1938


Rebecca
Rules of Civility
Nausea
Homage to Catalonia
Anthem
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
Our Town
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
Brighton Rock
The Sword in the Stone (Once and Future King, #1)
Appointment with Death (Hercule Poirot, #19)
The Yearling
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
83 books — 61 voters

The Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. TolkienBrave New World by Aldous HuxleyGone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellOf Mice and Men by John SteinbeckThe Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Best Books of the Decade: 1930s
907 books — 1,257 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 — 70 voters

Rebecca by Daphne du MaurierThe Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan RawlingsOur Town by Thornton WilderThe Sword in the Stone by T.H. WhiteMr. Popper's Penguins by Richard Atwater
Best Books 1938
88 books — 39 voters

Ayn Rand
We are one of the Damned.
Ayn Rand, Anthem

John Grierson
The problem seemed especially important to the Scot in 1938. Never before had he so needed to summon up his strength of character and remember his traditions. No country was more badly hit by the economic changes between the wars... The shipping of men was our speciality, and for the first time probably in Scotland's history the younger generation had of necessity to look at its own country and see what could be done about it... A first duty was the articulation of Scottish problems to the Scot ...more
John Grierson, Grierson on Documentary

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