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1930s

Description: books published during the 1930s decade (1930–1939)

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Rank Title Author Added

1

Brave New World

by Aldous Huxley

61,388 members

867 reviews

3.9

5 Members: sturlington, elkiedee, alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

2

Tender Is the Night

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

14,515 members

195 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: elkiedee, alex68, ahef1963

3

The Grapes of Wrath

by John Steinbeck

39,032 members

517 reviews

4.1

4 Members: sturlington, elkiedee, alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

4

by Pearl S. Buck

15,283 members

290 reviews

4

3 Members: sturlington, alex68, ahef1963

5

Cold Comfort Farm

by Stella Gibbons

6,402 members

240 reviews

4

4 Members: sturlington, alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

6

by Daphne Du Maurier

23,937 members

685 reviews

4.2

4 Members: sturlington, alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

7

Little House in the Big Woods

by Laura Ingalls Wilder

19,426 members

305 reviews

4.1

4 Members: sturlington, alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

8

Of Mice and Men

by John Steinbeck

44,498 members

724 reviews

3.9

4 Members: sturlington, alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

9

by Raymond Chandler

11,487 members

314 reviews

4

4 Members: sturlington, alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

10

And Then There Were None

by Agatha Christie

25,410 members

613 reviews

4.2

4 Members: sturlington, alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

11

by J. R. R. Tolkien

107,203 members

1,299 reviews

½ 4.3

4 Members: sturlington, alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

12

The Postman Always Rings Twice

by James M. Cain

3,898 members

144 reviews

½ 3.7

4 Members: sturlington, alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

13

by Jean-Paul Sartre

11,472 members

102 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: alex68, ahef1963

14

Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats

7,532 members

102 reviews

4

4 Members: sturlington, alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

15

Murder on the Orient Express

by Agatha Christie

20,609 members

472 reviews

4.1

3 Members: sturlington, alex68, ahef1963

16

Their Eyes Were Watching God

by Zora Neale Hurston

22,248 members

384 reviews

4

3 Members: sturlington, alex68, ahef1963

17

The Story of Ferdinand

11,284 members

184 reviews

½ 4.3

3 Members: sturlington, alex68, ahef1963

18

by W. Somerset Maugham

2,121 members

44 reviews

3.8

3 Members: alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

19

The Maltese Falcon

by Dashiell Hammett

10,332 members

302 reviews

3.9

2 Members: sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda

20

Miss Lonelyhearts & The Day of the Locust

by Nathanael West

2,442 members

41 reviews

3.9

2 Members: alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

21

Murder in the Cathedral

3,510 members

36 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: alex68, ahef1963

22

by Ludwig Bemelmans

13,072 members

273 reviews

4.2

3 Members: alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

23

by Thornton Wilder

5,884 members

80 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

24

Light in August

by William Faulkner

10,364 members

113 reviews

4

2 Members: alex68, ahef1963

25

Pale Horse, Pale Rider: Three Short Novels

by Katherine Anne Porter

1,002 members

18 reviews

3.8

2 Members: alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

26

The Secret of the Old Clock

by Carolyn Keene

7,351 members

90 reviews

3.8

3 Members: alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

27

Arsenic and Old Lace : A Play in Three Acts

by Joseph Kesselring

745 members

8 reviews

4

3 Members: alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

28

The Story About Ping

by Marjorie Flack

6,154 members

64 reviews

4.1

3 Members: alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

29

5,998 members

64 reviews

3.9

2 Members: alex68, ahef1963

30

The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas

by Gertrude Stein

3,062 members

46 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: alex68, ahef1963

31

The Man Without Qualities

by Robert Musil

893 members

16 reviews

4.2

Member: alex68

32

by Dashiell Hammett

4,727 members

159 reviews

3.8

2 Members: sturlington, alex68

33

by Robert Graves

10,106 members

180 reviews

4.2

2 Members: alex68, ahef1963

34

by Djuna Barnes

3,569 members

66 reviews

½ 3.4

2 Members: alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

35

Mourning Becomes Electra

by Eugene O'Neill

392 members

2 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

36

Goodbye to Berlin

by Christopher Isherwood

2,461 members

52 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

37

Death on the Nile

by Agatha Christie

11,015 members

223 reviews

3.9

2 Members: alex68, ahef1963

38

Journey to the End of the Night

by Louis-Ferdinand Céline

6,876 members

86 reviews

4.2

Member: alex68

39

The Murder at the Vicarage

by Agatha Christie

7,283 members

218 reviews

3.8

2 Members: alex68, ahef1963

40

Little House on the Prairie

by Laura Ingalls Wilder

18,071 members

239 reviews

4.1

2 Members: alex68, ahef1963

41

At the Mountains of Madness [novella]

by H. P. Lovecraft

1,499 members

53 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: alex68, ahef1963

42

The Little Engine That Could

14,287 members

212 reviews

4.1

2 Members: alex68, ahef1963

43

On the Banks of Plum Creek

by Laura Ingalls Wilder

13,324 members

112 reviews

4.1

2 Members: alex68, ahef1963

44

Appointment in Samarra

2,014 members

46 reviews

3.8

2 Members: sturlington, alex68

45

The ABC Murders

by Agatha Christie

8,310 members

167 reviews

3.8

2 Members: alex68, ahef1963

46

The Sword in the Stone

3,819 members

53 reviews

3.9

2 Members: alex68, ahef1963

47

Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day

by Winifred Watson

2,462 members

173 reviews

4.1

2 Members: sturlington, alex68

48

by Geoffrey Household

1,264 members

44 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

49

by George Orwell

4,198 members

86 reviews

3.8

2 Members: alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

50

Anne of Windy Poplars

by L. M. Montgomery

10,028 members

94 reviews

3.9

2 Members: alex68, ahef1963

51

by Virginia Woolf

1,637 members

19 reviews

3.9

2 Members: alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

52

Out of the Silent Planet

12,511 members

185 reviews

3.8

2 Members: alex68, ahef1963

53

by James Hilton

4,459 members

109 reviews

3.9

2 Members: alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

54

Appointment with Death

by Agatha Christie

4,655 members

101 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: alex68, ahef1963

55

Mr. Popper's Penguins

by Richard Atwater

10,554 members

171 reviews

3.9

2 Members: alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

56

by John Steinbeck

6,305 members

102 reviews

3.8

2 Members: alex68, ahef1963

57

by Graham Greene

5,643 members

127 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: alex68, ahef1963

58

The Story of Babar: The Little Elephant

by Jean de Brunhoff

3,554 members

46 reviews

3.8

2 Members: alex68, ahef1963

59

The Code of the Woosters

by P. G. Wodehouse

4,317 members

74 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: alex68, ahef1963

60

The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins

2,164 members

42 reviews

4

2 Members: alex68, ahef1963

61

Tropic of Cancer

by Henry Miller

9,810 members

146 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: alex68

62

Language in Thought and Action

by S. I. Hayakawa

1,036 members

11 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

63

You Can't Take It With You

564 members

8 reviews

3.8

2 Members: alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

64

The Five Red Herrings

by Dorothy L. Sayers

3,120 members

82 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: alex68, ahef1963

65

Claudius the God

by Robert Graves

4,651 members

49 reviews

4.1

2 Members: alex68, ahef1963

66

by Daphne Du Maurier

4,343 members

129 reviews

3.8

2 Members: alex68, ahef1963

67

Murder for Christmas

by Agatha Christie

5,376 members

131 reviews

3.8

2 Members: alex68, ahef1963

68

by Dashiell Hammett

2,280 members

52 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

69

Thank You, Jeeves

by P. G. Wodehouse

2,851 members

79 reviews

4.1

2 Members: alex68, ahef1963

70

National Velvet

by Enid Bagnold

2,764 members

23 reviews

3.8

2 Members: alex68, ahef1963

71

Absalom, Absalom!

by William Faulkner

8,608 members

115 reviews

4.1

Member: alex68

72

by Agatha Christie

4,050 members

88 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: alex68, ahef1963

73

Cards on the Table

by Agatha Christie

5,043 members

119 reviews

3.8

2 Members: alex68, ahef1963

74

Death in the Clouds

by Agatha Christie

4,548 members

85 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: alex68, ahef1963

75

Testament of Youth

by Vera Brittain

2,418 members

54 reviews

4.1

2 Members: alex68, ahef1963

76

Peril at End House

by Agatha Christie

4,880 members

97 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: alex68, ahef1963

77

The Five Chinese Brothers

by Claire Huchet Bishop

2,123 members

56 reviews

3.9

2 Members: alex68, ahef1963

78

The Bungalow Mystery

by Carolyn Keene

5,104 members

29 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

79

by Mulk Raj Anand

851 members

18 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: alex68, ahef1963

80

The Sign of the Twisted Candles

by Carolyn Keene

3,122 members

19 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

81

The Sleepwalkers

by Hermann Broch

1,007 members

13 reviews

4

Member: alex68

82

The Radetzky March

3,322 members

85 reviews

4.1

Member: alex68

83

The Clue of the Broken Locket

by Carolyn Keene

2,847 members

16 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

84

The Password to Larkspur Lane

by Carolyn Keene

2,930 members

18 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

85

by Elias Canetti

2,636 members

31 reviews

4

Member: alex68

86

by Dorothy L. Sayers

5,976 members

159 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: sturlington

87

By the Light of the Study Lamp

by Carolyn Keene

242 members

1 review

½ 3.4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

88

by William Faulkner

16,867 members

238 reviews

3.9

Member: alex68

89

The Secret at Lone Tree Cottage

by Carolyn Keene

212 members

1 review

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

90

The Secret at the Hermitage

by Carolyn Keene

119 members

½ 3.6

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

91

by John Dos Passos

1,707 members

14 reviews

4

Member: alex68

92

To Walk the Night

by William Sloane

141 members

8 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

93

by William Faulkner

4,189 members

47 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: alex68

94

The Man Who Came to Dinner

by George S. Kaufman

273 members

5 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

95

The Wall: (Intimacy) and Other Stories

by Jean-Paul Sartre

3,035 members

28 reviews

3.8

Member: alex68

96

While the Clock Ticked

by Franklin W. Dixon

1,718 members

10 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

97

Journey Without Maps

by Graham Greene

829 members

15 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

98

by Virginia Woolf

6,329 members

85 reviews

4.1

Member: alex68

99

The Secret of Red Gate Farm

by Carolyn Keene

3,880 members

27 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

100

The Great Airport Mystery

by Franklin W. Dixon

2,005 members

14 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

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