1939


And Then There Were None
The Grapes of Wrath
The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)
Ask the Dust (The Saga of Arturo Bandini, #3)
Finnegans Wake
King Ottokar's Sceptre (Tintin #8)
The Mask of Dimitrios (Charles Latimer, #1)
The Day of the Locust
Rogue Male (Rogue Male, #1)
At Swim-Two-Birds
Goodbye to Berlin
Good Morning, Midnight
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
Tropic of Capricorn (Tropic, #2)
The Wild Palms
Brave New World by Aldous HuxleyOut of the Silent Planet by C.S. LewisAt the Mountains of Madness by H.P. LovecraftLost Horizon by James HiltonLast and First Men by Olaf Stapledon
Classic Science Fiction - 1930-1939
102 books — 116 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
905 books — 1,255 voters

And Then There Were None by Agatha ChristieThe Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckMadeline by Ludwig BemelmansBy the Shores of Silver Lake by Laura Ingalls WilderOld Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T.S. Eliot
Best Books 1939
77 books — 37 voters

Aleister Crowley
There is nothing mysterious or Oriental about anything, as everybody knows who has spent a little time intelligently in the continents of Asia and Africa.
Aleister Crowley, Eight Lectures on Yoga

Marques Rebelo
21 de fevereiro [1939] Hoje, terça-feira gorda, é o dia dos préstitos das grandes sociedades e, pelos anúncios de página inteira com evoés e versalhada, haverá muita alegoria estadonovista com subvencionados ouropeis, que os míopes poderão tomar como realidades estadonovistas. Que saiam! A estas horas já devem estar na rua, enguiçando nas curvas mais fechadas, com suas fanfarras, com suas encarapitadas deidades seminuas, que Aldina tão doidamente invejava, com seus fogos-de-bengala deixando ace ...more
Marques Rebelo, A Mudança

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