1930s Reading Suggestions for Adults and Teens
With the start of the Great Depression, the library expands its
hours by adding evening and Sunday hours.
Reading suggestions
Fiction
The Hobbit
by: J.R.R. Tolkien
FS T6514ht
Gone with the Wind
by: Margaret Mitchell
F M682g
The Grapes of Wrath
by: John Steinbeck
F S8195g2
Out of the Silent Planet
by: C.S. Lewis
FS L67330
Murder on the Orient Express
by: Agatha Christie
FM CHRI
The Big Sleep
by: Raymond Chandler
FM C456b
The Good Earth
by: Pearl S. Buck
F B9224ge
As I Lay Dying
by: William Faulkner
F F263as2
Anne of Windy Poplars
by: L.M. Montgomery
F M7875aw
A Handful of Dust
by: Evelyn Waugh
F W354ha
The Code of the Woosters
by: P.G. Wodehouse
F W8386co
Green Hills of Africa
by: Ernest Hemingway
F H4883g
Brave New World
by: Aldous Huxley
FS H986b
Rebecca
by: Daphne du Maurier
F D 8866r
Of Mice and Men
by: John Steinbeck
F S8195o2
I, Claudius
by: Robert Graves
F G7765i
Tender Is the Night
by: F. Scott Fitzgerald
F F5536te
The Maltese Falcon
by: Dashiell Hammett
FM H2246m
The Yearling
by: Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
F R2593y
The Citadel
by: A. J. Cronin
F C947c
Drums Along the Mohawk
by: Walter D. Edmonds
F E24d
It Can't Happen Here
by: Sinclair Lewis
F LEWI
Non­fiction
The Empire State Building
by: Theodore James
974.71 J29
Pluto and Charon: Ice Worlds on the Ragged Edge of the Solar System
by: Alan Stern
523.482 S83
The Shattered Dream: Herbert Hoover and the Great Depression
by: Gene Smith
973.916 S64
Lindbergh: The Crime
by: Noel Behn
364.154 B41
FDR and Lucy: Lovers and Friends
by: Resa Willis
973.917 W73
Nothing To Fear: FDR’s Inner Circle and the 100 Days That Created Modern America
by: Adam Cohen
973.917 C67
The Roosevelts and the Royals: Franklin, Eleanor, the King and Queen of England and
The Friendship That Changed History
by: Will Swift
941.084 S97
FDR And His Enemies
by: Albert Fried
973.917 F89
Traitor To His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of FDR
by: H.W. Brands B R781br
The Defining Moment: FDR’s 100 Days and The Triumph of Hope
by: Jonathan Alter
973.917 A46
The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American
Dust Bowl
by: Timothy Egan
978.032 E28
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest For Gold at the 1936
Olympics
by: Daniel Brown
797.123 B87
Nazi Games: The Olympics of 1936
by: David Clay Large
796.48 L32
Orson Welles: The Rise and Fall of an American Genius
by: Charles Higham
B W451h
Trylon and Perisphere: The 1939 New York World’s Fair
by: Barbara Cohen
909.823 C67
There Are Mountains to Climb
by: Jean Deeds
917.41 D31
A Great Day In Cooperstown: The Improbable Birth of the Baseball Hall of Fame
by: Jim Keisler
796.357 R37
Anais Nin Observed: From a Film Portrait of a Woman as Artist
by: Robert Snyder
818 S675
Young Adult Fiction
The Hobbit
by: J.R.R. Tolkien
YA PB TOLK
Of Mice and Men
by: John Steinbeck
YA PB STEI
The Red Pony
by: John Steinbeck
YA PB STEI
The Truth about Sparrows
by: Marian Hale
YA F H1625t
All the Earth, Thrown To the Sky
by: Joe R. Lansdale
YA F LANS