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What are some good books that have a story about the 20th century, preferably the first half (1900 - 1950)?

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>> No.483358

Gatsby.

>> No.483361

>>483355

the great gatsby
the big sleep

>> No.483363

Grapes of Wrath
A Farewell to Arms
Of Mice and Men

>> No.483367

>>483355
The Sun Also Rises

>> No.483368

The Jungle

>> No.483372

Slaughterhouse-Five

>> No.483373

>>483372
Well, sorta. Meh, you'll see.

>> No.483374

FITZGERALD FITZGERALD FITZGERALD

>> No.483375

East of Eden

>> No.483377 [DELETED] 

>>483374


Only if you don't mind reading about the idle rich.

Personally I can't.

>> No.483380

>>483374

Hope you like reading about rich people with no problems whining about their imagined conflicts.


I, personally, do not.

>> No.483391

Atlas Shrugged

>> No.483396

>>483380
ok

>> No.483558

Any Joyce, any Faulkner, any Woolf, any Fitzgerald, any Hemingway.

>> No.483566

Henry Miller's Air Conditioned Nightmare

>> No.483567

Sun Also Rises?

>> No.483573

>>483567
This. It's such a vivid image of the atmosphere of it's time.

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483594

Pic related.