1922
25 livros · década de 1920 · século XX
- Babbitt EnglishYou watch George F. Babbitt sell himself on Zenith’s booster slogans, country-club rituals, and respectable opinions, while a nagging sense of emptiness keeps breaking through. The satire is sharp and often funny, but its sympathy for his small rebellions makes the book sadder, and more human, than you expect.
- Captain Blood EnglishPeter Blood is a doctor shipped off as a slave for treating the wrong patient, and watching him out-think everyone who wronged him is pure fun. Swordfights, sea battles, dry wit, and a stubborn romance with Arabella Bishop.
- Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler EnglishPulpy in the best sense: Mabuse hypnotizes men at the card table and drains Weimar Berlin like a tick, while poor state attorney Wenk scrambles after him through séances and gambling dens. Feverish, lurid, sometimes clunky, but if inflation-era decadence and master criminals appeal, you'll have fun.
- Golf Stories EnglishThe Oldest Member corners some poor soul on the clubhouse terrace and off he goes, spinning tales of lovers whose fates hinge entirely on their handicaps. You don't need to play golf, you just need to enjoy watching Wodehouse treat a missed putt like a Greek tragedy.
- Jacob’s Room EnglishYou meet Jacob mostly through other people, rooms, glimpses, and the oddly charged things he leaves behind, so the novel can feel elusive rather than conventionally plotted. If you enjoy Woolf’s fractured, observant way of making absence feel present, its quiet strangeness stays with you.
- Kai Lung’s Golden Hours EnglishYou’ll enjoy the ornate, sly storytelling, especially the way Kai Lung keeps postponing his punishment by spinning tales for an increasingly impatient official. The mock-Chinese diction takes a little settling into, but once its dry proverbs and elaborate politeness click, the book becomes wonderfully strange and quietly funny.
- Lady Into Fox EnglishA quiet, strange little fable: a man's wife turns into a fox one afternoon, no explanation given, and he keeps trying to love her as she grows wilder. Told completely straight-faced, which somehow makes it sadder.
- On a Chinese Screen EnglishYou read this as a string of sharp, compact encounters rather than a conventional travel book: river journeys, shabby hotels, missionaries, officials, and Chinese strangers pass before Maugham’s amused eye. It’s observant and often funny, though its colonial assumptions can make the distance uncomfortable.
- One of Ours EnglishClaude Wheeler will get under your skin, a farm kid who senses his life is wrong-sized for him and can't say why, even to his wife. It moves slowly through Nebraska before the war changes everything, and Cather makes that restlessness ache in a way that lingers.
- Poetry EnglishYou get Prufrock measuring out life in coffee spoons, the yellow fog, the shored fragments of The Waste Land. Difficult, yes, and worth the difficulty; read aloud, these poems lodge in the ear for good.
- Seven Pillars of Wisdom não ficção EnglishLawrence writes like a man at war with himself as much as the Turks, so between the camel marches and railway demolitions you get this raw, uncomfortable self-scrutiny that most war memoirs never risk. It's long and the prose is ornate, but characters like old Auda repay the patience.
- Siddhartha EnglishYou'll like how Siddhartha refuses easy answers, even walking away from the Buddha himself because secondhand wisdom won't do. It's quiet and slow, more river than plot, and the old ferryman Vasudeva might stay with you for years.
- Tarzan and the Golden Lion EnglishBy this point Burroughs is just having fun, and it's contagious: Tarzan raises a lion cub into a loyal killer, a con man impersonates him, and there's a lost city run by gorillas. Pure pulp, cheerfully implausible, best read fast on a lazy afternoon.
- The Absolute at Large EnglishYou watch engineer Marek’s “karburator” turn cheap energy into a worldwide outbreak of religious ecstasy, while industrialists, politicians, and armies try to profit from it. Čapek keeps the satire brisk and wonderfully odd, though the episodic middle wanders; you read it for its sharp mix of technology, faith, and bureaucracy.
- The Beautiful and Damned EnglishAnthony and Gloria are gorgeous, lazy, and quietly rotting while they wait for his grandfather's money, and Fitzgerald makes you watch every gin-soaked afternoon of it. Slower and meaner than Gatsby, but if you like beautiful sentences about people ruining themselves, it lingers.
- The Black Gang English
- The Chessmen of Mars EnglishYou’re in for Barsoom at its strangest: Tara of Helium, separated from everyone she knows, stumbles into the unnerving world of Ghek and the Kaldanes, then into the living game-board of Jetan. It’s episodic and gloriously odd, with enough grotesque invention to reward readers who like Burroughs off balance.
- The Crimson Circle EnglishIf you're in the mood for pure between-the-wars pulp, this moves fast: a blackmail syndicate killing off rich men, a showy psychic detective, and dumpy Inspector Parr, whom everyone underestimates. Thalia Drummond alone, apparently crooked and never quite readable, makes the guessing game worth it.
- The Enormous Room EnglishYou settle into Cummings’s strange, funny memoir of imprisonment, where fellow detainees become vividly peculiar personalities and bureaucratic French absurdity keeps rubbing against real fear. The prose is playful and unruly, so you enjoy it most when you’re willing to wander rather than look for a tidy war story.
- The Red House Mystery EnglishYes, the Winnie-the-Pooh man wrote a detective story, and it's exactly as good-humored as you'd hope: Antony Gillingham solving a country-house shooting mostly for fun, with his friend Bill playing Watson between rounds of billiards. Light and talky rather than dark, perfect rainy-afternoon stuff.
- The Secret Adversary EnglishTommy and Tuppence are broke in postwar London, so they literally advertise themselves as adventurers for hire, and the banter between them carries the whole thing. It's a breezy spy caper, not a tidy puzzle like Poirot, so read it when you want fun over rigor.
- You get more of Sir Percy Blakeney’s deliciously ridiculous foppish mask, ingenious disguises, and the League’s breathless rescues, with Marguerite bringing sharper intelligence than the melodrama sometimes gives her credit for. It’s pulpy and theatrical rather than subtle, but if you enjoy daring escapes and aristocratic villains getting outsmarted, it goes down easily.
- The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle EnglishYou settle into a wonderfully odd sea adventure narrated by Tommy Stubbins, where Doctor Dolittle treats animals as serious patients and Polynesia routinely outsmarts the humans. It meanders through encounters and tall tales, but the mix of practical kindness, animal conversation, and old-fashioned strangeness stays genuinely charming.
- The Worm Ouroboros EnglishYou read this for the grand, old-fashioned music of Eddison’s prose, and for Lord Juss and his brothers facing Witchland with more courage than common sense. It’s ornate, episodic, and sometimes gloriously overblown, so you’ll want patience, but its feuds, feasts, duels, and fierce friendships linger.
- The Worst Journey in the World EnglishCherry-Garrard hauled sledges through the Antarctic winter dark at seventy below to collect penguin eggs, and writes about it with dry wit and real grief. It's long and it lingers on details, but if you like endurance stories told by an actual survivor, few compare.