

Goodbye to All That

by Robert Graves

3,611 members

65 reviews

4

3 Members: sturlington, alex68, ahef1963

20

To the Lighthouse

by Virginia Woolf

16,988 members

257 reviews

3.9

2 Members: alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

21

Six Characters in Search of an Author

by Luigi Pirandello

1,368 members

29 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: alex68, ahef1963

22

19,355 members

233 reviews

4

2 Members: alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

23

The Velveteen Rabbit

by Margery Williams

13,442 members

224 reviews

4.2

2 Members: sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda

24

by Hermann Hesse

13,139 members

182 reviews

4

2 Members: alex68, ahef1963

25

A High Wind in Jamaica

by Richard Hughes

2,063 members

66 reviews

3.9

2 Members: alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

26

The Threepenny Opera

by Bertolt Brecht

1,619 members

19 reviews

3.9

2 Members: alex68, ahef1963

27

A Farewell to Arms

by Ernest Hemingway

21,706 members

237 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: alex68, ahef1963

28

Chéri / The Last of Chéri

956 members

11 reviews

3.9

2 Members: alex68, ahef1963

29

The Forsyte Saga

by John Galsworthy

2,452 members

41 reviews

4.2

2 Members: alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

30

The Bridge of San Luis Rey

by Thornton Wilder

4,615 members

116 reviews

3.8

2 Members: sturlington, alex68

31

Orlando: A Biography

by Virginia Woolf

10,216 members

166 reviews

3.9

2 Members: alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

32

The Painted Veil

by W. Somerset Maugham

3,366 members

134 reviews

3.9

2 Members: alex68, ahef1963

33

by George Bernard Shaw

2,239 members

26 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: alex68, ahef1963

34

In Search of Lost Time

by Marcel Proust

3,930 members

43 reviews

½ 4.5

Member: alex68

35

Carry On, Jeeves

by P. G. Wodehouse

3,443 members

72 reviews

4.1

2 Members: alex68, ahef1963

36

The Inimitable Jeeves

by P. G. Wodehouse

3,261 members

78 reviews

4

2 Members: alex68, ahef1963

37

by Ford Madox Ford

1,696 members

26 reviews

3.8

2 Members: alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

38

The Blue Castle

by L. M. Montgomery

2,822 members

110 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: alex68, ahef1963

39

The Enchanted April

by Elizabeth von Arnim

2,679 members

117 reviews

4.1

2 Members: alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

40

The Grandmothers: A Family Portrait

by Glenway Wescott

72 members

2 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

41

The Scarlet Pimpernel

by Baroness Orczy

8,462 members

184 reviews

4

2 Members: alex68, ahef1963

42

Love and Friendship

400 members

9 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: alex68, ahef1963

43

The Glimpses of the Moon

by Edith Wharton

974 members

27 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

44

Decline and Fall

by Evelyn Waugh

3,521 members

60 reviews

3.9

2 Members: alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

45

by Nella Larsen

2,513 members

93 reviews

3.8

2 Members: alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

46

The Magic Mountain

9,285 members

166 reviews

4.2

Member: alex68

47

Lolly Willowes, or The Loving Huntsman

by Sylvia Townsend Warner

1,434 members

67 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

48

The Tower Treasure

by Franklin W. Dixon

3,843 members

37 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

49

The Apple of the Eye

by Glenway Wescott

11 members

1 review

½ 3.7

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

50

Goodbye, Wisconsin

by Glenway Wescott

43 members

2 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

51

Zeno's Conscience

3,464 members

45 reviews

3.8

Member: alex68

52

The Silver Spoon

by John Galsworthy

280 members

7 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

53

Berlin Alexanderplatz

by Alfred Döblin

2,623 members

38 reviews

3.8

Member: alex68

54

by Aldous Huxley

1,947 members

43 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

55

731 members

23 reviews

3.8

Member: alex68

56

All Quiet on the Western Front

by Erich Maria Remarque

18,340 members

391 reviews

4.1

Member: alex68

57

The White Monkey

by John Galsworthy

316 members

11 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

58

Raggedy Ann and Andy and the Camel with the Wrinkled Knees

by Johnny Gruelle

187 members

3 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

59

Sodom and Gomorrah

by Marcel Proust

2,535 members

38 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: alex68

60

by John Galsworthy

334 members

8 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

61

by Marcel Proust

2,239 members

28 reviews

½ 4.5

Member: alex68

62

The Mystery of Cabin Island

by Franklin W. Dixon

1,662 members

11 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

63

The Shore Road Mystery

by Franklin W. Dixon

2,058 members

18 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

64

The Missing Chums

by Franklin W. Dixon

2,519 members

15 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

65

Letters to a Young Poet

by Rainer Maria Rilke

6,214 members

90 reviews

4.2

Member: alex68

66

The Secret of the Caves

by Franklin W. Dixon

1,681 members

11 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

67

The Good Soldier Svejk

by Jaroslav Hašek

3,433 members

60 reviews

4

Member: alex68

68

The Secret of the Old Mill

by Franklin W. Dixon

2,800 members

18 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

69

The House on the Cliff

by Franklin W. Dixon

3,067 members

21 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

70

The Guermantes Way

by Marcel Proust

2,625 members

38 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: alex68

71

Hunting for Hidden Gold

by Franklin W. Dixon

2,348 members

12 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

72

The Boxcar Children

by Gertrude Chandler Warner

8,494 members

95 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

73

An American Tragedy

by Theodore Dreiser

3,887 members

48 reviews

3.9

Member: alex68

74

The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes

by Arthur Conan Doyle

2,774 members

43 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

75

by D. H. Lawrence

6,846 members

53 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: alex68

76

2,270 members

14 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: alex68

77

8,245 members

87 reviews

3.9

Member: alex68

78

La señorita Else

by Arthur Schnitzler

388 members

7 reviews

3.8

Member: alex68

79

The Decline of the West

by Oswald Spengler

581 members

10 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: alex68

80

The Counterfeiters

1,345 members

11 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: alex68

81

Kristin Lavransdatter

by Sigrid Undset

2,924 members

72 reviews

4.2

Member: alex68

82

Billy Budd, Sailor

by Herman Melville

2,536 members

49 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: alex68

83

by Virginia Woolf

2,302 members

33 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: alex68

84

And Quiet Flows the Don

by Mikhail Sholokhov

1,509 members

21 reviews

4

Member: alex68

85

The Captive & The Fugitive: In Search of Lost Time, Vol. V (Modern Library Classics) (v. 5)

by Marcel Proust

1,135 members

30 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: alex68

86

The Devil in the Flesh

by Raymond Radiguet

1,073 members

19 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: alex68

87

by Mikhail Bulgakov

3,040 members

62 reviews

3.9

Member: alex68

88

Raggedy Andy Stories

by Johnny Gruelle

553 members

2 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

89

by Martin Heidegger

4,211 members

40 reviews

4

Member: alex68

90

Raggedy Ann's Wishing Pebble

by Johnny Gruelle

60 members

1 review

3.2

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

91

by Arthur Schnitzler

1,775 members

28 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: alex68

92

Beloved Belindy

by Johnny Gruelle

38 members

2 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

93

Moments of Being

by Virginia Woolf

1,095 members

14 reviews

4.2

Member: alex68

94

The Paper Dragon

by Johnny Gruelle

45 members

1 review

2.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

95

by Hermann Hesse

27,040 members

372 reviews

4

Member: alex68

96

by André Breton

1,968 members

14 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: alex68

97

This Side of Paradise

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

9,162 members

84 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: alex68

98

The Beautiful and Damned

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

5,960 members

65 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: alex68

99

The White Guard

by Mikhail Bulgakov

1,383 members

22 reviews

3.8

Member: alex68

100

One, No One, and One Hundred Thousand

by Luigi Pirandello

1,207 members

23 reviews

3.9

Member: alex68

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