1933


Down and Out in Paris and London
In Praise of Shadows
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
Lost Horizon
The Red Pony
Miss Lonelyhearts
Man's Fate
The Street of Crocodiles
Testament of Youth
Saint Thomas Aquinas
Lord Edgware Dies (Hercule Poirot, #9)
Murder Must Advertise  (Lord Peter Wimsey, #10)
Walt Disney's Three Little Pigs (A Little Golden Book)
Residence on Earth
The Oppermanns
Lost Horizon by James HiltonFarmer Boy by Laura Ingalls WilderMurder Must Advertise by Dorothy L. SayersDown and Out in Paris and London by George OrwellLord Edgware Dies by Agatha Christie
Best Books 1933
76 books — 33 voters

Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls WilderThe Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. TolkienLittle House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls WilderMadeline by Ludwig BemelmansThe Story of Ferdinand by Munro Leaf
Best Children's Books of the 1930s
225 books — 53 voters
Red Famine by Anne ApplebaumThe Memory Keeper of Kyiv by Erin LittekenBloodlands by Timothy SnyderWinterkill by Marsha Forchuk SkrypuchExecution by Hunger by Miron Dolot
Books on Holodomor
76 books — 24 voters

Edwin Muir
The first thought of writing this book came to me two years ago after I had driven through the mining district of Lanarkshire. The journey took me through Hamilton, Airdrie and Motherwell. It was a warm, overcast summer day; groups of idle, sullen-looking young men stood at the street corners; smaller groups were wandering among the blue-black ranges of pit-dumps which in that region are the substitute for nature; the houses looked empty and unemployed like the tenants; and the road along which ...more
Edwin Muir, Scottish Journey

Jose R. Coronado
War brings about resolution for we've seen history repeat itself. Who respect a humble, peaceful negotiation between a colony subjected to its supremacy? None! Blood is accepted, violence is respected & war is honored. ...more
Jose R. Coronado, The Land Flowing With Milk And Honey

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