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Works of literature from the 1930s
- The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins
- 1066 and All That
- The ABC Murders
- 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
- 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
- Burmese Days
- By the Waters of Babylon
- Cards on the Table
- The Case of the Velvet Claws
- The Cat Who Went to Heaven
- 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
- 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
- The Faraway Tree — the entire series
- 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
- 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.
- How Do You Live?
- How to Win Friends and Influence People
- The Hour of the Dragon
- How Green Was My Valley
- 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 Kings Stilts
- Koziołek Matołek
- Lamb in His Bosom
- Land of Oz. Series started in 1900.
- 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
- The Lone Ranger. Book series started in 1936.
- Lost Horizon
- The Macbeth Murder Mystery
- Madeline
- The Maltese Falcon
- Man Eaters of Zamboula
- 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 on the Orient Express
- Musashi
- Mystery in White
- The Mysterious Mr. Quin
- Nancy Drew. Series began in 1930.
- National Velvet
- Nero Wolfe. First appears in 1934.
- Northwest Smith
- 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:
- 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)
- Tender Is the Night
- Thank You, Jeeves
- Their Eyes Were Watching God
- They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
- The Threepenny Novel
- The Thin Man
- The Thirteen Problems
- The Tower of the Elephant
- Trends
- Tropic of Cancer
- 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