Twisted '20s

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When Paris Sizzled: The 1920s Paris of Hemingway, Chanel, Cocteau, Cole Porter, Josephine Baker, and Their Friends
When Paris Sizzled: The 1920s Paris of Hemingway, Chanel, Cocteau, Cole Porter, Josephine Baker, and Their Friends 3.68 avg rating — 712 ratings
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Bohemian Paris: Picasso, Modigliani, Matisse and the Birth of Modern Art
Bohemian Paris: Picasso, Modigliani, Matisse and the Birth of Modern Art 4.01 avg rating — 1,182 ratings
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The Sisters: The Saga of the Mitford Family
The Sisters: The Saga of the Mitford Family 3.91 avg rating — 13,809 ratings
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Zelda
Zelda 3.82 avg rating — 10,362 ratings
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Brideshead Revisited
Brideshead Revisited really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 123,559 ratings
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Circling the Sun
Circling the Sun 3.94 avg rating — 81,017 ratings
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Flappers: Six Women of a Dangerous Generation
Flappers: Six Women of a Dangerous Generation 3.87 avg rating — 1,582 ratings
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Mademoiselle Chanel
Mademoiselle Chanel 4.10 avg rating — 12,469 ratings
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All the Light We Cannot See
All the Light We Cannot See 4.31 avg rating — 1,904,602 ratings
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A Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition
A Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition 4.02 avg rating — 162,859 ratings
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Hemingway: The Paris Years
Hemingway: The Paris Years 4.15 avg rating — 630 ratings
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Paris Was a Woman: Portraits from the Left Bank
Paris Was a Woman: Portraits from the Left Bank 4.24 avg rating — 344 ratings
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Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption 4.39 avg rating — 989,195 ratings
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Among the Bohemians: Experiments in Living 1900-1939
Among the Bohemians: Experiments in Living 1900-1939 3.85 avg rating — 793 ratings
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The Mitfords: Letters Between Six Sisters
The Mitfords: Letters Between Six Sisters 4.11 avg rating — 3,188 ratings
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Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation: A History of Literary Paris in the Twenties and Thirties
Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation: A History of Literary Paris in the Twenties and Thirties 4.07 avg rating — 982 ratings
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Kiki's Paris: Artists and Lovers 1900-1930
Kiki's Paris: Artists and Lovers 1900-1930 4.30 avg rating — 260 ratings
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The English Patient
The English Patient 3.86 avg rating — 137,382 ratings
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Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin: Writers Running Wild in the Twenties
Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin: Writers Running Wild in the Twenties 3.81 avg rating — 1,442 ratings
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Tender Is the Night
Tender Is the Night 3.77 avg rating — 146,423 ratings
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Everybody Was So Young: Gerald and Sara Murphy: A Lost Generation Love Story
Everybody Was So Young: Gerald and Sara Murphy: A Lost Generation Love Story 4.06 avg rating — 2,561 ratings
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Flapper: A Madcap Story of Sex, Style, Celebrity, and the Women Who Made America Modern
Flapper: A Madcap Story of Sex, Style, Celebrity, and the Women Who Made America Modern 3.84 avg rating — 3,433 ratings
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Everybody Behaves Badly: The True Story Behind Hemingway's Masterpiece the Sun Also Rises
Everybody Behaves Badly: The True Story Behind Hemingway's Masterpiece the Sun Also Rises 3.99 avg rating — 2,750 ratings
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West with the Night
West with the Night 4.15 avg rating — 40,231 ratings
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The Paris Husband: How It Really Was Between Ernest and Hadley Hemingway
The Paris Husband: How It Really Was Between Ernest and Hadley Hemingway 3.58 avg rating — 103 ratings
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The Lives of Beryl Markham
The Lives of Beryl Markham 3.80 avg rating — 220 ratings
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Too Close to the Sun: The Audacious Life and Times of Denys Finch Hatton
Too Close to the Sun: The Audacious Life and Times of Denys Finch Hatton 3.81 avg rating — 927 ratings
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Classic American Crime Fiction of the 1920s
Classic American Crime Fiction of the 1920s 4.02 avg rating — 54 ratings
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The Glass Room
The Glass Room 3.93 avg rating — 12,476 ratings
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The Seine: The River that Made Paris
The Seine: The River that Made Paris 3.91 avg rating — 1,389 ratings
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The Paris Wife
The Paris Wife 3.82 avg rating — 302,768 ratings
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Henry and June: From the Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin
Henry and June: From the Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin 3.93 avg rating — 13,250 ratings
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Dear Scott, Dearest Zelda: The Love Letters of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald
Dear Scott, Dearest Zelda: The Love Letters of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald 4.15 avg rating — 1,999 ratings
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The Book Thief
The Book Thief 4.39 avg rating — 2,802,195 ratings
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Sin in Soft Focus: Pre-Code Hollywood
Sin in Soft Focus: Pre-Code Hollywood 4.24 avg rating — 336 ratings
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Garbo
Garbo 4.02 avg rating — 462 ratings
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Anaïs: The Erotic Life of Anaïs Nin
Anaïs: The Erotic Life of Anaïs Nin 3.90 avg rating — 573 ratings
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Road to Tara: The Life of Margaret Mitchell
Road to Tara: The Life of Margaret Mitchell 3.94 avg rating — 579 ratings
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Max Perkins: Editor of Genius
Max Perkins: Editor of Genius 4.30 avg rating — 2,000 ratings
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Paris, 1919: Six Months that Changed the World
Paris, 1919: Six Months that Changed the World 4.13 avg rating — 14,816 ratings
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Notorious: The Life of Ingrid Bergman
Notorious: The Life of Ingrid Bergman 3.87 avg rating — 490 ratings
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Dreaming with His Eyes Open: A Life of Diego Rivera
Dreaming with His Eyes Open: A Life of Diego Rivera 3.81 avg rating — 101 ratings
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Johann Trollmann and Romani Resistance to the Nazis
Johann Trollmann and Romani Resistance to the Nazis 4.22 avg rating — 23 ratings
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Blood Too Bright: Floyd Dell Remembers Edna St. Vincent Millay
Blood Too Bright: Floyd Dell Remembers Edna St. Vincent Millay 4.47 avg rating — 19 ratings
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The Riviera Set
The Riviera Set 3.90 avg rating — 1,685 ratings
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Cocaine Blues (Phryne Fisher, #1)
Cocaine Blues (Phryne Fisher, #1) 3.84 avg rating — 28,560 ratings
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Passing
Passing 3.92 avg rating — 76,700 ratings
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Paris in the 1920's: With Kiki de Montparnasse
Paris in the 1920's: With Kiki de Montparnasse 4.57 avg rating — 7 ratings
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The Salon of Exiled Artists in California: Salka Viertel took in actors, prominent intellectuals and anonymous people in exile fleeing from Nazism
The Salon of Exiled Artists in California: Salka Viertel took in actors, prominent intellectuals and anonymous people in exile fleeing from Nazism 4.25 avg rating — 12 ratings
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The Portable Harlem Renaissance Reader
The Portable Harlem Renaissance Reader 4.21 avg rating — 430 ratings
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City of Pleasure: Paris Between the Wars
City of Pleasure: Paris Between the Wars 3.85 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Ernest Hemingway: Poems
Ernest Hemingway: Poems it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
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The Girl in the Green Dress
The Girl in the Green Dress 4.38 avg rating — 61 ratings
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Vile Bodies
Vile Bodies 3.72 avg rating — 17,249 ratings
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Women of Montparnasse
Women of Montparnasse 3.43 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Tunes of the Twenties and All That Jazz
Tunes of the Twenties and All That Jazz it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 10 ratings
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A Boy Named Rose
A Boy Named Rose 4.49 avg rating — 2,092 ratings
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Kiki's Memoirs
Kiki's Memoirs 3.94 avg rating — 175 ratings
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Man Ray's Montparnasse
Man Ray's Montparnasse 4.12 avg rating — 67 ratings
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Cartoons of the Roaring Twenties Volume One 1921-1923
Cartoons of the Roaring Twenties Volume One 1921-1923 3.78 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Memoirs of Montparnasse
Memoirs of Montparnasse 3.87 avg rating — 559 ratings
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930 Matchbook Advertising Cuts of the Twenties and Thirties
930 Matchbook Advertising Cuts of the Twenties and Thirties 3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings
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The Nightingale
The Nightingale 4.64 avg rating — 1,894,658 ratings
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Black Atlanta in the Roaring Twenties
Black Atlanta in the Roaring Twenties really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Sylvia's Bookshop: The Story of Paris's Beloved Bookstore and Its Founder (As Told by the Bookstore Itself!)
Sylvia's Bookshop: The Story of Paris's Beloved Bookstore and Its Founder (As Told by the Bookstore Itself!) 3.96 avg rating — 350 ratings
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Daily Life in the United States, 1920-1940: How Americans Lived Through the "Roaring Twenties" and the Great Depression
Daily Life in the United States, 1920-1940: How Americans Lived Through the "Roaring Twenties" and the Great Depression 3.77 avg rating — 341 ratings
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They were so Young
They were so Young 4.12 avg rating — 33 ratings
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The Crazy Years: Paris in the Twenties
The Crazy Years: Paris in the Twenties 3.93 avg rating — 123 ratings
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Travel and Vacation Advertising Cuts from the Twenties and Thirties (Dover Pictorial Archive Series)
Travel and Vacation Advertising Cuts from the Twenties and Thirties (Dover Pictorial Archive Series) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Bohemian Paris: Culture, Politics, and the Boundaries of Bourgeois Life, 1830-1930
Bohemian Paris: Culture, Politics, and the Boundaries of Bourgeois Life, 1830-1930 3.82 avg rating — 104 ratings
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Midnight in Cairo: The Divas of Egypt's Roaring '20s
Midnight in Cairo: The Divas of Egypt's Roaring '20s 3.96 avg rating — 393 ratings
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Walks in Hemingway's Paris: A Guide to Paris for the Literary Traveler
Walks in Hemingway's Paris: A Guide to Paris for the Literary Traveler 3.95 avg rating — 124 ratings
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Ku Klux Kulture: America and the Klan in the 1920s
Ku Klux Kulture: America and the Klan in the 1920s 3.35 avg rating — 26 ratings
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Americans in Paris: Life and Death under Nazi Occupation 1940-1944
Americans in Paris: Life and Death under Nazi Occupation 1940-1944 3.79 avg rating — 1,548 ratings
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Americans in Paris
Americans in Paris 4.31 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Resistance: A French Woman's Journal of the War
Resistance: A French Woman's Journal of the War 4.13 avg rating — 1,498 ratings
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Wild Heart: A Life: Natalie Clifford Barney and the Decadence of Literary Paris
Wild Heart: A Life: Natalie Clifford Barney and the Decadence of Literary Paris 4.11 avg rating — 301 ratings
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The Second Coming of the KKK: The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s and the American Political Tradition
The Second Coming of the KKK: The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s and the American Political Tradition 3.82 avg rating — 1,271 ratings
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Misia: The Life of Misia Sert
Misia: The Life of Misia Sert 4.10 avg rating — 104 ratings
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Wild Girls: Paris, Sappho, and Art: The Lives and Loves of Natalie Barney and Romaine Brooks
Wild Girls: Paris, Sappho, and Art: The Lives and Loves of Natalie Barney and Romaine Brooks 3.71 avg rating — 326 ratings
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Second Coming of the Invisible Empire
Second Coming of the Invisible Empire 3.83 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Charmed Circle: Gertrude Stein and Company
Charmed Circle: Gertrude Stein and Company 3.94 avg rating — 359 ratings
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Black Pearls: Blues Queens of the 1920s
Black Pearls: Blues Queens of the 1920s 3.90 avg rating — 42 ratings
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The Florida Land Boom of the 1920s
The Florida Land Boom of the 1920s 3.67 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Exile's Return: A Literary Odyssey of the 1920s
Exile's Return: A Literary Odyssey of the 1920s 3.96 avg rating — 445 ratings
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The Portable Malcolm Cowley
The Portable Malcolm Cowley 3.67 avg rating — 6 ratings
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The Red Widow: The Scandal that Shook Paris and the Woman Behind it All
The Red Widow: The Scandal that Shook Paris and the Woman Behind it All 3.43 avg rating — 462 ratings
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Paris Was Yesterday, 1925-1939
Paris Was Yesterday, 1925-1939 3.89 avg rating — 378 ratings
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After the Romanovs: Russian Exiles in Paris from the Belle Époque Through Revolution and War
After the Romanovs: Russian Exiles in Paris from the Belle Époque Through Revolution and War 3.76 avg rating — 1,183 ratings
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Henry Miller: The Paris Years
Henry Miller: The Paris Years
by: Brassaï
4.11 avg rating — 405 ratings
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In Montparnasse: The Emergence of Surrealism in Paris, from Duchamp to Dalí
In Montparnasse: The Emergence of Surrealism in Paris, from Duchamp to Dalí
by: Sue Roe
3.67 avg rating — 283 ratings
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Anais Nin's Lost World: Paris in Words and Pictures 1924-1939
Anais Nin's Lost World: Paris in Words and Pictures 1924-1939 3.96 avg rating — 27 ratings
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Cabarets of Death: Death, Dance and Dining in Early Twentieth-Century Paris
Cabarets of Death: Death, Dance and Dining in Early Twentieth-Century Paris 4.26 avg rating — 31 ratings
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Diana Mosley: Mitford Beauty, British Fascist, Hitler's Angel
Diana Mosley: Mitford Beauty, British Fascist, Hitler's Angel 3.96 avg rating — 708 ratings
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Between Me and Life: A Biography of Romaine Brooks
Between Me and Life: A Biography of Romaine Brooks really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 36 ratings
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The Heart: Frida Kahlo in Paris
The Heart: Frida Kahlo in Paris 3.39 avg rating — 722 ratings
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Frida
Frida 3.82 avg rating — 4,303 ratings
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The Amazon and the Page: Natalie Clifford Barney and Renee Vivien
The Amazon and the Page: Natalie Clifford Barney and Renee Vivien
by: Karla Jay
4.07 avg rating — 29 ratings
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Saint-Germain-des-Pres: Paris's Rebel Quarter
Saint-Germain-des-Pres: Paris's Rebel Quarter 3.77 avg rating — 210 ratings
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Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald
Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald 3.86 avg rating — 58,102 ratings
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