Best Sellers · Browse
The 1930s
Every #1 New York Times bestseller, year by year.
Hardcover Fiction
1932
MAID IN WAITING
John Galsworthy
1932
THE HARBOURMASTER
William McFee
1932
MR. AND MRS. PENNINGTON
Francis Brett Young
1932
THE END OF DESIRE
Robert Herrick
1932
MARY'S NECK
Booth Tarkington
1932
MAGNOLIA STREET
Louis Golding
1932
BRIGHT SKIN
Julia Peterkin
1932
A MODERN HERO
Louis Bromfield
1932
THE GOOD EARTH
Pearl S. Buck
1932
DISTRICT NURSE
Faith Baldwin
1932
THE FOUNTAIN
Charles Morgan
1932
FARAWAY
J. B. Priestley
1932
LARK ASCENDING
Mazo De La Roche
1932
A NEW YORK TEMPEST
Manuel Komroff
1932
THE SHELTERED LIFE
Ellen Glasgow
1932
SONS
Pearl S. Buck
1932
INVITATION TO THE WALTZ
Rosamond Lehmann
1932
FLOWERING WILDERNESS
John Galsworthy
Hardcover Nonfiction
1932
THE EPIC OF AMERICA
James Truslow Adams
1932
ONLY YESTERDAY
Frederick Lewis Allen
1932
A FORTUNE TO SHARE
Vash Young
1932
THE STORY OF MY LIFE
Clarence Darrow
1932
ONCE A GRAND DUKE
Alexander of Russia
1932
RECOVERY
Sir Arthur Salter
1932
20,000 YEARS IN SING SING
Warden Lawes
1932
A NEW WAY TO BETTER GOLF
A. J. Morrison
1932
WHAT WE LIVE BY
Abbe Ernest Dimnet
1932
A PRINCESS IN EXILE
Marie, Grand Duchess of Russia
1932
MORE MERRY-GO-ROUND
Anonymous
1932
DEATH IN THE AFTERNOON
Ernest Hemingway
1932
VAN LOON'S GEOGRAPHY
Hendrik Van Loon
1932
THE MARCH OF DEMOCRACY
James Truslow Adams
Hardcover Fiction
1933
FLOWERING WILDERNESS
John Galsworthy
1933
THE LAST ADAM
James G. Cozzens
1933
ANN VICKERS
Sinclair Lewis
1933
THE WEREWOLF OF PARIS
Guy Endore
1933
RAIN IN THE DOORWAY
Thorne Smith
1933
AS THE EARTH TURNS
Gladys Hasty Carroll
1933
THE STORE
T. S. Stribling
1933
LITTLE MAN, WHAT NOW?
Hans Fallada
1933
ANTHONY ADVERSE
Hervey Allen
Hardcover Nonfiction
1933
VAN LOON'S GEOGRAPHY
Hendrik Van Loon
1933
THE ABC OF TECHNOCRACY
Frank Awkwright
1933
CONTRACT BRIDGE BLUE BOOK, 1933
Ely Culbertson
1933
BRITISH AGENT
R. H. Bruce Lockhart
1933
CULBERTSON'S 1933 SUMMARY
Ely Culbertson
1933
LOOKING FORWARD
Franklin D. Roosevelt
1933
MARIE ANTOINETTE
Stefan Zweig
1933
THE HOUSE OF EXILE
Nora Waln
1933
ALWAYS A GRAND DUKE
Alexander of Russia
1933
JULIA NEWBERRY'S DIARY
Julia Rosa Newberry
1933
THE ARCHES OF THE YEARS
Halliday Sutherland
1933
THE FIRST WORLD WAR
John Keegan
1933
THE CRIME OF CUBA
Carleton Beals
1933
LIFE BEGINS AT FORTY
Walter B. Pitkin
1933
MORE POWER TO YOU
Walter B. Pitkin
1933
CROWDED HOURS
Alice Roosevelt Longworth
1933
THE MAN OF THE RENAISSANCE
Ralph Roeder
Hardcover Fiction
1934
ANTHONY ADVERSE
Hervey Allen
1934
THE THIN MAN
Dashiell Hammett
1934
WORK OF ART
Sinclair Lewis
1934
THE OPPERMANNS
Lion Feuchtwanger
1934
SEVEN GOTHIC TALES
Isak Dinesen
1934
TENDER IS THE NIGHT
F. Scott Fitzgerald
1934
LAMB IN HIS BOSOM
Caroline Miller
1934
FIVE SILVER DAUGHTERS
Louis Golding
1934
I, CLAUDIUS
Robert Graves
1934
SO RED THE ROSE
Stark Young
1934
LOST HORIZON
James Hilton
1934
THE FORTY DAYS OF MUSA DAGH
Franz Werfel
Hardcover Nonfiction
1934
CROWDED HOURS
Alice Roosevelt Longworth
1934
BRAZILIAN ADVENTURE
Peter Fleming
1934
LIFE BEGINS AT FORTY
Walter B. Pitkin
1934
THE NATIVE'S RETURN
Louis Adamic
1934
THE ROBBER BARONS
Matthew Josephson
1934
WHILE ROME BURNS
Alexander Woollcott
1934
ON OUR WAY
Franklin D. Roosevelt
1934
NIJINSKY
Romola Nijinsky
1934
STARS FELL ON ALABAMA
Carl Carmer
1934
THE COMING AMERICAN BOOM
L. L. B. Angas
1934
ENGLISH JOURNEY
J. B. Priestley
1934
THE CHALLENGE TO LIBERTY
Herbert Hoover
1934
FORTY-TWO YEARS IN THE WHITE HOUSE
Irwin H. Hoover
1934
WINE FROM THESE GRAPES
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Hardcover Fiction
1935
THE FORTY DAYS OF MUSA DAGH
Franz Werfel
1935
HEAVEN'S MY DESTINATION
Thornton Wilder
1935
COME AND GET IT
Edna Ferber
1935
OF TIME AND THE RIVER
Thomas Wolfe
1935
GREEN LIGHT
Lloyd C. Douglas
1935
NOW IN NOVEMBER
Josephine Johnson
1935
YOUNG RENNY
Mazo De La Roche
1935
PATHS OF GLORY
Humphrey Cobb
1935
LUCY GAYHEART
Willa Cather
1935
VEIN OF IRON
Ellen Glasgow
1935
EUROPA
Robert Briffault
1935
IT CAN'T HAPPEN HERE
Sinclair Lewis
Hardcover Nonfiction
1935
EXPERIMENT IN AUTOBIOGRAPHY
H. G. Wells
1935
WHILE ROME BURNS
Alexander Woollcott
1935
SKIN DEEP
M. C. Phillips
1935
INFLATION AHEAD!
Willard Kiplinger and Frederick Shelton
1935
FRANCIS THE FIRST
Francis Hackett
1935
PERSONAL HISTORY
Vincent Sheean
1935
CULBERTSON'S NEW SUMMARY OF CONTRACT BRIDGE
Ely Culbertson
1935
ROAD TO WAR
Walter Millis
1935
HANDOUT
George Michael
1935
CATHERINE
Gina Kaus
1935
DON FERNANDO
Somerset Maugham
1935
LIFE WITH FATHER
Clarence Day
1935
NORTH TO THE ORIENT
Anne Lindbergh
1935
SEVEN PILLARS OF WISDOM
T. E. Lawrence
1935
THE WOOLLCOTT READER
Alexander Woollcott
Hardcover Fiction
Hardcover Fiction
Hardcover Nonfiction
1937
AN AMERICAN DOCTOR'S ODYSSEY
Victor Heiser
1937
HOW TO WIN FRIENDS AND INFLUENCE PEOPLE
Dale Carnegie
1937
THE HUNDRED YEARS
Philip Guedalla
1937
PRESENT INDICATIVE
Noel Coward
1937
CORONATION COMMENTARY
Geoffrey Dennis
1937
ORCHIDS ON YOUR BUDGET
Marjorie Hillis
1937
CONVERSATION AT MIDNIGHT
Edna St. Vincent Millay
1937
LIFE WITH MOTHER
Clarence Day
1937
THE ARTS
Hendrik Willem van Loon
1937
MADAME CURIE
Eve Curie
1937
THE IMPORTANCE OF LIVING
Lin Yutang
Hardcover Fiction
Hardcover Nonfiction
Hardcover Fiction
Hardcover Nonfiction
1939
LISTEN! THE WIND
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
1939
WITH MALICE TOWARD SOME
Margaret Halsey
1939
WE SAW IT HAPPEN
Thirteen Correspondents of the New York Times
1939
A PECULIAR TREASURE
Edna Ferber
1939
REACHING FOR THE STARS
Nora Wain
1939
DAYS OF OUR YEARS
Pierre van Paassen
1939
INSIDE ASIA
John Gunther
1939
NOT PEACE BUT A SWORD
Vincent Sheean
1939
COUNTRY LAWYER
Bellamy Partridge
1939
A TREASURY OF ART MASTERPIECES
Thomas Craven
