The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby

Mitcham Library Service Collection Guide

Fiction The Beautiful and the damned by F Scott Fitzgerald A story of the pitfalls of greed, debauchery and the jazz age Tender is the Night by F Scott Fitzgerald A rich woman falls for her psychiatrist in the roaring twenties This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald Charting the life of Amory Blaine, loosely based on Fitzgerald Flappers and philosophers by F Scott Fitzgerald Short stories with all the glamour of the jazz age Chéri by Colette The love affair between a young gigolo and an older woman Appointment in Samarra by John O’Hara Fast-paced story about socialite, Julian English The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway A group of American and English expatriates travelling in Europe Manhattan Transfer by John Dos Passos Attacks the consumerism and social indifference of the 1920s An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser A man’s social-climbing aspirations are threatened when his lower-class pregnant girlfriend gives him an ultimatum Lilies in moonlight: a novel / Allison Pittman Fun loving flapper goes on a road trip in the roaring twenties Black oxen / Gertrude Atherton The experiences of an aging woman in Jazz Age Banana republican: from the Buchanan file by Eric Rauchway Continues the story of Tom and Daisy Buchanan Gentlemen prefer blondes: the intimate diary of a professional lady by Anita Loos The diaries of Lorelei Lee a goodtime girl out for all she can get Jazz by Toni Morrison A twenties couple in Harlem deal with the murder of the husband’s teenage lover Mitcham Library Service Collection Guide 2013

The Great Gatsby Gatsby’s Girl by Caroline Preston The story of the girl who inspired Fitzgerald’s Daisy Buchanan One Sunday Morning by Amy Ephron A New York drama of gossip, scandal, secrets and betrayal Beautiful fools: the last affair of Zelda and Scott Fitzgerald by R Clifton Spargo An honest portrait of a romance in decline Call me Zelda by Erika Robuk Zelda’s mental illness through the eyes of her nurse

Teen fiction Bright young things (Series) by Anna Godbersen (Bright young things, Beautiful days; The lucky ones) Flappers (Series) by Jillian Larkin (Vixen; Ingénue; Diva)

Non-Fiction The Bobbed Haired Bandit: A True Story of Crime and Celebrity in 1920s New York by Stephan Ducombe Bobbed hair and bath tub gin by Marion Meade Dressed to kill: Jazz Age fashion from Virginia's by Virginia Bates & Daisy Bates. Bright young things: real lives in the roaring twenties by Alison Maloney Bright Young Things: A Modern Guide to the Roaring Twenties by Maloney, Alison Flapper era fashions from the Roaring 20s by Tina Skinner & Lindy McCord Anything goes: a biography of the roaring twenties by Lucy Moore The Hulton Getty Picture Collection, 1920s by Nick Yapp Flapper : a madcap story of sex, style, celebrity, and the women who made America modern by Joshua Zeitz Roaring '20s fashions : deco by Susan Langley

Mitcham Library Service Collection Guide 30 April 2013