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

  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 |The Door by Mary Roberts Rinehart
  7. Rogue Herries by Hugh Walpole
  8. Chances by A. Hamilton Gibbs
  9. Young Man of Manhattan by Katharine Brush
  10. Twenty-Four Hours by Louis Bromfield

    1931

  11. The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
  12. Shadows on the Rock by Willa Cather
  13. A White Bird Flying by Bess Streeter Aldrich
  14. Grand Hotel by Vicki Baum
  15. Years of Grace by Margaret Ayer Barnes
  16. The Road Back by Erich Maria Remarque
  17. The Bridge of Desire by Warwick Deeping
  18. Back Street by Fannie Hurst
  19. Finch's Fortune by Mazo de la Roche
  20. Maid in Waiting by John Galsworthy

    1932

  21. The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
  22. The Fountain by Charles Langbridge Morgan
  23. Sons by Pearl S. Buck
  24. Magnolia Street by Louis Golding
  25. The Sheltered Life by Ellen Glasgow
  26. Old Wine and New by Warwick Deeping
  27. Mary's Neck by Booth Tarkington
  28. Magnificent Obsession by Lloyd C. Douglas
  29. Inheritance by Phyllis Bentley
  30. Three Loves by A. J. Cronin

    1933

  31. Anthony Adverse by Hervey Allen
  32. As the Earth Turns by Gladys Hasty Carroll
  33. Ann Vickers by Sinclair Lewis
  34. Magnificent Obsession by Lloyd C. Douglas
  35. One More River by John Galsworthy
  36. Forgive Us Our Trespassers by Lloyd C. Douglas
  37. The Master of Jalna by Mazo de la Roche
  38. Miss Bishop by Bess Streeter Aldrich
  39. The Farm by Louis Bromfield
  40. Little Man, What Now? by Hans Fallada

    1934

  41. Anthony Adverse by Hervey Allen
  42. Lamb in His Bosom by Caroline Miller
  43. So Red the Rose by Stark Young
  44. Good-bye, Mr. Chips by James Hilton
  45. Within This Present by Margaret Ayer Barnes
  46. Work of Art by Sinclair Lewis
  47. Private Worlds by Phyllis Bottome
  48. Mary Peters by Mary Ellen Chase
  49. Oil for the Lamps of China by Alice Tisdale Hobart
  50. Seven Gothic Tales by Isak Dinesen

    1935

  51. Green Light by Lloyd C. Douglas
  52. Vein of Iron by Ellen Glasgow
  53. Of Time and the River by Thomas Wolfe
  54. Time Out of Mind by Rachel Field
  55. Good-bye, Mr. Chips by James Hilton
  56. The Forty Days of Musa Dagh by Franz Werfel
  57. Heaven's My Destination by Thornton Wilder
  58. Lost Horizon by James Hilton
  59. Come and Get It by Edna Ferber
  60. Europa by Robert Briffault

    1936

  61. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
  62. The Last Puritan by George Santayana
  63. Sparkenbroke by Charles Langbridge Morgan
  64. Drums Along the Mohawk by Walter D. Edmonds
  65. It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis
  66. White Banners by Lloyd C. Douglas
  67. The Hurricane by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall
  68. The Thinking Reed by Rebecca West
  69. The Doctor by Mary Roberts Rinehart
  70. Eyeless in Gaza by Aldous Huxley

    1937

  71. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
  72. Northwest Passage by Kenneth Roberts
  73. The Citadel by A. J. Cronin
  74. And So—Victoria by Vaughan Wilkins
  75. Drums Along the Mohawk by Walter D. Edmonds
  76. The Years by Virginia Woolf
  77. Theatre by W. Somerset Maugham
  78. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
  79. The Rains Came by Louis Bromfield
  80. We Are Not Alone by James Hilton

    1938

  81. The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
  82. The Citadel by A. J. Cronin
  83. My Son, My Son! by Howard Spring
  84. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
  85. Northwest Passage by Kenneth Roberts
  86. All This, and Heaven Too by Rachel Field
  87. The Rains Came by Louis Bromfield
  88. And Tell of Time by Laura Krey
  89. The Mortal Storm by Phyllis Bottome
  90. Action at Aquila by Hervey Allen

    1939

  91. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
  92. All This, and Heaven Too by Rachel Field
  93. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
  94. Wickford Point by John P. Marquand
  95. Escape by Ethel Vance
  96. Disputed Passage by Lloyd C. Douglas
  97. The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
  98. The Tree of Liberty by Elizabeth Page
  99. The Nazarene by Sholem Asch
  100. Kitty Foyle by Christopher Morley