1900s (Decade, not century)

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List for the best books published in the decade of the 1900s
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15 participating members
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A Room with a View
by E. M. Forster
10,442 members
207 reviews
3.9
9 Members
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The Hound of the Baskervilles
by Arthur Conan Doyle
14,008 members
274 reviews
3.9
7 Members
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3
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
by L. Frank Baum
20,080 members
427 reviews
3.9
7 Members
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ManWithAnAgenda: 17 May 1900
4
Anne of Green Gables
by L. M. Montgomery
26,667 members
520 reviews
½ 4.3
6 Members
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5
The House of Mirth
by Edith Wharton
9,114 members
191 reviews
4
6 Members
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6
The Secret Agent
by Joseph Conrad
6,152 members
97 reviews
½ 3.6
5 Members
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ManWithAnAgenda: September 1907
7
Buddenbrooks
by Thomas Mann
5,319 members
98 reviews
4.2
4 Members
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8
Five Children and It
by E. Nesbit
4,202 members
68 reviews
3.9
5 Members
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The Immoralist
by André Gide
3,169 members
40 reviews
½ 3.6
4 Members
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10
Nostromo
by Joseph Conrad
4,483 members
54 reviews
3.8
4 Members
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The Ambassadors
by Henry James
3,722 members
42 reviews
½ 3.7
4 Members
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12
Cautionary Tales for Children
by Hilaire Belloc
665 members
10 reviews
4.1
4 Members
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13
The Railway Children
by E. Nesbit
5,236 members
74 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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14
The Wind in the Willows
by Kenneth Grahame
21,387 members
312 reviews
4.1
4 Members
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ManWithAnAgenda: 15 June 1908
15
The Late Mattia Pascal
by Luigi Pirandello
1,800 members
23 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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16
The Call of the Wild
by Jack London
17,973 members
298 reviews
3.8
5 Members
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17
The Confusions of Young Törless
by Robert Musil
2,011 members
31 reviews
½ 3.7
3 Members
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18
The Petty Demon
by Fyodor Sologub
471 members
4 reviews
3.8
3 Members
roby72, thecoroner, alex68
19
The Phoenix and the Carpet
by E. Nesbit
1,756 members
20 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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The Lower Depths
by Maxim Gorky
244 members
5 reviews
½ 3.6
3 Members
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21
The Return of Sherlock Holmes
by Arthur Conan Doyle
3,968 members
53 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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22
The Cherry Orchard
by Anton Chekhov
1,859 members
26 reviews
½ 3.6
3 Members
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The Phantom of the Opera
by Gaston Leroux
11,704 members
192 reviews
3.8
3 Members
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24
Just So Stories
by Rudyard Kipling
8,637 members
76 reviews
4
2 Members
smcwl, sturlington
25
The Wouldbegoods: Being the Further Adventures of the Treasure Seekers
by E. Nesbit
775 members
10 reviews
4
2 Members
ncgraham, souloftherose
26
My Brilliant Career
by Miles Franklin
1,138 members
30 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
souloftherose, ahef1963
27
Jakob von Gunten
by Robert Walser
1,135 members
31 reviews
3.9
2 Members
thecoroner, alex68
28
The Marquis of Roccaverdina
by Luigi Capuana
74 members
3.9
2 Members
roby72, alex68
29
White Fang
by Jack London
11,082 members
119 reviews
3.9
2 Members
sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda
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ManWithAnAgenda: May 1906
30
Lady with Lapdog and Other Stories
by Anton Chekhov
897 members
12 reviews
4.1
2 Members
roby72, sturlington
31
The Jungle
by Upton Sinclair
10,746 members
121 reviews
3.8
2 Members
sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda
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ManWithAnAgenda: 26 February 1906
32
Green Mansions
by W. H. Hudson
1,627 members
25 reviews
½ 3.7
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ManWithAnAgenda
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33
The Enchanted Castle
by E. Nesbit
2,208 members
35 reviews
3.8
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ManWithAnAgenda
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34
The Three Sisters
by Anton Chekhov
997 members
18 reviews
3.9
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Myyst
35
Spring Awakening
by Frank Wedekind
863 members
8 reviews
½ 3.6
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Myyst
36
In the Days of the Comet
by H. G. Wells
792 members
15 reviews
3.1
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Bretzky1
37
A Dream Play
by August Strindberg
244 members
1 review
3.8
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Myyst
38
The Gods of Pegāna
by Lord Dunsany
228 members
6 reviews
½ 3.5
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Myyst
39
Time and the Gods
by Lord Dunsany
160 members
2 reviews
½ 3.7
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Myyst
40
Messalina : a novel of imperial Rome
by Alfred Jarry
39 members
3.9
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Myyst
41
Ghost Stories of an Antiquary
by M. R. James
754 members
26 reviews
4
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sturlington
42
The Marvelous Land of Oz
by L. Frank Baum
3,281 members
73 reviews
3.8
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ManWithAnAgenda
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ManWithAnAgenda: 5 July 1904
43
Where Angels Fear to Tread
by E. M. Forster
2,952 members
48 reviews
½ 3.5
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sturlington
44
Ozma of Oz
by L. Frank Baum
2,935 members
55 reviews
3.9
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ManWithAnAgenda
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ManWithAnAgenda: 30 July 1907
45
The Book of Tea
by Kakuzō Okakura
2,574 members
59 reviews
3.9
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sturlington
46
Mother
by Maxim Gorki
1,153 members
25 reviews
½ 3.6
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Chronicles of the House of Borgia
by Frederick Baron Corvo
152 members
3 reviews
½ 3.5
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ManWithAnAgenda
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48
The Tanners
by Robert Walser
432 members
11 reviews
4.2
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Reginald
by Saki
68 members
3 reviews
4
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ManWithAnAgenda
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50
The House on the Borderland
by William Hope Hodgson
1,342 members
45 reviews
½ 3.4
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sturlington
51
The Man of Property
by John Galsworthy
969 members
19 reviews
3.9
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ManWithAnAgenda
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52
Hadrian the Seventh
by Frederick Rolfe
770 members
11 reviews
½ 3.7
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ManWithAnAgenda
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53
The Machine Stops
by E. M. Forster
594 members
39 reviews
3.9
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sturlington
54
The Romance of Leonardo da Vinci: The Forerunner
by Dmitri Merejkowski
534 members
7 reviews
½ 3.7
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ManWithAnAgenda
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55
Lieutenant Gustl
by Arthur Schnitzler
329 members
5 reviews
½ 3.5
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alex68
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A Little Princess
by Frances Hodgson Burnett
14,342 members
204 reviews
4.2
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ManWithAnAgenda
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ManWithAnAgenda: September 1905
57
Tonio Kröger
by Thomas Mann
574 members
9 reviews
½ 3.7
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alex68
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The Tale of Samuel Whiskers or The Roly-Poly Pudding
by Beatrix Potter
953 members
10 reviews
4.1
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ManWithAnAgenda
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ManWithAnAgenda: October 1908
59
Tristan
by Thomas Mann
197 members
2 reviews
½ 3.6
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alex68
60
Martin Eden
by Jack London
1,756 members
31 reviews
4.1
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alex68
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Claudine at School
by Colette
415 members
8 reviews
½ 3.7
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alex68
62
The Paul Street Boys
by Ferenc Molnár
663 members
15 reviews
4.2
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alex68
63
The Scarlet Pimpernel
by Baroness Orczy
8,106 members
181 reviews
4
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ManWithAnAgenda
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64
I Am a Cat
by Natsume Sōseki
1,930 members
38 reviews
½ 3.5
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alex68
65
Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz
by L. Frank Baum
2,353 members
38 reviews
½ 3.6
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ManWithAnAgenda
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66
The Wonderful Adventures of Nils
by Selma Lagerlöf
1,222 members
25 reviews
4
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alex68
67
The Road to Oz
by L. Frank Baum
2,073 members
33 reviews
½ 3.7
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ManWithAnAgenda
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68
The Riddle of the Sands
by Erskine Childers
2,444 members
64 reviews
½ 3.6