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Best Sellers · 1930s

1935

#1 bestsellers month by month.

January

Hardcover Fiction

THE FORTY DAYS OF MUSA DAGH

HEAVEN'S MY DESTINATION

Thornton Wilder

Hardcover Nonfiction

EXPERIMENT IN AUTOBIOGRAPHY

WHILE ROME BURNS

Alexander Woollcott

February

Hardcover Fiction

HEAVEN'S MY DESTINATION

Thornton Wilder

THE FORTY DAYS OF MUSA DAGH

Hardcover Nonfiction

WHILE ROME BURNS

Alexander Woollcott

March

Hardcover Fiction

COME AND GET IT

OF TIME AND THE RIVER

Hardcover Nonfiction

INFLATION AHEAD!

Willard Kiplinger and Frederick Shelton

FRANCIS THE FIRST

Francis Hackett

April

Hardcover Fiction

COME AND GET IT

OF TIME AND THE RIVER

Lloyd C. Douglas

Hardcover Nonfiction

FRANCIS THE FIRST

Francis Hackett

PERSONAL HISTORY

CULBERTSON'S NEW SUMMARY OF CONTRACT BRIDGE

May

Hardcover Fiction

OF TIME AND THE RIVER

NOW IN NOVEMBER

Josephine Johnson

Hardcover Nonfiction

CULBERTSON'S NEW SUMMARY OF CONTRACT BRIDGE

June

Hardcover Fiction

NOW IN NOVEMBER

Josephine Johnson

Mazo De La Roche

Hardcover Nonfiction

PERSONAL HISTORY

July

Hardcover Fiction

Lloyd C. Douglas

Hardcover Nonfiction

PERSONAL HISTORY

August

Hardcover Fiction

Lloyd C. Douglas

Hardcover Nonfiction

Somerset Maugham

LIFE WITH FATHER

NORTH TO THE ORIENT

September

Hardcover Fiction

Robert Briffault

Hardcover Nonfiction

NORTH TO THE ORIENT

October

Hardcover Fiction

Robert Briffault

Hardcover Nonfiction

NORTH TO THE ORIENT

SEVEN PILLARS OF WISDOM

November

Hardcover Fiction

IT CAN'T HAPPEN HERE

Robert Briffault

Hardcover Nonfiction

NORTH TO THE ORIENT

December

Hardcover Fiction

IT CAN'T HAPPEN HERE

Hardcover Nonfiction

NORTH TO THE ORIENT

THE WOOLLCOTT READER

Alexander Woollcott

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