Published 1900 onward
Maggie Miller
Read by Celine Major
Mary Jane Holmes
From bestselling and prolific author Mary Jane Holmes, Maggie Miller or Old Hagar's Secret COMES a compelling story of deceit, love, misplac…
The Thirteen Travelers
Read by David Wales
Hugh Walpole
The year is 1919 and peace has sprung upon the world after the unspeakable carnage of World War I. The place is Hortons, a building of expen…
A Lost Lady
Read by Rob Marland
Willa Sibert Cather and Willa Cather
The young Niel Herbert idolizes Marian Forrester, the beautiful and charismatic wife of a pioneering railroad magnate. After discovering Mrs…
Breaking Point
Read by Peter Eastman
James Edwin Gunn
Machines are infallible. Humans are not. The crew of The Ambassador knew their ship could not possibly fail, but what of themselves? And how…
The Emperor of Portugallia
Read by Lars Rolander (1942-2016)
Selma Lagerlöf
Selma Lagerlöf was born in Vaermland, Sweden, in 1858 and enjoyed a long and very successful career as a writer, receiving the Nobel-Pr…
The Getting of Wisdom (Version 2)
Read by Kirsty Leishman
Henry Handel Richardson
Henry Handel Richardson was the pseudonym of Ethel Florence Lindesay Richardson, a writer who was born in 1870 to a reasonably well-off fami…
The Mother's Recompense
Read by Anne Fletcher
Edith Wharton
Kate Cephane, now living in self-imposed exile in France, left her three-year-old daughter Anne behind when she fled her impossibly unhappy …
The Castlecourt Diamond Mystery
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Geraldine Bonner
The famous Castlecourt Diamonds have gone missing and the story surrounding their disappearance is strange indeed. To help sort out th…
The Tale of Triona
Read by Simon Evers
William John Locke
Olivia is a newly orphaned young woman looking for adventure and excitement. She rents out her house to Blaise Olifant whose friend Alexis T…
Liliecrona's Home
Read by Lars Rolander (1942-2016)
Selma Lagerlöf
Liliecrona's Home was published in Sweden 1911, translated into English by Anna Harwell and published in London in 1913. The story is set in…
Fidelity
Read by Arielle Lipshaw
Susan Glaspell
The small Midwestern town of Freeport was scandalized years ago when Ruth Holland, then a young girl, ran away to the West with a married ma…
The Mermaid of Druid Lake and Other Stories
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Charles Weathers Bump
A collection of offbeat stories. Some are a bit out of the ordinary as suggested by the title story about a freshwater mermaid; some are not…
The Third Circle
Read by David Wales
Frank Norris
Sixteen short stories by the American novelist Benjamin Frank Norris Jr (1870-1902) who wrote predominantly in the naturalist genre. He liv…
Maria Chapdelaine (version 2)
Read by Bruce Pirie
Louis Hémon
The novel Maria Chapdelaine portrays life in rural Quebec at the beginning of the 20th century. Published first in French in 1913, it is a f…
Prodigal Daughters
Read by Kate Follis
Joseph Hocking
A frank look at the revolt of the younger generation following World War I, the book follows the Trelawney family. The father looks eagerly …
Thurley Ruxton
Read by Paul Hansen
Philip Verrill Mighels
This is a rags to riches romance about an exceedingly beautiful, poor, young girl (Thurley Ruxton) who is mentored by one of New York’s elit…
The Regeneration of Lord Ernie
Read by Patrick79
Algernon Blackwood
"The Regeneration of Lord Ernie is a story about a young man with no passion for life, he was very capable and the heir to a large fami…
The Dinner Club
Read by Kirsten Wever
Sapper
Herman Cyril McNeile, better known as Sapper, was one of England’s most popular fiction writers during the period between World Wars I and I…
Souls for Sale
Read by Deanna Bovee
Rupert Hughes
Perhaps the most commercially successful Hollywood novel of the 1920s, Rupert Hughes' Souls for Sale is a direct response to contemporaneous…
1916: First Chapters Collection
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Various
These are first chapters to books first published in 1916. Readers, following is a tentative list culled from Wikipedia's article on the yea…