Reading with Style discussion

Post your reading ideas for Between the Wars here!

You do not need to post your plan prior to the start of the challenge, nor do you need to adhere to a posted plan.

All the possibilities!


1919-1920: Main Street (1010L), This Side of Paradise (1070L)
1921-1922: Life of Christ, Babbit (1110L), The Life and Death of Harriett Frean, The Enormous Room
1923-1924: The Magic Mountain, The Green Hat
1925-1926: The Artamonov Business, One, No One, and One Hundred Thousand, Under Satan's Sun, The Castle (1280L), Blindness
1927-1928: Amerika, The Case of Sergeant Grischa, Tarka the Otter, Nadja, Decline and Fall
1929-1930: Retreat Without Song, The Holy Terrors, The Time of Indifference, Living, I Thought of Daisy, Look Homeward, Angel (1010L), Her Privates We, The 42nd Parallel
1931-1932: To the North, Journey to the End of the Night, The Return of Philip Latinowicz, The Forbidden Kingdom, 1919 (YA, no lexile)
1933-1934: Man's Fate, The Street of Crocodiles, Tropic of Cancer, On the Heights of Despair, The Bells of Basel
1935-1936: They Shoot Horses, Don't They?, Independent People, The Thinking Reed, Eyeless in Gaza, The Big Money
1937-1938: Cause for Alarm, Alamut, Nausea, On the Edge of Reason
1939-1940: Good Morning, Midnight, At Swim-Two-Birds, The Tartar Steppe, The Man Who Loved Children

Nothing is set in stone ...


1919-1920 Seven Men, The Mysterious Affair At Styles
1921-1922 One of Ours, Babbit
1923-1924 So Big, The Devil in the Flesh
1925-1926 Arrowsmith
1927-1928 The Twelve Chairs
1929-1930 Red Harvest
1931-1932 Sanctuary
1933-1934 The Postman Always Rings Twice
1935-1036 The Late George Apley
1937-1938 Cause for Alarm

It'll probably change.
1919-1920 Winesburg, Ohio, The Mysterious Affair at Styles
1921-1922 We, Siddhartha
1923-1924 The Devil in the Flesh, So Big
1925-1926 Mrs. Dalloway, The Sun Also Rises
1927-1928 Steppenwolf, All Quiet on the Western Front
1929-1930 Goodbye to All That, As I Lay Dying
1931-1932 The Waves, Brave New World
1933-1934 Tender Is the Night, Lust for Life
1935-1936 Snow Country, At the Mountains of Madness
1937-1938 Out of Africa, Nausea
1939-1940 The Day of the Locust, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

Here's my evolving list for this challenge.

1919-1920 Women in Love by D.H. Lawrence 1920
1921-1922 Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini 1921
1923-1924 The Painted Veil by W. Somerset Maugham 1924
1925-1926 The Fugitive by Marcel Proust 1925
1927-1928 Time Regained by Marcel Proust 1927
1929-1930 Cakes and Ale by W. Somerset Maugham 1930
1931-1932 Ida Elisabeth: A Novel by Sigrid Undset 1932
1933-1934 Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald 1933
1935-1936 Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata 1935
1937-1938 ??? may be the one I skip
1939-1940 Finnegans Wake by James Joyce 1939

Tentative list, covering all the gaps in case I have trouble getting one.

1919-1920 Bulldog Drummond by Sapper (H.C. McNeile), 1920
1921-1922 Crome Yellow by Aldous Huxley, 1921
1923-1924 The Crowded Street by Winifred Holtby, 1924
1925-1926 The Professor's House by Willa Cather, 1925
1927-1928 Journal of Katherine Mansfield, 1927
1929-1930 Her Privates We by Frederic Manning, 1929
1931-1932 All Passion Spent by Vita Sackville-West, 1931
1933-1934 Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1933
1935-1936 Eyeless in Gaza by Aldous Huxley, 1936
1937-1938 Brighton Rock by Graham Greene, 1938
1939-1940 The Priory by Dorothy Whipple, 1939

A possible plan:
1919-1920 The Wreath
1921-1922 The Wife or Amok and Other Stories
1923-1924 Zeno's Conscience
1925-1926 The White Guard
1927-1928 The Case of Sergeant Grischa
1929-1930 The Maltese Falcon or Red Harvest or
The Luzhin Defense or The 42nd Parallel
1931-1932 Laughter in the Dark or The Glass Key or 1919
1933-1934 The Thin Man or Independent People
1935-1936 Invitation to a Beheading or The Big Money
1937-1938 Bread and Wine or Brighton Rock
1939-1940 The Hamlet

1919-1920 The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel
1921-1922 The Life and Death of Harriett Frean
1923-1924 A Passage to India (950L)
1925-1926 Out of the Silence
1927-1928 To the Lighthouse (1030L)
1929-1930 Her Privates We
1931-1932 N/A
1933-1934 Tender is the Night (990L)
1935-1936 All That Swagger
1937-1938 Capricornia
1939-1940 For Whom The Bell Tolls (840L)

1919-1920 Youth and the Bright Medusa
1921-1922 Captain Blood
1923-1924 Riceyman Steps, House of the Arrow
1925-1926 The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes
1927-1928 Lord Peter Views the Body
1929-1930 War in Heaven, Many Dimensions
1931-1932 The Greater Trumps
1933-1934 To a God Unknown
1935-1936 The Shadow Out of Time
1937-1938 Descent Into Hell
1939-1940 The Problem of Pain

Here's my beginning list: (subject to frequent changes :0) )

1919-1920
Ten Days that Shook the World (1919) by John Reed Lexile 1140L
This Side of Paradise (1920) by F. Scott Fitzgerald Lexile 1070L

1921-1922
My Universities (1922) by Maxim Gorky
Crome Yellow (1921) by Aldous Huxley
One of Ours (1922) by Willa Cather

1923-1924
The Dream: A Novel (1924) by H.G. Wells
A Son at the Front (1923) by Edith Wharton

1925-1926
An American Tragedy (1925) by Theodore Dreiser Lexile 1240L
The Charwoman's Shadow (1926) by Lord Dunsany
Arrowsmith (1925) by Sinclair Lewis Lexile 1160L
Chaka (1925) by Thomas Mofolo
Topper (1926) by Thorne Smith

1927-1928
Point Counter Point (1928) by Aldous Huxley
The Trumpeter of Krakow (1928) by Eric P. Kelly Lexile 1200L
Decline and Fall (1928) by Evelyn Waugh

1929-1930
The Last September (1929) by Elizabeth Bowen
East Wind: West Wind (1929) by Pearl S. Buck
The 42nd Parallel (The U.S.A. Trilogy #1) (1930) by John Dos Passos
The Sound and the Fury (1929) by William Faulkner Lexile 870L
Good-Bye to All That: An Autobiography (1929) by Robert Graves
Cakes and Ale: Or, The Skeleton in the Cupboard (1930) by W. Somerset Maugham
Memoirs of an Infantry Officer (1930) by Siegfried Sassoon
Strong Poison (Lord Peter Wimsey #6) (1930) by Dorothy L. Sayers

1931-1932
Saraband (1931) by Eliot Bliss
To the North (1932) by Elizabeth Bowen
Nineteen Nineteen (The U.S.A. Trilogy #2) (1932) by John Dos Passos
Light in August (1932) by William Faulkner
Devil's Cub (1932) by Georgette Heyer
Brave New World (1932) Aldous Huxley Lexile 870L

1933-1934
The Mother (1933) by Pearl S. Buck
The Convenient Marriage (1934) by Georgette Heyer
Lost Horizon (1933) by James Hilton Lexile 1060L
Appointment in Samarra (1934) by John O'Hara
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (1933) by Gertrude Stein
A Handful of Dust (1934) by Evelyn Waugh

1935-1936
Untouchable (1935) by Mulk Raj Anand
The Big Money (The U.S.A. Trilogy #3) (1936) by John Dos Passos
Jamaica Inn (1935) by Daphne du Maurier Lexile 1070L

1937-1938
A Blunt Instrument (1938) by Georgette Heyer
Homage to Catalonia (1938) by George Orwell
Scoop (1937) by Evelyn Waugh

1939-1940
Flotsam: A Novel of World War II (1939) by Erich Maria Remarque

BtW plan - revised

1919-1920 A Damsel In Distress by P.G. Wodehouse - 1919
1921-1922 The Glimpses of the Moon by Edith Wharton - 1922
1923-1924 The Man in the Brown Suit by Agatha Christie - 1924
1925-1926 The Secret of Chimneys by Agatha Christie - 1925
1927-1928 Unnatural Death by Dorothy L. Sayers - 1927
1929-1930 Strong Poison by Dorothy L. Sayers - 1930
1931-1932 The Sittaford Mystery by Agatha Christie - 1931
1933-1934 Right Ho, Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse - 1934
1935-1936 The Case of the Caretaker's Cat by Erle Stanley Gardner - 1935
1937-1938 The Case of the Dangerous Dowager byErle Stanley Gardner - 1937
1939-1940 Farewell, My Lovely by Raymond Chandler - 1939

1921-1922 One of Ours by Willa Cather
1923-1924 A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
1925-1926 Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
1927-1928 Orlando by Virginia Woolf
1929-1930 Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh
1931-1932 The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
1933-1934 Lost Horizon by James Hilton
1935 - 1936 It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis
1937-1938 Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell
1939-1940 Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton

Between the Wars


1919-1920 The Mysterious Affair at Styles or Main Street
1921-1922 Siddhartha or We
1923-1924 Whose Body? or Murder on the Links or A Passage to India (lexile 950) or Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
1925-1926 Mrs. Dalloway (lexile 950)
1927-1928 To the Lighthouse (lexile 1030) or Elmer Gantry or All Quiet on the Western Front (lexile 830)
1929-1930 The Sound and the Fury (lexile 870) or As I Lay Dying (lexile 870)
1931-1932 Brave New World
1933-1934 The Postman Always Rings Twice
1935-1936 Jamaica Inn (lexile 1070)
1937-1938 Their Eyes Were Watching God (lexile 1080) or Rebecca (lexile 880)
1939-1940 For Whom the Bell Tolls (lexile 840) or The Big Sleep

Here's my tentative plan:


1919-1920 The Haunted Bookshop-1000L
1921-1922 Babbit -1110 Lexile
1923-1924 A Lost Lady
1925-1926 The White Guard
1927-1928 The Trumpeter of Krakow -1200L
1929-1930 David Golder
1931-1932 The Waves
1933-1934 Tender Is the Night - 990 Lexile
1935-1936 Swami and Friends
1937-1938 Scoop - 830 Lexile

My very tentative list :)

1919-1920 Main Street by Sinclair Lewis

1921-1922 Chrome Yellow by Alduous Huxley

1923-1924 The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann

1925-1926 The Story of My Experiments with Truth by Mahatma Gandhi

1927-1928 Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects by Bertrand Russell

1929-1930 Pather panchali: Song of the road by Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay

1931-1932 Glory by Vladimir Nabokov

1933-1934 To a God Unknown by John Steinbeck

1935-1936 It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis

1937-1938 The Cost of Discipleship by Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Between the Wars:



1919-1920 The Age of Innocence by Edith Warton, pub 1920

1921-1922 Crome Yellow by Aldous Huxley, pub 1921

1923-1924 The Home-Maker by Dorothy Canfield Fisher, pub 1924

1925-1926 Mrs. Dalloway by Virgina Woolf, pub 1925

1927-1928 The Big Four by Agatha Christie, L800, pub 1927

1929-1930 A Farewell to Arms by Hemingway, pub 1929

1931-1932 The Waves by Woolf, pub 1931

1933-1934 Tender Is the Night by Fitzgerald pub 1934

1935-1936 Jamaica Inn by Du Maurier, pub 1935

1937-1938 The Sword in the Stone by White, L1120, pub 1938

1939-1940 skip

This is a great opportunity for me to really get into some classics that I might not get around to ordinarily. Also, most of the authors are new to me, whcih is always fun and exciting. How far I get on the list is another matter entirely...

1919-1920: The Age of Innocence
1921-1922: Siddhartha
1923-1924: A Passage to India
1923-1926: The Great Gatsby
1925-1928: Decline and Fall
1929-1930: Cakes and Ale
1931-1932: Glory
1933-1934: Seven Gothic Tales
1935-1936: Regency Buck
1937-1938: The Red Box