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Novels set in the 1930s

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To Kill a Mockingbird
novel by Harper Lee
And Then There Were None
1939 novel by Agatha Christie
Murder on the Orient Express
1934 novel by Agatha Christie
The Fountainhead
novel by Ayn Rand
The Green Mile
1996 novel by Stephen King
Sleeping Murder
1976 novel by Agatha Christie
Cloud Atlas
2004 novel by David Mitchell
Light in August
novel by William Faulkner
Brideshead Revisited
novel by Evelyn Waugh
The Color Purple
1982 novel by Alice Walker
Baccano!
is a Japanese light novel series written by Ryohgo Narita and illustrated by Katsumi Enami. The series, told from multiple points of view, is mostly set within a fictional United States across time most notably the Prohibition era. Its characters includes alchemists, thieves, thugs, Mafiosi and Camorristi, who are, at first, unconnected to one another. After an immortality elixir is recreated in 1930 Manhattan, the characters begin to cross paths, setting off events that spiral further and further out of control.
Under the Volcano
1947 book
The Six Bullerby Children
series of children's books by Astrid Lindgren
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
1940 novel by Carson McCullers
Broken April
1978 novel by Ismail Kadare
It Can't Happen Here
1935 dystopian novel by Sinclair Lewis
Invasion of the Sea
1905 novel by Jules Verne
Mother Night
novel by Kurt Vonnegut
The Painted Bird
book by Jerzy Kosinski
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
novella by Muriel Spark
Group Portrait with Lady
novel by Heinrich Böll
Reunion
1971 novella by Fred Uhlman
The Age of Reason
novel by Jean-Paul Sartre
Belle du Seigneur
1968 novel by Albert Cohen
Goodbye to Berlin
novel by Christopher Isherwood
Winter of the World
novel by Ken Follett
Children of the Arbat
novel by Anatoly Rybakov
Lest Darkness Fall
novel by L. Sprague de Camp
The Thin Man
1934 detective novel by Dashiell Hammett
Address Unknown
novel by Kathrine Taylor
A Escola
novel by Miguel M. Abrahão
All Men Are Mortal
1946 novel by Simone de Beauvoir
Oeroeg
Oeroeg (translated into English as "The Black Lake") is the first novel by Hella Haasse. First published anonymously in 1948, it has become one of the best-known Dutch novels and a staple of literary education for many Dutch schoolchildren. The novel, a Bildungsroman, is set in the former Dutch East Indies: the anonymous narrator grows up on a plantation in the Dutch colony of West Java, his childhood friend is a native boy of the same age. As the narrator grows up, he finds himself becoming estranged from his friend, as a result of the political and racial circumstances of colonial life. Afte
God's Little Acre
1933 novel by Erskine Caldwell
Peyton Place
1956 novel by Grace Metalious
The Nightingale
2015 novel by Kristin Hannah
The Family Corleone
novel by Edward Falco
The Girl Who Played Go
2001 novel by Shan Sa
For Us, the Living
2004 novel by Robert A. Heinlein
Allison
Japanese light novel series
The Keys of the Kingdom
novel by A. J. Cronin
The Colossus of Maroussi
novel by Henry Miller
Karmabhoomi
Karmabhoomi (, translated,The Land Where One Works) is a Hindi novel by Munshi Premchand.
The Beautiful Summer
short novel by Cesare Pavese
I Capture the Castle
1948 novel by Dodie Smith
The Professor and the Siren
1961 short story by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
Where the Red Fern Grows
1961 novel by Wilson Rawls
Friedrich
novel by Hans Peter Richter
Fer-de-Lance
1934 novel by Rex Stout
The Reprieve
1945 novel by Jean-Paul Sartre
Garden of Shadows
novel by V. C. Andrews
The Nine Tailors
1934 mystery novel by Dorothy L. Sayers
The Oppermanns
1933 novel by Lion Feuchtwanger