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Books of the 1930s

Between the wars: Faulkner in his prime, Steinbeck beginning, Waugh satirising everything. The Depression and the rise of fascism made urgency unavoidable. 55 titles in the catalogue from this decade.

As I Lay Dying William Faulkner · 1930 Essential Read Get it on Amazon →
Brave New World Aldous Huxley · 1932 Essential Read Get it on Amazon →
Murder on the Orient Express Agatha Christie · 1934 Essential Read Get it on Amazon →
The Hobbit J.R.R. Tolkien · 1937 Editor's Choice See details →
Their Eyes Were Watching God Zora Neale Hurston · 1937 Essential Read See details →
Rebecca Daphne du Maurier · 1938 Editor's Choice See details →
Brighton Rock Graham Greene · 1938 Essential Read See details →
Our Town Thornton Wilder · 1938 Essential Read See details →
The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck · 1939 Essential Read See details →
And Then There Were None Agatha Christie · 1939 Essential Read See details →
The Big Sleep Raymond Chandler · 1939 Essential Read See details →
The Maltese Falcon Dashiell Hammett · 1930 Recommended See details →
Paul Klee Paul Klee · 1930 Recommended See details →
Angel Pavement J. B. Priestley · 1930 Recommended See details →
The Murder at the Vicarage Agatha Christie · 1930 Recommended See details →
War in heaven Charles Williams · 1930 Recommended See details →
Confession of Zeno Italo Svevo · 1930 Recommended See details →
The Little Engine That Could Watty Piper · 1930 Recommended See details →
Vol de nuit Antoine de Saint-Exupéry · 1931 Recommended See details →
Max Beckmann Max Beckmann · 1931 Recommended See details →
The Waves Virginia Woolf · 1931 Recommended See details →
Henry James Leon Edel · 1931 Recommended See details →
The Purloined Letter Edgar Allan Poe · 1931 Recommended See details →
Little House in the Big Woods Laura Ingalls Wilder · 1932 Recommended See details →
Down and Out in Paris and London George Orwell · 1933 Recommended See details →
Tender is the Night F. Scott Fitzgerald · 1933 Recommended See details →
Marlborough Winston S. Churchill · 1933 Recommended See details →
The mis-education of the Negro Carter Godwin Woodson · 1933 Recommended See details →
Saint Thomas Aquinas Gilbert Keith Chesterton · 1933 Recommended See details →
The Red Pony John Steinbeck · 1933 Recommended See details →
Henry Moore David Sylvester · 1934 Recommended See details →
The Nine Tailors Dorothy L. Sayers · 1934 Recommended See details →
Murder in the Cathedral T. S. Eliot · 1934 Recommended See details →
Mein Weltbild Albert Einstein · 1934 Recommended See details →
The Free Fishers John Buchan · 1934 Recommended See details →
Selected literary criticism D. H. Lawrence · 1935 Recommended See details →
The Logic of Scientific Discovery Karl Popper · 1935 Recommended See details →
Lucy Gayheart Willa Cather · 1935 Recommended See details →
The box of delights, or When the wolves were running John Masefield · 1935 Recommended See details →
How to Win Friends and Influence People Dale Carnegie · 1936 Recommended See details →
Terre des hommes Antoine de Saint-Exupéry · 1936 Recommended See details →
Anne of Windy Poplars Lucy Maud Montgomery · 1936 Recommended See details →
The A.B.C. Murders Agatha Christie · 1936 Recommended See details →
Atlas Shrugged (Centennial Ed. HC) Ayn Rand · 1936 Recommended See details →
Válka s mloky Karel Čapek · 1936 Recommended See details →
Gone With the Wind Margaret Mitchell · 1936 Recommended See details →
Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck · 1937 Recommended See details →
Think and Grow Rich Napoleon Hill · 1937 Recommended See details →
Homage to Catalonia George Orwell · 1938 Recommended See details →
The reluctant dragon Kenneth Grahame · 1938 Recommended See details →
Three guineas Virginia Woolf · 1938 Recommended See details →
Understanding poetry Cleanth Brooks · 1938 Recommended See details →
Homo Ludens Johan Huizinga · 1938 Recommended See details →
The Yearling Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings · 1938 Recommended See details →
Anne of Ingleside Lucy Maud Montgomery · 1939 Recommended See details →

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