List of 32 Books Based in the Early 1900s
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Need some books whose story is set in a specific historical period? Have a look at this handy list of books based in the early 1900s. You'll be sure to find the reading material you need here.
Title | Author | Publishing Year | Genre |
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn | Betty Smith | 1943 | Novel, Bildungsroman, Domestic Fiction |
A Very Long Engagement | Sébastien Japrisot | 1991 | Fiction, Romance novel, War story |
All Quiet on the Western Front | Erich Maria Remarque | 1929 | Novel, Fiction, War story, Roman à clef |
Birds Without Wings | Louis de Bernières | 2004 | Novel, Historical Fiction, Romance novel, historical novel, War story, Religious Fiction |
Birdsong: A Novel of Love and War | Sebastian Faulks | 1993 | Historical Fiction, Fiction, War, Classics, Historical, Romance |
Brideshead Revisited | Evelyn Waugh | 1945 | Novel, Fiction |
Doctor Zhivago | Boris Pasternak | 1957 | Classics, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Russian Literature |
East of Eden | John Steinbeck | 1952 | Novel, Fiction, Romance novel |
Falling Angels | Tracy Chevalier | 2001 | Historical Fiction, Domestic Fiction |
Family Limitation | Margaret Sanger | 1914 | History, Nonfiction, Politics, Health, Feminism |
For Whom the Bell Tolls | Ernest Hemingway | 1940 | Novel, Fiction, War story |
No Angel | Penny Vincenzi | 2000 | Historical Fiction, Domestic Fiction |
Promise Me This | Cathy Gohlke | 2012 | Romance novel, Historical romance, Christian Fiction, Coming-of-age story |
Red Harvest | Dashiell Hammett | 1929 | Novel, Detective novel, Mystery |
Riders of the Purple Sage | Zane Grey | 1912 | Novel, Western, Western fiction |
Spring and All | William Carlos Williams | 1923 | Poetry |
Stones from the River | Ursula Hegi | 1994 | Novel, Historical Fiction |
Tarzan of the Apes | Edgar Rice Burroughs | 1912 | Novel, Adventure fiction, Fantasy Fiction, Travel literature |
The Cider House Rules | John Irving | 1985 | Novel, Fiction, Bildungsroman |
The Citadel | A.J. Cronin | 1937 | Novel, Fiction |
The Go-Between | L.P. Hartley | 1953 | Novel, Romance novel, Psychological Fiction |
The Good Soldier | Ford Madox Ford | 1915 | Novel, Domestic Fiction |
The Grapes of Wrath | John Steinbeck | 1939 | Novel, Historical Fiction |
The Great Gatsby | F. Scott Fitzgerald | 1925 | Novel, Fiction, Tragedy |
The House of the Spirits | Isabel Allende | 1982 | Novel, Magical Realism, Autobiographical novel, Domestic Fiction |
The Master Butchers Singing Club | Louise Erdrich | 2003 | Novel, Romance novel, Historical Fiction, Domestic Fiction |
The Most Dangerous Game | Richard Connell | 1924 | Fiction |
The Radetzky March | Joseph Roth | 1932 | Novel, Fiction |
The Sound and the Fury | William Faulkner | 1929 | Novel, Modern Literature, Gothic fiction, Southern Gothic, Domestic Fiction |
The Thorn Birds | Colleen McCullough | 1977 | Novel, Romance novel, Historical Fiction, Family saga |
Their Eyes Were Watching God | Zora Neale Hurston | 1937 | Novel, Psychological Fiction |
Troubles | J.G. Farrell | 1970 | Novel, Historical Fiction |
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