
Bestsellers of the 1930's
What were the people reading in the 1930's?
Best Sellers of the 1930's by Year
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| Title | Author | |
| 1930 | Cimarron | Edna Ferber |
| Exile | Warwick Deeping | |
| The Woman of Andros | Thornton Wilder | |
| Years of Grace | Margaret Ayer Barnes | |
| Angel Pavement | J. B. Priestly | |
| The Door | Mary Roberts Rinehart | |
| Rogue Herries | Hugh Walpole | |
| Chances | A. Hamilton Gibbs | |
| Young Man of Manhattan | Katherine Brush | |
| Twenty-Four Hours | Louis Bromfield | |
| 1931 | The Good Earth | Pearl S. Buck |
| Shadows on the Rock | Willa Cather | |
| A White Bird Flying | Bess Streeter Aldrich | |
| Grand Hotel | Vicki Baum | |
| Years of Grace | Margaret Ayers Barnes | |
| The Road Back | Erich Maria Remarque | |
| The Bridge of Desire | Warwick Deeping | |
| Back Street | Fannie Hurst | |
| Finch's Fortune | Mazo de la Roche | |
| Maid in Waiting | John Galsworthy | |
| 1932 | The Good Earth | Pear S. Buck |
| The Fountain | Charles Morgan | |
| Sons | Pearl S. Buck | |
| Magnolia Street | Louis Golding | |
| The Sheltered Life | Ellen Glasgow | |
| Old Wine and New | Warwick Deeping | |
| Mary's Neck | Booth Tarkington | |
| Magnificent Obsession | Lloyd C. Douglas | |
| Inheritance | Phyllis Bentley | |
| Three Loves | A. J. Cronin | |
| 1933 | Anthony Adverse | Harvey Allen |
| As the Earth Turns | Gladys Hasty Carroll | |
| Ann Vickers | Sinclair Lewis | |
| Magnificent Obsession | Lloyd C. Douglas | |
| One More River | John Galsworthy | |
| Forgive Us Our Trespasses | Lloyd C. Douglas | |
| The Master of Jalna | Mazo de la Roche | |
| Miss Bishop | Bess Streeter Aldrich | |
| The Farm | Louis Bromfield | |
| Little Man, What Now? | Hans Fallada | |
| 1934 | Anthony Adverse | Harvey Allen |
| Lamb in His Bosom | Caroline Miller | |
| So Red the Rose | Stark Young | |
| Good-Bye Mr. Chipps | James Hilton | |
| Within This Present | Margaret Ayer Barnes | |
| Work of Art | Sinclair Lewis | |
| Private Worlds | Phyllis Bottome | |
| Mary Peters | Mary Ellen Chase | |
| Oil for the Lamps of China | Alice Tisdale Hobart | |
| Seven Gothic Tales | Isak Dineson | |
| 1935 | Green Light | Lloyd C. Douglas |
| Vein of Iron | Ellen Glasgow | |
| Of Time and the River | Thomas Wolfe | |
| Time Out of Mind | Rachel Field | |
| Good-Bye Mr. Chipps | James Hilton | |
| The Forty Days of Musa Dagh | Franz Werfel | |
| Heaven's My Destination | Thornton Wilder | |
| Lost Horizon | James Hilton | |
| Come and Get It | Edna Ferber | |
| Europa | Robert Briffault | |
| 1936 | Gone With the Wind | Maragert Mitchell |
| The Last Puritan | George Santayana | |
| Sparkenbroke | Charles Morgan | |
| Drums Along the Mohawk | Walter D. Edmonds | |
| It Can't Happen Here | Sinclair Lewis | |
| White Banners | Lloyd C. Douglas | |
| The Hurricane | Charles Nordoff & James Norman Hall |
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| The Thinking Reed | Rebecca West | |
| The Doctor | Mary Roberts Rinehart | |
| Eyeless in Gaza | Aldous Huxley | |
| 1937 | Gone With the Wind | Margaret Mitchell |
| Northwest Passage | Kenneth Roberts | |
| The Citadel | A. J. Cronin | |
| And So-Victoria | Vaughn Wilkins | |
| Drums Along the Mohawk | Walter D. Edmonds | |
| The Years | Virginia Woolf | |
| Theatre | W. Somerset Maugham | |
| Of Mice and Men | John Steinbeck | |
| The Rains Came | Louis Bromfield | |
| We Are Not Alone | James Hilton | |
| 1938 | The Yearling | Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings |
| The Citadel | A. J. Cronin | |
| My Son, My Son! | Howard Spring | |
| Rebecca | Daphne du Maurier | |
| Northwest Passage | Kenneth Roberts | |
| All This, and Heaven Too | Rachel Field | |
| The Rains Came | Louis Bromfield | |
| And Tell of Time | Laura Krey | |
| The Mortal Storm | Phyllis Bottome | |
| Action in Aquila | Harvey Allen | |
| 1939 | The Grapes of Wrath | John Steinbeck |
| All This, and Heaven Too | Rachel Field | |
| Rebecca | Daphne du Maurier | |
| Wickford Point | John P. Marquand | |
| Escape | Ethel Vance | |
| Disputed Passage | Lloyd C. Douglas | |
| The Yearling | Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings | |
| The Tree of Liberty | Elizabeth Page | |
| The Nazarene | Sholem Asch | |
| Kitty Foyle | Christopher Morley |
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