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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
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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