1924 in literature

Events

• January
• *Writer Miguel de Unamuno is dismissed for the first time from his university posts by the Spanish dictator General Miguel Primo de Rivera and goes into exile on Fuerteventura in the Canary Islands.
• *Richard L. Simon and M. Lincoln Schuster establish the New York City publisher Simon & Schuster, which initially specializes in crossword puzzle books.
• January 15 – The world's first radio play, Danger by Richard Hughes, is broadcast by the B.B.C. from its London studios.
• February 2 – A largely rewritten version of Roi Cooper Megrue and Walter C. Hackett's 1914 farce It Pays to Advertise opens in a production by actor-manager Tom Walls, at the Aldwych Theatre in London. It runs until 10 July 1925, a total of 598 performances, as the first in a sequence of twelve Aldwych farces.
• March 3 – Seán O'Casey's drama Juno and the Paycock opens at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin.
• March
• *Leonard and Virginia Woolf move themselves and the Hogarth Press back to a house in Bloomsbury at 52 Tavistock Square, London.
• *Weird Tales magazine publishes H. P. Lovecraft's story "The Rats in the Walls" in the United States.
• April – Ford Madox Ford publishes the first of four volumes set around World War I, titled Parade's End. It is completed in 1928.
• April 12 – The Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore arrives in China, where his views prove controversial. While there, he becomes associated with the innovative poets Xu Zhimo and Lin Huiyin.
• May 3 – F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald leave New York for France.
• June 4 – E. M. Forster's novel A Passage to India is published in the U.K. He will write no further fiction in the remaining 46 years of his life.
• September – Buddenbrooks, the first of Thomas Mann's works to appear in English, is published in a translation by the American Helen T. Lowe-Porter. The original German appeared in 1901.

• The Hebrew language poet Hayim Nahman Bialik relocates with his publishing house Dvir from Berlin to Tel Aviv.
• Ret Marut, perhaps previously Otto Feige and presumed later to be the writer B. Traven, leaves Europe for Mexico.
• The Argosy Book Store is founded in New York City.

  New books

Fiction

• Felix Aderca – Moartea unei republici roșii
• Michael Arlen – The Green Hat
• Henry Howarth Bashford – Augustus Carp, Esq., By Himself: Being the Autobiography of a Really Good Man
• Johan Bojer – Vor egen stamme
• Louis Bromfield – The Green Bay Tree
• John Buchan – The Three Hostages
• Edgar Rice Burroughs
• *The Land That Time Forgot
• *Tarzan and the Ant Men
• Agatha Christie
• *The Man in the Brown Suit
• *Poirot Investigates
• James Oliver Curwood – A Gentleman of Courage
• Alfred Döblin – Berge Meere und Giganten
• Johan Fabricius – De Scheepsjongens van Bontekoe
• Edna Ferber – So Big
• Charles Finger – Tales from Silver Lands
• Dorothy Canfield Fisher – The Home-Maker
• Ford Madox Ford – Some Do Not...
• Jean Forge – Saltego trans Jarmiloj
• E. M. Forster – A Passage to India
• Gilbert Frankau – Gerald Cranston's Lady
• John Galsworthy – The White Monkey
• Garet Garrett – Satan's Bushel
• Zane Grey – Call of the Canyon
• Robert Hichens – After the Verdict
• Winifred Holtby – The Crowded Street
• Margaret Irwin – Still She Wished for Company
• Mikheil Javakhishvili
• *Jaqo's Dispossessed
• *Kvachi Kvachantiradze
• Harry Stephen Keeler – The Voice of the Seven Sparrows
• Margaret Kennedy – The Constant Nymph
• Magdalen King-Hall – Diary of a Young Lady of Fashion 1764–65
• Halldór Laxness – Undir Helgahnúk
• Benito Lynch – The Englishman of the Bones
• Philip MacDonald – The Rasp
• Thomas Mann – The Magic Mountain
• Lucia Mantu – Cucoana Olimpia
• Katherine Mansfield – Something Childish and Other Stories
• John Masefield – Sard Harker
• F. M. Mayor – The Rector's Daughter
• Herman Melville – Billy Budd, Sailor
• Dmitry Merezhkovsky – Akhnaton, King of Egypt
• George Moore – Peronnik the Fool
• Paul Morand – Lewis and Irene
• Ralph Hale Mottram – The Spanish Farm
• E. Phillips Oppenheim – The Wrath to Come
• Baroness Orczy
• *The Honourable Jim
• *Pimpernel and Rosemary
• *Les Beaux et les Dandys de Grand Siècles en Angleterre
• Ernest Pérochon – :fr:Les Gardiennes |Les Gardiennes
• Eden Phillpotts – The Treasures of Typhon
• Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany – The King of Elfland's Daughter
• Joseph Roth
• *Hotel Savoy
• *Rebellion
• Arthur Schnitzler – Fräulein Else
• Arthur D. Howden Smith – Porto Bello Gold
• Þórbergur Þórðarson – Bréf til Láru
• Edgar Wallace
• *The Dark Eyes of London
• *Double Dan
• *The Face in the Night
• *Room 13
• *The Sinister Man
• *The Three Oak Mystery
• Hugh Walpole – The Old Ladies
• Mary Webb – Precious Bane
• H. G. Wells – The Dream
• Edith Wharton – The Old Maid
• Walter F. White – The Fire In The Flint
• P. C. Wren – Beau Geste
• Francis Brett Young
• *Cold Harbour
• *Woodsmoke
• Yevgeny Zamyatin – We

  Children and young people

• Edgar Rice Burroughs
• *The Land That Time Forgot
• *Tarzan and the Ant Men
• Hugh Lofting – Doctor Dolittle's Circus
• Anne Parrish – The Dream Coach
• Else Ury
• *Nesthäkchen's Youngest
• *Nesthäkchen and Her Grandchildren
• Ruth Plumly Thompson – Grampa in Oz
• Gertrude Chandler Warner – The Box-Car Children

  Drama