1938


Rebecca
Rules of Civility
Nausea
Homage to Catalonia
Anthem
Our Town
Out of the Silent Planet (The Space Trilogy, #1)
Wait Until Spring, Bandini (The Saga of Arturo Bandini, #1)
Hercule Poirot's Christmas (Hercule Poirot, #20)
The Man Who Watched the Trains Go By
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
Brighton Rock
The Sword in the Stone (Once and Future King, #1)
Scoop
Appointment with Death (Hercule Poirot, #19)
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
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

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
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


Hannah Arendt
That concentration camps were ultimately provided for the same groups in all countries, even though there were considerable differences in the treatment of their inmates, was all the more characteristic as the selection of the groups was left exclusively to the initiative of the totalitarian regimes: if the Nazis put a person in a concentration camp and if he made a successful escape, say, to Holland, the Dutch would put him in an internment camp. Thus, long before the outbreak of the war the po ...more
Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism

Mary Butts
But of Paris it can be said that the right bank of the Seine belongs to the world, and the left bank to France.
Mary Butts, The Complete Stories

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