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Vote for MobileRead's best fiction book of 1931-1940
This is the fourth voting thread for choosing MobileRead's ten best fiction books of the 20th Century. This thread covers 1931-1940.

VOTING IS NOW OPEN! Voting totals will be hidden until the poll ends (so that no-one is influenced by previously recorded votes), and voting will be anonymous.

You are, of course, welcome to make your choice known in the discussion thread associated with this poll.

The nominations and nominators are:
  1. 1931 The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck (1892-1973) (obs20)
  2. 1931 Schloß Gripsholm [English: Castle Gripsholm] by Kurt Tucholsky (1890-1935) (knuthmeyer)
  3. 1931 The Waves by Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) (pynch)
  4. 1932 Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) (treadlightly)
  5. 1932 Sunset Song by Lewis Grassic Gibbon (James Leslie Mitchell) (1901-1935) (missimpossible)
  6. 1933 Blinky Bill by Dorothy Wall (1894-1942) (Lynx-lynx)
  7. 1933 Lost Horizon by James Hilton (1900-1954) (crich70)
  8. 1934 Good-bye, Mr. Chips by James Hilton (1900-1954) (pdurrant)
  9. 1934 The Postman Always Rings Twice by James Mallahan Cain (1892-1977) (GA Russell)
  10. 1934 The Nine Tailors by Dorothy Leigh Sayers (1893-1957) (disconnected)
  11. 1935 Musashi by Eiji Yoshikawa (1892-1962) (Katsunami)
  12. 1935 Odd John by Olaf Stapledon (1886-1950) (Ralph Sir Edward)
  13. 1936 At the Mountains of Madness by Howard Phillips Lovecraft (1890-1937) (EndlessWaves)
  14. 1936 Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell (1900-1949) (Catlady)
  15. 1937 Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck (1902-1968) (spellbanisher)
  16. 1937 The Hobbit by John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (1892-1973) (HomeInMyShoes)
  17. 1938 La Nausée [English: Nausea] by Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980) (GeoffR)
  18. 1939 And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie (1890-1976) (sun surfer)
  19. 1939 The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler (1888-1959) (Rizla)
  20. 1939 The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (1902-1968) (Bilbo1967)
  21. 1940 The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene (1904-1991) (issybird)

Most of these books are still in copyright. Those whose author died before 1945 are in the EU public domain.

It is, perhaps, worth noting that if EU copyright was at the life+50 years of the Berne Convention, only 8 of these novels would still be in copyrights. As it is, only 4 of them are out of copyright!

Nominators should now post about their nominated book, and everyone is welcome to discuss the relative merits of the nominations
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