1932


Brave New World
Light in August
Journey to the End of the Night
Peril at End House (Hercule Poirot, #8)
Tintin in America (Tintin #3)
The Pastures of Heaven
Cold Comfort Farm
Tobacco Road
Little House in the Big Woods (Little House, #1)
True Compass: A Memoir
Laughter in the Dark
The Thirteen Problems (Miss Marple, #0.5)
Orient Express
Marie Antoinette: The Portrait of an Average Woman
Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. TolkienMary Poppins by P.L. TraversThe Sword in the Stone by T.H. WhiteMary Poppins Comes Back by P.L. TraversMr. Popper's Penguins by Robert Lawson
Children's Fantasy of the 1930s
30 books — 22 voters
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. TolkienLost Horizon by James HiltonMary Poppins by P.L. TraversAt the Mountains of Madness by H.P. LovecraftThe Sword in the Stone by T.H. White
Best Fantasy of the 30s
53 books — 75 voters

Brave New World by Aldous HuxleyLittle House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls WilderCold Comfort Farm by Stella GibbonsThe Radetzky March by Joseph RothLight in August by William Faulkner
Best Books 1932
64 books — 32 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 — 1,268 voters
I Capture the Castle by Dodie SmithPrisoner of Night and Fog by Anne BlankmanA Brief History of Montmaray by Michelle   CooperConspiracy of Blood and Smoke by Anne BlankmanThe FitzOsbornes in Exile by Michelle   Cooper
YA Fiction set in the 1930s
85 books — 63 voters

Excerpted From Chapter 18 The most famous sign in the world was only a few hundred yards above me, and the sight of it stopped me in my tracks. The light bulbs surrounding the letters must have been controlled by a timer of some kind because they were off now. But what shocked me was the scale. I was used to seeing the sign from a distance. From this perspective there was no sense of the word HOLLYWOODLAND. All I saw were gigantic letters looming dimly above me in the moonlight like ancient mon ...more
H.P. Oliver, The Truth Be Told

Mary Butts
Like men of his kind, at cross-purposes with their purpose, there could be nothing fortuitous that happened to him.
Mary Butts, The Complete Stories

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