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The flag of Mongolia during the Bogd Khanate governance from 1911-1920 and 1921-1924.
from /r/vexillology Top comment: didn't know the pope was Mongolian
Goodreads Recommends--1911-1920! 2024 Edition
The War to End All Wars put a dent in the optimism of the Twentieth Century, but technological progress continued apace.
Let's see what Goodreads thinks is a good match for the literature of that time!
Ada Lovelace by Ma Isabel Sanchez Vegara The Adventures of Robin Hood by Joseph Walker McSpadden Against the Machine: Evolution by Brian Van Norman Amigo Brothers by Piri Thomas
Batman/Superman: World's Finest, Vol. 1: The Devil Nezha by Mark Waid The Blood of Others by Simone de Beauvoir
Child of Another Kind by Steven Decker The Crab with the Golden Claws by Hergé
The Dark Lady by Pierdomenico Baccalario The Devoted Friend by Oscar Wilde
Earth by David Brin The Fever by Wallace Shawn The Forged Coupon by Leo Tolstoy
The Girl on the Porch by Richard Chizmar The Girl with the Porcelain Lips by A.R. Merrydew Grey Mask by Patricia Wentworth Gwendy's Button Box by Stephen King
The Heart of Princess Osra by Anthony Hope It's Lonely at the Centre of the Earth by Zoe Thorogood
The Killers by Ernest Hemingway Last Bus to Woodstock by Colin Dexter
The Memory of Earth by Orson Scott Card O Mundo que Nos Espera - 1 by Robert A. Heinlein
The Necklace by Guy de Maupassant An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving by Louisa May Alcott Our Blue Orange by A.R. Merrydew Ourika by Claire de Duras
A Pair of Silk Stockings by Kate Chopin Queen of Angels by Greg Bear
Radiance by Catherynne M. Valente Robot Visions by Isaac Asimov
The Secret Sharer by Joseph Conrad To Your Scattered Bodies Go by Philip Jose Farmer The Turtle of Oman by Naomi Shihab Nye
The Waltz by Dorothy Parker William Shakespeare's The Phantom of Menace by Ian Doescher The Wreck of the Batavia: A True Story by Simon Leys Zuleika Dobson by Max Beerbohm
And now, the 1911-1920 Writers Hall of Fame!
Burroughs, Edgar Rice-10 Beerbohm, Max-8 Fitzgerald, F. Scott-8 LeBlanc, Maurice-5 McCulley, Johnston-5 Media, Brick Pickle-2
Our winners are the authors of Thuvia, Maid of Mars, The Happy Hypocrite, and Bernice Bobs Her Hair!
Your thoughts, comments, and favorite 1910s books?
Yet another list challenge--it's short!
SKJAM! Reads--1911-1920 (listchallenges.com)
Goodreads Recommends: 1911-1920! Mark IV
The big event of the decade for most of the Western world was World War One. But for most countries that wasn't until the latter part of the decade.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer/Adventures of Huckleberry Finn/The Prince & the Pauper by Mark Twain Aesop's Illustrated Fables by Aesop Allan and the Holy Flower by H. Rider Haggard Almuric by Robert E. Howard American Gods by Neil Gaiman Art in the Blood by Bonnie MacBird The Art of War and Other Classics of Eastern Thought by Sun Tzu
The Book of Virtue by Ken Bruen Casino Royale by Ian Fleming Celebration of Discipline: The Path to Spiritual Growth by Richard J. Foster The Circular Staircase by Mary Roberts Rinehart Conan by Robert E. Howard The Constitution of the United States of America and Selected Writings of the Founding Fathers by Various The Crime at Black Dudley by Margery Allingham
Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan: The Land That Time Forgot by Russ Manning Ernest Hemingway: Four Novels by Ernest Hemingway
Fairy Tales from Around the World by Andrew Lang False Dawn by Edith Wharton Free Agent by Jeremy Dunn
Ghost Stories by Henry James The House Without a Key by Earl Derr Biggers
The Killings at Badger's Drift by Caroline Graham The Lerouge Case by Emile Gaboriau Lest Darkness Fall by L. Sprague de Camp
The Man of Bronze by Kenneth Robeson The Middle Temple Murder by J.S. Fletcher Mosses from an Old Manse by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Neighbor Rosicky by Willa Cather The Old Man in the Corner by Emmuska Orczy On the Incarnation by Athanasius of Alexandria
The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture by David Brion Davis The Prodigal God: Recovering the Heart of the Christian Faith by Timothy J. Keller
Raffles: The Amateur Cracksman by E.W. Hornung The Red Thumb Mark by R. Austin Freeman The Revenant of Thraxton Hall: The Paranormal Casebooks of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle by Vaughn Entwistle Rocket Ship Galileo by Robert A. Heinlein The Runaway Soul by Harold Brodkey
A Severe Mercy: A Story of Faith, Tragedy and Triumph by Sheldon Vanauken Shadow Show: Stories In Celebration of Ray Bradbury #1 by Joe Hill SilverFin by Charlie Higson A Soldier and a Gentleman by Talbot Mundy Some Sort of Epic Grandeur: The Life of F. Scott Fitzgerald by Matthew J. Bruccoli Stone Soup by Marcia Brown
Tales of Unease by Arthur Conan Doyle Three John Silence Stories by Algernon Blackwood The Time Traders by Andre Norton
Under Cover of Daylight by James W. Hall Weird Detectives: Recent Investigations by Paula Guran When I Don't Desire God: How to Fight for Joy by John Piper The Witch of Prague & Other Stories by F. Marion Crawford
And now, the 1910s Writer Hall of Fame!
Rohmer, Sax-14
Burroughs, Edgar Rice-8
Kelahan, Michael-7
Lewis, C.S.-5
Fitzgerald, F. Scott-4 Hodgson, William Hope-4 Penzler, Otto-4
Christie, Agatha-3
Foer, Franklin Wright, Blanche Fisher
The creators of Fu Manchu and Tarzan take the lead!
Your thoughts, comments and favorite books published between 1911 and 1920?
Goodreads Recommends: 1911-1920! Mark III
The big thing in history at this point is of course World War One, the buildup to it, and the early consequences. Let's see what Goodreads recommends to me based on books from this period I've previously shelved. Comments welcome!
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer/Adventures of Huckleberry Finn/The Prince & the Pauper by Mark Twain Aesop's Illustrated Fables by Aesop Almuric by Robert E. Howard American Gods by Neil Gaiman Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Thief by Maurice Leblanc Art in the Blood by Bonnie MacBird The Art of War and Other Classics of Eastern Thought by Sun Tzu
Casino Royale by Ian Fleming Celebration of Discipline: The Path to Spiritual Growth by Richard J. Foster The Constitution of the United States of America and Selected Writings of the Founding Fathers. by Various
Dear Illusion by Kingsley Amis Ernest Hemingway: Four Novels by Ernest Hemingway
Fairy Tales From Around the World by Andrew Lang False Dawn by Edith Wharton Free Agent by Jeremy Duns
Ghost Stories by Henry James The Hastur Cycle by Robert M. Price The House Without a Key by Earl Derr Biggers
The Lerouge Case by Emile Gaboriau Lest Darkness Fall by L. Sprague de Camp
Madame Crowl's Ghost & Other Stories by J. Sheridan Le Fanu The Man of Bronze by Kenneth Robeson The Middle Temple Murder by J.S. Fletcher Mosses from an Old Manse by Nathaniel Hawthorne The Mystery of the Yellow Room by Gaston Leroux
Neighbor Rosicky by Willa Cather On the Incarnation by Athanasius of Alexandria
The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture by David Brion Davis The Prodigal God: Recovering the Heart of the Christian Faith by Timothy J. Keller
Raffles: The Amateur Cracksman by E.W. Hornug The Red Thumb Mark by R. Austin Freeman The Revenant of Thraxton Hall: The Paranormal Casebooks of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle by Vaughn Entwistle Rocketship Galileo by Robert A. Heinlein The Runaway Soul by Harold Brodkey
Seize the Night: New Tales of Vampiric Terror by Christopher Golden A Severe Mercy: A Story of Faith, Tragedy and Triumph by Sheldon Vanauken Shadow Show: Stories In Celebration of Ray Bradbury #1 by Joe Hill SilverFin by Charlie Higson A Soldier and a Gentleman by Talbot Mundy Some Sort of Epic Grandeur: The Life of F. Scott Fitzgerald by Matthew J. Bruccoli Stone Soup by Marcia Brown
Tales of Unease by Arthur Conan Doyle The Terro-Human Future History Omnibus by H. Beam Piper Three John Silence Stories by Algernon Blackwood The Time Traders by Andre Norton
Under Cover of Daylight by James W. Hall Weird Detectives: Recent Investigations by Paula Guran When I Don't Desire God: How to Fight for Joy by John Piper The Witch of Prague & Other Stories by Francis Marion Crawford Wizard Fantastic by Martin H. Greenberg
And now the influential authors of the 1910s!
Rohmer, Sax-15
Kelahan, Michael-7
Burroughs, Edgar Rice-6 Hodgson, William Hope-6
Fitzgerald, F. Scott-5 Lewis, C.S.-5 Penzler, Otto-5
Foer, Franklin Wright, Blanche Fisher
Our winners this time are the creators of Fu Manchu, John Carter, and Carnacki (with an anthology editor interspersed.)
Your thoughts, comments and favorite books of the 1910s?
Popular Critically Acclaimed Books: [1911 - 1920]
Ethan Frome - Edith Wharton (1911)
Zuleika Dobson - Max Beerbohm (1911)
Under Western Eyes - Joseph Conrad (1911)
The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett (1911)
The Theory of Economic Development: An Inquiry into Profits, Capital, Credit, Interest, and the Business Cycle - Joseph A. Schumpeter (1911)
My First Summer in the Sierra - John Muir (1911)
Death in Venice - Thomas Mann (1912)
Tarzan of the Apes - Edgar Rice Burroughs (1912)
The Serious Game - Hjalmar Söderberg (1912)
Riders of the Purple Sage - Zane Grey (1912)
Pygmalion - Bernard Shaw (1912)
Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man - James Weldon Johnson (1912)
Selected Papers on Hysteria - Sigmund Freud (1912)
The Problems of Philosophy - Bertrand Russell (1912)
The Montessori Method - Maria Montessori (1912)
Home of the Blizzard - Douglas Mawson (1912)
In Search of Lost Time - Marcel Proust (1913)
Sons and Lovers - D. H. Lawrence (1913)
The Custom of the Country - Edith Wharton (1913)
Alcools - Guillaume Apollinaire (1913)
Petersburg - Andrei Bely (1913)
The Wanderer - Henri Alain-Fournier (1913)
The Warlord of Mars - Edgar Rice Burroughs (1913)
O Pioneers! - Willa Cather (1913)
My Childhood - Maxim Gorky (1913)
The Principia Mathematica - Alfred North Whitehead and Bertrand Russell (1913)
Scott's Last Expedition: The Journals - Robert Falcon Scott (1913)
Dubliners - James Joyce (1914)
The Prussian Officer - D. H. Lawrence (1914)
Kokoro - Sōseki Natsume (1914)
The Emperor of Portugallia - Selma Lagerlof (1914)
On Narcissism - Sigmund Freud (1914)
Through the Brazilian Wilderness - Theodore Roosevelt (1914)
Journal of a Trapper - Osborne Russell (1914)
The Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka (1915)
The Good Soldier - Ford Madox Ford (1915)
The Rainbow - D. H. Lawrence (1915)
The Thirty-Nine Steps - John Buchan (1915)
Of Human Bondage - W. Somerset Maugham (1915)
Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories - Ryunosuke Akutagawa (1915)
The Scarlet Plague - Jack London (1915)
The Voyage Out - Virginia Woolf (1915)
Spoon River Anthology - Edgar Lee Masters (1915)
Instincts and Their Vicissitudes - Sigmund Freud (1915)
Collected Short Stories of Saki - Saki (1916)
The Complete Short Stories of Jack London - Jack London (1916)
Greenmantle - John Buchan (1916)
Home and the World - Rabindranath Tagore (1916)
The Mind and Society - Vilfredo Pareto (1916)
Psychology of the Unconscious - C.G. Jung (1916)
A Critique of the Theory of Evolution - Thomas Hunt Morgan (1916)
Julia Ward Howe - Laura E. Richards and Maud Howe Elliott (1916)
With Americans of Past and Present Days - Jean Jules Jusserand (1916)
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce (1917)
Poems by Machado - Antonio Machado (1917)
The Shadow Line - Joseph Conrad (1917)
Prufrock and Other Observations - T.S. Eliot (1917)
His Family - Ernest Poole (1917)
Relativity - Albert Einstein (1917)
On Growth and Form - D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson (1917)
Study of Organic Inferiority and Its Physical Compensation: A Contribution to Clinical Medicine - Alfred Adler (1917)
In the Land of White Death - Valerian Albanov (1917)
Benjamin Franklin, Self-Revealed - William Cabell Bruce (1917)
My Antonia - Willa Cather (1918)
Diary of a Madman and Other Stories - Xun Lu (1918)
Calligrammes - Guillaume Apollinaire (1918)
Indian Summer of a Forsyte - John Galsworthy (1918)
The Loyal Subject - Heinrich Mann (1918)
The Magnificent Ambersons - Booth Tarkington (1918)
The Elements of Style - William Strunk, Jr and E. B. White (1918)
The Education of Henry Adams - Henry Adams (1918)
Eminent Victorians - Lytton Strachey (1918)
Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres - Henry Adams (1918)
Decline of the West - Oswald Spengler (1918)
A History of the Civil War - James Ford Rhodes (1918)
Winesburg, Ohio - Sherwood Anderson (1919)
Lad: a Dog - Albert Payson Terhune (1919)
Demian - Hermann Hesse (1919)
The Waning of the Middle Ages - Johan Huizinga (1919)
Prejudices - H. L. Mencken (1919)
The American Language - H. L. Mencken (1919)
Ten Days That Shook the World - John Reed (1919)
South - Ernest Shackleton (1919)
The Life of John Marshall - Albert J. Beveridge (1919)
The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton (1920)
Women in Love - D. H. Lawrence (1920)
Main Street - Sinclair Lewis (1920)
In Chancery - John Galsworthy (1920)
Awakening - John Galsworthy (1920)
The Poems of Wilfred Owen - Wilfred Owen (1920)
Kristin Lavransdatter - Sigrid Undset (1920)
Growth of the Soil - Knut Hamsun (1920)
Cheri - Colette (1920)
This Side of Paradise - F. Scott Fitzgerald (1920)
The Frontier in American History - Frederick Jackson Turner (1920)
Beyond the Pleasure Principle - Sigmund Freud (1920)
The War with Mexico - Justin H. Smith (1920)
Goodreads Recommends: 1911-1920 Mark II!
The big news in this decade was of course the Great War, or World War One as it is now known. It wiped out a generation of young men in Europe, caused soul searching by philosophers and theologians, and moved aviation from an eccentric hobby to a vital industry. The dime novels were giving way to the early pulps, and the mystery genre was entering its Golden Age. Let's see what Goodreads recommends based on books I've read from this time period! Comments and reblogs welcome.
Almuric by Robert E. Howard Arsene Lupin, Gentleman-Thief by Maurice Leblanc Art in the Blood: A Sherlock Holmes Adventure by Bonnie MacBird
The Beach Girls by John D. MacDonald The Book of Virtue by Ken Bruen Casino Royale by Ian Fleming Celebration of Discipline: The Path to Spiritual Growth by Richard J. Foster A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Dead of Night by Oliver Onions Dwellers in the Mirage by A. Merritt
Free Agent by Jeremy Duns Ghost Stories by Henry James
The Hastur Cycle by Robert M. Price The House Without a Key by Earl Derr Biggers
Lace and Blade by Deborah J. Ross The Lerouge Case by Emile Gaboriau Lest Darkness Fall by L. Sprague de Camp
Madam Crowl's Ghost & Other Stories by J. Sheridan Le Fanu The Man of Bronze by Kenneth Robeson The Middle Temple Murder by J.S. Fletcher More Ghost Stories of an Antiquary by M.R. James Mosses from an Old Manse by Nathaniel Hawthorne The Mystery of the Yellow Room by Gaston Leroux
The Old Man in the Corner by Emmuska Orczy On the Incarnation by Athanasius of Alexandria
The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture by David Brion Davis The Prodigal God: Recovering the Heart of the Christian Faith by Timothy J. Keller
Raffles: The Amateur Cracksman by E.W. Hornung Reaching for the Invisible God: What Can We Expect to Find? by Philip Yancey The Red Thumb Mark by R. Austin Freeman The Revenant of Thraxton Hall: The Paranormal Casebooks of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle by Vaughn Entwistle Robur the Conqueror by Jules Verne Rocket Ship Galileo by Robert A. Heinlein
Sanctorum Communio by Dietrich Bonhoeffer Seize the Night: New Tales of Vampiric Terror by Christopher Golden A Severe Mercy: A Story of Faith, Tragedy and Triumph by Sheldon Vanauken Shadow Show: Stories in Celebration of Ray Bradbury by Joe Hill SilverFin by Charlie Higson A Soldier and a Gentleman by Talbot Mundy The Spirit of the Liturgy by Romano Guardini Stone Soup by Marcia Brown
Tales of Unease by Arthur Conan Doyle The Terro-Human Future History Omnibus by H. Beam Piper Three John Silence Stories by Algernon Blackwood The Time Traders by Andre Norton
Under Cover of Daylight by James W. Hall Weird Detectives: Recent Investigations by Paula Guran When I Don't Desire God: How to Fight for Joy by John Piper The Witch of Prague & Other Stories by Francis Marion Crawford Wizard Fantastic by Martin H. Greenberg
And now, the cited authors!
Burroughs, Edgar Rice-7 Foer, Franklin Hodgson, William Hope-8 Lewis, C.S.-8 Penzler, Otto-7 Rohmer, Sax-19 Wright, Blanche Fisher-2
The creator of Fu Manchu really takes the lead, with the creators of Carnacki the Ghost Finder and Narnia well behind.
Your thoughts, comments, books from this time period I should put on my TBR pile?
Goodreads Recommends: 1911-1920! Mark II
The big thing during this decade was of course World War One. But there was also the suffrage movement, and the Prohibition movement, and many other things. Let's look at what Goodreads recommends based on books that I put on this shelf. Reblogs and comments welcome!
The Affair at the Semiramis Hotel by A.E.W. Mason Almuric by Robert E. Howard Art in the Blood: A Sherlock Holmes Adventure by Bonnie MacBird
The Beach Girls by John D. MacDonald The Bell in the Fog & Other Stories by Gertrude Atherton The Book of Virtue by Ken Bruen The Bruce-Partington Plans by Arthur Conan Doyle
The Case for Christ by Lee Strobel Casino Royale by Ian Fleming
The Everlasting Man by G.K. Chesterton The First Men in the Moon by H.G. Wells Free Agent by Jeremy Duns
Ghost Stories by Henry James The Hall of Uselessness: Collected Essays by Simon Leys The Hastur Cycle by Robert M. Price The House Without a Key by Earl Derr Biggers
Iceworld by Hal Clement Jesus of Nazareth: From the Baptism in the Jordan to the Transfiguration by Pope Benedict XVI
King's Cross: The Story of the World in the Life of Jesus by Timothy J. Keller The Lerouge Case by Emile Gaboriau Losers by Matthue Roth The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle
Madam Crowl's Ghost & Other Stories by J. Sheridan Le Fanu Madeline by Ludwig Bemelmans Mosses from an Old Manse by Nathaniel Hawthorne Mycroft Holmes by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Notes From The Tilt-A-Whirl: Wide-Eyed Wonder in God's Spoken World by N.D. Wilson The Old Man in the Corner by Emmuska Orczy
The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture by David Brion Davis The Question of God: C.S. Lewis and Sigmund Freud Debate God, Love, Sex, and the Meaning of Life by Armand M. Nicholi Jr.
Raffles: The Amateur Cracksman by E.W. Hornung The Red Thumb Mark by R. Austin Freeman Rocket Ship Galileo by Robert A. Heinlein
Sanctorum Communio by Dietrich Bonhoeffer The Secret Cases of Sherlock Holmes by Donald Thomas Shadow Show: Stories in Celebration of Ray Bradbury by Joe Hill Shelf Life: Fantastic Stories Celebrating Bookstores by Greg Ketter SilverFin by Charlie Higson Simply Christian: Why Christianity Makes Sense by N.T. Wright A Soldier and a Gentleman by Talbot Mundy Stone Soup by Ann McGovern Stone Soup by Marcia Brown
Tales of Unease by Arthur Conan Doyle The Terro-Human Future History Omnibus by H. Beam Piper This Dog for Hire by Carol Lea Benjamin Three John Silence Stories by Algernon Blackwood The Time Traders by Andre Norton
Under Cover of Daylight by James W. Hall Weird Detectives: Recent Investigations by Paula Guran The Witch of Prague & Other Stories by Francis Marion Crawford
And now the short list of honored authors!
Burroughs, Edgar Rice-7 Foer, Franklin-2 Hodgson, William Hope-7 Lewis, C.S.-8 Penzler, Otto-8 Rohmer, Sax-17 Wright, Blanche Fisher-3
Our winner is the creator of Fu Manchu, with the creator of Narnia and an anthologist tying for second.
Your thoughts, comments, books written in these years that you think I should read?