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.^[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[]

1. Cimarron by Edna Ferber
2. Exile by Warwick Deeping
3. The Woman of Andros by Thornton Wilder
4. Years of Grace by Margaret Ayer Barnes
5. Angel Pavement by J. B. Priestley
6. The Door by Mary Roberts Rinehart
7. by Hugh Walpole
8. by A. Hamilton Gibbs
9. Young Man of Manhattan by Katharine Brush
10. by Louis Bromfield

1931[]

1. The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
2. Shadows on the Rock by Willa Cather
3. by Bess Streeter Aldrich
4. Grand Hotel by Vicki Baum
5. Years of Grace by Margaret Ayer Barnes
6. The Road Back by Erich Maria Remarque
7. by Warwick Deeping
8. Back Street by Fannie Hurst
9. by Mazo de la Roche
10. by John Galsworthy

1932[]

1. The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
2. by Charles Langbridge Morgan
3. Sons by Pearl S. Buck
4. by Louis Golding
5. by Ellen Glasgow
6. by Warwick Deeping
7. by Booth Tarkington
8. Magnificent Obsession by Lloyd C. Douglas
9. by Phyllis Bentley
10. Three Loves by A. J. Cronin

1933[]

1. by Hervey Allen
2. by Gladys Hasty Carroll
3. Ann Vickers by Sinclair Lewis
4. Magnificent Obsession by Lloyd C. Douglas
5. One More River by John Galsworthy
6. by Lloyd C. Douglas
7. by Mazo de la Roche
8. by Bess Streeter Aldrich
9. The Farm by Louis Bromfield
10. Little Man, What Now? by Hans Fallada

1934[]

1. by Hervey Allen
2. Lamb in His Bosom by Caroline Miller
3. So Red the Rose by Stark Young
4. Good-bye, Mr. Chips by James Hilton
5. by Margaret Ayer Barnes
6. by Sinclair Lewis
7. Private Worlds by Phyllis Bottome
8. by Mary Ellen Chase
9. Oil for the Lamps of China by Alice Tisdale Hobart
10. Seven Gothic Tales by Isak Dinesen

1935[]

1. by Lloyd C. Douglas
2. by Ellen Glasgow
3. Of Time and the River by Thomas Wolfe
4. Time Out of Mind by Rachel Field
5. Good-bye, Mr. Chips by James Hilton
6. The Forty Days of Musa Dagh by Franz Werfel
7. by Thornton Wilder
8. Lost Horizon by James Hilton
9. Come and Get It by Edna Ferber
10. by Robert Briffault

1936[]

1. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
2. The Last Puritan by George Santayana
3. by Charles Langbridge Morgan
4. Drums Along the Mohawk by Walter D. Edmonds
5. It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis
6. White Banners by Lloyd C. Douglas
7. The Hurricane by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall
8. by Rebecca West
9. The Doctor by Mary Roberts Rinehart
10. Eyeless in Gaza by Aldous Huxley

1937[]

1. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
2. Northwest Passage by Kenneth Roberts
3. The Citadel by A. J. Cronin
4. by Vaughan Wilkins
5. Drums Along the Mohawk by Walter D. Edmonds
6. The Years by Virginia Woolf
7. Theatre by W. Somerset Maugham
8. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
9. The Rains Came by Louis Bromfield
10. We Are Not Alone by James Hilton

1938[]

1. The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
2. The Citadel by A. J. Cronin
3. My Son, My Son! by Howard Spring
4. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
5. Northwest Passage by Kenneth Roberts
6. All This, and Heaven Too by Rachel Field
7. The Rains Came by Louis Bromfield
8. by Laura Krey
9. The Mortal Storm by Phyllis Bottome
10. by Hervey Allen

1939[]

1. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
2. All This, and Heaven Too by Rachel Field
3. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
4. by John P. Marquand
5. Escape by Ethel Vance
6. Disputed Passage by Lloyd C. Douglas
7. The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
8. by Elizabeth Page
9. by Sholem Asch
10. Kitty Foyle by Christopher Morley

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