Best Books of 1926-1935

Descrição
Asa Don Dickinson, Librarian of Brooklyn College, compiled this list of about 400 books in 1937 from a number of "best books" lists. His book describing these 1000 books is now in the public domain. An image copy is available on HathiTrust.
1
The Good Earth
de Pearl S. Buck
13,812 membros
265 resenhas
4
4 Members
pamelad, ahef1963, NinieB, Shonamarie
2
Collected Poems
de W. B. Yeats
3,530 membros
26 resenhas
½ 4.4
4 Members
hipdeep, ahef1963, Shonamarie, ManWithAnAgenda
3
A Farewell to Arms
de Ernest Hemingway
22,374 membros
243 resenhas
½ 3.7
3 Members
pamelad, ahef1963, Shonamarie
4
Murder in the Cathedral
de T. S. Eliot
3,090 membros
31 resenhas
½ 3.7
3 Members
hipdeep, ahef1963, Shonamarie
5
Testament of Youth
de Vera Brittain
2,154 membros
53 resenhas
4.1
3 Members
pamelad, ahef1963, Shonamarie
6
Rumo ao Farol
de Virginia Woolf
17,557 membros
268 resenhas
3.9
2 Members
pamelad, ManWithAnAgenda
7
Orlando: A Biography
de Virginia Woolf
10,590 membros
174 resenhas
3.9
2 Members
pamelad, ManWithAnAgenda
8
Journey to the End of the Night
de Louis-Ferdinand Céline
6,005 membros
82 resenhas
4.2
2 Members
pamelad, pitjrw
9
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
de Thornton Wilder
4,763 membros
119 resenhas
3.8
2 Members
pamelad, NinieB
10
In Search of Lost Time
de Marcel Proust
3,883 membros
44 resenhas
½ 4.5
2 Members
pamelad, ManWithAnAgenda
11
It Can't Happen Here
de Sinclair Lewis
3,354 membros
88 resenhas
½ 3.7
2 Members
Shonamarie, ManWithAnAgenda
12
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
de James Hilton
2,296 membros
51 resenhas
3.8
2 Members
pamelad, NinieB
13
Elmer Gantry
de Sinclair Lewis
1,536 membros
44 resenhas
4
2 Members
pamelad, Shonamarie
14
Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920s
de Frederick Lewis Allen
1,195 membros
27 resenhas
4.1
2 Members
pamelad, Shonamarie
15
Laughing Boy
de Oliver La Farge
721 membros
21 resenhas
3.8
2 Members
NinieB, Shonamarie
16
Grand Hotel
de Vicki Baum
610 membros
11 resenhas
3.8
2 Members
pamelad, pitjrw
17
Dodsworth
de Sinclair Lewis
604 membros
13 resenhas
3.8
2 Members
pamelad, Shonamarie
18
Mourning Becomes Electra
de Eugene O'Neill
348 membros
2 resenhas
3.8
2 Members
hipdeep, ManWithAnAgenda
19
Strange Interlude
de Eugene O'Neill
164 membros
7 resenhas
½ 3.7
2 Members
hipdeep, NinieB
20
Boston: A Documentary Novel of the Sacco-Vanzetti Case
de Upton Sinclair
87 membros
1 resenha
3.8
2 Members
pamelad, Shonamarie
21
The Sun Also Rises
de Ernest Hemingway
22,927 membros
336 resenhas
3.8
Member
pitjrw
22
All Quiet on the Western Front
de Erich Maria Remarque
19,053 membros
403 resenhas
4.1
Member
pamelad
23
Death Comes for the Archbishop
de Willa Cather
5,927 membros
147 resenhas
4
Member
pamelad
24
Gaudy Night
de Dorothy L. Sayers
5,446 membros
149 resenhas
½ 4.3
Member
pitjrw
25
Nightwood
de Djuna Barnes
3,120 membros
58 resenhas
½ 3.5
Member
pitjrw
26
Passing
de Nella Larsen
2,695 membros
102 resenhas
3.8
Member
pitjrw
27
Point Counter Point
de Aldous Huxley
2,596 membros
26 resenhas
3.8
Member
pamelad
28
Bambi: A Life in the Woods
de Felix Salten
2,441 membros
50 resenhas
4
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
29
And Quiet Flows the Don
de Mikhail Sholokhov
1,553 membros
20 resenhas
4
Member
Shonamarie
30
Lolly Willowes, or The Loving Huntsman
de Sylvia Townsend Warner
1,525 membros
69 resenhas
3.8
Member
pitjrw
31
1919
de John Dos Passos
1,060 membros
9 resenhas
4
Member
pitjrw
32
Microbe Hunters
de Paul De Kruif
1,018 membros
21 resenhas
4
Member
Shonamarie
33
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
de Anita Loos
976 membros
36 resenhas
½ 3.6
Member
pitjrw
34
Bread and Wine (Signet Classics)
de Ignazio Silone
968 membros
11 resenhas
3.8
Member
pitjrw
35
Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man
de Siegfried Sassoon
721 membros
13 resenhas
3.8
Member
pamelad
36
Life with Father
de Clarence Day
721 membros
12 resenhas
½ 3.6
Member
hipdeep
37
Axel's Castle: A Study of the Imaginative Literature of 1870-1930
de Edmund Wilson
662 membros
7 resenhas
3.9
Member
Shonamarie
38
Not Without Laughter
de Langston Hughes
641 membros
15 resenhas
3.8
Member
pamelad
39
Lucy Gayheart
de Willa Cather
563 membros
17 resenhas
3.9
Member
pamelad
40
Elizabeth and Essex: A Tragic History
de Lytton Strachey
545 membros
7 resenhas
3.8
Member
pamelad
41
A Modern Comedy
de John Galsworthy
479 membros
2 resenhas
4.2
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
42
The Fortnight in September
de R. C. Sherriff
477 membros
22 resenhas
4
Member
pitjrw
43
Show Boat
de Edna Ferber
460 membros
6 resenhas
½ 3.7
Member
pamelad
44
A Backward Glance: An Autobiography
de Edith Wharton
404 membros
8 resenhas
4
Member
Shonamarie
45
Miss Mole
de E. H. Young
338 membros
15 resenhas
4.1
Member
pamelad
46
End of the Chapter
de John Galsworthy
316 membros
2 resenhas
4.1
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
47
Henry the Eighth
de Francis Hackett
275 membros
4 resenhas
½ 3.6
Member
NinieB
48
Enough Rope
de Dorothy Parker
209 membros
6 resenhas
4.2
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
49
The Deepening Stream
de Dorothy Canfield
83 membros
1 resenha
½ 4.5
Member
Shonamarie
50
The Grandmothers: A Family Portrait
de Glenway Wescott
76 membros
1 resenha
½ 3.5
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
51
They Stooped to Folly
de Ellen Glasgow
52 membros
4
Member
Shonamarie
52
Collected Poems of Robert Frost
de Robert Frost
52 membros
1 resenha
4
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
53
I Change Worlds: The Remaking of an American
de Anna Louise Strong
40 membros
4
Member
Shonamarie
54
Preface to a life
de Zona Gale
4 membros
1 resenha
3
Member
Shonamarie
55
Seven Pillars of Wisdom
de T. E. Lawrence
4,778 membros
55 resenhas
4
56
The story of philosophy
de Will Durant
4,227 membros
30 resenhas
3.9
57
Sanctuary
de William Faulkner
3,731 membros
40 resenhas
½ 3.6
58
Kristin Lavransdatter
de Sigrid Undset
3,022 membros
75 resenhas
4.2
59
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
de Gertrude Stein
2,679 membros
43 resenhas
½ 3.6
60
Gardner's Art through the Ages
de Helen Gardner
2,309 membros
8 resenhas
4.2
61
The Greek Way
de Edith Hamilton
2,132 membros
20 resenhas
3.8
62
Hitty: Her First Hundred Years
de Rachel Field
1,794 membros
37 resenhas
3.8
63
Men Without Women
de Ernest Hemingway
1,583 membros
23 resenhas
½ 3.6
64
Flush: A Biography
de Virginia Woolf
1,407 membros
38 resenhas
3.8
65
Giants in the Earth
de O. E. Rølvaag
1,394 membros
22 resenhas
4
66
Oil!
de Upton Sinclair
1,356 membros
24 resenhas
½ 3.6
67
All Passion Spent
de Vita Sackville-West
1,184 membros
56 resenhas
4
68
A Lantern in Her Hand
de Bess Streeter Aldrich
1,054 membros
19 resenhas
4
69
Marie Antoinette: The Portrait of an Average Woman
de Stefan Zweig
1,020 membros
31 resenhas
4
70
The Story of San Michele
de Axel Munthe
939 membros
13 resenhas
4.2
71
History of the Russian Revolution
de Leon Trotsky
895 membros
10 resenhas
4.2
72
John Brown's Body
de Stephen Vincent Benét
887 membros
14 resenhas
3.8
73
Shadows on the Rock
de Willa Cather
869 membros
21 resenhas
4
74
Revolt in the Desert
de T. E. Lawrence
812 membros
6 resenhas
4
75
Black Reconstruction in America, 1860-1880
de W. E. B. Du Bois
808 membros
4 resenhas
½ 4.5
76
Grades De Ouro
de Vita Sackville-West
771 membros
26 resenhas
½ 3.7
77
Sons
de Pearl S. Buck
692 membros
23 resenhas
3.8
78
The Forty Days of Musa Dagh
de Franz Werfel
681 membros
14 resenhas
½ 4.3
79
Disraeli: A Picture of the Victorian Age
de André Maurois
680 membros
14 resenhas
½ 3.6
80
Of Time and the River
de Thomas Wolfe
640 membros
10 resenhas
4
81
Rats, Lice and History
de Hans Zinsser
629 membros
11 resenhas
4.1
82
The Decline of the West
de Oswald Spengler
598 membros
11 resenhas
½ 3.7
83
Napoleon
de Emil Ludwig
597 membros
12 resenhas
½ 3.6
84
The Common Reader: Second Series
de Virginia Woolf
595 membros
6 resenhas
4.2
85
A House Divided
de Pearl S. Buck
567 membros
13 resenhas
½ 3.7
86
Rabble in Arms
de Kenneth Roberts
551 membros
6 resenhas
½ 4.3
87
The Road Back
de Erich Maria Remarque
544 membros
19 resenhas
4.2
88
Elizabeth I
de J. E. Neale
527 membros
6 resenhas
3.8
89
Genghis Khan: Emperor of All Men
de Harold Lamb
517 membros
7 resenhas
½ 3.3
90
The Children
de Edith Wharton
489 membros
11 resenhas
½ 3.7
91
The Mother
de Pearl S. Buck
486 membros
11 resenhas
4.1
92
The Good Companions
de J. B. Priestley
423 membros
6 resenhas
3.9
93
The Robber Barons: The Great American Capitalists, 1861-1901
de Matthew Josephson
415 membros
4 resenhas
3.8
94
The Oppermanns
de Lion Feuchtwanger
388 membros
12 resenhas
4.2
95
A Preface to Morals
de Walter Lippmann
372 membros
1 resenha
3.9
96
The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism and Capitalism
de Bernard Shaw
367 membros
5 resenhas
½ 3.7
97
Twenty Years A-Growing
de Maurice O'Sullivan
364 membros
7 resenhas
½ 4.3
98
Jew Süss
de Lion Feuchtwanger
360 membros
8 resenhas
4
99
North to the Orient
de Anne Morrow Lindbergh
355 membros
9 resenhas
3.9
100
Memoirs of a British Agent
de Sir Robert Bruce Lockart
326 membros
7 resenhas
3.9