1937

US FIction

1. Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell 4,885 copies on LT

2. Northwest Passage, Kenneth Roberts 158 copies

3. The Citadel, A. J. Cronin 176 copies

4. And So-Victoria, Vaughan Wilkins 7 copies

5. Drums Along the Mohawk, Walter D. Edmonds 80 copies

6. The Years, Virginia Woolf 360 copies

7. Theatre: A Novel, W. Somerset Maugham 131 copies

8. Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck 7,234 copies

9. The Rains Came; a Novel of Modern India, Louis Bromfield 47 copies

10. We Are Not Alone, James Hilton 6 copies

N O N F I C T I O N

1. How To Win Friends and Influence People, Dale Carnegie 2,034 copies

2. An American Doctor's Odyssey: Adventures in Forty-Five Countries, Victor Heiser 12 copies

3. The Return to Religion, Henry C. Link 7 copies

4. The Arts of Mankind, Hendrik Willem Van Loon 77 copies

5. Orchids on Your Budget or Live Smartly on What Have you, Marjorie Hillis 6 copies

6. Present Indicative, Noel Coward 23 copies

7. Mathematics for the Million, Lancelot Hogben 155 copies

8. Life with Mother, Clarence Day 12 copies

9. The Nile: The Life Story of a River, Emil Ludwig 286 copies

10. The Flowering of New England, Van Wyck Brooks 94 copies

I once tried out for a part as the girl who gets killed in a stage version Of Mice and Men when I had aspirations to greater things. Didn't get it.

I recently picked up The Flowering of New England at a Library Friends sale, but haven't gotten around to it yet.

I never read, but was often told, by women, to read Gone with the Wind. After seeing the movie as a kid, I was not motivated to do so. It seemed very over the top.

Of Mice and Men still going strong, because of high school English classes I think. I liked it. But I can never forgive Steinbeck for taking the easy way out by having a dog killed. That's cheating. A thing like that will alway bring tears.

I read the Dale Carnegie book after grad school, when I was unemployed. It meant nothing to me. In one ear and out the other. It was around that time that I read John Molloy's Dress for Success, which was more practical and I think still used quite a bit.

I have 5, 7, 8, and 9. The Rains Came by Bromfield is very good and I like almost every thing I have read by Maugham, Theatre is no exception.

Of Mice and Men is one of my favorites. Then again, I am from Salinas.

Gone With The Wind was a summer reading assignment.

The Rains Came Gone with the wind Drums along the Mohawk were all made into very popular movies. Northwest passage might have been a movie, too
Life with Mother was a sequel to Life with Father which was a best seller for several years & is still entertaining today. Life with mother wasn't nearly as popular.

I think I've read Of Mice and Men, but that's the only one for sure on this list. I've seen several of the movies, though.

Our house (while I was growing up in the 50's) had Mathematics for the Millions, but I only read sections of it. Ditto for the Flowering of New England.

By coincidence, I was reading a history of Detroit (All Our Yesterdays by Frank and Arthur Woodford) last night, and noted a favorable mention of Northwest Passage, which concerns the French and Indian Wars of the late 1700s.

I think the only one on these lists I've actually read is Of Mice and Men.

#8
Your handle, pawcatuck, almost sounds like a Rhode Island name. But, I looked it up and it's a place in Stonington across from Westerly, RI. I remember Pawtuxet which is in the NE section of the town of Warwick, RI. We used to live in East Greenwich and my mother would sometimes go out of her way to take the Broad Street routing into Providence.

I read The Citadel ages ago which set me off to read and collect a huge number of A. J. Cronin novels. Nice, gentle reads; not something I would read now.

I also read The Northwest Passage and, of course, the Steinbeck. Don't think I have ever read Gone with the Wind.

I went through all my father's Kenneth Roberts novels at around age 13 (I also did the war novels).

Does Salinas rhyme with Linus? Or is it Sal-eenus? I never knew the correct pronunciation.

I enjoyed Monterey. There was a good Italian restaurant overlooking the water. Beautiful view.

>9 vpfluke:, Pawcatuck is part of the town of Stonington, but it's more like a suburb of Westerly. I don't live there, but my church is there, and it's kind of a cool-sounding word. Plus, I love dogs. (For outlanders: the accent's on the first syllable, unlike the city in northern Rhode Island, which is paw-TUCK-et.)

I live near the next village over, which is Wequetequock (pron. WICKety-wock). Every time LT asks me to sign on again, I'm glad I chose Pawcatuck!

The Warwick Library is really cool.

(end digression)

Pawtucket is a city just north of Providence and Pawtuxet is south of Providence on the Cranston border. To confuse matters, the Patuxent River is in southern Maryland.

11: The later is closest.

I have read Of Mice and Men thanks to my ninth grade English class.

I don't know if anyone's still frequenting these halls, but just popping in to say I've just read and enjoyed Northwest Passage.