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A hundred years is a long time for a book to hold anyone’s attention, let alone millions of readers scattered across generations who never lived through the era that produced it. Yet 2026 marks a strange kind of literary anniversary, since a cluster of novels first printed in 1926 have refused to fade the way most books from that decade have. Some are studied in classrooms, some sit on nightstands as comfort reading, and a couple still show up on bestseller lists in new translations or reissues. Here is a look at eight of them, and why they have lasted.
1. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
Hemingway’s debut novel was published in the United States in October 1926, by Charles Scribner’s Sons. It follows a group of expatriates drifting from Parisian cafes to the bullrings of Spain, and portrays American and British expatriates who travel from Paris to the Festival of San Fermín in Pamplona and watch the running of the bulls and the bullfights. The reception at the time was not universally warm, since it received mixed reviews upon publication, but that judgment did not hold up.
Modern critics view it very differently. As one Hemingway biographer put it, the book is now “recognized as Hemingway’s greatest work”. It remains a staple of high school and college syllabi, and secondhand copies still circulate briskly a full century later, a rare feat for a novel this spare and this quietly…
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Author : Matthias Binder
Publish date : 2026-08-20 08:02:00
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