1930s


Of Mice and Men
Brave New World
The Grapes of Wrath
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
Rebecca
Water for Elephants
And Then There Were None
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Murder on the Orient Express (Hercule Poirot, #10)
Rules of Civility
The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)
As I Lay Dying
The Four Winds
Gone With the Wind
To Kill a Mockingbird
A Spy Among Friends by Ben MacintyreThe Ghost by Jefferson MorleyA Spy Named Orphan by Roland PhilippsStalin's Englishman by Andrew LownieTreason in the Blood by Anthony Cave Brown
Cambridge Spy Ring (nonfiction)
30 books — 11 voters
The Ugly Swans by Arkady StrugatskyFraud, Famine and Fascism by Douglas TottleThis is Moscow Speaking and Other Stories by Yuli DanielThe Purges of the CPSU in the 1930s by Mario SousaA Voice from the Chorus by Andrei Sinyavsky
Samizdat
20 books — 2 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeRules of Civility by Amor TowlesMemoirs of a Geisha by Arthur GoldenAtonement by Ian McEwanThe Color Purple by Alice Walker
Best 1930s Historical Fiction
124 books — 217 voters
1776 by David McCulloughTeam of Rivals by Doris Kearns GoodwinBattle Cry of Freedom by James M. McPhersonJohn Adams by David McCulloughA People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn
U.S. History Reading List
446 books — 144 voters

The fat woman came and offered us Turkish cigarettes and little red cubes of sweet stuff that smelled like soap and tasted like hell
Cameron McCabe, The Face on the Cutting-Room Floor

Cynthia Sally Haggard
Mr. Russell—this is awkward—Mother is not happy—She told me never to see you again.” The force of his glare thrust her back on her heels. --Farewell My Life, Buona Notte Vita Mia
Cynthia Sally Haggard, Farewell My Life: Buona Notte Vita Mia

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