1937


The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
Of Mice and Men
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Death on the Nile (Hercule Poirot, #18)
Midnight in Peking: How the Murder of a Young Englishwoman Haunted the Last Days of Old China
Out of Africa
The Broken Ear (Tintin #6)
The Years
A Dangerous Place (Maisie Dobbs, #11)
How Do You Live?
And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street
The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton
After Midnight (Neversink)
Dumb Witness (Hercule Poirot, #17)
Shanghai Girls (Shanghai Girls, #1)
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

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

The Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. TolkienOf Mice and Men by John SteinbeckOn the Banks of Plum Creek by Laura Ingalls WilderDeath on the Nile by Agatha ChristieTheir Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Best Books 1937
80 books — 41 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 — 74 voters

J.R.R. Tolkien
It is not possible even at great length to “pot” The Lord of the Rings in a paragraph or two … It was begun in 1937, and every part has been written many times. Hardly a word in its 600,000 or more has been unconsidered. And the placing, size, style, and contribution to the whole of the features, incidents, and chapters has been laboriously pondered. I do not say this in recommendation. It is, I feel, only too likely that I am deluded, lost in a web of vain imaginings of not much value to others ...more
J.R.R. Tolkien

Aleister Crowley
... it was once necessary to proclaim the entire doctrine of Yoga in the fewest possible words.... I did so. “Sit still. Stop thinking. Shut up. Get out!” The first two of these instructions comprise the whole of the technique of Yoga. The last two are of a sublimity which it would be improper to expound in this present elementary stage.
Aleister Crowley, Eight Lectures on Yoga

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