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Best Books of 1926-1935

Description: Asa Don Dickinson, Librarian of Brooklyn College, compiled this list of about 400 books in 1937 from a number of "best books" lists. His book describing these 1000 books is now in the public domain. An image copy is available on HathiTrust.
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1

by Pearl S. Buck

13,420 members

262 reviews

4

4 Members: pamelad, ahef1963, NinieB, Shonamarie

2

Collected Poems

3,441 members

24 reviews

½ 4.3

4 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963, Shonamarie, ManWithAnAgenda

3

A Farewell to Arms

by Ernest Hemingway

21,666 members

237 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: pamelad, ahef1963, Shonamarie

4

Murder in the Cathedral

2,984 members

31 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963, Shonamarie

5

Testament of Youth

by Vera Brittain

2,088 members

53 reviews

4.1

3 Members: pamelad, ahef1963, Shonamarie

6

To the Lighthouse

by Virginia Woolf

16,939 members

256 reviews

3.9

2 Members: pamelad, ManWithAnAgenda

7

Orlando: A Biography

by Virginia Woolf

10,198 members

165 reviews

3.9

2 Members: pamelad, ManWithAnAgenda

8

Journey to the End of the Night

by Louis-Ferdinand Céline

5,847 members

79 reviews

4.2

2 Members: pamelad, pitjrw

9

The Bridge of San Luis Rey

by Thornton Wilder

4,622 members

116 reviews

3.8

2 Members: pamelad, NinieB

10

In Search of Lost Time

by Marcel Proust

3,915 members

43 reviews

½ 4.5

2 Members: pamelad, ManWithAnAgenda

11

It Can't Happen Here

by Sinclair Lewis

3,193 members

84 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: Shonamarie, ManWithAnAgenda

12

Goodbye, Mr. Chips

by James Hilton

2,208 members

49 reviews

3.8

2 Members: pamelad, NinieB

13

by Sinclair Lewis

1,490 members

44 reviews

4

2 Members: pamelad, Shonamarie

14

Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920s

by Frederick Lewis Allen

1,173 members

27 reviews

4.1

2 Members: pamelad, Shonamarie

15

by Oliver La Farge

693 members

20 reviews

3.8

2 Members: NinieB, Shonamarie

16

by Sinclair Lewis

590 members

13 reviews

3.8

2 Members: pamelad, Shonamarie

17

589 members

11 reviews

3.9

2 Members: pamelad, pitjrw

18

Mourning Becomes Electra

by Eugene O'Neill

340 members

2 reviews

3.8

2 Members: hipdeep, ManWithAnAgenda

19

Strange Interlude

by Eugene O'Neill

161 members

6 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: hipdeep, NinieB

20

Boston: A Documentary Novel of the Sacco-Vanzetti Case

by Upton Sinclair

84 members

1 review

½ 3.7

2 Members: pamelad, Shonamarie

21

The Sun Also Rises

by Ernest Hemingway

22,305 members

323 reviews

3.8

Member: pitjrw

22

All Quiet on the Western Front

by Erich Maria Remarque

18,306 members

390 reviews

4.1

Member: pamelad

23

Death Comes for the Archbishop

by Willa Cather

5,716 members

141 reviews

4

Member: pamelad

24

by Dorothy L. Sayers

5,309 members

143 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: pitjrw

25

by Djuna Barnes

3,025 members

57 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: pitjrw

26

by Nella Larsen

2,508 members

93 reviews

3.8

Member: pitjrw

27

Point Counter Point

by Aldous Huxley

2,508 members

25 reviews

3.8

Member: pamelad

28

Bambi: A Life in the Woods

by Felix Salten

2,396 members

51 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

29

And Quiet Flows the Don

by Mikhail Sholokhov

1,508 members

21 reviews

4

Member: Shonamarie

30

Lolly Willowes, or The Loving Huntsman

by Sylvia Townsend Warner

1,429 members

67 reviews

3.8

Member: pitjrw

31

by John Dos Passos

981 members

9 reviews

3.9

Member: pitjrw

32

Microbe Hunters

by Paul De Kruif

958 members

20 reviews

3.9

Member: Shonamarie

33

Bread and Wine (Signet Classics)

by Ignazio Silone

942 members

10 reviews

3.8

Member: pitjrw

34

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

933 members

35 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: pitjrw

35

Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man

by Siegfried Sassoon

702 members

13 reviews

3.8

Member: pamelad

36

Life with Father

by Clarence Day

697 members

11 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: hipdeep

37

Axel's Castle: A Study of the Imaginative Literature of 1870-1930

by Edmund Wilson

639 members

7 reviews

3.9

Member: Shonamarie

38

Not Without Laughter

by Langston Hughes

612 members

14 reviews

3.8

Member: pamelad

39

by Willa Cather

537 members

16 reviews

3.9

Member: pamelad

40

Elizabeth and Essex: A Tragic History

by Lytton Strachey

533 members

6 reviews

3.8

Member: pamelad

41

A Modern Comedy

by John Galsworthy

459 members

2 reviews

4.2

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

42

444 members

6 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: pamelad

43

The Fortnight in September

by R. C. Sherriff

440 members

20 reviews

4

Member: pitjrw

44

A Backward Glance: An Autobiography

by Edith Wharton

401 members

8 reviews

3.9

Member: Shonamarie

45

323 members

14 reviews

4.1

Member: pamelad

46

End of the Chapter

by John Galsworthy

307 members

2 reviews

4.1

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

47

Henry the Eighth

by Francis Hackett

265 members

5 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: NinieB

48

by Dorothy Parker

194 members

6 reviews

4.2

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

49

The Deepening Stream

by Dorothy Canfield

82 members

1 review

½ 4.5

Member: Shonamarie

50

The Grandmothers: A Family Portrait

by Glenway Wescott

72 members

2 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

51

They Stooped to Folly

by Ellen Glasgow

52 members

4

Member: Shonamarie

52

Collected Poems of Robert Frost

by Robert Frost

51 members

1 review

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

53

I Change Worlds: The Remaking of an American

by Anna Louise Strong

39 members

4

Member: Shonamarie

54

Preface to a life

4 members

1 review

3

Member: Shonamarie

55

Seven Pillars of Wisdom

by T. E. Lawrence

4,640 members

55 reviews

4

56

The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers

4,068 members

26 reviews

3.9

57

by William Faulkner

3,640 members

41 reviews

½ 3.6

58

Kristin Lavransdatter

by Sigrid Undset

2,922 members

72 reviews

4.2

59

The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas

by Gertrude Stein

2,583 members

42 reviews

½ 3.6

60

Gardner's Art through the Ages

by Helen Gardner

2,249 members

8 reviews

4.2

61

by Edith Hamilton

2,079 members

19 reviews

3.8

62

Hitty: Her First Hundred Years

by Rachel Field

1,713 members

36 reviews

3.8

63

Men Without Women

by Ernest Hemingway

1,529 members

23 reviews

½ 3.6

64

Giants in the Earth

by O. E. Rølvaag

1,352 members

20 reviews

4

65

Flush: A Biography

by Virginia Woolf

1,345 members

34 reviews

3.8

66

by Upton Sinclair

1,305 members

24 reviews

½ 3.6

67

All Passion Spent

by Vita Sackville-West

1,143 members

56 reviews

4

68

A Lantern in Her Hand

by Bess Streeter Aldrich

1,004 members

19 reviews

4.1

69

Marie Antoinette: The Portrait of an Average Woman

by Stefan Zweig

973 members

30 reviews

4

70

The Story of San Michele

912 members

13 reviews

4.2

71

History of the Russian Revolution

by Leon Trotsky

862 members

10 reviews

4.2

72

Shadows On The Rock

by Willa Cather

835 members

20 reviews

4

73

Revolt in the Desert

by T. E. Lawrence

788 members

6 reviews

4

74

John Brown's Body

by Stephen Vincent Benét

759 members

11 reviews

4

75

Black Reconstruction in America, 1860-1880

by W. E. B. Du Bois

745 members

6 reviews

½ 4.5

76

by Vita Sackville-West

741 members

26 reviews

½ 3.7

77

by Pearl S. Buck

675 members

24 reviews

3.8

78

The Forty Days of Musa Dagh

by Franz Werfel

654 members

14 reviews

½ 4.3

79

Disraeli: A Picture of the Victorian Age

by André Maurois

653 members

14 reviews

½ 3.6

80

Of Time and the River

by Thomas Wolfe

628 members

10 reviews

4

81

Rats, Lice and History

by Hans Zinsser

611 members

11 reviews

4.1

82

The Common Reader: Second Series

by Virginia Woolf

583 members

6 reviews

4.1

83

The Decline of the West

by Oswald Spengler

581 members

10 reviews

½ 3.7

84

569 members

12 reviews

½ 3.6

85

A House Divided

by Pearl S. Buck

552 members

13 reviews

½ 3.7

86

by Kenneth Roberts

537 members

6 reviews

½ 4.3

87

510 members

5 reviews

3.8

88

by Erich Maria Remarque

508 members

19 reviews

4.2

89

Genghis Khan: Emperor of All Men

499 members

7 reviews

½ 3.3

90

by Edith Wharton

477 members

11 reviews

½ 3.7

91

by Pearl S. Buck

472 members

11 reviews

4.1

92

The Good Companions

by J. B. Priestley

410 members

5 reviews

3.9

93

The Robber Barons: The Great American Capitalists, 1861-1901

by Matthew Josephson

399 members

4 reviews

3.8

94

A Preface to Morals

by Walter Lippmann

363 members

1 review

3.9

95

The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism and Capitalism

by Bernard Shaw

360 members

5 reviews

½ 3.7

96

Twenty Years A-Growing

by Maurice O'Sullivan

357 members

7 reviews

½ 4.3

97

by Lion Feuchtwanger

354 members

11 reviews

4.2

98

by Lion Feuchtwanger

350 members

8 reviews

4

99

North to the Orient

by Anne Morrow Lindbergh

330 members

8 reviews

3.9

100

Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years (2 vol. set)

by Carl Sandburg

318 members

4 reviews

4

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