I love books written in 20’s thru 50’s. I’d love some suggestions.

The group by Mary M

Tree grows in Brooklyn.

Anything by Jean Rhys–louche, British, downwardly mobile women aging through those decades
Two Serious Ladies by Jane Bowles–weird, funny, indescribable
The whole Dance to the Music of Time sequence of novels by Anthony Powell– there are 12, starting when the characters are bright young things in London between the wars, right up through the 60s. He wrote them contemporaneously
Barbara Pym–Excellent women and their friends in England after the war
The Raj Quartet– The end of the British empire in India
Troubles by J G Farrell –Ireland, after the Great War–a shell-shocked Major, a lugubrious, crumbling hotel, he can’t seem to leave
Any Graham Greene–the moral compromises of post-colonialism in the wreckage left behind. He was everywhere when things were falling apart
Anything by Dawn Powell–New York City through these decades. She skewers everyone’s bad behavior, but not at all mean-spiritedly. Very witty.
All the Kings Men by Robert Penn Warren– Demagoguery in the deep south. Based on Huey Long
The Door by Magda Szabo–two women of different classes and backgrounds in Hungary after the war. There is so much going on in this book
Albany Park and Another City by Patrice Chaplin– memoir of teenaged girls fleeing the dullness of working class London after the war
The Dud Avocado by Elaine Dundy–a young woman footloose in Paris in the 50s. Delightful.
Bronx Primitive & A Wider World– memoir of escaping the poverty immigrant NYC after the war by a future travel writer

The Man In The Gray Flannel Suit by Sloan Wilson. Quintessential 1950s