These are the ones that caught my eye:
- #1, The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
- #2, Mrs Dalloway, Virginia Woolf
- #3, The Trial, Franz Kafka
- #11, The Everlasting Man, G.K. Chesterton
- #19, Giants in the Earth, O.E. Rølvaag
- #22, The Common Reader, Virginia Woolf
- #30, The Making of Americans, Gertrude Stein
- #40, Big Two-Hearted River, Ernest Hemingway
- #44, My First Thirty Years, Gertrude Beasley, wiki entry.
I've read all but two of them, but I read them years ago.
Also, the Japan-US Security Treaty.
Back in the early 2000s -- maybe 2004, or thereabouts -- I typed out the entire Mrs Dalloway in free verse. It took me about six months, typing at most one or two hours four or five days each week. A valuable, valuable exercise. I made an interesting literary discovery, posted it on the web, something that had never been posted before to the best of my knowledge.
I was blown away by the titles listed above all came out in one year.
A digression.
Back to literature. What was the best year ever for English literature?
From AI:
I think one could argue 1925 competes well with the year 1922.
For the 1922 list, link here.
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