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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 — 2,902,821 ratings — published 1937
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 255 times as 1930s)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,122,378 ratings — published 1932
The Grapes of Wrath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 236 times as 1930s)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,013,227 ratings — published 1939
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (Paperback)
by (shelved 228 times as 1930s)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,556,885 ratings — published 1937
Rebecca (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 199 times as 1930s)
avg rating 4.25 — 747,046 ratings — published 1938
Water for Elephants (Paperback)
by (shelved 188 times as 1930s)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,717,123 ratings — published 2006
And Then There Were None (Paperback)
by (shelved 184 times as 1930s)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,673,823 ratings — published 1939
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Paperback)
by (shelved 175 times as 1930s)
avg rating 3.99 — 395,378 ratings — published 1937
Murder on the Orient Express (Hercule Poirot, #10)
by (shelved 155 times as 1930s)
avg rating 4.20 — 754,534 ratings — published 1934
Rules of Civility (Hardcover)
by (shelved 136 times as 1930s)
avg rating 4.09 — 277,334 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 — 191,240 ratings — published 1930
The Four Winds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 106 times as 1930s)
avg rating 4.30 — 1,051,337 ratings — published 2021
Gone With the Wind (Paperback)
by (shelved 102 times as 1930s)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,265,804 ratings — published 1936
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 94 times as 1930s)
avg rating 4.26 — 7,026,655 ratings — published 1960
Death on the Nile (Hercule Poirot, #18)
by (shelved 91 times as 1930s)
avg rating 4.12 — 316,726 ratings — published 1937
Cold Comfort Farm (Paperback)
by (shelved 82 times as 1930s)
avg rating 3.88 — 55,983 ratings — published 1932
Tender Is the Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 80 times as 1930s)
avg rating 3.77 — 152,080 ratings — published 1934
The Maltese Falcon (Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as 1930s)
avg rating 3.86 — 117,695 ratings — published 1930
The Waves (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as 1930s)
avg rating 4.14 — 55,489 ratings — published 1931
Nausea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 71 times as 1930s)
avg rating 3.93 — 143,972 ratings — published 1938
The A.B.C. Murders (Hercule Poirot, #13)
by (shelved 70 times as 1930s)
avg rating 4.03 — 209,612 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 — 272,118 ratings — published 2019
Down and Out in Paris and London (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as 1930s)
avg rating 4.09 — 104,243 ratings — published 1933
Murder at the Vicarage (Miss Marple, #1)
by (shelved 67 times as 1930s)
avg rating 4.04 — 219,662 ratings — published 1930
I, Claudius (Claudius, #1)
by (shelved 66 times as 1930s)
avg rating 4.24 — 74,516 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 — 74,033 ratings — published 1938
This Tender Land (Hardcover)
by (shelved 62 times as 1930s)
avg rating 4.39 — 228,459 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 — 49,983 ratings — published 1934
Light in August (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as 1930s)
avg rating 3.94 — 67,657 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 — 746,525 ratings — published 2017
Tropic of Cancer (Tropic, #1)
by (shelved 56 times as 1930s)
avg rating 3.65 — 79,184 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 — 48,843 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 — 86,127 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 — 367,777 ratings — published 2013
The Giver of Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as 1930s)
avg rating 4.29 — 524,889 ratings — published 2019
Cards on the Table (Hercule Poirot, #15)
by (shelved 50 times as 1930s)
avg rating 3.96 — 75,194 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 — 289,439 ratings — published 1932
Anthem (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as 1930s)
avg rating 3.61 — 169,160 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
“The fat woman came and offered us Turkish cigarettes and little red cubes of sweet stuff that smelled like soap and tasted like hell”
― The Face on the Cutting-Room Floor
― The Face on the Cutting-Room Floor
“The train bore me away, through the monstrous scenery of slag-heaps, chimneys, piled scrap-iron, foul canals, paths of cindery mud criss-crossed by the prints of clogs. This was March, but the weather had been horribly cold and everywhere there were mounds of blackened snow. As we moved slowly through the outskirts of the town we passed row after row of little grey slum houses running at right angles to the embankment. At the back of one of the houses a young woman was kneeling on the stones, poking a stick up the leaden waste-pipe which ran from the sink inside and which I suppose was blocked. I had time to see everything about her—her sacking apron, her clumsy clogs, her arms reddened by the cold. She looked up as the train passed, and I was almost near enough to catch her eye. She had a round pale face, the usual exhausted face of the slum girl who is twenty-five and looks forty, thanks to miscarriages and drudgery; and it wore, for the second in which I saw it, the most desolate, hopeless expression I have ever-seen. It struck me then that we are mistaken when we say that ‘It isn’t the same for them as it would be for us,’ and that people bred in the slums can imagine nothing but the slums. For what I saw in her face was not the ignorant suffering of an animal. She knew well enough what was happening to her—understood as well as I did how dreadful a destiny it was to be kneeling there in the bitter cold, on the slimy stones of a slum backyard, poking a stick up a foul drain-pipe.”
― The Road to Wigan Pier
― The Road to Wigan Pier












