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

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