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Non-Fiction Published in Decade: 1930s
(33 Books)
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Down and Out in Paris and London
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George Orwell
4.09 avg rating — 100,784 ratings
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The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
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Gertrude Stein
3.54 avg rating — 13,428 ratings
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My Inventions: The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla
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Nikola Tesla
3.91 avg rating — 12,769 ratings
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One Pair Of Hands
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Monica Dickens
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Axel's Castle: A Study of the Imaginative Literature of 1870-1930
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Edmund Wilson
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The Second Common Reader
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Virginia Woolf
4.28 avg rating — 420 ratings
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Education of a Princess a Memoir by Marie, Grand Duchess of Russia
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Marie, Grand Duchess of Russia
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Letters from Iceland
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W.H. Auden
3.71 avg rating — 274 ratings
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The English Eccentrics
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Edith Sitwell
3.78 avg rating — 187 ratings
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There's a Devil in the Drum
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John F. Lucy
4.63 avg rating — 107 ratings
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With Malice Toward Some
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Margaret Halsey
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The Horse and Buggy Doctor
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Arthur Emanuel Hertzler
3.59 avg rating — 86 ratings
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Black Range Tales: Chronicling Sixty Years of Life and Adventure in the Southwest
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James A. McKenna
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As We Were: A Victorian Peep-Show
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E.F. Benson
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First Childhood
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Lord Berners
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Home from the Sea: The Autobiography of Captain Rostron of the Carpathia, the Man Who Rescued the Titanic Survivors
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Arthur Rostron
4.29 avg rating — 24 ratings
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Plain Anne Ellis: More About the Life of an Ordinary Woman
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Anne Ellis
3.72 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Heaven Lies About Us
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Howard Spring
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Luzena Stanley Wilson, '49er
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Luzena Stanley Wilson
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The Log of a Limejuicer the Experiences Under Sail of James P Barker Master Marnier as Told to Ronald Barker
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James P. Barker
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Rat Week an Essay On the Abdication
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Osbert Sitwell
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The Halcyon Era: A Rambling Reverie of Now and Then
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Ernest William Hamilton
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A Victorian Childhood
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Annabel Huth Jackson
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Before the Storm
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Sophie Buxhoeveden
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Journal of Arnold Bennett: 1921-1928 (Collected Works of Arnold Bennett)
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Arnold Bennett
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A Frontier Army Surgeon, Life in Colorado in the Eighties
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Bernard James Byrne
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Journal of Arnold Bennett: 1911-1920 (Collected Works of Arnold Bennett)
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Arnold Bennett
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Enter a Child: Reminiscences of Childhood
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Dormer Creston
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Pioneering in Dakota
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Oscar William Coursey
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An Old Boy Remembers
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Reminiscences of Nine Decades
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Burr Jones
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Some Old Love Stories
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Thomas Power O'Connor
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Forty-Two Years in the White House.
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Irwin Hood Hoover
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