Publishers Weekly list of bestselling novels in the United States in the 1930s

This is a list of bestselling novels in the United States in the 1930s, as determined by ''Publishers Weekly''. 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'' 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

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