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1930s Books
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Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 318 times as 1930s)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,924,797 ratings — published 1937
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 253 times as 1930s)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,136,287 ratings — published 1932
The Grapes of Wrath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 234 times as 1930s)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,019,636 ratings — published 1939
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (Paperback)
by (shelved 226 times as 1930s)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,591,278 ratings — published 1937
Rebecca (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 198 times as 1930s)
avg rating 4.25 — 755,117 ratings — published 1938
Water for Elephants (Paperback)
by (shelved 186 times as 1930s)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,721,862 ratings — published 2006
And Then There Were None (Paperback)
by (shelved 185 times as 1930s)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,689,542 ratings — published 1939
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Paperback)
by (shelved 174 times as 1930s)
avg rating 3.99 — 397,961 ratings — published 1937
Murder on the Orient Express (Hercule Poirot, #10)
by (shelved 157 times as 1930s)
avg rating 4.20 — 761,282 ratings — published 1934
Rules of Civility (Hardcover)
by (shelved 136 times as 1930s)
avg rating 4.09 — 278,958 ratings — published 2011
The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)
by (shelved 136 times as 1930s)
avg rating 3.94 — 172,562 ratings — published 1939
As I Lay Dying (Paperback)
by (shelved 112 times as 1930s)
avg rating 3.72 — 192,708 ratings — published 1930
The Four Winds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 104 times as 1930s)
avg rating 4.30 — 1,072,111 ratings — published 2021
Gone With the Wind (Paperback)
by (shelved 102 times as 1930s)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,268,501 ratings — published 1936
Death on the Nile (Hercule Poirot, #18)
by (shelved 93 times as 1930s)
avg rating 4.12 — 319,850 ratings — published 1937
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 93 times as 1930s)
avg rating 4.26 — 7,072,393 ratings — published 1960
Cold Comfort Farm (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as 1930s)
avg rating 3.88 — 56,311 ratings — published 1932
Tender Is the Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 80 times as 1930s)
avg rating 3.77 — 152,984 ratings — published 1934
The Maltese Falcon (Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as 1930s)
avg rating 3.86 — 118,377 ratings — published 1930
The Waves (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as 1930s)
avg rating 4.14 — 56,133 ratings — published 1931
The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek (The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek, #1)
by (shelved 72 times as 1930s)
avg rating 4.21 — 275,264 ratings — published 2019
The A.B.C. Murders (Hercule Poirot, #13)
by (shelved 70 times as 1930s)
avg rating 4.03 — 211,939 ratings — published 1936
Nausea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 70 times as 1930s)
avg rating 3.93 — 145,403 ratings — published 1938
Down and Out in Paris and London (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as 1930s)
avg rating 4.09 — 105,196 ratings — published 1933
Murder at the Vicarage (Miss Marple, #1)
by (shelved 67 times as 1930s)
avg rating 4.04 — 221,270 ratings — published 1930
The Thin Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as 1930s)
avg rating 3.89 — 39,289 ratings — published 1934
I, Claudius (Claudius, #1)
by (shelved 66 times as 1930s)
avg rating 4.24 — 74,890 ratings — published 1934
Homage to Catalonia (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as 1930s)
avg rating 4.09 — 74,707 ratings — published 1938
This Tender Land (Hardcover)
by (shelved 62 times as 1930s)
avg rating 4.39 — 230,989 ratings — published 2019
The Good Earth (House of Earth, #1)
by (shelved 61 times as 1930s)
avg rating 4.01 — 263,960 ratings — published 1931
Light in August (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as 1930s)
avg rating 3.94 — 68,010 ratings — published 1932
The Postman Always Rings Twice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as 1930s)
avg rating 3.76 — 50,441 ratings — published 1934
A Handful of Dust (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as 1930s)
avg rating 3.88 — 29,669 ratings — published 1934
Before We Were Yours (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as 1930s)
avg rating 4.40 — 752,714 ratings — published 2017
Tropic of Cancer (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as 1930s)
avg rating 3.65 — 79,576 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 — 63,800 ratings — published 2005
The Day of the Locust (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as 1930s)
avg rating 3.69 — 24,654 ratings — published 1939
Peril at End House (Hercule Poirot, #8)
by (shelved 55 times as 1930s)
avg rating 4.02 — 87,101 ratings — published 1932
Absalom, Absalom! (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as 1930s)
avg rating 3.99 — 49,256 ratings — published 1936
Mary Poppins (Mary Poppins, #1)
by (shelved 53 times as 1930s)
avg rating 4.00 — 142,583 ratings — published 1934
Brighton Rock (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as 1930s)
avg rating 3.69 — 37,246 ratings — published 1938
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 — 369,545 ratings — published 2013
The Giver of Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as 1930s)
avg rating 4.29 — 530,217 ratings — published 2019
I Capture the Castle (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as 1930s)
avg rating 3.98 — 118,146 ratings — published 1948
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as 1930s)
avg rating 3.98 — 19,125 ratings — published 1938
Cards on the Table (Hercule Poirot, #15)
by (shelved 50 times as 1930s)
avg rating 3.96 — 76,047 ratings — published 1936
Nightwood (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as 1930s)
avg rating 3.60 — 15,247 ratings — published 1936
Little House in the Big Woods (Little House, #1)
by (shelved 49 times as 1930s)
avg rating 4.21 — 290,961 ratings — published 1932
Hercule Poirot's Christmas (Hercule Poirot, #20)
by (shelved 49 times as 1930s)
avg rating 3.98 — 112,113 ratings — published 1938
Anthem (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as 1930s)
avg rating 3.61 — 169,794 ratings — published 1938
“But let us turn back to the tragic events of February 6. The story of the riots may be briefly told. A riot in France is one of the most remarkable things in the world. The frenzied combatants maintain perfect discipline. Seventeen people were barbarously killed, and several thousand injured, but there was no fighting at all between about seven-thirty p.m. and nine, when everyone took time out for dinner. When it started, no one thought of revolution; it was just a nice big riot. Communists, royalists, Fascists, socialists, fought shoulder to shoulder under both red flag and tricolor against the police and Garde Mobile. The fighting stopped on the stroke of twelve, because the Paris Metro (underground) stops running at twelve-thirty, and no one wanted to walk all the way home. Bloody, bandaged, fighters and police jostled their way into the trains together. Promptly at seven-thirty next morning the fighting started again. – John Gunther, Inside Europe pg. 154-155”
― Inside Europe
― Inside Europe
“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.
