Literature of the 1930s

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Works of literature from the 1930s

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• The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins
• 1066 and All That
• The ABC Murders
• A Blunt Instrument
• Absalom, Absalom!
• Adam Link. Series started in 1939.
• Address Unknown.
• The African Queen
• And Then There Were None
• Alamut
• Amtor. Series started in 1932.
• And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street
• Anthem
• Appointment with Death
• As I Lay Dying
• At the Mountains of Madness
• At Swim-Two-Birds
• The Avenger. Series started in 1939.
• Babar. First appeared in 1931.
• Ballet Shoes
• Beyond the Black River
• The Bigger They Come
• Biggles first appears in 1932.
• The Big Sleep
• Black Bat
• Black Colossus
• Black Destroyer
• Black Elk Speaks
• The Black Stranger
• The Blind Owl
• Bony series continued through the decade.
• The Bounty Trilogy
• The Box Of Delights
• Brave New World
• Brighton Rock
• The Buccaneers
• Burmese Days
• By the Waters of Babylon
• Cards on the Table
• The Case of the Velvet Claws
• The Cat Who Went to Heaven
• "The Chadbourne Episode"
• "The Charnel God"
• Choo Choo (1937)
• The Circus of Doctor Lao
• The Circus Series. Series started in 1938.
• The Code of the Woosters
• A Coffin for Dimitrios
• Cold Comfort Farm
• Collected Poems — Robert Frost anthology
• Conan the Barbarian. First appeared in December, 1932.
• The Convenient Marriage
• The Day of the Locust
• Death in the Clouds
• Death on the Nile
• Death to the French
• The Devil and Daniel Webster
• The Devil in Iron
• The Devil Rides Out
• Devil's Cub
• Dick and Jane
• Dividend on Death
• Doc Savage. First appeared in March, 1933.
• The Documents in the Case
• Domino Lady
• Down And Out In Paris And London
• The Dreams in the Witch House
• Dr. Gideon Fell. First appeared in 1933.
• Dumb Witness
• "A Fairy Story"
• The Faraway Tree — the entire series
• "Far Below"
• Finnegans Wake
• For Us, The Living: A Comedy of Customs was originally written in 1938, though not published till 2003.
• Four Faultless Felons
• From Beyond
• The Frost-Giant's Daughter
• A Further Range
• Gadsby
• "The Ghoul (1934)"
• Gladiator
• Gog
• Gone with the Wind
• The Good Earth
• Goodbye, Mr. Chips
• The Grapes of Wrath
• Greyfriars
• Hercule Poirot's Christmas
• The Hobbit
• Homage to Catalonia
• Horatio Hornblower. Series started in 1937.
• The Hour of the Dragon
• How Do You Live??
• How Green Was My Valley
• How to Win Friends and Influence People
• I, Claudius
• In Dubious Battle
• In the Walls of Eryx
• Invitation To A Beheading
• Iron Shadows in the Moon
• The Island of Sheep
• It Can't Happen Here
• Jamaica Inn
• Jane of Lantern Hill
• Jirel of Joiry
• Jo Gar. Series started in 1930.
• Johnny Got His Gun
• Journey to the End of the Night
• Keep the Aspidistra Flying
• Die Kinder aus Nr. 67
• The King's Stilts
• Koziołek Matołek
• Lamb in His Bosom
• Land of Oz. Series started in 1900.
  • Ojo in Oz
  • Handy Mandy in Oz
• The Late George Apley
• Last and First Men
• Laughing Boy
• Laughing Gas
• Laughter in the Dark
• Leiningen Versus the Ants
• Lensman series started in 1937.
• Lest Darkness Fall
• Light in August
• The Little Golden Calf
• Little House on the Prairie
• Lord Edgware Dies
• Lord Peter Wimsey — the series began in the 20s, but the last seven books were published between 1931 and 1937.
  • Strong Poison
  • The Five Red Herrings
  • Have His Carcase
  • Murder Must Advertise
  • The Nine Tailors
  • Gaudy Night
• The Lone Ranger. Book series started in 1936.
• Lost Horizon
• The Macbeth Murder Mystery
• Madeline
• The Maltese Falcon
• Man Eaters of Zamboula
• The Man Who Evolved
• Mapp and Lucia
• A Martian Odyssey
• Mary Poppins
• Mephisto
• Moment in Peking
• Moses, Man of the Mountain
• Mr. Popper's Penguins
• The Murder at the Vicarage
• Murder in the Mews
• Murder is Easy
• Murder of a Lady
• Murder on the Orient Express
• Musashi
• Mystery in White
• The Mysterious Mr. Quin
• Nancy Drew. Series began in 1930.
• "The Nameless Offspring"
• National Velvet
• Nero Wolfe. First appears in 1934.
  • Fer-de-lance
  • The League of Frightened Men
  • The Red Box
  • The Rubber Band
  • Too Many Cooks
  • Some Buried Caesar
• Northwest Smith
• Now in November
• Odd John
• Of Mice and Men
• Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
• The Once and Future King. First book 1938, series completed in 1958.
• Parker Pyne Investigates
• The Pendragon Legend
• Penny Parker series:
  • Tale of the Witch Doll
  • The Vanishing Houseboat
• Perry Mason. Series began in 1933.
• The People of the Black Circle
• Peril at End House
• Philo Vance. Series started in 1926 but continued to 1939.
• Peter No-Tail series began in 1939.
• The Phoenix on the Sword
• The Planeteers
• The Pool of the Black One
• The Postman Always Rings Twice
• The Prince Commands
• Queen of the Black Coast
• Rebecca
• Red Nails
• The Red Pony
• Right Ho, Jeeves
• Rogue Male
• Rogues in the House
• A Rose for Emily
• Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
• The Scarlet Citadel
• Scoop
• The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
• The Servants of Bit Yakin
• The Shadow. The first written Shadow story appeared in April, 1931.
• The Shadow Out of Time
• The Shadow Over Innsmouth
• The Shape of Things to Come
• A Shilling for Candles
• The Shunned House
• Sir Henry Merrivale. First appeared in 1934.
• The Sittaford Mystery. Published in 1931.
• Snow Country. Serialised from 1935-37. Novel published in 1948.
• The Space Trilogy. Started in 1938.
• The Spider. First appeared in October, 1933.
• Star Maker
• Stielauge Der Urkrebs
• The Story of Ferdinand
• Sugar Creek Gang series started in 1939.
• Swallows and Amazons
• The Sword Does Not Jest
• Taiko: Was serialized from 1939 to 1945.
• The Tale Of The Land Of Green Ginger (revised in the 1960s as The Land of Green Ginger)
• Tales of the Magic Land series started in 1939.
• A Tangled Web (1931)
• "The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath": Written over 1932 and 1933, published in 1934.
• Tender Is the Night
• Thank You, Jeeves
• Their Eyes Were Watching God
• "They"
• They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
• The Threepenny Novel
• The Thin Man
• The Thirteen Problems
• The Tower of the Elephant
• Trends
• Tropic of Cancer
• Turnabout
• The Ultimate Adventure (1939)
• Uncharted Seas
• Uncommon Law
• Vile Bodies
• War with the Newts
• The Weapon Too Dreadful to Use
• When Worlds Collide
• The Whisperer in Darkness
• The Will O The Wisp
• Who Goes There?
• Why Didn't They Ask Evans?
• A Witch Shall Be Born
• Wigs on the Green
• Xuthal of the Dusk
• The Yearling
• Years of Grace

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