The 1936 Club, hosted by Simon and Karen, is taking place next week and I’m so looking forward to it. I love these reading weeks devoted to a specific year and 1936 offers particularly rich pickings. Here are some ideas if you want to participate but haven’t picked your book(s) yet:
From the archives:
Miss Elizabeth Bennet by A.A. Milne
August Folly by Angela Thirkell
Call It A Day by Dodie Smith
The Talisman Ring by Georgette Heyer
I’m hoping to read (or, mostly, re-read) at least a few of the following:
Little G by E.M. Channon – a long-time favourite that I find myself rereading almost annually yet have never written about on the blog
Murder in Mesopotamia or Cards on the Table by Agatha Christie – 1936 was a bumper year for Christie with 3 books published but these are the two I was able to find copies of
Live Alone and Like It by Marjorie Hillis – the classic lifestyle guide for women
War with the Newts by Karel Čapek – a bit of classic sci-fi from a favourite Czech author
The New House by Lettice Cooper – a chance to read something off of my Persephone shelf!
Miss Buncle Married by D.E. Stevenson – Stevenson, like Heyer and Christie, is always a reliable choice for the club and while this isn’t among my favourites of her books it’s a good, comforting one to have to hand (and also comes off the Persephone shelf)
It Pays to Be Good by Noel Streatfeild – 1936 was the year Ballet Shoes, Streatfeild’s most famous book, came out but she also published this adult title (available from Greyladies)
What will you be reading for the 1936 Club?
I will need to follow up with 1936 books..perhaps I will wait until 1937..the year I was born appears on the list😇
That would be a special one!
1936 seems like an excellent year. I ‘accidentally’ read a 1936 book two weeks ago Together and Apart by Margaret Kennedy. When I realised it was 1936 I decided to wait to review it next week. I am currently reading The Wheel Spins by Ethel Lina White.
Very nice!
I loved The New House, one of my favorite Persephones. Also love Miss Buncle! There are so many great choices for 1936, I could read them for an entire month. I’ve already finished Anne of Windy Poplars by LM Montgomery; I have three or four others on the TBR shelves and am also thinking about a PG Wodehouse that’s available on audio download from the library.
So glad to hear The New House is a favourite – I’ll look forward to it even more knowing that!
Ooooh, some good titles there – so many choices for 1936. Agatha really was having a good year! 😀
SO many choices! You picked a great year.
I’m reading Double Indemnity by James M Cain and it is SO good!
Wonderful!
Ooh thanks for the list!! The New House has been on my list for a long time, will see if I can find a copy
Good luck!