🎷 Jazz Age Fiction

Novels steeped in the glamour and moral complexity of the Roaring Twenties, where champagne flows freely but the hangover of modernity is never far behind.

The Beautiful and Damned

by F. Scott Fitzgerald • 1922

Parties, gin, and the long wait for an inheritance hollow out a golden Jazz Age couple.

3.73

66k+

🗽 Jazz Age Novel 💔 Doomed Love 💰 Idle Rich

The Beautiful and Damned 93%

Parties, gin, and the long wait for an inheritance hollow out a golden Jazz Age couple.

by F. Scott Fitzgerald 1922

3.73

66k+ ratings

🗽 Jazz Age Novel 💔 Doomed Love 💰 Idle Rich

This Side of Paradise

by F. Scott Fitzgerald • 1920

Amory falls in love, climbs Princeton's ladder, and learns every rung gives way beneath him.

3.63

81k+

🥀 Lost Generation 🏛️ Campus Novel 🪖 Post World War I

This Side of Paradise 92%

Amory falls in love, climbs Princeton's ladder, and learns every rung gives way beneath him.

by F. Scott Fitzgerald 1920

3.63

81k+ ratings

🥀 Lost Generation 🏛️ Campus Novel 🪖 Post World War I

The Great Gatsby

by F. Scott Fitzgerald • 1925

Gatsby's mansion teemed with strangers. The woman he loved was across the bay, married to another.

3.93

6.0M+

🥂 Roaring Twenties 💔 Obsessive Love 👁️ Unreliable Narrator

The Great Gatsby 91%

Gatsby's mansion teemed with strangers. The woman he loved was across the bay, married to another.

by F. Scott Fitzgerald 1925

3.93

6.0M+ ratings

🥂 Roaring Twenties 💔 Obsessive Love 👁️ Unreliable Narrator

Appointment in Samarra

by John O'Hara • 1934

One drunken insult at the country club: a Cadillac dealer learns his small town never forgets.

3.81

16k+

🏘️ American Small Town 📋 Social Realism 📉 Downward Spiral

Appointment in Samarra 90%

One drunken insult at the country club: a Cadillac dealer learns his small town never forgets.

by John O'Hara 1934

3.81

16k+ ratings

🏘️ American Small Town 📋 Social Realism 📉 Downward Spiral

So Long, See You Tomorrow

by William Maxwell • 1980

An old man revisits a 1920s murder, aching for the boy he failed to face.

3.85

18k+

🏚️ Midwestern Gothic 🔪 Literary Crime 👦 Lost Friendship

So Long, See You Tomorrow 89%

An old man revisits a 1920s murder, aching for the boy he failed to face.

by William Maxwell 1980

3.85

18k+ ratings

🏚️ Midwestern Gothic 🔪 Literary Crime 👦 Lost Friendship

The Manhattan Girls

by Gill Paul • 2022

Four women in jazz age Manhattan fight for careers, love, and a table of their own.

3.69

3k+

🗽 Jazz Age Manhattan 👯 Female Friendship 🖤 Dark Humor

The Manhattan Girls 89%

Four women in jazz age Manhattan fight for careers, love, and a table of their own.

by Gill Paul 2022

3.69

3k+ ratings

🗽 Jazz Age Manhattan 👯 Female Friendship 🖤 Dark Humor

A Fortune of Sand

by Ruta Sepetys • 2026

Inside a Jazz Age arts retreat, a Detroit heiress discovers the mansion is a gilded asylum.

3.63

2k+

🎷 Jazz Age 🖤 Gothic Mystery 🏚️ Decaying Dynasty

A Fortune of Sand 89%

Inside a Jazz Age arts retreat, a Detroit heiress discovers the mansion is a gilded asylum.

by Ruta Sepetys 2026

3.63

2k+ ratings

🎷 Jazz Age 🖤 Gothic Mystery 🏚️ Decaying Dynasty

The Girl in the Green Dress

by Mariah Fredericks • 2025

A reporter in Jazz Age New York stalks a locked-room murder and the girl in green.

3.51

2k+

🎷 Jazz Age Mystery 🔒 Locked Room Mystery 📰 Reporter As Detective

The Girl in the Green Dress 89%

A reporter in Jazz Age New York stalks a locked-room murder and the girl in green.

by Mariah Fredericks 2025

3.51

2k+ ratings

🎷 Jazz Age Mystery 🔒 Locked Room Mystery 📰 Reporter As Detective

Trust

by Hernan Diaz • 2022

A ghostwriter for a Jazz Age financier uncovers the story he paid to keep hidden.

3.80

179k+

📜 Competing Narratives 🖊️ Ghostwriting 🎺 Jazz Age New York

Trust 89%

A ghostwriter for a Jazz Age financier uncovers the story he paid to keep hidden.

by Hernan Diaz 2022

3.80

179k+ ratings

📜 Competing Narratives 🖊️ Ghostwriting 🎺 Jazz Age New York

The Natural

by Bernard Malamud • 1952

A baseball prodigy returns at 34, but a cold woman and a bookie's fix threaten his last shot.

3.61

13k+

🖤 Literary Baseball 🦅 American Myth 💋 Femme Fatale

The Natural 88%

A baseball prodigy returns at 34, but a cold woman and a bookie's fix threaten his last shot.

by Bernard Malamud 1952

3.61

13k+ ratings

🖤 Literary Baseball 🦅 American Myth 💋 Femme Fatale

Martin Eden

by Jack London • 1909

A sailor meets a refined girl and destroys himself trying to become worthy of her love.

4.48

56k+

🔨 Working Class Fiction 🏛️ Gilded Age Fiction 💔 Doomed Ambition

Martin Eden 88%

A sailor meets a refined girl and destroys himself trying to become worthy of her love.

by Jack London 1909

4.48

56k+ ratings

🔨 Working Class Fiction 🏛️ Gilded Age Fiction 💔 Doomed Ambition

The Fountainhead

by Ayn Rand • 1943

An architect who refuses to imitate faces a society determined to crush his vision.

3.89

339k+

🧠 Philosophical Novel 🏛️ Architectural Fiction ⚔️ Genius Vs Society

The Fountainhead 88%

An architect who refuses to imitate faces a society determined to crush his vision.

by Ayn Rand 1943

3.89

339k+ ratings

🧠 Philosophical Novel 🏛️ Architectural Fiction ⚔️ Genius Vs Society

Another Country

by James Baldwin • 1962

When a Black drummer leaps from a bridge, his bohemian circle fractures along the color line.

4.30

35k+

🏙️ Bohemian New York 💔 Interracial Romance 🎭 Artists And Lovers

Another Country 88%

When a Black drummer leaps from a bridge, his bohemian circle fractures along the color line.

by James Baldwin 1962

4.30

35k+ ratings

🏙️ Bohemian New York 💔 Interracial Romance 🎭 Artists And Lovers

The Other Typist

by Suzanne Rindell • 2013

A prim typist's obsession with a glamorous coworker draws her into 1920s New York's underworld.

3.55

19k+

🎭 Unreliable Narrator 🖤 Dangerous Obsession 💋 Femme Fatale

The Other Typist 88%

A prim typist's obsession with a glamorous coworker draws her into 1920s New York's underworld.

by Suzanne Rindell 2013

3.55

19k+ ratings

🎭 Unreliable Narrator 🖤 Dangerous Obsession 💋 Femme Fatale

Scandal in Babylon

by Barbara Hambly • 2021

A British scholar in 1920s Hollywood must find the killer who framed her movie-star sister-in-law.

3.77

469

🎬 Golden Age Hollywood 🕵️ Amateur Sleuth ⚖️ Frame Up Plot

Scandal in Babylon 88%

A British scholar in 1920s Hollywood must find the killer who framed her movie-star sister-in-law.

by Barbara Hambly 2021

3.77

469 ratings

🎬 Golden Age Hollywood 🕵️ Amateur Sleuth ⚖️ Frame Up Plot

Tropic of Cancer

by Henry Miller • 1934

A broke American drifts through Paris, turning hunger, sex, and failure into an ecstatic howl.

3.65

79k+

🧪 Experimental Fiction 🗼 1930s Paris 🎨 Starving Artist

Tropic of Cancer 87%

A broke American drifts through Paris, turning hunger, sex, and failure into an ecstatic howl.

by Henry Miller 1934

3.65

79k+ ratings

🧪 Experimental Fiction 🗼 1930s Paris 🎨 Starving Artist

The Stoic

by Theodore Dreiser • 1947

His empire crumbling, an American financier stakes everything on London and a much younger muse.

4.35

3k+

🏭 Naturalist Fiction 💰 Gilded Age 📈 Social Climbing

The Stoic 87%

His empire crumbling, an American financier stakes everything on London and a much younger muse.

by Theodore Dreiser 1947

4.35

3k+ ratings

🏭 Naturalist Fiction 💰 Gilded Age 📈 Social Climbing

Rules of Civility

by Amor Towles • 2011

A sharp Brooklyn secretary navigates 1938 Manhattan high society after one New Year's encounter.

4.09

273k+

🪜 Social Climbing 💔 Love Triangle 💪 Self-Made Woman

Rules of Civility 87%

A sharp Brooklyn secretary navigates 1938 Manhattan high society after one New Year's encounter.

by Amor Towles 2011

4.09

273k+ ratings

🪜 Social Climbing 💔 Love Triangle 💪 Self-Made Woman

Harlem Rhapsody

by Victoria Christopher Murray • 2025

She built the Harlem Renaissance from the shadows. Her secret lover was its powerful married leader.

4.06

10k+

🎷 Harlem Renaissance 📖 Biographical Fiction 🎺 Jazz Age Harlem

Harlem Rhapsody 87%

She built the Harlem Renaissance from the shadows. Her secret lover was its powerful married leader.

by Victoria Christopher Murray 2025

4.06

10k+ ratings

🎷 Harlem Renaissance 📖 Biographical Fiction 🎺 Jazz Age Harlem

The Razor’s Edge

by W. Somerset Maugham • 1944

A WWI veteran walks away from love and wealth to find what life is for.

4.20

55k+

🧘 Spiritual Quest 🕉️ Eastern Spirituality 🎩 Social Climbing

The Razor’s Edge 87%

A WWI veteran walks away from love and wealth to find what life is for.

by W. Somerset Maugham 1944

4.20

55k+ ratings

🧘 Spiritual Quest 🕉️ Eastern Spirituality 🎩 Social Climbing

The Sun Also Rises

by Ernest Hemingway • 1926

A wounded journalist follows his love to Pamplona, where bullfights mirror their impossible desire.

3.79

499k+

🕰️ Postwar Disillusionment 🗼 Paris Expat Scene 🍸 Dysfunctional Friends

The Sun Also Rises 87%

A wounded journalist follows his love to Pamplona, where bullfights mirror their impossible desire.

by Ernest Hemingway 1926

3.79

499k+ ratings

🕰️ Postwar Disillusionment 🗼 Paris Expat Scene 🍸 Dysfunctional Friends

The Buccaneers

by Edith Wharton • 1938

Snubbed by New York, Nan St George sails to England to hunt a title, whatever the price.

3.85

9k+

🏙️ Gilded Age 🎭 Social Satire 💍 Marriage Of Convenience

The Buccaneers 87%

Snubbed by New York, Nan St George sails to England to hunt a title, whatever the price.

by Edith Wharton 1938

3.85

9k+ ratings

🏙️ Gilded Age 🎭 Social Satire 💍 Marriage Of Convenience

The Cut of the Moon

by Cynthia Ellingsen • 2025

A 1920s heiress witnesses a death and discovers the servants trapped beneath her family's estate.

4.39

2k+

🕰️ Dual Timeline 🎭 Hidden Identity 🔐 Family Secrets

The Cut of the Moon 87%

A 1920s heiress witnesses a death and discovers the servants trapped beneath her family's estate.

by Cynthia Ellingsen 2025

4.39

2k+ ratings

🕰️ Dual Timeline 🎭 Hidden Identity 🔐 Family Secrets

Mr. Bridge

by Evan S. Connell • 1969

A Kansas City attorney orders his family's life with quiet precision, mistaking provision for love.

4.00

3k+

📖 Character Study 🎩 Novel Of Manners 👔 Repressed Patriarch

Mr. Bridge 87%

A Kansas City attorney orders his family's life with quiet precision, mistaking provision for love.

by Evan S. Connell 1969

4.00

3k+ ratings

📖 Character Study 🎩 Novel Of Manners 👔 Repressed Patriarch

On the Shoulders of Giants

by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar • 2007

Jazz, poetry, and the Rens: a basketball legend traces his roots to the Harlem Renaissance.

4.02

309

🎷 Harlem Renaissance 📚 African American History 🎺 Jazz Age Culture

On the Shoulders of Giants 87%

Jazz, poetry, and the Rens: a basketball legend traces his roots to the Harlem Renaissance.

by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar 2007

4.02

309 ratings

🎷 Harlem Renaissance 📚 African American History 🎺 Jazz Age Culture

The Given Day

by Dennis Lehane • 2008

An Irish cop and a Black fugitive collide in the Boston police strike of 1919.

4.08

29k+

📜 Historical Epic ✊ Labor Movement 🔀 Parallel Lives

The Given Day 87%

An Irish cop and a Black fugitive collide in the Boston police strike of 1919.

by Dennis Lehane 2008

4.08

29k+ ratings

📜 Historical Epic ✊ Labor Movement 🔀 Parallel Lives

Ask the Dust

by John Fante • 1939

An impoverished writer in 1930s Los Angeles meets a waitress whose scorn and need mirror his own.

4.10

40k+

🏙️ 1930s Los Angeles 🎨 Starving Artist 💔 Obsessive Love

Ask the Dust 87%

An impoverished writer in 1930s Los Angeles meets a waitress whose scorn and need mirror his own.

by John Fante 1939

4.10

40k+ ratings

🏙️ 1930s Los Angeles 🎨 Starving Artist 💔 Obsessive Love

The Custom of the Country

by Edith Wharton • 1913

A small-town beauty carries herself into old New York, where acceptance only sharpens her appetite.

4.07

16k+

🎭 Novel Of Manners 🥂 Gilded Age New York 🏙️ Social Climber

The Custom of the Country 87%

A small-town beauty carries herself into old New York, where acceptance only sharpens her appetite.

by Edith Wharton 1913

4.07

16k+ ratings

🎭 Novel Of Manners 🥂 Gilded Age New York 🏙️ Social Climber

by Thomas Pynchon • 1963

One man chases a woman who keeps appearing across history, each time less human than before.

3.97

26k+

🔍 Conspiracy Quest 🎭 Identity As Performance 🧿 Object Fetishism

V. 87%

One man chases a woman who keeps appearing across history, each time less human than before.

by Thomas Pynchon 1963

3.97

26k+ ratings

🔍 Conspiracy Quest 🎭 Identity As Performance 🧿 Object Fetishism

Big Sur

by Jack Kerouac • 1962

A writer escapes his celebrity to a Big Sur cabin, where solitude unravels into madness.

3.83

38k+

🥁 Beat Generation 📖 Autofiction 🎨 Tortured Artist

Big Sur 87%

A writer escapes his celebrity to a Big Sur cabin, where solitude unravels into madness.

by Jack Kerouac 1962

3.83

38k+ ratings

🥁 Beat Generation 📖 Autofiction 🎨 Tortured Artist

Ragtime

by E.L. Doctorow • 1975

A wealthy family shelters a black woman, then faces her lover's armed fight for dignity.

3.90

47k+

🎭 Multiple Perspectives 🌟 Historical Cameos ⚖️ Racial Injustice

Ragtime 87%

A wealthy family shelters a black woman, then faces her lover's armed fight for dignity.

by E.L. Doctorow 1975

3.90

47k+ ratings

🎭 Multiple Perspectives 🌟 Historical Cameos ⚖️ Racial Injustice

City of Girls

by Elizabeth Gilbert • 2019

Expelled from college, a seamstress discovers glamour and peril in her aunt's 1940s theater.

4.04

324k+

🗽 1940s New York 🎭 Theater World ✨ Showgirl Glamour

City of Girls 87%

Expelled from college, a seamstress discovers glamour and peril in her aunt's 1940s theater.

by Elizabeth Gilbert 2019

4.04

324k+ ratings

🗽 1940s New York 🎭 Theater World ✨ Showgirl Glamour

The Moviegoer by Walker Percy

by Walker Percy • 1961

A New Orleans stockbroker drifts through pleasure and routine, searching for a life that feels true.

3.64

31k+

🎭 Southern Gothic 🤔 Existential Novel 🎬 Disaffected Narrator

The Moviegoer by Walker Percy 87%

A New Orleans stockbroker drifts through pleasure and routine, searching for a life that feels true.

by Walker Percy 1961

3.64

31k+ ratings

🎭 Southern Gothic 🤔 Existential Novel 🎬 Disaffected Narrator

Josephine Baker

by Jean-Claude Baker • 1993

Paris star, French spy, mother of twelve. Her adopted son uncovers the bill for her utopias.

3.78

351

🎷 Jazz Age Paris 🌍 Black Expatriates 🪖 French Resistance

Josephine Baker 87%

Paris star, French spy, mother of twelve. Her adopted son uncovers the bill for her utopias.

by Jean-Claude Baker 1993

3.78

351 ratings

🎷 Jazz Age Paris 🌍 Black Expatriates 🪖 French Resistance

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

by Michael Chabon • 2000

Jewish cousins in 1939 Brooklyn invent a superhero who fights the evil they can only draw.

4.19

214k+

🌟 Golden Age Comics 🏳️‍🌈 Closeted Gay Protagonist 🎨 Refugee Artist

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay Summary

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay 87%

Jewish cousins in 1939 Brooklyn invent a superhero who fights the evil they can only draw.

by Michael Chabon 2000

4.19

214k+ ratings

🌟 Golden Age Comics 🏳️‍🌈 Closeted Gay Protagonist 🎨 Refugee Artist

Nine Stories

by J.D. Salinger • 1948

Nine stories: children see what adults miss, the wounded self-destruct, and grace arrives uninvited.

4.18

150k+

🪖 Post-War Fiction 📝 American Short Stories 🧒 Childhood Innocence

Nine Stories 87%

Nine stories: children see what adults miss, the wounded self-destruct, and grace arrives uninvited.

by J.D. Salinger 1948

4.18

150k+ ratings

🪖 Post-War Fiction 📝 American Short Stories 🧒 Childhood Innocence

On the Road

by Jack Kerouac • 1957

A writer chases America with a drifter whose wild joy devours everyone close to him.

3.61

452k+

🎒 Beat Generation 🛣️ Road Novel 🌪️ Charismatic Drifter

On the Road 86%

A writer chases America with a drifter whose wild joy devours everyone close to him.

by Jack Kerouac 1957

3.61

452k+ ratings

🎒 Beat Generation 🛣️ Road Novel 🌪️ Charismatic Drifter

Cold Sassy Tree

by Olive Ann Burns • 1984

A Georgia patriarch's hasty remarriage scandalizes the town, forcing his grandson to grow up fast.

4.02

106k+

⏳ Early 1900s 🍑 Georgia Fiction 📖 Adolescent Narrator

Cold Sassy Tree 86%

A Georgia patriarch's hasty remarriage scandalizes the town, forcing his grandson to grow up fast.

by Olive Ann Burns 1984

4.02

106k+ ratings

⏳ Early 1900s 🍑 Georgia Fiction 📖 Adolescent Narrator

Speedboat

by Renata Adler • 1976

A reporter drifts through parties, lovers, and city chaos, searching for whatever might hold weight.

3.75

8k+

🌀 Postmodern Fiction 🧩 Fragmented Narrative 🏙️ Urban Dislocation

Speedboat 86%

A reporter drifts through parties, lovers, and city chaos, searching for whatever might hold weight.

by Renata Adler 1976

3.75

8k+ ratings

🌀 Postmodern Fiction 🧩 Fragmented Narrative 🏙️ Urban Dislocation

How to Listen to Jazz

by Ted Gioia • 2016

You don't need music theory. Catch swing, blue notes, and the personality inside every jazz solo.

4.07

3k+

🎷 Jazz Appreciation 📜 Jazz History 👂 Ear Training

How to Listen to Jazz 86%

You don't need music theory. Catch swing, blue notes, and the personality inside every jazz solo.

by Ted Gioia 2016

4.07

3k+ ratings

🎷 Jazz Appreciation 📜 Jazz History 👂 Ear Training

A Moveable Feast

by Ernest Hemingway • 1964

Cafés as offices, hunger as discipline, and the 1920s Paris friends who become legends.

4.02

169k+

🖋️ Literary Memoir 🗼 1920s Paris 🇺🇸 American Expatriates

A Moveable Feast 86%

Cafés as offices, hunger as discipline, and the 1920s Paris friends who become legends.

by Ernest Hemingway 1964

4.02

169k+ ratings

🖋️ Literary Memoir 🗼 1920s Paris 🇺🇸 American Expatriates

The Flamethrowers

by Rachel Kushner • 2013

A motorcyclist turns speed into art, then follows her Italian lover into his family's violent world.

3.51

25k+

🎨 1970s Art World 💫 Artist And Muse 💰 Old Money Family

The Flamethrowers 86%

A motorcyclist turns speed into art, then follows her Italian lover into his family's violent world.

by Rachel Kushner 2013

3.51

25k+ ratings

🎨 1970s Art World 💫 Artist And Muse 💰 Old Money Family

Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

by August Wilson • 1984

A 1927 recording pits Ma Rainey against her ambitious trumpeter, white producers holding the keys.

4.00

4k+

🎷 Jazz Age 🎵 Blues Music 🎙️ Recording Studio

Ma Rainey's Black Bottom 86%

A 1927 recording pits Ma Rainey against her ambitious trumpeter, white producers holding the keys.

by August Wilson 1984

4.00

4k+ ratings

🎷 Jazz Age 🎵 Blues Music 🎙️ Recording Studio

Papa Hemingway

by A.E. Hotchner • 1955

From Paris to Cuba, a trusted friend documents the fourteen-year unmaking of a literary giant.

4.20

3k+

🖋️ Literary Biography 🥂 Lost Generation ✍️ Writing Craft

Papa Hemingway 86%

From Paris to Cuba, a trusted friend documents the fourteen-year unmaking of a literary giant.

by A.E. Hotchner 1955

4.20

3k+ ratings

🖋️ Literary Biography 🥂 Lost Generation ✍️ Writing Craft

The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas

by Gertrude Stein • 1933

Alice Toklas meets Gertrude Stein in 1907 Paris, entering the salon where modern art was born.

3.54

14k+

📖 Experimental Memoir 🎨 Literary Modernism 🛋️ Salon Culture

The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas Summary

The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas 86%

Alice Toklas meets Gertrude Stein in 1907 Paris, entering the salon where modern art was born.

by Gertrude Stein 1933

3.54

14k+ ratings

📖 Experimental Memoir 🎨 Literary Modernism 🛋️ Salon Culture

Mansion Beach

by Meg Mitchell Moore • 2025

Block Island: an ex-lawyer meets a mysterious mogul whose lavish parties conceal a ruinous longing.

3.40

11k+

🥂 Gatsby Retelling 💰 Old Money Vs New Money 💔 Love Triangle

Mansion Beach 86%

Block Island: an ex-lawyer meets a mysterious mogul whose lavish parties conceal a ruinous longing.

by Meg Mitchell Moore 2025

3.40

11k+ ratings

🥂 Gatsby Retelling 💰 Old Money Vs New Money 💔 Love Triangle

Hang the Moon

by Jeannette Walls • 2023

Banished as a child, a bootlegger's daughter returns to claim his empire from a pious half-sister.

3.81

84k+

🥃 Prohibition Era 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Family Saga 🏠 Prodigal Daughter

Hang the Moon 86%

Banished as a child, a bootlegger's daughter returns to claim his empire from a pious half-sister.

by Jeannette Walls 2023

3.81

84k+ ratings

🥃 Prohibition Era 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Family Saga 🏠 Prodigal Daughter

There's Only One Sin in Hollywood

by Rasheed Newson • 2026

A Black fixer in 1950s Hollywood falls for a rising star, risking the studio's deadliest secrets.

4.07

609

🎬 Golden Age Hollywood 🎥 Behind The Scenes 💔 Forbidden Love

There's Only One Sin in Hollywood Summary

There's Only One Sin in Hollywood 86%

A Black fixer in 1950s Hollywood falls for a rising star, risking the studio's deadliest secrets.

by Rasheed Newson 2026

4.07

609 ratings

🎬 Golden Age Hollywood 🎥 Behind The Scenes 💔 Forbidden Love

Montauk

by Max Frisch • 1975

At Montauk with a young woman, an aging writer confronts every life he failed to live.

3.82

3k+

🖋️ Autobiographical Novel 💔 Age Gap Relationship ⏳ Brief Encounter

Montauk 86%

At Montauk with a young woman, an aging writer confronts every life he failed to live.

by Max Frisch 1975

3.82

3k+ ratings

🖋️ Autobiographical Novel 💔 Age Gap Relationship ⏳ Brief Encounter

The House of Mirth

by Edith Wharton • 1905

Penniless and nearly thirty in Gilded Age New York, Lily Bart's social currency is expiring.

3.98

107k+

🎭 Tragedy Of Manners 💍 Marriage Market 📉 Social Downfall

The House of Mirth 86%

Penniless and nearly thirty in Gilded Age New York, Lily Bart's social currency is expiring.

by Edith Wharton 1905

3.98

107k+ ratings

🎭 Tragedy Of Manners 💍 Marriage Market 📉 Social Downfall

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