MJ's 1930s Decade Challenge

[MJ]

This started as a personal challenge of a century of books (definitely a multi-year challenge) 1850-onwards. The 1930s got filled with female authors, so I have decided to do this as a decade of female authors challenge. All but Edith Wharton and Agatha Christie are new to me.

1930 The Documents in the Case by Dorothy L. Sayers
1931 The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
1932 Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
1933 Frost in May by Antonia White
1934 Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
1935 Jamaica Inn by Daphne du Maurier
1936 Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
1937 The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton by Edith Wharton
1938 Tell My Horse: Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica by Zora Neale Hurston
1939 Pale Horse, Pale Rider by Katherine Anne Porter

[MJ]

Given my other challenges, I am not sure how realistic it is to finish this. I am trying to fill in Canadian female authors where I can in my longer, century challenge.

Aaaand, I am limiting myself to what I can find in my local libraries.

[MJ]

Tell My Horse is non-fiction, but with that title, I couldn't pass it up.

[Bob, Short Story Classics]

I have read five authors and three books from your selections. I think you will like them all. I am intrigued by Frost in May and Cold Comfort Farm. Enjoy.

[Kathleen]

What is it about the 30's? I'm doing that decade too, and look forward to comparing notes on Cold Comfort Farm and Murder on the Orient Express.

And I haven't read your Hurston book, but did just finish Mules and Men, and the voodoo stuff in that one was fascinating. Enjoy!

[Sue]

I'm doing almost the same decade and we have some overlap. Hopefully we can do some buddy reads

[Brina]

This is such an interesting list. I also plan on reading Pale Horse, Pale Rider so if you would like to buddy read, I'm open to it.

[Julie]

I'm also doing the 1930's - but our lists don't have a single book in common (though I have read several of the books on your list, and also some other books by the same authors).

The 1930's was obviously a great decade for female authors

[MJ]

Brina wrote: "This is such an interesting list. I also plan on reading Pale Horse, Pale Rider so if you would like to buddy read, I'm open to it."
And

Sue wrote: "I'm doing almost the same decade and we have some overlap. Hopefully we can do some buddy reads"

I have never done a buddy read, but I'd definitely be interested in trying!

[Brina]

They are fun. Because we can bounce ideas off each other and it is more fun to read as a group.

[Sarah]

I was thinking about doing the 1930s for my decade--lots of good books by women published then, it seems! I ended up going with the 1980s, though.

[siriusedward]

I liked Good Earth..hope you enjoy all the books MJ..