A Century of Books IV
By the Decade: 1930-1939

Most titles will be found in the fiction section, under the author’s last name. When that is not the case, the call number is noted.

1930:

The Maltese Falcon, Dashiell Hammett

Laments for the Living
(in Dorothy Parker Stories), Dorothy Parker

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1931:

The Joy of Cooking, Irma S. Rombauer 
(originally published in 1931, StCPL has the 1997 edition) 
641.5 ROM

Modern Architecture: Being the Kahn Lectures for 1930,
Frank Lloyd Wright
720.1 WRI

Harmonium, Wallace Stevens 
811.52 STE

The Good Earth, Pearl S. Buck
 
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1932:

1919 (in U. S. A.), John Dos Passos

Light in August, William Faulkner

Brave New World, Aldous Huxley

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1933:

God’s Little Acre, Erskine Caldwell

Lost Horizon, James Hilton

The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, Gertrude Stein  B Stein

My Life and Hard Times, James Thurber 
817 THU

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1934:

The Postman Always Rings Twice, James Cain

I, Claudius: From the Autobiography of Tiberius Claudius, Born B. C. 10, Murdered and Deified A. D. 54, Robert Graves
 
Jonah’s Gourd Vine (in Novels and Stories), Zora Neale Hurston

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1935:

Poetry of Youth, Edwin Markham 
811 MAR

Of Time and the River: A Legend of Man’s Hunger in His Youth, Thomas Wolfe

Call it Sleep, Henry Roth 
LARGE PRINT FIC ROTH

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1936:

How to Win Friends and Influence People, Dale Carnegie  158.1 CAR

Gone With the Wind, Margaret Mitchell

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1937:

The Trial (in English), Franz Kafka

Remembering Laughter, Wallace Stegner

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1939:

The Big Sleep, Raymond Chandler

The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck

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St. Charles Public Library

JHL
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