Historical Fiction Books of the 1920s
The 72 most-read historical fiction books first published between 1920 and 1929, led by The Great Gatsby (1920), The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926) and Orlando (1928).
This list collects 72 books from the 1920s by 61 authors, published between 1920 and 1929. 10 are free to read and 58 have a free audiobook. Books are ranked by how many readers have shelved, rated or downloaded them.
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The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
Agatha Christie
Orlando
Virginia Woolf
Der Steppenwolf
Hermann Hesse
- FREE🎧
The Black Moth
Georgette Heyer
- FREE🎧
Brood of the Witch-Queen
Sax Rohmer
Witch Wood
John Buchan
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Kai Lung's Golden Hours
Ernest Bramah
- FREE🎧
Captain Blood
Rafael Sabatini
The Masqueraders
Georgette Heyer
- FREE
Beauvallet (Beauvallet Dynasty #2)
Georgette Heyer
- FREE
Domnei: A Comedy of Woman-worship
James Branch Cabell
Golden Fleece and the Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles, The
Padraic Colum
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The Great Roxhythe
Georgette Heyer
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Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates
Howard Pyle
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A Mirror for Witches
Esther Forbes
My First Two Thousand Years
George Sylvester Viereck
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Porto Bello Gold
Arthur D. Howden Smith
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Cathedral
Hugh Walpole
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Jungle Girl
Gordon Casserly
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Empty Sack
Basil King
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Tales of a Vanishing River
Earl Reed
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Saint Joan: Preface
George Bernard Shaw
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Kangaroo
D. H. Lawrence
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Virgin Soil Volume 1
Ivan Turgenev
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Able McLaughlins
Margaret Wilson
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Virgin Soil Volume 2
Ivan Turgenev
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Antic Hay
Aldous Huxley
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''Mr Rowl''
D. K. Broster
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Yellow Butterflies
Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews
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Keeper of the Bees
Gene Stratton-Porter
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Dinner Club
Sapper
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House of Baltazar
William John Locke
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Set of Six
Joseph Conrad
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Gleam in the North
D. K. Broster
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Helen of the Old House
Harold Bell Wright
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Oil!
Upton Sinclair
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Lark (Version 2)
E. Nesbit
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Charterhouse of Parma
Stendhal
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Head of the House of Coombe
Frances Hodgson Burnett
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First Sir Percy: An Adventure of the Laughing Cavalier
Baroness Emma Orczy
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One Man's Initiation--1917
John Dos Passos
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Moonraker
F. Tennyson Jesse
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Jack Sheppard: A Romance
William Harrison Ainsworth
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Painted Fires
Nellie McClung
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Persephone of Eleusis
Clare Winger Harris
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Recompence
Robert Keable
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All Quiet on the Western Front
Erich Maria Remarque
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Magpie
Douglas Durkin
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Clearing Weather
Cornelia Meigs
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Longshanks
Stephen W. Meader
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Fire Spirits
Paul Busson
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Cup of Gold
John Steinbeck
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Vengence of the Gods: And Three Other Stories of Real American Color Line Life
William Pickens
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Mysterious Aviator (aka So Disdained)
Nevil Shute
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Bellarion the Fortunate: a romance
Rafael Sabatini
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Nana (Version 2), Book Nine of Rougon-Macquart Cycle
Émile Zola
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St Martin's Summer
Rafael Sabatini
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Carolinian
Rafael Sabatini
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Giants in the Earth
O. E. Rølvaag
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Peder Victorious
O. E. Rølvaag
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Jalna
Mazo De la Roche
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Emigrants
Johan Bojer
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Akhnaton, King of Egypt
Dmitry Merezhkovsky
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Whiteoaks
Mazo De la Roche
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Three Soldiers
John Dos Passos
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Tom of the Raiders
Austin Bishop
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Trail's End
George W. Ogden
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Prairie-Schooner Princess
Mary Katherine Maule
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Death of Society: A Novel of Tomorrow
Florence Roma Muir Wilson
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Mrs. Warren's Daughter
Sir Harry Johnston
My First Two Thousand Years
Paul Eldridge