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Great Depression Books
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The Grapes of Wrath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 200 times as great-depression)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,002,074 ratings — published 1939
The Four Winds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 178 times as great-depression)
avg rating 4.30 — 1,012,628 ratings — published 2021
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 123 times as great-depression)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,864,453 ratings — published 1937
Water for Elephants (Paperback)
by (shelved 105 times as great-depression)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,708,202 ratings — published 2006
Bud, Not Buddy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 97 times as great-depression)
avg rating 3.98 — 115,649 ratings — published 1999
The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 88 times as great-depression)
avg rating 4.07 — 62,446 ratings — published 2005
Out of the Dust (Paperback)
by (shelved 87 times as great-depression)
avg rating 3.77 — 79,735 ratings — published 1997
Esperanza Rising (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as great-depression)
avg rating 4.05 — 115,203 ratings — published 2000
Moon Over Manifest (Library Binding)
by (shelved 68 times as great-depression)
avg rating 4.04 — 36,172 ratings — published 2010
The Mighty Miss Malone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 54 times as great-depression)
avg rating 4.13 — 16,288 ratings — published 2012
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as great-depression)
avg rating 4.39 — 364,416 ratings — published 2013
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as great-depression)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,946,286 ratings — published 1960
This Tender Land (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as great-depression)
avg rating 4.39 — 224,101 ratings — published 2019
A Year Down Yonder (A Long Way from Chicago, #2)
by (shelved 45 times as great-depression)
avg rating 4.13 — 31,082 ratings — published 2000
A Long Way from Chicago (A Long Way from Chicago, #1)
by (shelved 40 times as great-depression)
avg rating 3.98 — 35,662 ratings — published 1998
Turtle in Paradise (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as great-depression)
avg rating 3.94 — 20,359 ratings — published 2010
West With Giraffes (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 38 times as great-depression)
avg rating 4.32 — 204,033 ratings — published 2021
The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek (The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek, #1)
by (shelved 36 times as great-depression)
avg rating 4.22 — 266,895 ratings — published 2019
The Giver of Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as great-depression)
avg rating 4.29 — 515,306 ratings — published 2019
Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as great-depression)
avg rating 4.19 — 2,944 ratings — published 1970
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (Logans, #4)
by (shelved 30 times as great-depression)
avg rating 3.90 — 130,573 ratings — published 1976
Echo Mountain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as great-depression)
avg rating 4.26 — 10,790 ratings — published 2020
Orphan Train (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as great-depression)
avg rating 4.20 — 466,282 ratings — published 2013
Sold on a Monday (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as great-depression)
avg rating 3.97 — 121,422 ratings — published 2018
The Truth According to Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as great-depression)
avg rating 3.75 — 19,705 ratings — published 2015
Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as great-depression)
avg rating 4.04 — 16,623 ratings — published 2009
Little Heathens: Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm During the Great Depression (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as great-depression)
avg rating 3.74 — 6,745 ratings — published 2007
The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as great-depression)
avg rating 3.91 — 6,288 ratings — published 2007
A Secret Gift: How One Man's Kindness & a Trove of Letters Revealed the Hidden History of the Great Depression (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as great-depression)
avg rating 3.61 — 2,987 ratings — published 2010
Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945 (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as great-depression)
avg rating 4.21 — 5,477 ratings — published 1999
Before We Were Yours (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as great-depression)
avg rating 4.40 — 735,470 ratings — published 2017
Songs of Willow Frost (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as great-depression)
avg rating 3.68 — 21,800 ratings — published 2013
Cannery Row (Cannery Row, #1)
by (shelved 18 times as great-depression)
avg rating 4.06 — 156,154 ratings — published 1943
Al Capone Does My Shirts (Tales from Alcatraz, #1)
by (shelved 18 times as great-depression)
avg rating 3.85 — 46,187 ratings — published 2004
Seabiscuit: An American Legend (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as great-depression)
avg rating 4.23 — 168,927 ratings — published 1999
Children of the Great Depression (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as great-depression)
avg rating 4.06 — 519 ratings — published 2005
Home in the Woods (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as great-depression)
avg rating 4.57 — 2,156 ratings — published 2019
Full of Beans (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 16 times as great-depression)
avg rating 4.05 — 3,557 ratings — published 2016
Christmas After All: The Great Depression Diary of Minnie Swift, Indianapolis, Indiana, 1932 (Dear America)
by (shelved 16 times as great-depression)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,553 ratings — published 2001
The Antidote (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as great-depression)
avg rating 3.89 — 15,059 ratings — published 2025
Under the Tulip Tree (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as great-depression)
avg rating 4.33 — 31,838 ratings — published 2020
Mary Coin (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as great-depression)
avg rating 3.91 — 9,479 ratings — published 2013
Tobacco Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as great-depression)
avg rating 3.71 — 15,961 ratings — published 1932
The Gardener (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as great-depression)
avg rating 4.34 — 7,213 ratings — published
The Great Crash 1929 (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as great-depression)
avg rating 3.92 — 6,455 ratings — published 1955
Whose Names Are Unknown (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as great-depression)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,665 ratings — published 2004
Meet Kit: An American Girl 1934 (American Girls: Kit, #1)
by (shelved 14 times as great-depression)
avg rating 4.04 — 5,924 ratings — published 2000
The Trackers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as great-depression)
avg rating 3.68 — 15,224 ratings — published 2023
Lila (Gilead, #3)
by (shelved 13 times as great-depression)
avg rating 3.95 — 35,903 ratings — published 2014
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as great-depression)
avg rating 4.28 — 328,598 ratings — published 1987
“The Great Depression cast shadows on the city. The roar of the Twenties had quieted to a soulful cry of the blues.”
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“When the cinema lights go down and the movie starts, it's such a relaxing moment knowing you can get away from your problems in the real world temporarily. That's how the film business started in The Great Depression. I've always thought moviegoing was akin to voluntarily retreating into a primal red (theatres are nearly always red) womb-like area where you're fed sustenance in the dark while having surreal experiences.”
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