1920s Reading Suggestions for Adults and Teens
A satellite branch of the library was opened on the north end of town. By the middle of the
decade that branch circulated 10,00 books a year.
Reading suggestions
Fiction
All Quiet on the Western Front
by: Erich Maria Remarque
F R384a
The Great Gatsby
by: F. Scott Fitzgerald
F F5536g2
Siddhartha
by: Hermann Hesse
F H587si
The Painted Veil
by: W. Somerset Maugham
F MAUG
Decline and Fall
by: Evelyn Waugh
F W354d
The Secret Adversary
by: Agatha Christie
LP FM CHRI
Main Street
by: Sinclair Lewis
F L676m2
The Age of Innocence
by: Edith Wharton
F W5534n
The Trial
by: Franz Kafka
F K11t2
Orlando
by: Virginia Woolf
F W9135o
Look Homeward, Angel
by: Thomas Wolfe
F W8556L
A Farewell to Arms
by: Ernest Hemingway
F H4883fa
To the Last Man
by: Zane Grey
FW G8459to2
Babbitt
by: Sinclair Lewis
F L676b2
Cane
by: Jean Toomer
F T672c
Non­fiction
Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920’s
by: Frederick Lewis Allen
973.915 A42
Zelda: A Biography
by: Nancy B. Milford
B F5547m
Critical Essays on Eugene O'Neill
by: James J. Martine
812 O58Ycr
A History of the American Suffragist Movement
by: Doris Weatherford
305.42 W36
The Presidency of Warren G. Harding
by: Eugene P. Trani
973.914 T77
The Diamond In The Bronx: Yankee Stadium and the Politics of New York
by: Neil J. Sullivan
796.357 S95d
Coolidge: An American Enigma
by: Robert B. Sobel
B C774s
Chamonix to Lillehammer: The Glory of the Olympic Winter Games
by: The US Olympic Committee
796.98 U58
Hoover’s FBI
by: Cartha DeLoach
353.0074 D36
Enemies: A History of the FBI
by: Tim Weiner
363.25 W42
Secrecy and Power: The Life of J. Edgar Hoover
by: Richard Gid Powers
B H7893p
Chronicle of the Cinema
by: Catherine LeGrand
791.43 C55
The Great Monkey Trial
by: L. Sprague DeCamp
343.3 D29
The American Axis: Henry Ford, Charles Lindbergh and the Rise of the Third Reich
by: Max Wallace
305.8924 W19
Witness To The Execution: The Odyssey of Amelia Earhart
by: T.C. Buddy Brennan
B E12br
The Affluent Society and Other Writings
by: John Kenneth Galbraith
330.973 G14
Capone: The Man and the Era
by: Laurence Bergreen
B C245b
Herbert Hoover: A Public Life
by: David B. Burner
B H789b
The Presidency of Herbert C. Hoover
by: Martin L. Fausold
973.916 F26
Young Adult Fiction
The Great Gatsby
by: F. Scott Fitzgerald
YA PB FITZ
Black Duck
by: Janet Taylor Lisle
YA F L7698bL
Monkey Town
by: Ronald Kidd
YA F K4593m
Harlem Summer
by: Walter Dean Myers
YA F M996ha
Crossing the Tracks
by: Barbara Stuber
YA F STUB
Young Adult Non­fiction
With Courage and Cloth: Winning the Fight for a Woman’s Right to Vote
by: Ann Bausum
YA 324.62 B35
The Crash of 1929
by: Louise Gerdes
YA 338.54 C89
Life During the Roaring 20’s
by: Diane Yancey
YA 973.915 Y21