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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

61,607 members

869 reviews

3.9

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

2

Tender Is the Night

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

14,580 members

195 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: elkiedee, alex68, ahef1963

3

The Grapes of Wrath

by John Steinbeck

39,212 members

519 reviews

4.1

4 Members: sturlington, elkiedee, alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

4

by Pearl S. Buck

15,331 members

290 reviews

4

3 Members: sturlington, alex68, ahef1963

5

Cold Comfort Farm

by Stella Gibbons

6,423 members

242 reviews

4

4 Members: sturlington, alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

6

by Daphne Du Maurier

23,987 members

687 reviews

4.2

4 Members: sturlington, alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

7

Little House in the Big Woods

by Laura Ingalls Wilder

19,496 members

306 reviews

4.1

4 Members: sturlington, alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

8

Of Mice and Men

by John Steinbeck

44,699 members

725 reviews

3.9

4 Members: sturlington, alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

9

by Raymond Chandler

11,548 members

315 reviews

4

4 Members: sturlington, alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

10

And Then There Were None

by Agatha Christie

25,576 members

616 reviews

4.2

4 Members: sturlington, alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

11

by J. R. R. Tolkien

107,671 members

1,301 reviews

½ 4.3

4 Members: sturlington, alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

12

The Postman Always Rings Twice

by James M. Cain

3,916 members

144 reviews

½ 3.7

4 Members: sturlington, alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

13

by Jean-Paul Sartre

11,520 members

102 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: alex68, ahef1963

14

Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats

7,558 members

102 reviews

4

4 Members: sturlington, alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

15

Murder on the Orient Express

by Agatha Christie

20,722 members

473 reviews

4.1

3 Members: sturlington, alex68, ahef1963

16

Their Eyes Were Watching God

by Zora Neale Hurston

22,368 members

387 reviews

4

3 Members: sturlington, alex68, ahef1963

17

The Story of Ferdinand

11,355 members

184 reviews

½ 4.3

3 Members: sturlington, alex68, ahef1963

18

by W. Somerset Maugham

2,125 members

44 reviews

3.8

3 Members: alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

19

The Maltese Falcon

by Dashiell Hammett

10,379 members

302 reviews

3.9

2 Members: sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda

20

Miss Lonelyhearts & The Day of the Locust

by Nathanael West

2,445 members

41 reviews

3.9

2 Members: alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

21

Murder in the Cathedral

3,522 members

36 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: alex68, ahef1963

22

by Ludwig Bemelmans

13,152 members

273 reviews

4.2

3 Members: alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

23

by Thornton Wilder

5,904 members

80 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

24

Light in August

by William Faulkner

10,409 members

113 reviews

4

2 Members: alex68, ahef1963

25

Pale Horse, Pale Rider: Three Short Novels

by Katherine Anne Porter

1,005 members

18 reviews

3.8

2 Members: alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

26

The Secret of the Old Clock

by Carolyn Keene

7,402 members

90 reviews

3.8

3 Members: alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

27

Arsenic and Old Lace : A Play in Three Acts

by Joseph Kesselring

749 members

8 reviews

4

3 Members: alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

28

The Story About Ping

by Marjorie Flack

6,179 members

64 reviews

4.1

3 Members: alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

29

6,013 members

64 reviews

3.9

2 Members: alex68, ahef1963

30

The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas

by Gertrude Stein

3,073 members

46 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: alex68, ahef1963

31

The Man Without Qualities

by Robert Musil

898 members

16 reviews

4.2

Member: alex68

32

by Dashiell Hammett

4,736 members

159 reviews

3.8

2 Members: sturlington, alex68

33

by Robert Graves

10,132 members

181 reviews

4.2

2 Members: alex68, ahef1963

34

by Djuna Barnes

3,585 members

67 reviews

½ 3.4

2 Members: alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

35

Mourning Becomes Electra

by Eugene O'Neill

395 members

2 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

36

Goodbye to Berlin

by Christopher Isherwood

2,470 members

52 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

37

Death on the Nile

by Agatha Christie

11,107 members

225 reviews

3.9

2 Members: alex68, ahef1963

38

Journey to the End of the Night

by Louis-Ferdinand Céline

6,908 members

86 reviews

4.2

Member: alex68

39

The Murder at the Vicarage

by Agatha Christie

7,327 members

219 reviews

3.8

2 Members: alex68, ahef1963

40

Little House on the Prairie

by Laura Ingalls Wilder

18,117 members

240 reviews

4.1

2 Members: alex68, ahef1963

41

At the Mountains of Madness [novella]

by H. P. Lovecraft

1,508 members

53 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: alex68, ahef1963

42

The Little Engine That Could

14,399 members

212 reviews

4.1

2 Members: alex68, ahef1963

43

Double Indemnity

by James M. Cain

2,223 members

85 reviews

4

2 Members: sturlington, alex68

44

On the Banks of Plum Creek

by Laura Ingalls Wilder

13,390 members

112 reviews

4.1

2 Members: alex68, ahef1963

45

Appointment in Samarra

2,021 members

46 reviews

3.8

2 Members: sturlington, alex68

46

The ABC Murders

by Agatha Christie

8,362 members

169 reviews

3.8

2 Members: alex68, ahef1963

47

The Sword in the Stone

3,837 members

53 reviews

3.9

2 Members: alex68, ahef1963

48

Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day

by Winifred Watson

2,464 members

173 reviews

4.1

2 Members: sturlington, alex68

49

by Geoffrey Household

1,276 members

44 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

50

by George Orwell

4,207 members

86 reviews

3.8

2 Members: alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

51

Anne of Windy Poplars

by L. M. Montgomery

10,067 members

94 reviews

3.9

2 Members: alex68, ahef1963

52

by Virginia Woolf

1,643 members

19 reviews

3.9

2 Members: alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

53

Out of the Silent Planet

12,567 members

186 reviews

3.8

2 Members: alex68, ahef1963

54

by James Hilton

4,474 members

109 reviews

3.9

2 Members: alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

55

Appointment with Death

by Agatha Christie

4,668 members

102 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: alex68, ahef1963

56

Mr. Popper's Penguins

by Richard Atwater

10,623 members

171 reviews

3.9

2 Members: alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

57

by John Steinbeck

6,333 members

105 reviews

3.8

2 Members: alex68, ahef1963

58

by Graham Greene

5,659 members

127 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: alex68, ahef1963

59

The Story of Babar: The Little Elephant

by Jean de Brunhoff

3,559 members

46 reviews

3.8

2 Members: alex68, ahef1963

60

The Code of the Woosters

by P. G. Wodehouse

4,330 members

75 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: alex68, ahef1963

61

The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins

2,175 members

42 reviews

4

2 Members: alex68, ahef1963

62

Tropic of Cancer

by Henry Miller

9,854 members

146 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: alex68

63

Language in Thought and Action

by S. I. Hayakawa

1,038 members

11 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

64

You Can't Take It With You

566 members

8 reviews

3.8

2 Members: alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

65

The Five Red Herrings

by Dorothy L. Sayers

3,129 members

82 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: alex68, ahef1963

66

Claudius the God

by Robert Graves

4,663 members

49 reviews

4.1

2 Members: alex68, ahef1963

67

by Daphne Du Maurier

4,369 members

129 reviews

3.8

2 Members: alex68, ahef1963

68

Murder for Christmas

by Agatha Christie

5,415 members

131 reviews

3.8

2 Members: alex68, ahef1963

69

by Dashiell Hammett

2,288 members

52 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

70

Thank You, Jeeves

by P. G. Wodehouse

2,846 members

79 reviews

4.1

2 Members: alex68, ahef1963

71

National Velvet

by Enid Bagnold

2,771 members

23 reviews

3.8

2 Members: alex68, ahef1963

72

Absalom, Absalom!

by William Faulkner

8,650 members

115 reviews

4.1

Member: alex68

73

by Agatha Christie

4,064 members

89 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: alex68, ahef1963

74

Cards on the Table

by Agatha Christie

5,071 members

120 reviews

3.8

2 Members: alex68, ahef1963

75

Death in the Clouds

by Agatha Christie

4,577 members

87 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: alex68, ahef1963

76

Testament of Youth

by Vera Brittain

2,428 members

54 reviews

4.1

2 Members: alex68, ahef1963

77

Peril at End House

by Agatha Christie

4,900 members

97 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: alex68, ahef1963

78

The Five Chinese Brothers

by Claire Huchet Bishop

2,129 members

56 reviews

3.9

2 Members: alex68, ahef1963

79

The Bungalow Mystery

by Carolyn Keene

5,139 members

29 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

80

by Mulk Raj Anand

856 members

18 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: alex68, ahef1963

81

The Sign of the Twisted Candles

by Carolyn Keene

3,141 members

19 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

82

The Sleepwalkers

by Hermann Broch

1,011 members

13 reviews

4

Member: alex68

83

The Radetzky March

3,332 members

85 reviews

4.1

Member: alex68

84

The Clue of the Broken Locket

by Carolyn Keene

2,864 members

16 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

85

The Password to Larkspur Lane

by Carolyn Keene

2,944 members

18 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

86

by Elias Canetti

2,648 members

31 reviews

4

Member: alex68

87

by Dorothy L. Sayers

5,996 members

159 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: sturlington

88

By the Light of the Study Lamp

by Carolyn Keene

243 members

1 review

½ 3.4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

89

by William Faulkner

16,888 members

238 reviews

3.9

Member: alex68

90

The Secret at Lone Tree Cottage

by Carolyn Keene

213 members

1 review

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

91

The Secret at the Hermitage

by Carolyn Keene

120 members

½ 3.6

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

92

by John Dos Passos

1,709 members

14 reviews

4

Member: alex68

93

To Walk the Night

by William Sloane

141 members

8 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

94

by William Faulkner

4,203 members

47 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: alex68

95

The Man Who Came to Dinner

by George S. Kaufman

273 members

5 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

96

The Wall: (Intimacy) and Other Stories

by Jean-Paul Sartre

3,047 members

32 reviews

3.8

Member: alex68

97

While the Clock Ticked

by Franklin W. Dixon

1,730 members

10 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

98

Journey Without Maps

by Graham Greene

831 members

15 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

99

by Virginia Woolf

6,342 members

85 reviews

4.1

Member: alex68

100

The Secret of Red Gate Farm

by Carolyn Keene

3,904 members

27 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

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