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1930s Books
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Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 316 times as 1930s)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,902,781 ratings — published 1937
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 255 times as 1930s)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,122,362 ratings — published 1932
The Grapes of Wrath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 236 times as 1930s)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,013,215 ratings — published 1939
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (Paperback)
by (shelved 228 times as 1930s)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,556,835 ratings — published 1937
Rebecca (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 199 times as 1930s)
avg rating 4.25 — 747,039 ratings — published 1938
Water for Elephants (Paperback)
by (shelved 188 times as 1930s)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,717,115 ratings — published 2006
And Then There Were None (Paperback)
by (shelved 184 times as 1930s)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,673,798 ratings — published 1939
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Paperback)
by (shelved 175 times as 1930s)
avg rating 3.99 — 395,377 ratings — published 1937
Murder on the Orient Express (Hercule Poirot, #10)
by (shelved 155 times as 1930s)
avg rating 4.20 — 754,523 ratings — published 1934
Rules of Civility (Hardcover)
by (shelved 136 times as 1930s)
avg rating 4.09 — 277,332 ratings — published 2011
The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)
by (shelved 135 times as 1930s)
avg rating 3.94 — 171,626 ratings — published 1939
As I Lay Dying (Paperback)
by (shelved 112 times as 1930s)
avg rating 3.72 — 191,239 ratings — published 1930
The Four Winds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 106 times as 1930s)
avg rating 4.30 — 1,051,315 ratings — published 2021
Gone With the Wind (Paperback)
by (shelved 102 times as 1930s)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,265,802 ratings — published 1936
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 94 times as 1930s)
avg rating 4.26 — 7,026,591 ratings — published 1960
Death on the Nile (Hercule Poirot, #18)
by (shelved 91 times as 1930s)
avg rating 4.12 — 316,723 ratings — published 1937
Cold Comfort Farm (Paperback)
by (shelved 82 times as 1930s)
avg rating 3.88 — 55,982 ratings — published 1932
Tender Is the Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 80 times as 1930s)
avg rating 3.77 — 152,078 ratings — published 1934
The Maltese Falcon (Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as 1930s)
avg rating 3.86 — 117,694 ratings — published 1930
The Waves (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as 1930s)
avg rating 4.14 — 55,487 ratings — published 1931
Nausea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 71 times as 1930s)
avg rating 3.93 — 143,970 ratings — published 1938
The A.B.C. Murders (Hercule Poirot, #13)
by (shelved 70 times as 1930s)
avg rating 4.03 — 209,606 ratings — published 1936
The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek (The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek, #1)
by (shelved 70 times as 1930s)
avg rating 4.21 — 272,116 ratings — published 2019
Down and Out in Paris and London (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as 1930s)
avg rating 4.09 — 104,240 ratings — published 1933
Murder at the Vicarage (Miss Marple, #1)
by (shelved 67 times as 1930s)
avg rating 4.04 — 219,660 ratings — published 1930
I, Claudius (Claudius, #1)
by (shelved 66 times as 1930s)
avg rating 4.24 — 74,514 ratings — published 1934
The Thin Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as 1930s)
avg rating 3.89 — 39,059 ratings — published 1934
Homage to Catalonia (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as 1930s)
avg rating 4.09 — 74,031 ratings — published 1938
This Tender Land (Hardcover)
by (shelved 62 times as 1930s)
avg rating 4.39 — 228,456 ratings — published 2019
The Good Earth (House of Earth, #1)
by (shelved 61 times as 1930s)
avg rating 4.01 — 263,228 ratings — published 1931
The Postman Always Rings Twice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as 1930s)
avg rating 3.76 — 49,982 ratings — published 1934
Light in August (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as 1930s)
avg rating 3.94 — 67,656 ratings — published 1932
A Handful of Dust (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as 1930s)
avg rating 3.88 — 29,520 ratings — published 1934
Before We Were Yours (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as 1930s)
avg rating 4.40 — 746,520 ratings — published 2017
Tropic of Cancer (Tropic, #1)
by (shelved 56 times as 1930s)
avg rating 3.65 — 79,183 ratings — published 1934
The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 55 times as 1930s)
avg rating 4.07 — 63,337 ratings — published 2005
Absalom, Absalom! (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as 1930s)
avg rating 3.99 — 48,842 ratings — published 1936
The Day of the Locust (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as 1930s)
avg rating 3.69 — 24,539 ratings — published 1939
Peril at End House (Hercule Poirot, #8)
by (shelved 55 times as 1930s)
avg rating 4.02 — 86,125 ratings — published 1932
Brighton Rock (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as 1930s)
avg rating 3.69 — 36,969 ratings — published 1938
I Capture the Castle (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as 1930s)
avg rating 3.98 — 117,487 ratings — published 1948
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as 1930s)
avg rating 3.98 — 19,016 ratings — published 1938
Mary Poppins (Mary Poppins, #1)
by (shelved 52 times as 1930s)
avg rating 4.00 — 142,188 ratings — published 1934
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as 1930s)
avg rating 4.39 — 367,773 ratings — published 2013
The Giver of Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as 1930s)
avg rating 4.29 — 524,881 ratings — published 2019
Cards on the Table (Hercule Poirot, #15)
by (shelved 50 times as 1930s)
avg rating 3.96 — 75,191 ratings — published 1936
Nightwood (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as 1930s)
avg rating 3.60 — 15,128 ratings — published 1936
Little House in the Big Woods (Little House, #1)
by (shelved 49 times as 1930s)
avg rating 4.21 — 289,438 ratings — published 1932
Anthem (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as 1930s)
avg rating 3.61 — 169,158 ratings — published 1938
Hercule Poirot's Christmas (Hercule Poirot, #20)
by (shelved 49 times as 1930s)
avg rating 3.98 — 111,508 ratings — published 1938
“That’s how we’ve ended up,” Ivan said with a bitter smile. “We work, as in the proverb: Enough trading, father — there’s no change left to give.
‘Why did they suddenly increase the grain procurement plan?’ Vasyl protested.
‘Everything seems the same — but it isn’t,’ Danylo explained. ‘The status of our land has changed, and so has the status of the collective farmers. What grew last year is now taxed differently. Even the poor peasants who joined the collective are no longer considered poor — and the taxes rise accordingly.’
‘Clever,’ Ivan muttered angrily. ‘They’ve laid out their accounting traps well.’
— Volodymyr Shablia, Stone. Book Two
Context note: In Soviet collective farms, taxes and grain quotas were often increased not because of real agricultural growth, but due to bureaucratic reclassification. Accounting became a tool of pressure that made normal farming impossible.”
― Камінь. Біографічний роман. Книга друга. Непрості дороги до пекла: Виживання в умовах насильства.
‘Why did they suddenly increase the grain procurement plan?’ Vasyl protested.
‘Everything seems the same — but it isn’t,’ Danylo explained. ‘The status of our land has changed, and so has the status of the collective farmers. What grew last year is now taxed differently. Even the poor peasants who joined the collective are no longer considered poor — and the taxes rise accordingly.’
‘Clever,’ Ivan muttered angrily. ‘They’ve laid out their accounting traps well.’
— Volodymyr Shablia, Stone. Book Two
Context note: In Soviet collective farms, taxes and grain quotas were often increased not because of real agricultural growth, but due to bureaucratic reclassification. Accounting became a tool of pressure that made normal farming impossible.”
― Камінь. Біографічний роман. Книга друга. Непрості дороги до пекла: Виживання в умовах насильства.
“She was not trying to hide something; nothing she might have tried to hide was left in her”
― The Face on the Cutting-Room Floor
― The Face on the Cutting-Room Floor
