Wednesday, 8 October 2025

The 1925 Club


This book challenge takes place twice a year and concentrates on one year and one year only. I call it "Read the Year Club". This time, 1925 was picked. For more information, see Simon @ Stuck in a Book and Kaggsy @ Kaggsy's Bookish Ramblings (here is Karen's invite and here is Simon's). 
If you are looking for inspiration, there are a few books from that year that I read already:

de Man, Herman "The Growing Water" (NL: Het wassende water) - 1925
Feuchtwanger, Lion "Jew Suss" (GE: Jud Süß) - 1925
Fitzgerald, F. Scott "The Great Gatsby" - 1925
Ford, Ford Madox "Parade's End" (Tetraology: Some Do Not - 1924, No More Parades, 1925, A Man Could Stand Up 1926, Last Post 1928) - 1924-28
H., A. "My Struggle" (Notes by some megalomanic who thought he could rule the world, GE: M. K.) - 1925/26
Mandelstam, Ossip "The Din of Time" (RUS: Шум времени/Shum vremeni) - 1925
Woolf, Virginia "Mrs. Dalloway" - 1925

I also found some other ideas, if you are looking for more:
Christie, Agatha "The Secret of Chimneys"

Dos Passos, John "Manhattan Transfer"
Dreiser, Theodore "An American Tragedy"
Gorky, Maxim" The Artamonov Business" (RUS: Дело Артамоновых/Delo Artamonovykh)
Kafka, Franz "The Trial" (GE: Der Prozess)
Lewis, Sinclair "Arrowsmith"
Maugham, W. Somerset "The Painted Veil"
Stein, Gertrude "The Making of Americans"
Undset, Sigrid "The Master of Hestviken, vol. 1: The Axe" (NO: Olav Audunssøn i Hestviken)
Wells, H.G. "Christina Alberta's Father"

This challenge takes place from 20 to 26 October 2025.

I have picked a story by a fascinating author of whom I always wanted to read more:
Hemingway, Ernest "In Our Time" - 1925

2 comments:

  1. I've read The Great Gatsby, Mrs. Dalloway, The Painted Veil and An American Tragedy. Who knew I'd read so many books from 1925. ;D Enjoy your Hemingway read. :D

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    1. I was surprised, as well, Lark.
      Thanks for the good wishes. I have noticed in the meantime that "In Our Time" are short stories which I don't usually like. But - they are linked with each other, so it's not so bad. Having said that, it's Hemingway, so what's not to like?

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