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1930s

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

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1

Tender is the Night

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

12,641 members

181 reviews

½ 3.7

4 Members: sturlington, elkiedee, alex68, ahef1963

2

Brave New World

by Aldous Huxley

52,698 members

754 reviews

3.9

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

3

The Grapes of Wrath

by John Steinbeck

33,478 members

460 reviews

4.1

4 Members: sturlington, elkiedee, alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

4

by Pearl S. Buck

13,545 members

262 reviews

4

3 Members: sturlington, alex68, ahef1963

5

Cold Comfort Farm

by Stella Gibbons

5,669 members

220 reviews

4

4 Members: sturlington, alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

6

by Daphne Du Maurier

20,073 members

594 reviews

4.2

4 Members: sturlington, alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

7

Little House in the Big Woods

by Laura Ingalls Wilder

15,705 members

278 reviews

4.1

4 Members: sturlington, alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

8

Of Mice and Men

by John Steinbeck

38,111 members

646 reviews

3.9

4 Members: sturlington, alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

9

by Raymond Chandler

10,054 members

277 reviews

4

4 Members: sturlington, alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

10

And Then There Were None

by Agatha Christie

20,447 members

520 reviews

4.1

4 Members: sturlington, alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

11

by Jean-Paul Sartre

9,740 members

80 reviews

3.8

2 Members: alex68, ahef1963

12

by J. R. R. Tolkien

91,857 members

1,166 reviews

½ 4.3

4 Members: sturlington, alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

13

The Postman Always Rings Twice

by James M. Cain

3,392 members

125 reviews

½ 3.7

4 Members: sturlington, alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

14

by Ludwig Bemelmans

10,246 members

258 reviews

4.2

4 Members: sturlington, alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

15

by Thornton Wilder

4,914 members

67 reviews

½ 3.7

4 Members: sturlington, alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

16

The Secret of the Old Clock

by Carolyn Keene

6,729 members

110 reviews

3.8

4 Members: sturlington, alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

17

Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats

6,546 members

89 reviews

4

4 Members: sturlington, alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

18

Murder on the Orient Express

by Agatha Christie

16,394 members

404 reviews

4.1

3 Members: sturlington, alex68, ahef1963

19

The Story about Ping

by Marjorie Flack

5,069 members

60 reviews

4.1

4 Members: sturlington, alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

20

Their Eyes Were Watching God

by Zora Neale Hurston

18,610 members

337 reviews

4

3 Members: sturlington, alex68, ahef1963

21

The Story of Ferdinand

8,738 members

170 reviews

½ 4.3

3 Members: sturlington, alex68, ahef1963

22

by W. Somerset Maugham

1,917 members

40 reviews

3.8

3 Members: alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

23

Death on the Nile

by Agatha Christie

8,493 members

178 reviews

3.9

3 Members: sturlington, alex68, ahef1963

24

Miss Lonelyhearts & The Day of the Locust

by Nathanael West

2,182 members

38 reviews

3.9

2 Members: alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

25

The ABC Murders

by Agatha Christie

6,732 members

130 reviews

3.8

3 Members: sturlington, alex68, ahef1963

26

Murder in the Cathedral

3,028 members

31 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: alex68, ahef1963

27

The Murder at the Vicarage

by Agatha Christie

6,005 members

187 reviews

3.8

3 Members: sturlington, alex68, ahef1963

28

Little House on the Prairie

by Laura Ingalls Wilder

15,073 members

221 reviews

4.1

3 Members: sturlington, alex68, ahef1963

29

At the Mountains of Madness [novella]

by H. P. Lovecraft

1,183 members

48 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: sturlington, alex68, ahef1963

30

The Little Engine That Could

10,389 members

193 reviews

4.1

3 Members: sturlington, alex68, ahef1963

31

Absalom, Absalom!

by William Faulkner

7,509 members

105 reviews

4.1

2 Members: sturlington, alex68

32

The Sword in the Stone

3,235 members

47 reviews

3.9

3 Members: sturlington, alex68, ahef1963

33

Appointment with Death

by Agatha Christie

3,888 members

80 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: sturlington, alex68, ahef1963

34

The Story of Babar: The Little Elephant

by Jean de Brunhoff

2,978 members

40 reviews

3.8

3 Members: sturlington, alex68, ahef1963

35

Light in August

by William Faulkner

9,029 members

102 reviews

4

2 Members: alex68, ahef1963

36

Pale Horse, Pale Rider: Three Short Novels

by Katherine Anne Porter

898 members

14 reviews

3.8

2 Members: alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

37

The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins

1,776 members

36 reviews

4

3 Members: sturlington, alex68, ahef1963

38

Five Red Herrings

by Dorothy L. Sayers

2,777 members

69 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: sturlington, alex68, ahef1963

39

Arsenic and Old Lace : A Play in Three Acts

by Joseph Kesselring

646 members

6 reviews

4

3 Members: alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

40

National Velvet

by Enid Bagnold

2,295 members

17 reviews

3.8

3 Members: sturlington, alex68, ahef1963

41

The Five Chinese Brothers

by Claire Huchet Bishop

1,789 members

54 reviews

3.9

3 Members: sturlington, alex68, ahef1963

42

5,226 members

56 reviews

3.9

2 Members: alex68, ahef1963

43

The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas

by Gertrude Stein

2,610 members

43 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: alex68, ahef1963

44

The Maltese Falcon

by Dashiell Hammett

8,967 members

277 reviews

3.9

Member: sturlington

45

The Man Without Qualities

by Robert Musil

593 members

10 reviews

4.2

Member: alex68

46

by Robert Graves

9,004 members

164 reviews

4.2

2 Members: alex68, ahef1963

47

by Dashiell Hammett

4,185 members

141 reviews

3.8

2 Members: sturlington, alex68

48

To Walk the Night

by William Sloane

95 members

5 reviews

3.9

2 Members: sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda

49

by Djuna Barnes

3,052 members

57 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

50

Mourning Becomes Electra

by Eugene O'Neill

341 members

2 reviews

3.8

2 Members: alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

51

Goodbye to Berlin

by Christopher Isherwood

2,039 members

47 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

52

Journey to the End of the Night

by Louis-Ferdinand Céline

5,907 members

80 reviews

4.2

Member: alex68

53

Johnny Got His Gun

by Dalton Trumbo

3,608 members

72 reviews

4.2

2 Members: sturlington, alex68

54

On the Banks of Plum Creek

by Laura Ingalls Wilder

11,227 members

98 reviews

4.1

2 Members: alex68, ahef1963

55

To Have and Have Not

by Ernest Hemingway

4,001 members

71 reviews

½ 3.4

2 Members: sturlington, alex68

56

The Nine Tailors

by Dorothy L. Sayers

4,293 members

115 reviews

4.1

2 Members: sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda

57

by Geoffrey Household

1,091 members

43 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

58

by George Orwell

3,620 members

76 reviews

3.8

2 Members: alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

59

Anne of Windy Poplars

by L. M. Montgomery

8,184 members

71 reviews

3.9

2 Members: alex68, ahef1963

60

by Virginia Woolf

1,435 members

16 reviews

3.9

2 Members: alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

61

Out of the Silent Planet

10,738 members

162 reviews

3.8

2 Members: alex68, ahef1963

62

by James Hilton

3,876 members

97 reviews

3.9

2 Members: alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

63

The Hidden Staircase

by Carolyn Keene

5,196 members

51 reviews

3.8

2 Members: sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda

64

Mr. Popper's Penguins

by Richard Atwater

9,005 members

155 reviews

3.9

2 Members: alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

65

by John Steinbeck

5,546 members

90 reviews

3.8

2 Members: alex68, ahef1963

66

by Graham Greene

5,070 members

114 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: alex68, ahef1963

67

The Code of the Woosters

by P. G. Wodehouse

3,778 members

62 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: alex68, ahef1963

68

Tropic of Cancer

by Henry Miller

8,645 members

127 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: alex68

69

Language in Thought and Action

by S. I. Hayakawa

923 members

9 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

70

You Can't Take It With You

478 members

8 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

71

Claudius the God

by Robert Graves

4,152 members

44 reviews

4.1

2 Members: alex68, ahef1963

72

by Daphne Du Maurier

3,723 members

114 reviews

3.8

2 Members: alex68, ahef1963

73

Hercule Poirot's Christmas

by Agatha Christie

4,283 members

108 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: alex68, ahef1963

74

by Dashiell Hammett

2,028 members

45 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

75

Thank You, Jeeves

by P. G. Wodehouse

2,517 members

70 reviews

4.1

2 Members: alex68, ahef1963

76

by Agatha Christie

3,306 members

72 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: alex68, ahef1963

77

Cards on the Table

by Agatha Christie

4,197 members

93 reviews

3.8

2 Members: alex68, ahef1963

78

Death in the Clouds

by Agatha Christie

3,651 members

64 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: alex68, ahef1963

79

Testament of Youth

by Vera Brittain

2,112 members

53 reviews

4.1

2 Members: alex68, ahef1963

80

Caps for Sale: A Tale of a Peddler, Some Monkeys and Their Monkey Business

by Esphyr Slobodkina

9,470 members

174 reviews

4.1

2 Members: sturlington, alex68

81

Peril at End House

by Agatha Christie

4,020 members

73 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: alex68, ahef1963

82

The Bungalow Mystery

by Carolyn Keene

4,286 members

29 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

83

Murder Must Advertise

by Dorothy L. Sayers

3,703 members

105 reviews

4.2

Member: sturlington

84

by Mulk Raj Anand

716 members

19 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: alex68, ahef1963

85

The Sign of the Twisted Candles

by Carolyn Keene

2,542 members

20 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

86

The Sleepwalkers

by Hermann Broch

863 members

10 reviews

3.9

Member: alex68

87

The Radetzky March

2,817 members

73 reviews

4.2

Member: alex68

88

The Clue of the Broken Locket

by Carolyn Keene

2,320 members

15 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

89

The Password to Larkspur Lane

by Carolyn Keene

2,336 members

14 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

90

by Elias Canetti

2,314 members

30 reviews

4

Member: alex68

91

By the Light of the Study Lamp

by Carolyn Keene

203 members

1 review

½ 3.4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

92

by William Faulkner

14,459 members

213 reviews

3.9

Member: alex68

93

by Dorothy L. Sayers

5,361 members

146 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: sturlington

94

The Secret at Lone Tree Cottage

by Carolyn Keene

178 members

2 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

95

The Secret at the Hermitage

by Carolyn Keene

97 members

1 review

½ 3.6

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

96

And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street

4,537 members

83 reviews

4

3 Members: sturlington, alex68, ahef1963,ManWithAnAgenda

97

by John Dos Passos

1,436 members

14 reviews

4

Member: alex68

98

The Man Who Came to Dinner

by George S. Kaufman

228 members

6 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

99

The Wall: Stories

by Jean-Paul Sartre

2,637 members

22 reviews

3.9

Member: alex68

100

While the Clock Ticked

by Franklin W. Dixon

1,345 members

9 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

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