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Oldest Books

Below is a list of best books from the oldest to the newest.

The Velveteen Rabbit
by Margery Williams
Age: 0+
Year: 1922
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Siddhartha
by Hermann Hesse
Age: 13+
Year: 1922
Pages: 152
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Ulysses
by James Joyce
Age: 18+
Year: 1922
Pages: 732
Word count: 265,000
The Prophet
by Kahlil Gibran
Age: 16+
Year: 1923
Pages: 96
Word count: 12,305
Sales (millions): 11
The Boxcar Children
by Gertrude Chandler Warner
Age: 7+
Year: 1924
A Passage to India
by E. M. Forster
Age: 0+
Year: 1924
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The Mark of Zorro
by Johnston McCulley
Age: 9+
Year: 1924
Pages: 311
Word count: 67,341
Sales (millions): 50
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by Yevgeny Zamyatin
Age: 16+
Year: 1924
Pages: 221
Word count: 68,510
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The Magic Mountain
by Thomas Mann
Age: 0+
Year: 1924
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Mrs. Dalloway
by Virginia Woolf
Age: 0+
Year: 1925
Pages: 216
Word count: 63,422
The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Age: 14+
Year: 1925
Word count: 47,094
Sales (millions): 25
The Trial
by Franz Kafka
Age: 0+
Year: 1925
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The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
by Agatha Christie
Age: 0+
Year: 1926
Pages: 312
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Winnie-the-Pooh
by A.A. Milne
Age: 5+
Year: 1926
Pages: 176
Word count: 22,671
The Sun Also Rises
by Ernest Hemingway
Age: 14+
Year: 1926
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The Complete Sherlock Holmes
by Arthur Conan Doyle
Age: 14+
Year: 1927
Word count: 111,922
Sales (millions): 60
To the Lighthouse
by Virginia Woolf
Age: 0+
Year: 1927
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Steppenwolf
by Hermann Hesse
Age: 0+
Year: 1927
Pages: 237
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Orlando
by Virginia Woolf
Age: 0+
Year: 1928
Pages: 134
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The House at Pooh Corner
by A.A. Milne
Age: 8+
Year: 1928
Pages: 180
Word count: 26,626

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Classic Children Books
Classic School Age Children Books
Classic Books for Teenagers
Classic Children Books by Age
Best-selling Books of All Time
The Benefits of Reading for Kids
Why Learn English Language?
Shortest Books
Shortest Books (unique words)
Longest Books
Best way to learn English
How NOT to Learn English!
CVC Words
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See also:
Classic Children Books
Classic School Age Children Books
Classic Books for Teenagers
Classic Children Books by Age
Best-selling Books of All Time
The Benefits of Reading for Kids
Why Learn English Language?
Shortest Books
Shortest Books (unique words)
Longest Books
Best way to learn English
How NOT to Learn English!
CVC Words
What you need to know to learn a new language?
Why I forget what I learned?
Vocabulary Size
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