Literature of the 1930s

Works of literature from the 1930s

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• 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
• As I Lay Dying
• At the Mountains of Madness
• At Swim-Two-Birds
• The Avenger. Series started in 1939.
• Babar. First appeared in 1931.

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• 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
• The Bounty Trilogy
• The Box Of Delights
• Brave New World
• Brighton Rock
• The Cat Who Went to Heaven
• The Circus of Doctor Lao
• The Code of the Woosters
• A Coffin for Dimitrios
• Cards on the Table
• Cold Comfort Farm
• Collected Poems — Robert Frost anthology
• Conan the Barbarian. First appeared in December, 1932.
• 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
• 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.
• Fer-de-lance
• Finnegans Wake

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• 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
• Gadsby
• Gladiator
• Gog
• Gone with the Wind
• The Good Earth
• Goodbye, Mr. Chips
• The Grapes of Wrath
• Greyfriars
• The Hobbit
• Homage to Catalonia
• Horatio Hornblower. Series started in 1937.
• 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
• Iron Shadows in the Moon
• 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
• Die Kinder aus Nr. 67
• The Kings Stilts
• Koziołek Matołek
• Land of Oz. Series started in 1900.
  • Handy Mandy In Oz
• The Late George Apley
• Last and First Men
• Laughing Gas
• Laughter in the Dark
• The League Of Frightened Men

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• 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
• The Man Without Qualities
• Mapp And Lucia
• A Martian Odyssey
• Mary Poppins
• Moment in Peking
• Moses, Man of the Mountain
• Mr. Popper's Penguins
• The Murder at the Vicarage
• 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
• Of Mice & 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
• 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
• The Rubber Band
• 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
• Tales of the Magic Land series started in 1939.
• A Tangled Web
• Tender Is the Night
• 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
• War with the Newts
• The Weapon Too Dreadful to Use
• When Worlds Collide
• The Whisperer in Darkness
• Who Goes There?
• A Witch Shall Be Born
• Wigs On The Green
• Xuthal of the Dusk
• The Yearling

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