1936


Gone With the Wind
Nightwood
Jamaica Inn
Double Indemnity (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)
The A.B.C. Murders (Hercule Poirot, #13)
Absalom, Absalom!
We the Living
How to Win Friends & Influence People
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
Death on the Installment Plan
Mephisto
Cards on the Table (Hercule Poirot, #15)
Invitation to a Beheading (Vintage International)
War with the Newts
At the Mountains of Madness
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

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
58 books — 69 voters
Gone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellKeep the Aspidistra Flying by George OrwellThe A.B.C. Murders by Agatha ChristieJamaica Inn by Daphne du MaurierThe Story of Ferdinand by Munro Leaf
Best Books 1936
117 books — 52 voters


Ashley Warlick
Cuban-heeled stockings; not the sort of thing you could buy for another man's wife. ...more
Ashley Warlick, The Arrangement

George Orwell
Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic Socialism, as I understand it.
George Orwell

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