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Books of the 1910s

The war changed everything before it ended. Kafka was circulating his stories privately. D.H. Lawrence was writing about sex and class with unignorable directness. 105 titles in the catalogue from this decade.

Howards End E.M. Forster · 1910 Essential Read Get it on Amazon →
Sons and Lovers D.H. Lawrence · 1913 Essential Read Get it on Amazon →
Swann's Way Marcel Proust · 1913 Essential Read Get it on Amazon →
Kokoro Natsume Soseki · 1914 Essential Read See details →
Of Human Bondage W. Somerset Maugham · 1915 Essential Read See details →
The Metamorphosis Franz Kafka · 1915 Essential Read See details →
My Ántonia Willa Cather · 1918 Essential Read See details →
My Antonia Willa Cather · 1918 Essential Read See details →
Ethan Frome Edith Wharton · 1910 Recommended See details →
The Heritage of the Desert Zane Grey · 1910 Recommended See details →
Philosophical essays Bertrand Russell · 1910 Recommended See details →
Rewards and fairies Rudyard Kipling · 1910 Recommended See details →
The Lilac Fairy Book Andrew Lang · 1910 Recommended See details →
The Magic City Edith Nesbit · 1910 Recommended See details →
Huntingtower John Buchan · 1910 Recommended See details →
The Scarlet Plague Jack London · 1910 Recommended See details →
Anarchism and Other Essays Emma Goldman · 1910 Recommended See details →
Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads John Avery Lomax · 1910 Recommended See details →
Gitanjali (song offerings) Rabindranath Tagore · 1910 Recommended See details →
Buried Alive Arnold Bennett · 1910 Recommended See details →
The science of getting rich, or, financial success through creative thought Wallace D. Wattles · 1910 Recommended See details →
Alarms and discursions Gilbert Keith Chesterton · 1910 Recommended See details →
The Secret Garden Frances Hodgson Burnett · 1911 Recommended See details →
The Eye of Osiris R. Austin Freeman · 1911 Recommended See details →
Mother West Wind's children Thornton W. Burgess · 1911 Recommended See details →
My first summer in the Sierra John Reid Muir · 1911 Recommended See details →
Jennie Gerhardt Theodore Dreiser · 1911 Recommended See details →
The story girl Lucy Maud Montgomery · 1911 Recommended See details →
Zuleika Dobson, or, An Oxford love story Sir Max Beerbohm · 1911 Recommended See details →
The Young Pitcher Zane Grey · 1911 Recommended See details →
Chronicles of Avonlea Lucy Maud Montgomery · 1912 Recommended See details →
Pollyanna Eleanor Hodgman Porter · 1912 Recommended See details →
Riders of the Purple Sage Zane Grey · 1912 Recommended See details →
Sky Island L. Frank Baum · 1912 Recommended See details →
Alexander's Bridge Willa Cather · 1912 Recommended See details →
The Financier Theodore Dreiser · 1912 Recommended See details →
Daddy-Long-Legs Jean Webster · 1912 Recommended See details →
Marie H. Rider Haggard · 1912 Recommended See details →
John Barleycorn Jack London · 1913 Recommended See details →
O Pioneers! Willa Cather · 1913 Recommended See details →
The Lodger Marie Belloc Lowndes · 1913 Recommended See details →
The Technique of the Mystery Story Carolyn Wells · 1913 Recommended See details →
The autobiography of Theodore Roosevelt Theodore Roosevelt · 1913 Recommended See details →
Totem und Tabu Sigmund Freud · 1913 Recommended See details →
Desert Gold Zane Grey · 1913 Recommended See details →
The Abysmal Brute Jack London · 1913 Recommended See details →
The Titan Theodore Dreiser · 1914 Recommended See details →
Dubliners James Joyce · 1914 Recommended See details →
The After House Mary Roberts Rinehart · 1914 Recommended See details →
The Valley of Fear Arthur Conan Doyle · 1914 Recommended See details →
Walking Henry David Thoreau · 1914 Recommended See details →
Spoon River Anthology Edgar Lee Masters · 1914 Recommended See details →
Platero y yo Juan Ramón Jiménez · 1914 Recommended See details →
The Lone Star Ranger Zane Grey · 1914 Recommended See details →
The Street of Seven Stars Mary Roberts Rinehart · 1914 Recommended See details →
Beasts and Super-Beasts Saki · 1914 Recommended See details →
Little Wizard stories of Oz L. Frank Baum · 1914 Recommended See details →
Pollyanna Grows Up Eleanor Hodgman Porter · 1915 Recommended See details →
Voyage Out Virginia Woolf · 1915 Recommended See details →
The Scarecrow of Oz L. Frank Baum · 1915 Recommended See details →
The world crisis, 1911-1918 Winston S. Churchill · 1915 Recommended See details →
Herland Charlotte Perkins Gilman · 1915 Recommended See details →
Metamorphosis Franz Kafka · 1915 Recommended See details →
The Good Soldier Ford Madox Ford · 1915 Recommended See details →
The Case of Jennie Brice Mary Roberts Rinehart · 1915 Recommended See details →
The Thirty-Nine Steps John Buchan · 1915 Recommended See details →
Victory Joseph Conrad · 1915 Recommended See details →
A Far Country Winston Churchill · 1915 Recommended See details →
Anne of the Island Lucy Maud Montgomery · 1915 Recommended See details →
Seventeen Booth Tarkington · 1915 Recommended See details →
The "genius" Theodore Dreiser · 1915 Recommended See details →
The Song of the Lark Willa Cather · 1915 Recommended See details →
Rinkitink in Oz L. Frank Baum · 1916 Recommended See details →
Wildfire Zane Grey · 1916 Recommended See details →
The eyes of Asia Rudyard Kipling · 1916 Recommended See details →
Democracy and Education John Dewey · 1916 Recommended See details →
Anne's House of Dreams Lucy Maud Montgomery · 1917 Recommended See details →
Makura no sōshi Sei Shōnagon · 1917 Recommended See details →
The Lost Princess of Oz L. Frank Baum · 1917 Recommended See details →
His Last Bow [8 stories] Arthur Conan Doyle · 1917 Recommended See details →
The Hand of Fu-Manchu Sax Rohmer · 1917 Recommended See details →
The Magnificent Ambersons Booth Tarkington · 1917 Recommended See details →
A diversity of creatures Rudyard Kipling · 1917 Recommended See details →
Mr. Standfast John Buchan · 1918 Recommended See details →
Roads to Freedom Bertrand Russell · 1918 Recommended See details →
The trail book Mary Austin · 1918 Recommended See details →
The Return of the Soldier Rebecca West · 1918 Recommended See details →
The New Revelation Arthur Conan Doyle · 1918 Recommended See details →
The U.P. Trail Zane Grey · 1918 Recommended See details →
Twelve Men Theodore Dreiser · 1919 Recommended See details →
Rainbow Valley Lucy Maud Montgomery · 1919 Recommended See details →
Prejudices H. L. Mencken · 1919 Recommended See details →
Jurgen James Branch Cabell · 1919 Recommended See details →
The Magic of Oz L. Frank Baum · 1919 Recommended See details →
The moon and sixpence William Somerset Maugham · 1919 Recommended See details →
Ten Days That Shook the World John Reed · 1919 Recommended See details →
The Economic Consequences of the Peace John Maynard Keynes · 1919 Recommended See details →
The Outline of History H. G. Wells · 1919 Recommended See details →
A thin ghost and others Montague Rhodes James · 1919 Recommended See details →
The Haunted Bookshop Christopher Morley · 1919 Recommended See details →
The Middle Temple Murder Joseph Smith Fletcher · 1919 Recommended See details →
Demian Hermann Hesse · 1919 Recommended See details →
Sodome et Gomorrhe Marcel Proust · 1919 Recommended See details →
The master key system in twenty-four parts with questionnaire and glossary Charles F. Haanel · 1919 Recommended See details →
Night and Day Virginia Woolf · 1919 Recommended See details →

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