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. 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 — 1,267 voters
Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls WilderMary Poppins by P.L. TraversThe Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. TolkienLittle House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls WilderMadeline by Ludwig Bemelmans
Best Children's Books of the 1930s
225 books — 60 voters

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
26 books — 21 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
90 books — 63 voters

Brave New World by Aldous HuxleyOut of the Silent Planet by C.S. LewisLost Horizon by James HiltonLast and First Men by Olaf StapledonWar with the Newts by Karel Čapek
Classic Science Fiction - 1930-1939
94 books — 112 voters

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

“ 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

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