The Classics Club 1937

The 1937 Club

Karen at Kaggsy’s Bookish Ramblings and Simon at Stuck in a Book co-host the year clubs. The next challenge is the year 1937 and takes place from 15th to 21st of April. Karen will have a dedicated page on her site to provide links to people’s reviews, and Simon will also link on his blog. If you review by blog post on X/Twitter then please use the hashtag #1937Club.

1937 in literature

John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men; | J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit, or There and Back Again; | Georges Bernanos’s Journal d’un Curé de Campagne (The Diary of a Country Priest); | Virginia Woolf’s The Years; | Olaf Stapledon’s Star Maker; | Lao She’s Rickshaw Boy; | Yaysunari Kawabata’s Snow Country; | Agatha Christie’s Dumb Witness, Death on the Nile, and Murder in the Mews; | Karen Blixen/ Isak Dinesen’s Out of Africa; | Daphne Du Maurier’s The Doll and Other Stories; | Enid Blyton’s The Adventures of the Wishing Chair; | Liam O’Flaherty’s Famine; | William Maxwell’s They Came Like Swallows; | W. Somerset Maugham’s Theater; |and if you check out the hashtag #1937Club you will find many more!

Unavailable book(s) from 1937

It’s interesting to note that at least one book published in 1937 is no longer available not because it was written by an author that has fallen out of favour nor because the book was not popular at the time rather it is over the language used in the book that would now be considered unacceptable

More recently, Dr. Seuss’s estate announced that six of his books would no longer be published because they contained egregious racial and ethnic stereotypes. Among those titles was his first children’s book, originally published in 1937, “And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street,” which included a crude caricature of an Asian man.

The New York Times By Alexandra Alter and Elizabeth A. Harris
Published April 3, 2023 Updated April 5, 2023

Remembering Authors who died in 1937

H. P. Lovecraft | John Drinkwater | Antonio Gramsci | J. M. Barrie | Edith Wharton

My reading for the 1937 Club

Posting this overview a little later than anticipated but here’s what I hope to read this challenge taking place 15 – 21 April. Even if I only read one, The Case is Closed by Patricia Wentworth, this week I’ll be reading the others over the coming year.

I will be reading The Case is Closed (#2 Miss Silver Mystery) by Patricia Wentworth which will also count towards #HistFic24 and #ClassicClub challenges.

If I do have more time than anticipated during the week I will also read Snow Country by Yaysunari Kawabata.

Not too likely, but if I do find time I also have The Hobbit or There and Back Again by J.R.R. Tolkien on my #ClassicClub challenge list so if I can I’ll read this as well.

What about you?

What about you, are you reading something written in 1937? Don’t forget to use the hashtag #1937Club so we can see your posts.

Happy reading!