44 books
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11 voters
1930s Books
Showing 1-50 of 10,545
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 318 times as 1930s)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,924,684 ratings — published 1937
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 253 times as 1930s)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,136,225 ratings — published 1932
The Grapes of Wrath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 234 times as 1930s)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,019,609 ratings — published 1939
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (Paperback)
by (shelved 226 times as 1930s)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,591,138 ratings — published 1937
Rebecca (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 198 times as 1930s)
avg rating 4.25 — 755,069 ratings — published 1938
Water for Elephants (Paperback)
by (shelved 186 times as 1930s)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,721,832 ratings — published 2006
And Then There Were None (Paperback)
by (shelved 185 times as 1930s)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,689,458 ratings — published 1939
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Paperback)
by (shelved 174 times as 1930s)
avg rating 3.99 — 397,956 ratings — published 1937
Murder on the Orient Express (Hercule Poirot, #10)
by (shelved 157 times as 1930s)
avg rating 4.20 — 761,263 ratings — published 1934
Rules of Civility (Hardcover)
by (shelved 136 times as 1930s)
avg rating 4.09 — 278,943 ratings — published 2011
The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)
by (shelved 136 times as 1930s)
avg rating 3.94 — 172,555 ratings — published 1939
As I Lay Dying (Paperback)
by (shelved 112 times as 1930s)
avg rating 3.72 — 192,700 ratings — published 1930
The Four Winds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 104 times as 1930s)
avg rating 4.30 — 1,071,960 ratings — published 2021
Gone With the Wind (Paperback)
by (shelved 102 times as 1930s)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,268,489 ratings — published 1936
Death on the Nile (Hercule Poirot, #18)
by (shelved 93 times as 1930s)
avg rating 4.12 — 319,833 ratings — published 1937
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 93 times as 1930s)
avg rating 4.26 — 7,072,143 ratings — published 1960
Cold Comfort Farm (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as 1930s)
avg rating 3.88 — 56,310 ratings — published 1932
Tender Is the Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 80 times as 1930s)
avg rating 3.77 — 152,983 ratings — published 1934
The Maltese Falcon (Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as 1930s)
avg rating 3.86 — 118,374 ratings — published 1930
The Waves (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as 1930s)
avg rating 4.14 — 56,131 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 — 275,243 ratings — published 2019
The A.B.C. Murders (Hercule Poirot, #13)
by (shelved 70 times as 1930s)
avg rating 4.03 — 211,934 ratings — published 1936
Nausea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 70 times as 1930s)
avg rating 3.93 — 145,399 ratings — published 1938
Down and Out in Paris and London (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as 1930s)
avg rating 4.09 — 105,191 ratings — published 1933
Murder at the Vicarage (Miss Marple, #1)
by (shelved 67 times as 1930s)
avg rating 4.04 — 221,265 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 — 74,888 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 — 230,969 ratings — published 2019
The Good Earth (House of Earth, #1)
by (shelved 61 times as 1930s)
avg rating 4.01 — 263,957 ratings — published 1931
Light in August (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as 1930s)
avg rating 3.94 — 68,009 ratings — published 1932
The Postman Always Rings Twice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as 1930s)
avg rating 3.76 — 50,439 ratings — published 1934
A Handful of Dust (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as 1930s)
avg rating 3.88 — 29,668 ratings — published 1934
Before We Were Yours (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as 1930s)
avg rating 4.40 — 752,676 ratings — published 2017
Tropic of Cancer (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as 1930s)
avg rating 3.65 — 79,573 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 — 63,799 ratings — published 2005
The Day of the Locust (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as 1930s)
avg rating 3.69 — 24,653 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 — 49,254 ratings — published 1936
Mary Poppins (Mary Poppins, #1)
by (shelved 53 times as 1930s)
avg rating 4.00 — 142,582 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 — 369,532 ratings — published 2013
The Giver of Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as 1930s)
avg rating 4.29 — 530,174 ratings — published 2019
I Capture the Castle (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as 1930s)
avg rating 3.98 — 118,144 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 — 76,044 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 — 290,958 ratings — published 1932
Hercule Poirot's Christmas (Hercule Poirot, #20)
by (shelved 49 times as 1930s)
avg rating 3.98 — 112,111 ratings — published 1938
Anthem (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as 1930s)
avg rating 3.61 — 169,791 ratings — published 1938
“[At Eastham, probably after sexual abuse]: In Barrow's own words to Fults, 'I'd like to shoot all these damned guards and turn everybody loose.' Fults, initially unimpressed by the diminutive Barrow, later noted the change he witnessed. 'I seen him change from a schoolboy to a rattlesnake. He got real bitter.' ... This is echoed by members of the Barrow family who noted a distinct difference in Barrow's personality after his 1932 parole. According to his sister Marie, 'Something awful sure must have happened to him in prison, because he wasn't the same person when he got out.”
― My Life with Bonnie and Clyde
― My Life with Bonnie and Clyde
“For however inhospitable the wind, from this vantage point Manhattan was simply so improbable, so wonderful, so obviously full of promise - that you wanted to approach it for the rest of your life without ever quite arriving.”
― Rules of Civility
― Rules of Civility












