The Great Depression

1.
To Kill a Mockingbird
To Kill a Mockingbird 4.26 avg rating — 6,688,942 ratings
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The Grapes of Wrath
The Grapes of Wrath 4.02 avg rating — 971,589 ratings
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Of Mice and Men
Of Mice and Men 3.89 avg rating — 2,751,935 ratings
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Cannery Row (Cannery Row, #1)
Cannery Row (Cannery Row, #1) 4.06 avg rating — 149,642 ratings
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Water for Elephants
Water for Elephants 4.11 avg rating — 1,680,822 ratings
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The Four Winds
The Four Winds 4.30 avg rating — 900,277 ratings
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The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl―A National Book Award Winner
The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl―A National Book Award Winner 4.06 avg rating — 60,121 ratings
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Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression
Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression 4.19 avg rating — 2,895 ratings
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The Bootleg Coal Rebellion: The Pennsylvania Miners Who Seized an Industry, 1925–1942
The Bootleg Coal Rebellion: The Pennsylvania Miners Who Seized an Industry, 1925–1942 4.60 avg rating — 43 ratings
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The Secret Place of Thunder (Librarians of Willow Hollow, #4)
The Secret Place of Thunder (Librarians of Willow Hollow, #4) 4.41 avg rating — 69 ratings
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Growing Up
Growing Up 4.10 avg rating — 7,495 ratings
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Tobacco Road
Tobacco Road 3.71 avg rating — 15,712 ratings
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Hearts on Lonely Mountain (Librarians of Willow Hollow #3)
Hearts on Lonely Mountain (Librarians of Willow Hollow #3) 4.50 avg rating — 56 ratings
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The Woods
The Woods 4.22 avg rating — 27 ratings
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This Tender Land
This Tender Land 4.39 avg rating — 210,446 ratings
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The Saints of Swallow Hill
The Saints of Swallow Hill 4.11 avg rating — 36,023 ratings
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The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression
The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression 3.91 avg rating — 6,199 ratings
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Little Heathens: Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm During the Great Depression
Little Heathens: Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm During the Great Depression 3.73 avg rating — 6,485 ratings
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A Secret Gift: How One Man's Kindness & a Trove of Letters Revealed the Hidden History of the Great Depression
A Secret Gift: How One Man's Kindness & a Trove of Letters Revealed the Hidden History of the Great Depression
by: Ted Gup
3.61 avg rating — 2,950 ratings
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Into the Free (Into the Free, #1)
Into the Free (Into the Free, #1) 3.95 avg rating — 7,090 ratings
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The Giver of Stars
The Giver of Stars 4.29 avg rating — 485,739 ratings
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Daily Life in the United States, 1920-1940: How Americans Lived Through the "Roaring Twenties" and the Great Depression
Daily Life in the United States, 1920-1940: How Americans Lived Through the "Roaring Twenties" and the Great Depression 3.77 avg rating — 341 ratings
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Tortilla Flat
Tortilla Flat 3.83 avg rating — 61,121 ratings
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The Pearl
The Pearl 3.56 avg rating — 261,796 ratings
25.
Harpsong (Volume 1) (Stories & Storytellers Series)
Harpsong (Volume 1) (Stories & Storytellers Series) 3.95 avg rating — 176 ratings
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Makhorka: The Green Cigarette
Makhorka: The Green Cigarette 4.50 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Gitel's Freedom
Gitel's Freedom 3.73 avg rating — 22 ratings
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Sold on a Monday
Sold on a Monday 3.97 avg rating — 116,547 ratings
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Wingwalkers
Wingwalkers 3.67 avg rating — 438 ratings
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The Great Crash 1929
The Great Crash 1929 3.92 avg rating — 6,103 ratings
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The Great Depression: A Diary
The Great Depression: A Diary 3.95 avg rating — 1,298 ratings
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Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945
Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945 4.20 avg rating — 5,367 ratings
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The Road from Gap Creek
The Road from Gap Creek 3.78 avg rating — 2,199 ratings
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Last Dance on the Starlight Pier
Last Dance on the Starlight Pier 3.74 avg rating — 1,963 ratings
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Sweet Thursday (Cannery Row, #2)
Sweet Thursday (Cannery Row, #2) 4.12 avg rating — 18,692 ratings
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1) 4.30 avg rating — 568,945 ratings
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Stormy Weather
Stormy Weather 3.74 avg rating — 3,352 ratings
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The Dust Bowl: An Illustrated History
The Dust Bowl: An Illustrated History 4.35 avg rating — 694 ratings
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Ironweed
Ironweed 3.87 avg rating — 17,431 ratings
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The Chosen (Reuven Malther, #1)
The Chosen (Reuven Malther, #1) 4.07 avg rating — 96,279 ratings
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Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin & the Great Depression
Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin & the Great Depression 3.86 avg rating — 515 ratings
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The Persian Pickle Club
The Persian Pickle Club 3.77 avg rating — 23,143 ratings
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North River
North River 3.88 avg rating — 5,274 ratings
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The Remarkable Life of Kitty McInerney: How a Poor Irish Immigrant Raised 17 Children in Great Depression New York
The Remarkable Life of Kitty McInerney: How a Poor Irish Immigrant Raised 17 Children in Great Depression New York 3.87 avg rating — 86 ratings
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Palisades Park
Palisades Park 3.79 avg rating — 6,890 ratings
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The Woman Behind the New Deal: The Life of Frances Perkins, FDR'S Secretary of Labor and His Moral Conscience
The Woman Behind the New Deal: The Life of Frances Perkins, FDR'S Secretary of Labor and His Moral Conscience 4.22 avg rating — 2,437 ratings
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Daddy Was a Number Runner
Daddy Was a Number Runner 4.19 avg rating — 1,365 ratings
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Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI 4.14 avg rating — 425,977 ratings
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Bound for Glory
Bound for Glory 4.14 avg rating — 5,965 ratings
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George Washington Gomez: A Mexicotexan Novel
George Washington Gomez: A Mexicotexan Novel 3.84 avg rating — 959 ratings
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The Yanks Are Starving: A Novel of the Bonus Army
The Yanks Are Starving: A Novel of the Bonus Army 4.29 avg rating — 112 ratings
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Depression Carpenter
Depression Carpenter 4.41 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Forget Me Not
Forget Me Not 4.20 avg rating — 76 ratings
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Fraulein M.
Fraulein M. 3.96 avg rating — 682 ratings
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The Patriots
The Patriots 3.83 avg rating — 2,921 ratings
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The Rolling Bootlegs (Baccano!, #1)
The Rolling Bootlegs (Baccano!, #1) 4.18 avg rating — 1,254 ratings
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The Bluest Eye
The Bluest Eye 4.13 avg rating — 288,105 ratings
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Farm Boy, City Girl: From Gene to Miss Gina
Farm Boy, City Girl: From Gene to Miss Gina 3.83 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Strength to Your Sword Arm: Selected Writings
Strength to Your Sword Arm: Selected Writings 4.22 avg rating — 55 ratings
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Kings in Disguise
Kings in Disguise 3.89 avg rating — 444 ratings
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The Raffle Baby
The Raffle Baby 4.20 avg rating — 1,260 ratings
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Heart of the Garfish
Heart of the Garfish 3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings
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The Lonely Hearts Hotel
The Lonely Hearts Hotel 3.79 avg rating — 20,443 ratings
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Mary Coin
Mary Coin 3.91 avg rating — 9,351 ratings
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Eleanor and Franklin
Eleanor and Franklin 4.26 avg rating — 2,956 ratings
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Machine Dreams
Machine Dreams 3.75 avg rating — 890 ratings
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New Deal or Raw Deal?: How FDR's Economic Legacy Has Damaged America
New Deal or Raw Deal?: How FDR's Economic Legacy Has Damaged America 4.12 avg rating — 1,564 ratings
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The Little Girl Who Fought the Great Depression: Shirley Temple and 1930s America
The Little Girl Who Fought the Great Depression: Shirley Temple and 1930s America 3.40 avg rating — 548 ratings
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West with Giraffes
West with Giraffes 4.33 avg rating — 182,732 ratings
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The Superman Chronicles, Vol. 1
The Superman Chronicles, Vol. 1 4.15 avg rating — 1,663 ratings
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Fighting Back: The Politics of the Unemployed in Victoria in the Great Depression
Fighting Back: The Politics of the Unemployed in Victoria in the Great Depression 3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Voices of the Dust Bowl
Voices of the Dust Bowl 4.30 avg rating — 44 ratings
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A Baby on the Doorstep (The Orphans of Hope House #2)
A Baby on the Doorstep (The Orphans of Hope House #2) 4.45 avg rating — 1,442 ratings
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War Against the Weak: Eugenics and America's Campaign to Create a Master Race
War Against the Weak: Eugenics and America's Campaign to Create a Master Race 4.22 avg rating — 990 ratings
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The Crisis of the Old Order 1919-33 (The Age of Roosevelt, Vol 1)
The Crisis of the Old Order 1919-33 (The Age of Roosevelt, Vol 1) 4.18 avg rating — 433 ratings
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I Love to Tell the Story (Librarians of Willow Hollow #2)
I Love to Tell the Story (Librarians of Willow Hollow #2) 4.15 avg rating — 59 ratings
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Derby Dugan's Depression Funnies
Derby Dugan's Depression Funnies 3.99 avg rating — 151 ratings
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Weevils In The Flour: An Oral Record Of The 1930's Depression In Australia
Weevils In The Flour: An Oral Record Of The 1930's Depression In Australia 4.50 avg rating — 22 ratings
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Dressed by Iris
Dressed by Iris 4.15 avg rating — 323 ratings
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Restless Spirit: The Life and Work of Dorothea Lange
Restless Spirit: The Life and Work of Dorothea Lange 4.10 avg rating — 210 ratings
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A Christmas Memory
A Christmas Memory 4.24 avg rating — 17,527 ratings
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Finding Hope (Librarians of Willow Hollow #0.5)
Finding Hope (Librarians of Willow Hollow #0.5) 4.43 avg rating — 35 ratings
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Wonderland Creek
Wonderland Creek 4.30 avg rating — 10,327 ratings
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The Hired Man
The Hired Man 4.38 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Riding the Rails: Teenagers on the Move During the Great Depression
Riding the Rails: Teenagers on the Move During the Great Depression 3.98 avg rating — 279 ratings
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Since Yesterday: The 1930's in America, September 3, 1929 to September 3, 1939
Since Yesterday: The 1930's in America, September 3, 1929 to September 3, 1939 4.06 avg rating — 978 ratings
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Everyday Use
Everyday Use 3.90 avg rating — 4,980 ratings
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Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal, 1932-1940
Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal, 1932-1940 3.90 avg rating — 429 ratings
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A Strand of Hope
A Strand of Hope 4.49 avg rating — 124 ratings
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Twopence to Cross the Mersey
Twopence to Cross the Mersey 4.25 avg rating — 2,169 ratings
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Dancing in the Dark: A Cultural History of the Great Depression
Dancing in the Dark: A Cultural History of the Great Depression 3.28 avg rating — 450 ratings
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The Unknown Beloved
The Unknown Beloved 4.32 avg rating — 19,175 ratings
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Die Freistatt
Die Freistatt 3.63 avg rating — 14,460 ratings
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The Man Who Walked Backward: An American Dreamer's Search for Meaning in the Great Depression
The Man Who Walked Backward: An American Dreamer's Search for Meaning in the Great Depression 3.75 avg rating — 219 ratings
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Prize Women
Prize Women 3.93 avg rating — 1,299 ratings
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Sunny, Ward of the State
Sunny, Ward of the State 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Down and Out in the Great Depression: Letters From the Forgotten Man
Down and Out in the Great Depression: Letters From the Forgotten Man 3.84 avg rating — 174 ratings
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Soul of a People: The WPA Writers' Project Uncovers Depression America
Soul of a People: The WPA Writers' Project Uncovers Depression America 3.99 avg rating — 83 ratings
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In All Good Faith
In All Good Faith 4.23 avg rating — 351 ratings
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Bannock, Beans and Black Tea: Memories of a Prince Edward Island Childhood in the Great Depression
Bannock, Beans and Black Tea: Memories of a Prince Edward Island Childhood in the Great Depression 3.98 avg rating — 163 ratings
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