Welcome to the 1925 Club!
All week, Karen and I are asking people to read and review books published in 1925 – whatever format or language. Together, we’ll build up a picture of the year in literature. And, believe it or not, it’s ten years since the club years kicked off. We’ll be celebrating those ten years on Thursday with a special look back, and we’d love you to join in that too.
Post links to your reviews in the comments (and if you don’t have a blog/insta/etc then feel free to write your review in the comments.)
Propos sur le bonheur by Alain
Book Around The Corner
by Jane Austen
This Reading Life
My First Goose by Isaac Babel
Words and Peace
The Man Nobody Knows by Bruce Barton
Somewhere Boy
Professor Dowell’s head by Alexander Belyaev
1st Reading
The Little World by Stella Benson
Stuck in a Book
The Layton Court Mystery by Anthony Berkeley
Words and Peace
Kaggsy’s Bookish Ramblings
The School at the Chalet by Elinor Brent-Dyer
Staircase Wit
The White Guard by Mikhail Bulgakov
1st Reading
The Heart of a Dog by Mikhail Bulgakov
Bookish Beck
Andrew Blackman
Letters from England by Karel Čapek
Rattlebag and Rhubarb
The Professor’s House by Willa Cather
Entering the Enchanted Castle
The Secret of Chimneys by Agatha Christie
Volatile Rune
What Me Read
Book Around The Corner
The Witness for the Prosecution by Agatha Christie
Rattlebag and Rhubarb
Still William by Richmal Crompton
Rattlebag and Rhubarb
The Madonna of the Sleeping Cars by Maurice Dekobra
1st Reading
Wings of Desire by Maurice Dekobra
Neglected Books
The House Without a Key by Earl Derr Biggers
Fanda Classiclit
Typings
Words and Peace
Manhattan Transfer by John Dos Passos
Just Reading a Book
1st Reading
Somewhere Boy
Kaggsy’s Bookish Ramblings
Selected Poems by T.S. Eliot
Kaggsy’s Bookish Ramblings
No More Parades/Parade’s End by Ford Madox Ford
Typings
The Sailor’s Return by David Garnett
Somewhere Boy
The Polyglots by William Gehardie
Winston’s Dad
The Counterfeiters by Andre Gide
Book Around The Corner
Cement by Fyodor Vasilievich Gladkov
Winston’s Dad
The Artamonovs by Maxim Gorky
1st Reading
Settlers of the Marsh by Frederick P. Grove
Buried in Print
A Saturday Life by Radclyffe Hall
Stuck in a Book
Simonetta Perkins by L.P. Hartley
Somewhere Boy
The Collected Poems of H.D.
Rattlebag and Rhubarb
In Our Time by Ernest Hemingway
Let’s Read
Simon the Coldheart by Georgette Heyer
She Reads Novels
Witchy Reader
Those Barren Leaves by Aldous Huxley
746 Books
Along the Road: Notes and Essays of a Tourist by Aldous Huxley
ANZ Litlover
The Trial by Franz Kafka
746 Books
Alice in Orchestralia by Ernest La Prade
Somewhere Boy
The Princess by D.H. Lawrence
Calmgrove
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes by Anita Loos
Rattlebag and Rhubarb
A Hot Cup of Pleasure
Jacqui Wine
Greenery Street by Dennis Mackail
Staircase Wit
The Painted Veil by W. Somerset Maugham
What Me Read
Americana by H.L. Mencken
Rattlebag and Rhubarb
Emily Climbs by L.M. Montgomery
Staircase Wit
The Informer by Liam O’Flaherty
What Me Read
Wild Geese by Martha Ostenso
Brian Busby
The Chase by Mollie Panter-Downes
Stuck in a Book
The Yellow Sofa by Eça de Queirós
Winston’s Dad
The Threshold of Fear by Arthur J. Rees
A Hot Cup of Pleasure
The Paddington Mystery by John Rhode
Kaggsy’s Bookish Ramblings
Love by Elizabeth von Arnim
Stuck in a Book
Sarah Matthews
Somewhere Boy
Metropolis by Thea von Harbou
Mr Kaggsy
The Old Straight Track by Alfred Watkins
Calmgrove
The Dower House by Patricia Wentworth
Staircase Wit
BabsBelovedBooks via Instagram
The Black Cabinet by Patricia Wentworth
She Reads Novels
The Mother’s Recompense by Edith Wharton
Old Geezer Reading
Carry on, Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse
Adventures in reading, running and working from home
Winston’s Dad
The Common Reader: First Series by Virginia Woolf
Somewhere Boy
Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
Calmgrove
Janet – LoveBooks, ReadBooks
Some 1925 letters by Virginia Woolf
Janet – LoveBooks, ReadBooks
Bread Givers by Anzia Yezierska
Somewhere Boy
What Me Read
Fear by Stefan Zweig
This Reading Life
My first – and unfortunately, my only – review for #1925Club is The House Without a Key by Earl Derr Biggers https://klasikfanda.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-house-without-key-1925-by-earl-derr.html
“Gentlemen Prefer Blondes’ – Anita Loos
https://www.josieholford.com/gentlemen-prefer-blondes/
Thanks Simon, I’ve posted on Manhattan Transfer by John Dos Passos
https://justreadingabook.wordpress.com/2025/10/20/manhattan-transfer/
P. G. Wodehouse – “Carry on, Jeeves” – I feel this might be a popular one! https://librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/10/20/book-review-p-g-wodehouse-carry-on-jeeves-1925week/
My first review is The Informer by Liam O’Flaherty: https://whatmeread.com/2025/10/20/review-2638-1925club-hyh25-the-informer/
https://winstonsdad.blog/2025/10/20/the-yellow-sofa-by-eca-de-queiros/ the first of my post the yellow sofa
Hello! I’ve posted my billet about The Counterfeiters by André Gide
https://bookaroundthecorner.com/2025/10/20/the-counterfeiters-by-andre-gide-the-1925club-and-hyh25/
Simon, you’ve encouraged me to read this 1925 debut novel by a young woman who was awarded the inaugural $13,500 Dodd-Mead-Famous-Players-Pictorial Review Prize. I’d been avoiding it for decades.
It’s wonderful (while being very disturbing).
https://brianbusby.blogspot.com/2025/10/wild-wild-geese.html
My first review is Greenery Street by Denis Mackail: https://tinyurl.com/4wm5xn22
Constance
Staircase Wit
Here’s mine: No More Parades by Ford Madox Ford (as part of Parade’s End).
https://reesewarner.blogspot.com/2025/10/ford-madox-fords-parades-end-1925club.html
Believe it or not, I found a Jane Austen story first published in 1925!
https://bronasbooks.com/2025/10/21/sanditon-jane-austen/
Here’s my review of Simon the Coldheart by Georgette Heyer:
https://shereadsnovels.com/2025/10/21/simon-the-coldheart-by-georgette-heyer-1925club/
I’m sure lots of people will review this one, but here’s my review of The Secret of Chimneys by Agatha Christie: https://whatmeread.com/2025/10/21/review-2639-1925club-ripxx-hyh25-the-secret-of-chimneys/
Here’s my review of The Heart of a Dog by Mikhail Bulgakov. Thanks for hosting! https://bookishbeck.com/2025/10/21/1925club-the-heart-of-a-dog-by-mikhail-bulgakov/
My second for the #1925Club – “Still William” by Richmal Crompton: https://www.josieholford.com/1925club-richmal-crompton/
A second entry: Earl Derr Biggers’ The House Without A Key
https://reesewarner.blogspot.com/2025/10/earl-derr-biggers-house-without-key.html
I posted 3 short reviews today:
– My First Goose, by Isaac Babel
– The House Without a Key (Charlie Chan #1), by Earl Derr Biggers
– The Layton Court Mystery (Roger Sherigham Cases #1), by Anthony Berkeley
The three of them are in this post: https://wordsandpeace.com/2025/10/22/three-reviews-for-the-1925-club/
Thanks for hosting, and happy anniverary!
Here’s my thoughts on The Mother’s Recompense by Edith Wharton (link already posted on Bluesky): https://oldgeezerrereadingblog.wordpress.com
Here’s my review of The Painted Veil by W. Somerset Maugham: https://whatmeread.com/2025/10/22/review-2640-1925club-hyh25-the-painted-veil/
Here’s my thoughts on The Mother’s Recompense by Edith Wharton (link already posted on Bluesky): https://oldgeezerrereadingblog.wordpress.com
My first for the club: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes by Anita Loos
https://ahotcupofpleasureagain.wordpress.com/2025/10/22/hyh25-1925readingclub-classicsclub-gentlemen-prefer-blondes-by-anita-loos/
A novella by Stefan Zweig – Fear
https://bronasbooks.com/2025/10/23/fear-stefan-zweig/
This was my read:
Hemingway, Ernst “In Our Time”
https://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2025/10/hemingway-ernest-in-our-time.html
Here’s my review of The Black Cabinet by Patricia Wentworth:
https://shereadsnovels.com/2025/10/24/the-black-cabinet-by-patricia-wentworth-1925club/
Please add Emily Climbs by L.M. Montgomery from Staircase Wit:
https://perfectretort.blogspot.com/2025/10/emily-climbs-by-l-m-montgomery-for.html
Here’s another review for Georgette Heyer’s Simon the Coldheart
https://witchyreading.wordpress.com/2025/10/24/simon-the-coldheart-1925club/
Here’s one maybe no one else has read, The Bread Givers by Anzia Yezierska: https://whatmeread.com/2025/10/24/review-2641-1925-club-hyh25-the-bread-givers/
Oh, I guess somebody else did!
Greenery Street by Denis Mackail
I reread this delightful novel about a couple’s first year of married life. Nothing much happens but it is just so charming. The tension is very low – will they get their stepladder back from the neighbours, will they be able to pay the decorator’s bill without going into debt but the one thing it never does is throw doubt on their love for each other.
Reading it this time I very badly want to read more by Mackail but he is so hard to get hold of. Hopefully one day I will strike lucky.
Wings of Desire by Maurice Dekobra, a great mess of divigations and pontifications in typical Dekobra fashion
https://neglectedbooks.com/?p=10881
My second: The Threshold of Fear by Arthur J. Rees
https://ahotcupofpleasureagain.wordpress.com/2025/10/26/hyh25-1925club-classicsclub-the-threshold-of-fear-by-arthur-j-rees/
https://desperatereader.blogspot.com/2025/10/simon-coldheart-georgette-heyer-1925club.html the worst book I’ve read in a long time!
My review of William Gerhardie’s marvellous The Polyglots is pending, as is a possible review of D.H. Lawrence’s novella St. Mawr, about which I’m less enthusiastic. This post was meant to appear at the beginning of last week, but I was felled by the dreaded lurgy, I’m afraid.
https://marketgardenreader.wordpress.com/2025/10/27/1925-club/
My last book is one I know some have read: The School at the Chalet by Elinor Brent-Dyer!
https://perfectretort.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-school-at-chalet-by-elinor-brent.html