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Best Sellers · 1930s

1932

#1 bestsellers month by month.

January

Hardcover Fiction

MAID IN WAITING

John Galsworthy

THE HARBOURMASTER

MR. AND MRS. PENNINGTON

Francis Brett Young

Hardcover Nonfiction

THE EPIC OF AMERICA

James Truslow Adams

February

Hardcover Fiction

MR. AND MRS. PENNINGTON

Francis Brett Young

THE END OF DESIRE

Booth Tarkington

Hardcover Nonfiction

Frederick Lewis Allen

A FORTUNE TO SHARE

THE STORY OF MY LIFE

Clarence Darrow

March

Hardcover Fiction

Booth Tarkington

Hardcover Nonfiction

THE STORY OF MY LIFE

Clarence Darrow

ONCE A GRAND DUKE

Alexander of Russia

Frederick Lewis Allen

April

Hardcover Fiction

MAGNOLIA STREET

Hardcover Nonfiction

THE EPIC OF AMERICA

James Truslow Adams

Frederick Lewis Allen

Sir Arthur Salter

May

Hardcover Fiction

Louis Bromfield

Hardcover Nonfiction

Sir Arthur Salter

Frederick Lewis Allen

20,000 YEARS IN SING SING

June

Hardcover Fiction

Hardcover Nonfiction

20,000 YEARS IN SING SING

July

Hardcover Fiction

Hardcover Nonfiction

Frederick Lewis Allen

A NEW WAY TO BETTER GOLF

20,000 YEARS IN SING SING

August

Hardcover Fiction

J. B. Priestley

Mazo De La Roche

Hardcover Nonfiction

20,000 YEARS IN SING SING

WHAT WE LIVE BY

Abbe Ernest Dimnet

September

Hardcover Fiction

A NEW YORK TEMPEST

THE SHELTERED LIFE

Hardcover Nonfiction

A PRINCESS IN EXILE

Marie, Grand Duchess of Russia

MORE MERRY-GO-ROUND

October

Hardcover Fiction

Hardcover Nonfiction

MORE MERRY-GO-ROUND

DEATH IN THE AFTERNOON

Ernest Hemingway

VAN LOON'S GEOGRAPHY

Hendrik Van Loon

November

Hardcover Fiction

INVITATION TO THE WALTZ

Rosamond Lehmann

FLOWERING WILDERNESS

John Galsworthy

Hardcover Nonfiction

THE MARCH OF DEMOCRACY

James Truslow Adams

VAN LOON'S GEOGRAPHY

Hendrik Van Loon

December

Hardcover Fiction

FLOWERING WILDERNESS

John Galsworthy

Hardcover Nonfiction

VAN LOON'S GEOGRAPHY

Hendrik Van Loon

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