Uploaded June 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Lit Hub article: lithub.com/a-century-of-reading-the-10-books-that-defined-the-1930s

Ludwig Bemelmans, Madeline (1939)
Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends and Influence People (1936)
Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937)
Aldous Huxley, Brave New World (1932)
Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind (1936)
Irma S. Rombauer, The Joy of Cooking (1931)
John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men (1937)
J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit (1937)
Thornton Wilder, Our Town (1938)

0:00 intro
1:03 world events
2:50 defining books of the decade
3:55 my reads
11:50 the corker!!

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