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Queen Lucia
E.F. Benson
27 days •
ⓘ 1920 • Lucia is social queen of her small delightful English village. But she must fend off challenges from neighbors and trendy new fads in this comedic novel.
This Side of Paradise
F. Scott Fitzgerald
33 days •
ⓘ 1920 • "I know myself, but that is all." The story of Amory Blaine as he navigates love, heartbreak, war, and life.
The Beautiful and Damned
F. Scott Fitzgerald
49 days •
ⓘ 1922 • Alcohol, greed, and the New York nightlife take their toll on a rocky marriage in this, Fitzgerald's second novel.
Tales of the Jazz Age
F. Scott Fitzgerald
32 days •
ⓘ 1922 • A collection of short stories including May Day, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, and The Diamond as Big as the Ritz.
The Man in the Brown Suit
Agatha Christie
25 days •
ⓘ 1924 • Anne Beddingfeld witnesses murder and is soon off an adventure to uncover the mystery.
My Man Jeeves
P.G. Wodehouse
22 days •
ⓘ 1919 • Londoner Bertie Wooster is young, rich, and completely helpless. Fortunately his valet Jeeves is on hand to rescue Wooster from every mess he falls into.
The Inimitable Jeeves
P.G. Wodehouse
21 days •
ⓘ 1923 • Bertie and his helpless friends have a new round of problems that can only be solved by the unflappable Jeeves.
Right Ho, Jeeves
P.G. Wodehouse
33 days •
ⓘ 1934 • The hapless Bertie and ever reliable Jeeves return, but Jeeves is forbidden from offering advice. Can Bertie save his bumbling friends?
Surrealist Manifesto
André Breton
5 days •
ⓘ 1924 • A discussion on defining surrealism and how to apply it to poetry, literature, and everyday life.
Three Stories and Ten Poems
Ernest Hemingway
5 days •
ⓘ 1923 • A collection of short works by Hemingway including "Up in Michigan" and "My Old Man."
Lady Chatterley's Lover
D.H. Lawrence
41 days •
ⓘ 1928 • Banned until 1960 for its explicit depictions of sex and use of then-banned words, Lawrence's story follows the affair between a working class man and an upper class woman.
Babbitt
Sinclair Lewis
44 days •
ⓘ 1922 • Businessman George F. Babbitt finds himself more in love with the trappings of his American middle-class life than his own wife. A scathing satire of a materialistic nation fixated on conformity.
Jacob's Room
Virginia Woolf
22 days •
ⓘ 1922 • Through the recollections and impressions of other characters, we follow the life of Jacob Flanders from childhood, through love, travel, and war.
One of Ours
Willa Cather
53 days •
ⓘ 1922 • Denied his chance at university, Claude is called back to his father's successful farm and he is soon married. Both come to be prisons for him, until an overseas adventure gives him a sense of purpose.
A Hunger Artist
Franz Kafka
2 days •
ⓘ 1922 • A hunger artist - who fasts for the entertainment of others - finds the popularity of his performances is waning. Soon spectators prefer seeing animals in a circus, and his near-death condition goes unnoticed.
Antic Hay
Aldous Huxley
30 days •
ⓘ 1923 • A humorous "novel of ideas" set in London in the turbulent times after WWI, among the self-absorbed cultural elite.
A Lost Lady
Willa Cather
12 days •
ⓘ 1923 • The decline of Mrs. Marian Forrester, through the loving eyes of Niel Herbert, as the pioneering age of the West disappears around them.
Alice Adams
Booth Tarkington
29 days •
ⓘ 1921 • Alice Adams, a young woman from a lower middle-class family, sets out to win the love of the wealthy Arthur Russell.
The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
16 days •
ⓘ 1925 • The Jazz Age story of lavish Long Island parties, a young mysterious millionaire, and the woman he loved. Arguably one of the greatest novels ever written, exploring themes of decadence, idealism, and the American dream.
Mrs. Dalloway
Virginia Woolf
22 days •
ⓘ 1925 • Over the course of a single day, Clarissa Dalloway prepares for a high-society party and is struck with memories of the past. Considered Woolf's greatest novel.
The New Negro
Alain Locke
44 days •
ⓘ 1925 • An anthology of fiction, poetry, and essays on African and African-American art and literature, edited by Locke. Considered to be the definitive text of the Harlem Renaissance.
Manhattan Transfer
John Dos Passos
42 days •
ⓘ 1925 • Painting an "expressionistic picture of New York" from the Gilded Age to the Jazz Age, Dos Passos examines the lives of wealthy power brokers and struggling immigrants. Described as "the best modern book about New York."
An American Tragedy
Theodore Dreiser
122 days •
ⓘ 1925 • Ambitious Clyde Griffiths stumbles through romance and tragedy, struggling with taking responsibility. Based on an actual criminal case, it stands as a harsh commentary on the dark side of the American dream.
The Plastic Age
Percy Marks
26 days •
ⓘ 1924 • The story of Hugh Carver and his experiences as a Sanford college. It'd depictions of undergrad life - including smoking, drinking, and "petting" - got the book banned and made it a best-selling novel.
The Sun Also Rises
Ernest Hemingway
23 days •
ⓘ 1926 • A tale of the moral bankruptcy and disillusionment of the lost generation, of the Paris nightlife and bullfighting rings of the 1920s as seen through Jake Barnes and Lady Brett Ashley.
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Anita Loos
12 days •
ⓘ 1925 • In the midst of the Roaring Twenties, charming gold digger Lorelei Lee chronicles her journey from New York through Europe amidst humorous encounters with her "gentleman friends."
Copper Sun
Countee Cullen
4 days •
ⓘ 1927 • A poetry collection from a Harlem Renaissance great, including many works on love - love as a unifier, love for nature, religious love, love leading to death.
Mosquitoes
William Faulkner
32 days •
ⓘ 1927 • A satirical novel skewering the artists, socialities, rich, and would-be-rich on a New Orleans boating trip.
Men Without Women
Ernest Hemingway
13 days •
ⓘ 1927 • A collection of short stories including some of Hemingway's best works: "The Killers", "Hills Like White Elephants", and "In Another Country"
Twilight Sleep
Edith Wharton
26 days •
ⓘ 1927 • A modernist satirical novel of the Jazz Age following a socialite New York family through parties, affairs, divorce, drugs, and murder.
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