A Century of Books III
By the Decade: 1920-1929

Most titles will be found in the fiction section, under the author’s last name. When that is not the case, the call number is noted.

1920:

The Mysterious Affair at Styles, Agatha Christie

Women in Love, D. H. Lawrence

Main Street, Sinclair Lewis

The Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton

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1921:

Collected Poems of Edwin Arlington Robinson,
Edwin Arlington Robinson 
811 ROB
 
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1922:

Ulysses, James Joyce

The Cathedral, Sir Hugh Walpole

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1923:

The Prophet, Kahlil Gibran 
892.3 GIB

Whose Body?, Dorothy Sayers

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1924:

A Passage to India, E. M. Forster

Billy Budd, Herman Melville

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1925:

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Anita Loos 
AUDIO BOOK FIC LOO

The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald

Barren Ground, Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow

Arrowsmith, Sinclair Lewis

The Guermantes Way (in Remembrance of Things Past, vol. 2),
Marcel Proust

Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf

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1926:

Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years and the War Years,
Carl Sandburg 
B Lincoln

An American Tragedy, Theodore Dreiser

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1927:

Personae; The Collected Shorter Poems of Ezra Pound,
Ezra Pound 
811.52 POU

The Magic Mountain, Thomas Mann

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1929:

Middletown: A Study in American Culture, Robert S. Lynd 
306 LYN

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