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This is a list of
bestselling novels in the
United States in the 1930s , as determined by
Publishers Weekly .
[1] The list features the most popular novels of each year from
1930 through
1939 .
The standards set for inclusion in the lists – which, for example, led to the exclusion of the
novels in the
Harry Potter series from the lists for the
1990s and
2000s – are currently unknown.
1930
Cimarron by
Edna Ferber
Exile by
Warwick Deeping
The Woman of Andros by
Thornton Wilder
Years of Grace by
Margaret Ayer Barnes
Angel Pavement by
J. B. Priestley
The Door by
Mary Roberts Rinehart
Rogue Herries by
Hugh Walpole
Chances by
A. Hamilton Gibbs
Young Man of Manhattan by
Katharine Brush
Twenty-Four Hours by
Louis Bromfield
1931
The Good Earth by
Pearl S. Buck
Shadows on the Rock by
Willa Cather
A White Bird Flying by
Bess Streeter Aldrich
Grand Hotel by
Vicki Baum
Years of Grace by
Margaret Ayer Barnes
The Road Back by
Erich Maria Remarque
The Bridge of Desire by
Warwick Deeping
Back Street by
Fannie Hurst
Finch's Fortune by
Mazo de la Roche
Maid in Waiting by
John Galsworthy
1932
The Good Earth by
Pearl S. Buck
The Fountain by
Charles Langbridge Morgan
Sons by
Pearl S. Buck
Magnolia Street by
Louis Golding
The Sheltered Life by
Ellen Glasgow
Old Wine and New by
Warwick Deeping
Mary's Neck by
Booth Tarkington
Magnificent Obsession by
Lloyd C. Douglas
Inheritance by
Phyllis Bentley
Three Loves by
A. J. Cronin
1933
Anthony Adverse by
Hervey Allen
As the Earth Turns by
Gladys Hasty Carroll
Ann Vickers by
Sinclair Lewis
Magnificent Obsession by
Lloyd C. Douglas
One More River by
John Galsworthy
Forgive Us Our Trespassers by
Lloyd C. Douglas
The Master of Jalna by
Mazo de la Roche
Miss Bishop by
Bess Streeter Aldrich
The Farm by
Louis Bromfield
Little Man, What Now? by
Hans Fallada
1934
Anthony Adverse by
Hervey Allen
Lamb in His Bosom by
Caroline Miller
So Red the Rose by
Stark Young
Good-bye, Mr. Chips by
James Hilton
Within This Present by
Margaret Ayer Barnes
Work of Art by
Sinclair Lewis
Private Worlds by
Phyllis Bottome
Mary Peters by
Mary Ellen Chase
Oil for the Lamps of China by
Alice Tisdale Hobart
Seven Gothic Tales by
Isak Dinesen
1935
Green Light by
Lloyd C. Douglas
Vein of Iron by
Ellen Glasgow
Of Time and the River by
Thomas Wolfe
Time Out of Mind by
Rachel Field
Good-bye, Mr. Chips by
James Hilton
The Forty Days of Musa Dagh by
Franz Werfel
Heaven's My Destination by
Thornton Wilder
Lost Horizon by
James Hilton
Come and Get It by
Edna Ferber
Europa by
Robert Briffault
1936
Gone with the Wind by
Margaret Mitchell
The Last Puritan by
George Santayana
Sparkenbroke by
Charles Langbridge Morgan
Drums Along the Mohawk by
Walter D. Edmonds
It Can't Happen Here by
Sinclair Lewis
White Banners by
Lloyd C. Douglas
The Hurricane by
Charles Nordhoff and
James Norman Hall
The Thinking Reed by
Rebecca West
The Doctor by
Mary Roberts Rinehart
Eyeless in Gaza by
Aldous Huxley
1937
Gone with the Wind by
Margaret Mitchell
Northwest Passage by
Kenneth Roberts
The Citadel by
A. J. Cronin
And So—Victoria by
Vaughan Wilkins
Drums Along the Mohawk by
Walter D. Edmonds
The Years by
Virginia Woolf
Theatre by
W. Somerset Maugham
Of Mice and Men by
John Steinbeck
The Rains Came by
Louis Bromfield
We Are Not Alone by
James Hilton
1938
The Yearling by
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
The Citadel by
A. J. Cronin
My Son, My Son! by
Howard Spring
Rebecca by
Daphne du Maurier
Northwest Passage by
Kenneth Roberts
All This, and Heaven Too by
Rachel Field
The Rains Came by
Louis Bromfield
And Tell of Time by
Laura Krey
The Mortal Storm by
Phyllis Bottome
Action at Aquila by
Hervey Allen
1939
The Grapes of Wrath by
John Steinbeck
All This, and Heaven Too by
Rachel Field
Rebecca by
Daphne du Maurier
Wickford Point by
John P. Marquand
Escape by
Ethel Vance
Disputed Passage by
Lloyd C. Douglas
The Yearling by
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
The Tree of Liberty by
Elizabeth Page
The Nazarene by
Sholem Asch
Kitty Foyle by
Christopher Morley
References
^ Hackett, Alice Payne and Burke, James Henry (1977). 80 Years of Bestsellers: 1895–1975 . New York: R. R. Bowker Company. pp. 109–127.
ISBN
0-8352-0908-3 . {{
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