1930s


Of Mice and Men
Brave New World
The Grapes of Wrath
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
Rebecca
Water for Elephants
And Then There Were None
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Murder on the Orient Express (Hercule Poirot, #10)
Rules of Civility
The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)
As I Lay Dying
The Four Winds
Gone With the Wind
Death on the Nile (Hercule Poirot, #18)
Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise BrownMadeline by Ludwig BemelmansThe Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix PotterMake Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskeyBlueberries for Sal by Robert McCloskey
Picture Books of the 1940s and Before
300 books — 41 voters
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. TolkienBrave New World by Aldous HuxleyOf Mice and Men by John SteinbeckGone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellThe Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Best Books of the Decade: 1930s
876 books — 1,261 voters

Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha ChristieThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldRebecca by Daphne du MaurierLost Horizon by James HiltonGone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Between-the-Wars
266 books — 19 voters
Rebecca by Daphne du MaurierJamaica Inn by Daphne du MaurierMary Poppins by P.L. TraversMary Poppins Comes Back by P.L. TraversGone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Books Written by Women: 1930s
37 books — 6 voters

Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha ChristieThe Little Engine That Could by Watty PiperAs I Lay Dying by William FaulknerThe Maltese Falcon by Dashiell HammettThe Secret of the Old Clock by Carolyn Keene
Best Books 1930
115 books — 40 voters

Actually, despite his earlier vow to one day raid Eastham, Clyde Barrow tried to go straight when he was paroled. He first helped his father make preparations to put an addition onto the service station, then traveled to Framingham, Massachusetts, to take a job and get away from his past in Texas. However, he quickly grew homesick and returned to Dallas to work for United Glass and Mirror, one of his former employers. It was then that local authorities began picking Barrow up almost daily, often ...more
John Neal Phillips, My Life with Bonnie and Clyde

Muriel Spark
There were legions of her kind during the nineteen-thirties, women from the age of thirty and upward, who crowded into their war-bereaved spinsterhood with voyages of discovery into new ideas and energetic practices in art and social welfare, education or religion.
Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

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