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Index of Books
Written Between 1900 and 1945
under review
at
the complete review
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Most of the books under review at the complete review are contemporary titles.
Most were first published in the past few years, and the vast majority were first published over the past few decades.
There is, however, also a significant proportion of titles that were published before the end of World War II.
This index lists all those books first published between 1900 and 1945. See also the Index of Books Written Before 1900 |
Books Written Between 1900 and 1945
- Edition 69 (1931-3)
- ADÁN, Martín: The Cardboard House (1928)
- AKUTAGAWA Ryunosuke:
- Cogwheels (1927)
- A Fool's Life (1927)
- Hell Screen (1918)
- Kappa (1927)
- Mandarins (to 1927)
- Rashomon (to 1927)
- ALAIN-FOURNIER: The Lost Estate (Le Grand Meaulnes) (1913)
- ALBERT-BIROT, Pierre: The First Book of Grabinoulor (1921)
- ALI, Sabahattin: Madonna in a Fur Coat (1943)
- ALLAIN, Marcel: Fantômas (with Pierre Souvestre) (1911)
- ANDRADE, Mário de:
- Hallucinated City (1922)
- Macunaíma (1928)
- ANET, Claude: Ariane, a Russian Girl (1920)
- ANTONENKO-DAVYDOVYCH, Borys: Duel (1928)
- APOLLINAIRE, Guillaume: The Poet Assassinated (1916)
- APPARAO, Gurajada: Girls for Sale (rev. 1909)
- ARLT, Roberto: Mad Toy (1926)
- AYMÉ, Marcel: Beautiful Image (1941)
- BANDOPADHYAY, Bibhutibhushan: Pather Panchali (1929)
- BARTOL, Vladimir: Alamut (1938)
- BENOÎT, Pierre: Queen of Atlantis (1919)
- BIERBAUM, Otto Julius: Samalio Pardulus (1908)
- BLECHER, M.:
- Adventures In Immediate Irreality (1936)
- The Lighted Burrow (1938)
- Scarred Hearts (1937)
- BORGES, Jorge Luis: Ficciones (1944)
- BOURDOUXHE, Madeleine:
- La Femme de Gilles (1937)
- Marie (1943)
- BOVE, Emmanuel:
- Armand (1927)
- Henri Duchemin and His Shadows (1928)
- My Friends (1924)
- A Winter's Journal (1931)
- BOYE, Karin: Crisis (1934)
- BROCH, Hermann:
- The Death of Virgil (1945)
- The Sleepwalkers (1931)
- BRÚ, Heðin: The Old Man and His Sons (1940)
- BRUCKNER, Ferdinand:
- Criminals (1928)
- Youth Is a Sickness (1926)
- BURDEKIN, Katharine: Swastika Night (1937)
- BUZZATI, Dino: The Tartar Steppe (1945)
- CAIN, James M.:
- Double Indemnity (1935)
- Love's Lovely Counterfeit (1942)
- Mildred Pierce (1941)
- The Postman always Rings Twice (1934)
- Serenade (1937)
- CAIN, Paul: Fast One (1933)
- ČAPEK, Karel: The Absolute at Large (1922)
- CARAGIALE, Mateiu: Rakes of the Old Court (1929)
- CARRERA ANDRADE, Jorge: Micrograms (1940)
- CASPARY, Vera: Laura (1943)
- CATHER, Willa: O Pioneers ! (1913)
- CÉLINE, Louis-Ferdinand:
- Journey to the End of the Night (1932)
- Semmelweis (1924)
- CHACEL, Rosa:
- Estación. Ida y vuelta. (1930)
- Memoirs of Leticia Valle (1945)
- CH'AE Man-Sik: Turbid Rivers (1937)
- CHATTOPADHYAY, Saratchandra: Devdas (1917)
- CHUGHTAI, Ismat: The Crooked Line (1944)
- CHUKOVSKAYA, Lydia: Sofia Petrovna (1940)
- CONNOLLY, Cyril: The Unquiet Grave (1944)
- CORRINTH, Curt: Potsdamer Platz (1919)
- COUPERUS, Louis:
- The Hidden Force (1900)
- Inevitable (1900)
- CREVEL, René: Babylon (1927)
- DE ANGELIS, Augusto:
- Death in a Bookstore (1936)
- The Hotel of the Three Roses (1936)
- The Murdered Banker (1935)
- The Mystery of the Three Orchids (1942)
- DELEDDA, Grazia:
- The Church of Solitude (1936)
- La Madre (1920)
- DERVIŞ, Suat: In the Shadow of the Yali (1945)
- DÖBLIN, Alfred: Bürger und Soldaten 1918 (1939)
- DOŁĘGA-MOSTOWICZ, Tadeusz: The Career of Nicodemus Dyzma (1932)
- DOROSHEVICH, Vlas: What the Emperor Cannot Do (1902)
- EÇA DE QUEIRÓS, José Maria de: The Illustrious House of Ramires (1900)
- EDOGAWA Rampo:
- The Early Cases of Akechi Kogorō (1926)
- The Fiend with Twenty Faces (1936)
- Gold Mask (1931)
- Strange Tale of Panorama Island (1927)
- ELIADE, Mircea:
- Diary of a Short-Sighted Adolescent (1925)
- Gaudeamus (1928)
- ELSSCHOT, Willem:
- Cheese (1933)
- Villa des Roses (1913)
- ELVESTAD, Sven: Through Three Rooms (1907)
- EMAR, Juan: Yesterday (1935)
- EROSHENKO, Vasily: The Narrow Cage (1915-23)
- ESCOTT, T.H.S.: Edward Bulwer (1910)
- ESPRIU, Salvador: Ariadne in the Grotesque Labyrinth (1935)
- FAGUNWA, D.O.: Forest of a Thousand Daemons (1938)
- FEARING, Kenneth:
- (Clark Gifford's Body (1942)
- Dagger of the Mind (1941)
- FELSEN, Yuri: Deceit (1930)
- FÉNÉON, Félix: Novels in Three Lines (1906)
- FILLOY, Juan:
- FÜST Milán: The Story of My Wife (1942)
- GIDE, André: Imaginary Interviews (1942)
- GILLIAMS, Maurice: Elias (1936)
- GIONO, Jean: Melville (1941)
- GIRONDO, Oliverio: Decals (1922/25)
- GRABIŃSKI, Stefan: The Dark Domain (1918-22)
- GREEN, Julien: The Closed Garden (also: Adrienne Mesurat) (1927)
- GUILLOUX, Louis: Blood Dark (1935)
- GÜIRALDES, Ricardo: Don Segundo Sombra (1926)
- HAILU, Gebreyesus: The Conscript (1927)
- HALLDÓR Laxness: Salka Valka (1932)
- HARRISON, Jane Ellen: Reminiscences of a Student's Life (1925)
- HARTWIG, Mela: Am I a Redundant Human Being ? (1931)
- HAŠEK, Jaroslav: The Secret History of my Sojourn in Russia (1921)
- HEDAYAT, Sadegh: The Blind Owl (1941/2)
- HOEL, Sigurd:
- A Fortnight before the Frost (1935)
- Sinners in Summertime (1927)
- ILF and PETROV:
- The Twelve Chairs (1928)
- The Golden Calf (1931)
- ILIAZD: Rapture (1930)
- JACQUES, Norbert: Dr. Mabuse (1921)
- JASIEŃSKI, Bruno:
- I Burn Paris (1929)
- The Legs of Izolda Morgan (to 1936)
- JAVAKHISHVILI, Mikheil: Kvachi (1925)
- JIROTKA, Zdeněk: Saturnin (1942)
- JONES, David: In Parenthesis (1937)
- KAMEL, Adel: The Magnificent Conman of Cairo (1942)
- KARÁSEK ZE LVOVIC, Jiří: A Gothic Soul (1900)
- KAWABATA Yasunari: Snow Country (1937)
- KESSEL, Joseph: Belle de Jour (1928)
- KESSEL, Martin: Mr. Brecher's Fiasco (1932)
- KEUN, Irmgard:
- [The Artificial Silk Girl (1932)]
- [Child of All Nations (1938)]
- KEYSERLING, Eduard von:
- Fürstinnen (1917)
- Waves (1911)
- KILPI, Volter: Gulliver's Voyage to Phantomimia (1938)
- KLÍMA, Ladislav:
- Glorious Nemesis (1932)
- The Sufferings of Prince Sternenhoch (1928)
- KOSZTOLÁNYI, Dezső:
- Anna Édes (1926)
- Kornél Esti (1933)
- Skylark (1924)
- KRISTENSEN, Tom: Havoc (1930)
- KRLEŽA, Miroslav: The Banquet in Blitva (1939)
- KRZHIZHANOVSKY, Sigizmund:
- The Letter Killers Club (1926)
- Memories of the Future (1926-30)
- The Return of Munchausen (1928)
- Seven Stories (1920s/30s)
- KUBIN, Alfred: The Other Side (1909)
- LA VILLE DE MIRMONT, Jean de: The Sundays of Jean Dézert (1914)
- [LAFORET, Carmen: Nada (1945)]
- LARBAUD, Valery: Fermina Márquez (1911)
- LASCANO TEGUI, Emilio:
- Álbum de familia (1936)
- On Elegance While Sleeping (1925)
- LATIMER, Jonathan: Solomon's Vineyard (1941)
- LE ROUGE, Gustave:
- The Prisoner of the Planet Mars (1908)
- The War of the Vampires (1909)
- LEE Hyoseok: Endless Blue Sky (1941)
- LEIRIS, Michel: Manhood (1939)
- LERNET-HOLENIA, Alexander:
- I Was Jack Mortimer (1933)
- Mona Lisa (1937)
- The Resurrection of Maltravers (1936)
- LEVY, Louis: Kzradock the Onion Man and the Spring-Fresh Methuselah (1910)
- LEWIS, Wyndham: One-Way Song (1933)
- LIMA BARRETO, Afonso Henriques de: The Sad End of Policarpo Quaresma (1915)
- LONDON, Jack: Martin Eden (1909)
- LU Xun:
- Morning Blossoms Gathered at Dusk (1928)
- Wild Grass (1927)
- LUCA, Ghérasim: The Passive Vampire (1945)
- LUGONES, Leopoldo: Selected Writings (1897-1930)
- MAC ORLAN, Pierre: A Handbook for the Perfect Adventurer (1920)
- MACHADO DE ASSIS, Joaquim Maria:
- Counselor Ayres' Memorial (1908)
- Esau and Jacob (1904)
- MAHFOUZ, Naguib:
- Cairo Modern (1945)
- Khufu's Wisdom (1939)
- Rhadopis of Nubia (1943)
- Thebes at War (1944)
- MÁRAI Sándor:
- Casanova in Bolzano (UK title: Conversations in Bolzano) (1940)
- Embers (1942)
- Esther's Inheritance (1939)
- The Rebels (1930)
- MARIENGOF, Anatoly:
- Cynics (1928)
- A Novel Without Lies (1927)
- MASEREEL, Frans: The City (1925)
- McCABE, Cameron: The Face on the Cutting-Room Floor (1937)
- MICHAUX, Henri: A Barbarian in Asia (1933)
- MILNE, A.A.: The Red House Mystery (1922)
- MIRBEAU, Octave:
- The Diary of a Chambermaid (1900)
- Twenty-One Days of a Neurasthenic (1901)
- MOEIS, Abdoel: Never the Twain (1928)
- MOFOLO, Thomas: Chaka (1925)
- MORAND, Paul: The Man in a Hurry (1941)
- MORI Ogai: The Wild Geese (1913)
- al-MUWAYLIḤĪ, Muḥammad: What ʻĪsā Ibn Hishām told us (1902)
- MYNONA: The Creator (1920)
- NAGAI Kafu: Rivalry (1918)
- NATSUME Sōseki:
- Botchan (1906)
- The Gate (1910)
- I am a Cat (1907)
- Inside my Glass Doors (1915)
- Kokoro (1914)
- Kusamakura (1906)
- Light and Dark (1917)
- The Miner (1908)
- Sanshirō (1909)
- NÉMIROVSKY, Irène:
- The Ball (Le Bal) (1930)
- The Courilof Affair (1933)
- David Golder (1929)
- David Golder - The Ball - Snow in Autumn - The Courilof Affair (1929-33)
- Dimanche (1941)
- Fire in the Blood (1942)
- Jezebel (1936)
- Snow in Autumn (1931)
- Suite française (1942)
- NESCIO: Amsterdam Stories (1942)
- NEZVAL, Vítězslav:
- The Absolute Gravedigger (1937)
- A Prague Flâneur (B)
- NIRALA (Suryakant Tripathi): A Life Misspent (1939)
- O'HARA, John: Hope of Heaven (1938)
- OLESHA, Yuri:
- Envy (1927)
- The Three Fat Men (1928)
- OLSSON, Hagar: Chitambo (1933)
- OSORGIN, Mikhail: The Riven Heart of Moscow (1928)
- PAPADIAMANTIS, Alexandros: The Murderess (1903)
- PAPINI, Giovanni: The Failure (1913)
- PARLAND, Henry: To Pieces (1932)
- PILNYAK, Boris: Ivan Moscow (1927)
- PIRANDELLO, Luigi:
- The Notebooks of Serafino Gubbio (also: Shoot !) (1915)
- One, No One, and One Hundred Thousand (1926)
- PITIGRILLI: Cocaine (1921)
- PLATONOV, Andrey: Happy Moscow (1930s)
- PONTOPPIDAN, Henrik: Lucky Per (1904)
- POOLE, Ernest: The Harbor (1915)
- POWELL, Anthony: Afternoon Men (1931)
- PREMCHAND: The Gift of a Cow (1936)
- PROUST, Marcel: The Lemoine Affair (1918)
- QUENEAU, Raymond:
- Children of Clay (1938)
- The Last Days (1936)
- QI Fanniu [?]: The Adventures of Ma Suzhen (1923)
- RADIGUET, Raymond: Count D'Orgel's Ball (1924)
- RAMOS, Graciliano: São Bernardo (1934)
- RAMUZ, Charles Ferdinand: The Young Man from Savoy (1936)
- RAY, Jean: Malpertuis (1943)
- REBREANU, Liviu: Ciuleandra (1927)
- REJTŐ Jenő: Quarantine in the Grand Hotel (1939)
- REMIZOV, Alexei: Sisters of the Cross (1910)
- REYMONT, Władysław: The Revolt of the Animals (1924)
- ROHMER, Sax: The Mystery of Dr. Fu-Manchu (1913)
- ROKEYA Sakhawat Hossain: Sultana's Dream and Padmarag (1905/1924)
- ROMAINS, Jules: Donogoo-Tonka (1920)
- ROUSSEL, Raymond: How I Wrote Certain of my Books (to 1932)
- SÁ-CARNEIRO, Mário: Lúcio's Confession (1913)
- SABATINI, Rafael: Captain Blood (1922)
- SAGARRA, Josep Maria de: Private Life (1932)
- SALTEN, Felix: Bambi (1923)
- SARRAUTE, Nathalie: Tropisms (1939)
- SARTRE, Jean-Paul: The Age of Reason (1945)
- SAUVAGEOT, Marcelle: Commentary (1933)
- SCHEERBART, Paul: Munchausen and Clarissa (1905)
- SCHUYLER, George S.: Black Empire (1938)
- SEBASTIAN, Mihail:
- The Accident (1940)
- For Two Thousand Years (1934)
- The Town with Acacia Trees (1935)
- Women (1933)
- SERNER, Walter:
- Last Loosening (1927)
- Die Tigerin (1925)
- SHEN Congwen: Border Town (1934)
- SHERRIFF, R.C.: The Hopkins Manuscript (1939)
- SHKLOVSKY, Viktor:
- The Hamburg Score (1928)
- A Hunt for Optimism (1931)
- Knight's Move (1923)
- Life of a Bishop's Assistant (1931)
- Third Factory (1926)
- SHNEOUR, Zalman: A Death (1909)
- SIMENON, Georges:
- The Engagement (1933)
- The Late Monsieur Gallet (1931)
- Pietr the Latvian (1930)
- The Strangers in the House (1940)
- Three Crimes (1938)
- Tropic Moon (1933)
- The Widow (1942)
- SLAUERHOFF, Jan Jacob:
- Adrift in the Middle Kingdom (1934)
- The Forbidden Kingdom (1932)
- SÖDERBERG, Hjalmar:
- Doctor Glas (1905)
- The Serious Game (1912)
- SOUPAULT, Philippe:
- Last Nights of Paris (1928)
- The Voyage of Horace Pirouelle (1925)
- SOUVESTRE, Pierre: Fantômas (with Marcel Allain) (1911)
- STARK, Freya: The Valleys of the Assassins (1934)
- STEAD, Christina: House of All Nations (1938)
- STEIN, Gertrude:
- Writings 1903-1932 (1932)
- The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (1932)
- Everybody's Autobiography (1937)
- Tender Buttons (1912)
- Three Lives (1906)
- STORCH, Mathias: Singnagtugaq (1914)
- [SZATHMÁRI Sándor: Voyage to Kazohinia (1941)]
- SZENTKUTHY Miklós:
- Marginalia on Casanova (1939)
- Towards the One and Only Metaphor (1935)
- SZERB Antal:
- Journey by Moonlight (1937)
- Oliver VII (1942)
- The Pendragon Legend (1934)
- TAGORE, Rabindranath: Farewell my Friend (1929)
- TANIZAKI Jun'ichirō:
- Devils in Daylight (1918)
- In Black and White (1928)
- In Praise of Shadows (1933)
- Longing and Other Stories (1917-21)
- Red Roofs & Other Stories (1917-26)
- The Siren's Lament (1910/1915/1917)
- TERGIT, Gabriele: Käsebier Takes Berlin (1931)
- THEOTOKIS, Konstantinos: Slaves in their Chains (1922)
- TISNA, Anak Agung Pandji: The Rape of Sukreni (1936)
- TUCHOLSKY, Kurt: Castle Gripsholm (1931)
- TYNYANOV, Yury: The Death of Vazir-Mukhtar (1927)
- UKRAINKA, Lesia: Cassandra (1908)
- UNGARETTI, Giuseppe: Allegria (1919/1931)
- UNO Koji: Love of Mountains (1919/1923)
- VAGINOV, Konstantin: The Works and Days of Svistonov (1929)
- VALLE-INCLÁN, Ramón del: Tyrant Banderas (1926)
- VALLEJO, César: The Complete Poetry (1938)
- VERNE, Jules: The Meteor Hunt (1908)
- VOGEL, David:
- Married Life (1929)
- Viennese Romance (ca. 1930s)
- VŨ Trọng Phụng: Dumb Luck (1936)
- WEISS, Ernst:
- Die Feuerprobe (1923/9)
- Der Gefängnisarzt (1934)
- WERFEL, Franz: Pale Blue Ink in a Lady's Hand (1941)
- WHARTON, Edith: The Custom of the Country (1913)
- WHITE, Patrick:
- Happy Valley (1939)
- The Living and the Dead (1941)
- WITKIEWICZ, Stanislaw Ignacy: Insatiability (1927)
- WRIGHT, Austin Tappan: Islandia (1942)
- WU Zhuoliu: Orphan of Asia (1945)
- XIAO Hong: Ma Bo’le’s Second Life (1941)
- YASHPAL: Divya (1945)
- YI T'aejun: Eastern Sentiments (1941)
- YOM Sang-seop: Three Generations (1931)
- YOURCENAR, Marguerite: Coup de Grâce (1939)
- ZAYDAN, Jurji: Tree of Pearls, Queen of Egypt (1914)
- ŻEROMSKI, Stefan: The Homeless (1900)
- ZHITKOV, Boris: Виктор Вавич (1941)
- ZWEIG, Stefan:
- Confusion (1927)
- Journey into the Past (ca. 1933)
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