Brave New World
1932 · 281 pages
Babies are decanted from bottles into castes, everyone takes a drug called soma, and nobody is unhappy. Huxley saw that a tyranny of pleasure would hold better than one of fear.
★ 8.5
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Journey to the End of the Night
1932 · 453 pages
Celine's narrator carries his disgust from the First World War to colonial Africa, a Ford assembly line in Detroit, and a Paris suburb. He dragged spoken French into literature and made loathing exhilarating.
★ 8.0
Light in August
1932 · 512 pages
Pregnant and walking from Alabama, Lena Grove looks for the man who left her. Nearby a man who cannot say whether he is black or white is running out of room.
★ 7.2
The Sleepwalkers
1932 · 648 pages
Three novels set in 1888, 1903, and 1918 follow a Prussian officer clinging to his uniform, a bookkeeper demanding justice, and a deserter who feels nothing. Broch watches a whole value system dissolve.
★ 7.1
The Radetzky March
1932 · 369 pages
A lieutenant knocks Emperor Franz Joseph off his horse at Solferino and saves his life. Three generations of Trottas ride that accident down into 1914, and the Habsburg empire dissolves around them.
★ 7.0
Viper's Tangle
1932 · 220 pages
Louis, a rich dying lawyer, fills a long letter to his wife with decades of hatred and the fortune he means to withhold from his children. Mauriac tracks the moment the hardness breaks.
★ 6.0