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Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 318 times as 1930s)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,962,842 ratings — published 1937
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 260 times as 1930s)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,161,067 ratings — published 1932
The Grapes of Wrath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 240 times as 1930s)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,031,351 ratings — published 1939
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (Paperback)
by (shelved 227 times as 1930s)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,647,769 ratings — published 1937
Rebecca (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 204 times as 1930s)
avg rating 4.25 — 771,361 ratings — published 1938
And Then There Were None (Paperback)
by (shelved 186 times as 1930s)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,721,379 ratings — published 1939
Water for Elephants (Paperback)
by (shelved 185 times as 1930s)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,728,970 ratings — published 2006
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Paperback)
by (shelved 177 times as 1930s)
avg rating 4.00 — 401,832 ratings — published 1937
Murder on the Orient Express (Hercule Poirot, #10)
by (shelved 158 times as 1930s)
avg rating 4.20 — 774,176 ratings — published 1934
Rules of Civility (Hardcover)
by (shelved 135 times as 1930s)
avg rating 4.09 — 281,949 ratings — published 2011
The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)
by (shelved 135 times as 1930s)
avg rating 3.94 — 174,177 ratings — published 1939
As I Lay Dying (Paperback)
by (shelved 111 times as 1930s)
avg rating 3.72 — 195,325 ratings — published 1930
The Four Winds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 105 times as 1930s)
avg rating 4.30 — 1,104,390 ratings — published 2021
Gone With the Wind (Paperback)
by (shelved 103 times as 1930s)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,273,074 ratings — published 1936
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 95 times as 1930s)
avg rating 4.26 — 7,142,437 ratings — published 1960
Death on the Nile (Hercule Poirot, #18)
by (shelved 91 times as 1930s)
avg rating 4.12 — 325,362 ratings — published 1937
Tender Is the Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as 1930s)
avg rating 3.76 — 154,485 ratings — published 1934
Cold Comfort Farm (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as 1930s)
avg rating 3.87 — 56,890 ratings — published 1932
The Maltese Falcon (Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as 1930s)
avg rating 3.86 — 119,482 ratings — published 1930
The Waves (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as 1930s)
avg rating 4.14 — 57,273 ratings — published 1931
The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek (The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek, #1)
by (shelved 73 times as 1930s)
avg rating 4.21 — 280,299 ratings — published 2019
The A.B.C. Murders (Hercule Poirot, #13)
by (shelved 71 times as 1930s)
avg rating 4.03 — 215,904 ratings — published 1936
Down and Out in Paris and London (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as 1930s)
avg rating 4.09 — 106,969 ratings — published 1933
Nausea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 70 times as 1930s)
avg rating 3.93 — 147,921 ratings — published 1938
Murder at the Vicarage (Miss Marple, #1)
by (shelved 67 times as 1930s)
avg rating 4.03 — 225,682 ratings — published 1930
Homage to Catalonia (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as 1930s)
avg rating 4.09 — 76,115 ratings — published 1938
I, Claudius (Claudius, #1)
by (shelved 66 times as 1930s)
avg rating 4.24 — 75,662 ratings — published 1934
The Thin Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as 1930s)
avg rating 3.89 — 39,570 ratings — published 1934
This Tender Land (Hardcover)
by (shelved 62 times as 1930s)
avg rating 4.38 — 235,133 ratings — published 2019
The Good Earth (House of Earth, #1)
by (shelved 61 times as 1930s)
avg rating 4.01 — 265,529 ratings — published 1931
The Postman Always Rings Twice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as 1930s)
avg rating 3.75 — 51,141 ratings — published 1934
Light in August (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as 1930s)
avg rating 3.95 — 68,873 ratings — published 1932
A Handful of Dust (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as 1930s)
avg rating 3.88 — 29,934 ratings — published 1934
Before We Were Yours (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as 1930s)
avg rating 4.40 — 763,803 ratings — published 2017
Tropic of Cancer (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as 1930s)
avg rating 3.65 — 80,276 ratings — published 1934
The Giver of Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as 1930s)
avg rating 4.29 — 538,639 ratings — published 2019
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 — 64,544 ratings — published 2005
Absalom, Absalom! (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as 1930s)
avg rating 4.00 — 49,846 ratings — published 1936
The Day of the Locust (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as 1930s)
avg rating 3.69 — 24,832 ratings — published 1939
Peril at End House (Hercule Poirot, #8)
by (shelved 54 times as 1930s)
avg rating 4.02 — 88,607 ratings — published 1932
Brighton Rock (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as 1930s)
avg rating 3.69 — 37,760 ratings — published 1938
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as 1930s)
avg rating 3.98 — 19,319 ratings — published 1938
Mary Poppins (Mary Poppins, #1)
by (shelved 52 times as 1930s)
avg rating 4.00 — 143,263 ratings — published 1934
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as 1930s)
avg rating 4.39 — 372,646 ratings — published 2013
I Capture the Castle (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as 1930s)
avg rating 3.98 — 119,228 ratings — published 1948
Nightwood (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as 1930s)
avg rating 3.60 — 15,450 ratings — published 1936
Cards on the Table (Hercule Poirot, #15)
by (shelved 50 times as 1930s)
avg rating 3.96 — 77,461 ratings — published 1936
Jamaica Inn (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 49 times as 1930s)
avg rating 3.90 — 64,624 ratings — published 1936
Little House in the Big Woods (Little House, #1)
by (shelved 49 times as 1930s)
avg rating 4.21 — 293,491 ratings — published 1932
Hercule Poirot's Christmas (Hercule Poirot, #20)
by (shelved 49 times as 1930s)
avg rating 3.98 — 113,093 ratings — published 1938
“To clear up a murder you must do your own killing”
― The Face on the Cutting-Room Floor
― The Face on the Cutting-Room Floor
“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.
