Books of the 1920s: Free EPUB Editions

The 1920s is the decade of the modern novel and the golden age of detective fiction. Ulysses, The Great Gatsby and To the Lighthouse were all published between 1922 and 1927, and Agatha Christie published seven books in the same span.

It is also the decade when children’s fantasy produced Winnie-the-Pooh and The Blue Castle, and when Kafka’s The Trial appeared after his death. Everything below was first published between 1920 and 1929 and is available on editions.ink in EPUB, AZW3 and KEPUB.

Books first published in the 1920s

Ordered by year of first publication. The list is generated from the book pages, so new releases land here automatically.

Year	Title	Words	Reading time
1920	The Age of Innocence — Edith Wharton	101,386	~7 h
1920	The Mysterious Affair at Styles — Agatha Christie	59,580	~4 h
1922	Myths and Legends of China — E. T. C. Werner	135,969	~9 h
1922	Siddhartha — Hermann Hesse	42,192	~3 h
1922	The Enchanted April — Elizabeth von Arnim	78,345	~5 h
1922	The Garden Party and Other Stories — Katherine Mansfield	57,226	~4 h
1922	The Secret Adversary — Agatha Christie	78,347	~5 h
1922	Ulysses — James Joyce	261,433	~17 h
1923	The Murder on the Links — Agatha Christie	64,793	~4 h
1923	The Prophet — Kahlil Gibran	12,447	~1 h
1924	The House of the Arrow — A. E. W. Mason	95,071	~6 h
1924	The Man in the Brown Suit — Agatha Christie	75,020	~5 h
1925	Mrs. Dalloway — Virginia Woolf	64,032	~4 h
1925	The Great Gatsby — F. Scott Fitzgerald	48,257	~3 h
1925	The Secret of Chimneys — Agatha Christie	72,945	~5 h
1925	The Trial — Franz Kafka	86,874	~6 h
1926	The Blue Castle — L. M. Montgomery	68,744	~5 h
1926	The Murder of Roger Ackroyd — Agatha Christie	70,248	~5 h
1926	Winnie-the-Pooh — A. A. Milne	21,382	~1 h
1927	The Big Four — Agatha Christie	55,601	~4 h
1928	The Mystery of the Blue Train — Agatha Christie	70,132	~5 h
1929	The Seven Dials Mystery — Agatha Christie	65,307	~4 h

Questions readers ask

How many books on editions.ink are from the 1920s?

22 titles, about 1,685,331 words, roughly 112 hours of reading.

What should I read first from this decade?

The Prophet (1923) is the shortest at about 0.7 hours; Ulysses (1922) is the longest at roughly 14.5 hours.

How are the dates chosen?

By first publication of the work in book form; the book pages give the exact edition and source used.

Can I read these on a Kindle or Kobo?

Yes: EPUB for most readers, AZW3 for older Kindles and KEPUB for Kobo devices, all direct downloads.

Part of the complete list of books by decade, with the word count and reading time table and the author index.