The Atlantic's List of Readable Books

(appearing between January 1 and March 31, 1931)

FICTION

*Rachel Moon. By Lorna Rea. The portrait of a girl who wished to be a martyr. Harpers, $2.50.

*Two Thieves. By Manuel Komroff. An historical novel of Galilee and the world’s most famed thieves. Coward-McCann, $2.50.

*Portrait by Caroline. By Sylvia Thompson. A contemporary novel of English sophisticates in their early thirties. Atlantic & Little, Brown, $2.50.

*Big Money. By P. G. Wodehouse. A novel of comedy with plenty of dialogue for which the author is famous. Doubleday, Doran, $2.00.

*Festival. By Struthers Burt. A story of affluent Americans with problems. Scribners, $2.50.

A Night in Kurdistan. By Jean-Richard Bloch. The story of a marauding hand of Kurds and their passionate conquest. Simon & Schuster, $2.50.

Dumb Animal. By Osbert Sitwell. Short stories by a British intellectual. Lippincott, $2.50.

*Back Street. By Fannie Hurst. The triumph and pathos of an outcast woman. Cosmopolitan, $2.50.

The Dogs. By Ivan Nazhivin. The borzoi are the leading motif in this novel of Russia. Lippincott, $2.50.

*Reader, I Married Him. By Anne Green. A novel of Paris on the lighter side. Dutton, $2.50.

Three Steeples. By LeRoy MacLeod. A first novel of American country life. Covici, Friede, $2.50.

Dark Heritage. By Shirland Quin. The story of a Welshman who conquered and was conquered by the United States. Atlantic & Little, Brown, $2.50.

*The Good Earth. By Pearl S. Buck. A novel of bucolic China, the land and people. John Day, $2.50.

*The Sophisticates. By Gertrude Atherton. The story of a Middle-Western charmer, suspected of murder. Liveright, $2.00.

*The Limestone Tree. By Joseph Hergesheimer. A Kentucky family novel through a hundred years. Knopf, $2.50.

Tumult in the North. By George Preedy. An historical novel of Scotland and the Stuarts. Dodd, Mead, $2.00.

*Roman Holiday. By Upton Sinclair. Imperial Rome and modern America in a fictitious parallel. Farrar & Rinehart, $2.50.

*Up the Ladder of Gold. By E. Phillips Oppenheim. The story of the man who made war impossible. Little, Brown, $2.00.

The Ring of the Löwenskölds. By Selma Lagcrlöf. An historic trilogy of Sweden complete in one volume. Doubleday, Doran, $3.00.

BIOGRAPHY

*Education of a Princess. By Grand Duchess Marie. Royalty in Russia before and after the Revolution. Viking, $3.50.

*The Memoirs of Marshal Foch. The war and postwar record of a triumphant soldier. Doubleday, Doran, $5,00.

Lincoln and His Cabinet. By Clarence Edward Macartney. Biographical studies of Lincoln’s associates in office. Scribners, $3.50.

Theatre Street. By ’Tamara Karsovina. Colorful reminiscences of an Imperial Ballet star. Dutton, $3.75.

The Quick and the Dead. By Gamaliel Bradford. Bradfordian portraits of seven leaders of the twentieth century. Houghton Mifflin, $3.50.

* Titles reported by booksellers as most in demand

*My Story. By Mary Roberts Rinehart. The autobiography of a compelling writer. Farrar & Rinehart, $2.50.

The Dukes of Buckingham. By Robert P. Tristram Coffin. The playboys of Stuart England resurrected for the amusement of twentieth-century America. Brentano’s, $3.75.

Mustapha Kemal of Turkey. By H. E. Wortham. The extraordinary career of the man who made Turkey modern. Atlantic & Little, Brown, $2.50.

The Autobiography of Lincoln Steffens. A reporter tells the truth on himself. Harcourt, Brace, $7.50.

“Behind the Green Lights. By Captain Cornelius W. Willemsc. The autobiographic story of a detective’s career in New York City. Knopf, $3.00.

The Recovery of Myself. By Marian King. The true experiences of a nervous patient. Yale University, $2.00.

Dawn. By Theodore Dreiser. Early chapters of the autobiography of the famous American novelist. Liveright, $3.50.

Peggy Eaton. By Queena Pollack. The biography of a beauty who had Washington and Democracy by the ears. Minton, Balch, $3.50.

GENERAL

*The Science of Life. By H. G. Wells, Julian Huxley, and G. P. Wells. A two-volume outline of the biological sciences. Doubleday, Doran, $10.00.

*Africa View. By Julian Huxley. A trained naturalist looks at Africa inside and out. Harpers, $5.00.

“The Universe Around Us. By Sir James Jeans. A revised version of a scientist’s concept of the universe. Macmillan, $4.50.

The Dry Decade. By Charles Merz. A well-documented and sober survey of ‘the noble experiment.’ Doubleday, Doran, $3.00.

East of the Hudson. By J. Brooks Atkinson. Excellent essays on New York City and its hidden country. Knopf, $2.50.

New Discoveries Relating to the Antiquity of Man. By Sir Arthur Keith. A distinguished surgeon writes about his hobby—anthropology. Norton, $5.00.

These Russians. By William C. White. An up-todate survey of Soviet Russia. Scribners, $3.00.

The Way to Recovery. By George Paish. The world depression, its political and financial causes, and its cure. Putnam, $2.50.

The Last Stand. By Edmund A. Walsh. A critical interpretation of the Soviet Five-Year Plan. Atlantic & Little, Brown, $3.00.

The Red Trade Menace. By H. R. Knickerbocker. A journalist’s first-hand account of Russia to-day. Dodd, Mead, $2.50.

POETRY

*Hard Lines. By Ogden Nash. Sense and nonsense in risible verse. Simon & Schuster, $2.00.

The Serpent in the Cloud. By Theodore Morrison. A narrative poem of contemporary America. Houghton Mifflin, $2.50.

Opus 7. By Sylvia Townsend Warner. An ironical poem of an English flower seller. Viking, $2.00.

Adamastor. By Roy Campbell. Sound and fury signifying modernity. Dial, $2.50.

Jonathan Gentry. By Mark Van Doren. A narrative poem of the American pioneer. A. and C. Boni, $2.00.