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Top 10 Best 1920s Historical Fiction : The Chaperone, Bright Young Things, Sirens, The Lucky Ones, Beautiful Days, Dollface: A Novel of the Roaring Twenties, The Woman in the Photograph, Man in the Blue Moon, The Boy Who Granted Dreams, An Inquiry Into Love and Death

The Chaperone
AuthorLaura Moriarty
ISBN1594487014
The Chaperone is  a captivating novel about the woman who chaperoned an irreverent Louise Brooks to New York City in 1922 and the summer that would change them both.
 
Only a few years before becoming a famous silent-film star and an icon of her generation, a fifteen-year-old Louise Brooks...
Bright Young Things
AuthorAnna Godbersen
The year is 1929. New York is ruled by the Bright Young Things: Flappers and socialites seeking thrills and chasing dreams in the anything-goes era of the Roaring Twenties.

Letty Larkspur and Cordelia Grey escaped their small Midwestern town for New York's glittering metropolis. All Letty...
Sirens
AuthorJanet Fox
ISBN0142424307
When Jo Winter’s parents send her off to live with her rich cousin on the glittering island of Manhattan, it’s to find a husband and forget about her brother Teddy’s death. But all that glitters is not gold..

Caught up in the swirl of her cousin’s bobbed-hair set—and the men that court...
The Lucky Ones
AuthorAnna Godbersen
ISBN0061962708
In 1929, the Bright Young Things escape Manhattan's heat for the lush lawns and sparkling bays of White Cove, looking for leisure, love, and luck.

New York City's latest It Girl, Cordelia Grey, is flying high with celebrity pilot Max Darby. But Max is a private person with a reputation to uphold—and...
Beautiful Days
AuthorAnna Godbersen
ISBN0061962686
For the bright young things of 1929, the beautiful days seem endless, filled with romance and heartbreak, adventure and intrigue, friendship and rivalry.

After a month in New York, Cordelia Grey and Letty Larkspur are small-town girls no longer. They spend their afternoons with Astrid Donal...
Dollface: A Novel of the Roaring Twenties
AuthorRenee Rosen
ISBN0451419200
America in the 1920s was a country alive with the wild fun of jazz, speakeasies, and a new kind of woman—the flapper.

Vera Abramowitz is determined to leave her gritty childhood behind and live a more exciting life, one that her mother never dreamed of. Bobbing her hair and showing her knees,...
The Woman in the Photograph
AuthorDana Gynther
ISBN1476731950
Set in the romantic glow of 1920s Paris, a captivating novel of New York socialite and model Lee Miller, whose glamorous looks and joie de vivre caught the eye of Man Ray, one of the twentieth century's defining photographers.

1929, Montparnasse. Model and woman about town Lee Miller moves...
Man in the Blue Moon
AuthorMichael Morris
"He's a gambler at best. A con artist at worst," her aunt had said of the handlebar-mustached man who snatched Ella Wallace away from her dreams of studying art in France. Eighteen years later, that man has disappeared, leaving Ella alone and struggling to support her three sons. While the world is embroiled...
The Boy Who Granted Dreams
AuthorLuca Di Fulvio
1909. Ellis Island. Arriving off one of the many transatlantic freighters are Cetta Luminita and her illegitimate baby boy Natale, fleeing the poverty and violence of their Southern Italian hometown. Having sacrificed everything, and endured every possible shame, Cetta has but one wish: that her...
An Inquiry Into Love and Death
AuthorSimone St. James
ISBN0451239253
After her ghost-hunting uncle Toby dies, Oxford student Jillian must drive to the seaside village of Rothewell to pack up his belongings. Almost immediately, terrifying events convince Jillian that an angry spirit is trying to enter the house. Is it Walking John, the two-hundred-year-old ghost...
The Paying Guests
AuthorSarah Waters
ISBN1594633118
It is 1922, and London is tense. Ex-servicemen are disillusioned; the out-of-work and the hungry are demanding change. And in South London, in a genteel Camberwell villa—a large, silent house now bereft of brothers, husband, and even servants—life is about to be transformed, as impoverished...
The Seamstress of Hollywood Boulevard
AuthorErin McGraw
ISBN0618386289
“I couldn’t cook but I could sew. It would have been better the other way around.” So begins this witty and transporting new novel by the acclaimed Erin McGraw, introducing us to Nell Plat, who, at age seventeen, finds herself unhappily married and the mother of two baby girls. For a young woman...
The Ashford Affair
AuthorLauren Willig
ISBN1250014492
New York Times bestselling author Lauren Willig "spins a web of lust, power and loss" (Kate Alcott) that is by turns epic and intimate, transporting and page-turning 

As a lawyer in a large Manhattan firm, just shy of making partner, Clementine Evans has finally achieved almost everything...
The Ambassador's Daughter
AuthorPam Jenoff
ISBN0778315096
Paris, 1919.

The world's leaders have gathered to rebuild from the ashes of the Great War. But for one woman, the City of Light harbors dark secrets and dangerous liaisons, for which many could pay dearly.

Brought to the peace conference by her father, a German diplomat, Margot Rosenthal...
A Spear of Summer Grass
AuthorDeanna Raybourn
ISBN0778314391
Paris, 1923 

The daughter of a scandalous mother, Delilah Drummond is already notorious, even amongst Paris society. But her latest scandal is big enough to make even her oft-married mother blanch. Delilah is exiled to Kenya and her favorite stepfather's savannah manor house until gossip...
Glorious
AuthorBernice L. McFadden
ISBN1936070111
Glorious is set against the backdrops of the Jim Crow South, the Harlem Renaissance, and the civil rights era. Blending the truth of American history with the fruits of Bernice L. McFadden’s rich imagination, this is the story of Easter Venetta Bartlett, a fictional Harlem Renaissance writer whose...
The Master Butchers Singing Club
AuthorLouise Erdrich
ISBN0060837055
From National Book Award-winning, New York Times-bestselling author Louise Erdrich, a profound and enchanting new novel: a richly imagined world “where butchers sing like angels.”

Having survived World War I, Fidelis Waldvogel returns to his quiet German village and marries the...
Debutantes
AuthorCora Harrison
ISBN1447205944
The first in a series of historical romances set in the roaring 1920s, perfect for Downton Abbey fans

It's 1923 and London is a whirl of jazz, dancing, and parties. Violet, Daisy, Poppy, and Rose Derrington are desperate to be part of it, but stuck in an enormous crumbling house in the country,...
Debutantes in Love
AuthorCora Harrison
ISBN1447205952
Bright lights, dark secrets and first love in the second book in this gorgeous series.

It’s 1924. Leaving their beloved Beech Grove Manor to go to London for the season, Poppy and Daisy Derrington know that they must shine as debutantes.

Since a girl cannot inherit her father's estate,...
The Old Jest
AuthorJennifer Johnston
ISBN0140106987
4★
This begins as a light-hearted, affectionate look at a young girl growing up in Ireland in 1920, after the end of WW1, but her childish, secret adventure turns serious and shows the dark divisions in Ireland.

Nancy was orphaned very young and has been raised in a friendly, loving household...
That Summer
AuthorLauren Willig
ISBN1250014506
2009: When Julia Conley hears that she has inherited a house outside London from an unknown great-aunt, she assumes it's a joke. She hasn't been back to England since the car crash that killed her mother when she was six, an event she remembers only in her nightmares. But when she arrives at Herne Hill to...
The Ballad of Black Tom
AuthorVictor LaValle
ISBN0765387867
People move to New York looking for magic and nothing will convince them it isn't there.

Charles Thomas Tester hustles to put food on the table, keep the roof over his father's head, from Harlem to Flushing Meadows to Red Hook. He knows what magic a suit can cast, the invisibility a guitar case...
We Shook the Family Tree
AuthorHildegarde Dolson
I talk at school assemblies about my fifth grade teacher, who had a shelf of books in our classroom that were either wildly unappealing (being about babysitters or dying horses), or wildly inappropriate (adult medical thrillers or romance novels). But she had THE HERO AND THE CROWN, which is how I discovered...
The Golem's Mighty Swing
AuthorJames Sturm
ISBN1896597718
James Sturm pens this richly evocative graphic novel set in the 1920s. The Stars of David, a barnstorming Jewish baseball team, travel from town to town earning a living by playing local squads. They all sport beards, a gimmick to attract patrons but when financial difficulties threaten to end their...
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