Books Set in the 1930s
Fiction set in the 1930s, mostly horror, angel fiction and historical fiction. The most-read are The Color Purple (1976), The Big Sleep (1939) and Different Seasons (1982).
This list collects 14 books in this collection by 12 authors, published between 1932 and 1995. Books are ranked by how many readers have shelved, rated or downloaded them.
14 books

The Color Purple
Alice Walker

The Big Sleep
Raymond Chandler

Different Seasons
Stephen King

Nightmares & Dreamscapes
Stephen King

The Day of the Locust
Nathanael West

The Last Tycoon
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Darkest Hour
V.C. Andrews

Stamboul Train
Graham Greene

The Lord Won't Mind
Gordon Merrick

Umney's Last Case
Stephen King

The Haunting of Toby Jugg
Dennis Wheatley

Masterpieces of Murder (And Then There Were None / Death on the Nile / The Murder of Roger Ackroyd / Witness for the Prosecution)
Agatha Christie

The Prince Commands
Andre Norton, Kate Seredy

Trouble on the Thames
Victor Bridges