Reading in the 1930s
American Ballads and Folk Songs. John and Alan Lomax
And Then There Were None. Agatha Christie
Anthony Adverse. Hervey Allen
As I Lay Dying. William Faulkner
The Big Sleep. Raymond Chandler
Brave New World. Aldous Huxley
Call It Sleep. Henry Roth
Caddie Woodlawn. Carol Brink
Caps for Sale. Esphyr Slobodkina
The Children’s Hour. Lillian Hellman
Cimarron. Edna Ferber
The Citadel. A.J. Cronin
Collected Poems. Robert Frost
The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze and Other Stories. William Saroyan
The Devil and Daniel Webster. Stephen Vincent Benet.
Drums Along the Mohawk. Walter D. Edmonds
The Education of H*Y*M*A*N K*A*P*L*A*N. “Leonard Q. Ross”
Fatal Interview. Edna St. Vincent Millay
Four Saints in Three Acts. Gertrude Stein
God’s Little Acre. Erskine Caldwell
Gone with the Wind. Margaret Mitchell
The Good Earth. Pearl Buck
Goodbye, Mr. Chips. James Hilton
Goodbye to Berlin. Christopher Isherwood
The Grapes of Wrath. John Steinbeck
Guys and Dolls. Damon Runyon
The Hobbit; or, There and Back Again. J.R.R. Tolkien
How to Win Friends and Influence People. Dale Carnegie
I, Claudius. Robert Graves
I’m a Stranger Here Myself. Ogden Nash
Inside Europe. John Gunther
Jamaica Inn. Daphne du Maurier
Life Begins at Forty. Walter B. Pitkin
Life With Father. Clarence Day
The Little Foxes. Lillian Hellman
Little House in the Big Woods. Laura Ingalls Wilder
Lost Horizon. James Hilton
Magnificent Obsession. Lloyd C. Douglas
The Maltese Falcon. Dashiell Hammett
Mr. Popper’s Penguin’s. Atwater, Richard
Mourning Becomes Electra. Eugene O’Neill
Mutiny on the Bounty. Charles Bernard Nordhoff
National Velvet. Enid Bagnold
Northwest Passage. Kenneth Roberts
Not Without Laughter. Langston Hughes
Of Mice and Men. John Steinbeck
Only Yesterday. Frederick Lewis Allen
Our Town. Thornton Wilder
Out of Africa. Isak Dinesen
The Postman Always Rings Twice. James M. Cain
R.E. Lee. Douglas Southall Freeman
Rebecca. Daphne du Maurier
The Story of Civilization. Will and Ariel Durant
Studs Lonigan. James T. Farrell
Tender is the Night. F. Scott Fitzgerald
Their Eyes were Watching God. Zora Neale Hurston
This is My Story. Eleanor Roosevelt
Tobacco Road. Erskine Caldwell
Tortilla Flat. John Steinbeck
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. “B. Traven”
U.S.A. John Dos Passos
While Rome Burns. Alexander Woollcott
Winterset. Maxwell Anderson
The Yearling. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings