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Depression Era Books
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Water for Elephants (Paperback)
by (shelved 109 times as depression-era)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,703,753 ratings — published 2006
The Four Winds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as depression-era)
avg rating 4.30 — 993,101 ratings — published 2021
The Grapes of Wrath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as depression-era)
avg rating 4.03 — 997,110 ratings — published 1939
This Tender Land (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as depression-era)
avg rating 4.39 — 221,893 ratings — published 2019
The Giver of Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as depression-era)
avg rating 4.29 — 510,325 ratings — published 2019
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as depression-era)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,846,582 ratings — published 1937
The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 24 times as depression-era)
avg rating 4.07 — 62,021 ratings — published 2005
West With Giraffes (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 22 times as depression-era)
avg rating 4.32 — 200,562 ratings — published 2021
The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek (The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek, #1)
by (shelved 20 times as depression-era)
avg rating 4.22 — 264,708 ratings — published 2019
Out of the Dust (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as depression-era)
avg rating 3.77 — 79,557 ratings — published 1997
Sold on a Monday (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as depression-era)
avg rating 3.97 — 120,692 ratings — published 2018
Before We Were Yours (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as depression-era)
avg rating 4.40 — 729,509 ratings — published 2017
The Persian Pickle Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as depression-era)
avg rating 3.77 — 23,918 ratings — published 1995
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as depression-era)
avg rating 4.39 — 362,641 ratings — published 2013
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as depression-era)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,908,633 ratings — published 1960
The Midwife of Hope River (Hope River #1)
by (shelved 11 times as depression-era)
avg rating 4.04 — 19,227 ratings — published 2012
Turtle in Paradise (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as depression-era)
avg rating 3.94 — 20,321 ratings — published 2010
The Mighty Miss Malone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as depression-era)
avg rating 4.13 — 16,248 ratings — published 2012
The Saints of Swallow Hill (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as depression-era)
avg rating 4.10 — 39,521 ratings — published 2022
Orphan Train (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as depression-era)
avg rating 4.20 — 464,885 ratings — published 2013
The Life She Was Given (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as depression-era)
avg rating 4.10 — 53,792 ratings — published 2017
Prayers for Sale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as depression-era)
avg rating 3.87 — 19,370 ratings — published 1997
Whose Names Are Unknown (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as depression-era)
avg rating 4.13 — 3,618 ratings — published 2004
The Well and the Mine (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as depression-era)
avg rating 3.77 — 3,749 ratings — published 2008
Moon Over Manifest (Library Binding)
by (shelved 8 times as depression-era)
avg rating 4.04 — 36,085 ratings — published 2010
The Trackers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as depression-era)
avg rating 3.68 — 15,106 ratings — published 2023
Wish You Well (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as depression-era)
avg rating 4.06 — 32,587 ratings — published 2000
The Lost Mother (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as depression-era)
avg rating 3.77 — 2,012 ratings — published 2005
Rules of Civility (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as depression-era)
avg rating 4.09 — 271,843 ratings — published 2011
North River (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as depression-era)
avg rating 3.89 — 5,426 ratings — published 2007
Cannery Row (Cannery Row, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as depression-era)
avg rating 4.06 — 154,993 ratings — published 1943
Bud, Not Buddy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as depression-era)
avg rating 3.97 — 115,301 ratings — published 1999
1929 (The 1929 Series, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as depression-era)
avg rating 3.94 — 4,341 ratings — published 2009
The Reluctant Midwife (Hope River #2)
by (shelved 6 times as depression-era)
avg rating 4.11 — 7,574 ratings — published 2015
Serena (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as depression-era)
avg rating 3.55 — 37,041 ratings — published 2008
Sea Glass (Fortune's Rocks Quartet, #2)
by (shelved 6 times as depression-era)
avg rating 3.71 — 28,067 ratings — published 2002
A Year Down Yonder (A Long Way from Chicago, #2)
by (shelved 6 times as depression-era)
avg rating 4.13 — 31,024 ratings — published 2000
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (Logans, #4)
by (shelved 6 times as depression-era)
avg rating 3.90 — 130,162 ratings — published 1976
Little Heathens: Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm During the Great Depression (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as depression-era)
avg rating 3.74 — 6,719 ratings — published 2007
Half Broke Horses (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as depression-era)
avg rating 4.09 — 173,580 ratings — published 2009
Esperanza Rising (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as depression-era)
avg rating 4.05 — 114,572 ratings — published 2000
Messenger of Truth (Maisie Dobbs, #4)
by (shelved 6 times as depression-era)
avg rating 4.02 — 33,931 ratings — published 2006
Christmas After All: The Great Depression Diary of Minnie Swift, Indianapolis, Indiana, 1932 (Dear America)
by (shelved 6 times as depression-era)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,545 ratings — published 2001
Rainwater (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as depression-era)
avg rating 4.13 — 22,002 ratings — published 2009
The Antidote (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as depression-era)
avg rating 3.90 — 13,594 ratings — published 2025
The Boxcar Librarian (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as depression-era)
avg rating 4.04 — 6,940 ratings — published 2025
Growing Up (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as depression-era)
avg rating 4.10 — 7,559 ratings — published 1982
The Truth According to Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as depression-era)
avg rating 3.75 — 19,675 ratings — published 2015
Mary Coin (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as depression-era)
avg rating 3.91 — 9,460 ratings — published 2013
Bird in a Box (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as depression-era)
avg rating 3.73 — 1,014 ratings — published 2011
“Food was the most valuable thing you could give someone."...The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek”
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“She kept on looking at me, and I knew that I didn’t imagine any of it. What she had proposed was real. The crime would happen, and if I crossed the street, I would be part of it. Maybe the good part at the end—the marriage part. But for sure, the bad part—the murder part.
Why is it that the bad part of life is the only sure thing?
–From 'Locked Room Mystery', Dark Thoughts & Other Stories”
― Dark Thoughts & Other Stories
Why is it that the bad part of life is the only sure thing?
–From 'Locked Room Mystery', Dark Thoughts & Other Stories”
― Dark Thoughts & Other Stories
