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Vote for MobileRead's best fiction book of 1921-1930
This is the third voting thread for choosing MobileRead's ten best fiction books of the 20th Century. This thread covers 1921-1930.

VOTING IS NOW OPEN! Voting totals will be hidden until the poll ends (so that no-one is influenced by previously recorded votes), and voting will be anonymous.

You are, of course, welcome to make your choice known in the discussion thread associated with this poll.

The nominations and nominators are:
  1. 1922 Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse (1877-1962) Gutenberg German, amaxo, Amazon UK English(frddgls)
  2. 1922 Ulysses by James Joyce (1882-1941) Gutenberg (sun surfer)
  3. 1924 A Passage to India by Edward Morgan Forster (1879-1970) Amazon UK (BelleZora)
  4. 1925 The Great Gatsby by Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (1896-1940) Amazon US, mobi (issybird)
  5. 1925 Der Process/The Trial by Franz Kafka (1883-1924) Amazon US, mobi (HomeInMyShoes)
  6. 1925 An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945) No ebook found (spellbanisher)
  7. 1925 Wild Geese by Martha Ostenso (1900-1963) No ebook found (ccowie)
  8. 1925 Carry on Jeeves by Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse (1881-1975) Amazon UK (Bilbo1967)
  9. 1926 The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie (1890-1976) Amazon UK (treadlightly)
  10. 1926 Winnie-the-Pooh by Alan Alexander Milne (1882-1956) Amazon UK (gmw)
  11. 1927 The Treasure of the Sierra Madre by ?B. Traven? (?1882-?1969) No ebook found (knuthmeyer)
  12. 1927 Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse (1877-1962) Amazon UK English(everlod)
  13. 1927 Мы: Роман/We: A Novel by Yevgeny Zamyatin (1884-1937) Amazon UK English (caleb72)
  14. 1927 To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) mobi (missimpossible)
  15. 1929 Red Harvest by Dashiel Hammett (1894-1961) Amazon UK (Ralph Sir Edward)
  16. 1929 The Maltese Falcon by Dashiel Hammett (1894-1961) Amazon UK (GA Russell)
  17. 1929 The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner (1897-1962) Amazon UK (bfisher)
  18. 1929 Im Westen nichts Neues/All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque (1898-1970) Amazon UK English (AnemicOak)
  19. 1930 Nancy Drew: The Secret of the Old Clock by Edward L. Stratemeyer (1862-1930) and Mildred Wirt Benson (1905-2002) Original 1930 version not available as ebook. Revised versions: Amazon US, Amazon UK (BearMountainBooks)
  20. 1930 Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften/The Man Without Qualities by Robert Musil (1880-1942) No ebook found (pynch)
  21. 1930 Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie (1890-1976) Amazon UK (disconnected)
  22. 1930 The Passage by Vance Palmer (1885-1959) No ebook found (Lynx-lynx)

Most of these books are still in copyright. Those published in 1922 or earlier are in the US public domain. Those whose author died before 1945 are in the EU public domain. Links have been given to Amazon UK where possible for those in copyright, or to MobileRead or Gutenberg for those in the public domain.

Nominators should now post about their nominated book, and everyone is welcome to discuss the relative merits of the nominations
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