To the Lighthouse
1927 · 209 pages
At a summer house by the sea a trip to the lighthouse keeps being postponed, and Woolf gets so close to how a mind works that years pass and grief arrives in passing.
★ 9.2
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Being and Time
1927 · 592 pages
Philosophy forgot to ask what it means for anything to exist. Heidegger rebuilds the question around the ordinary human being, thrown into a world he did not choose and running out of time.
★ 8.5
Death Comes for the Archbishop
1927 · 297 pages
Two French priests give their lives to a diocese in territorial New Mexico. Cather dissolves plot into landscape and legend, and their friendship carries decades of desert riding without a raised voice.
★ 7.0
Steppenwolf
1927 · 224 pages
Harry Haller believes he is half man, half wolf: too fine for bourgeois life, too weak to leave it. A dance hall woman leads him into jazz, drugs, and the Magic Theater.
★ 6.9
The Complete Tales of Winnie-The-Pooh
1927 · 344 pages
Pooh is a bear of very little brain, moving through the Hundred Acre Wood by way of honey, a heffalump trap, and Eeyore's lost tail. The goodbye at the end undoes adults.
★ 6.6
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
1927 · 128 pages
In 1714 a rope bridge in Peru snaps and five travelers fall to their deaths. A Franciscan who witnessed it spends six years reconstructing their lives to prove God chose them.
★ 6.5
Therese Desqueyroux
1927 · 128 pages
Cleared of poisoning her husband because her family closes ranks, Therese rides home through the pine forests of the Landes trying to explain herself. Mauriac makes provincial Catholic marriage feel like slow suffocation.
★ 6.0