The Library

The bestsellers of today are rarely considered to be the greatest novels of all-time, but no one can tell if a book published in our lifetime will be read a hundred years later. Here is a list of bestselling novels from the 1920s. Many of these books did not receive critical acclaim, but were widely read and loved by the public. Although you probably won’t find most of these on a class syllabus, they were the ones most read and talked about by the average person in the 1920s, and they can still be enjoyed even a hundred years later. 

As school library books come under increased scrutiny, now is a good time to explain how your public library selects materials to serve all interests and how it responds to your questions. 

In 1995, the Japanese Stroll Garden at Nathanael Greene Park held a Japanese Garden Festival sponsored by the Botanical Society of Southwest Missouri.