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Best Sellers · 1930s

1939

#1 bestsellers month by month.

January

Hardcover Fiction

ALL THIS AND HEAVEN TOO

Daphne Du Maurier

Hardcover Nonfiction

LISTEN! THE WIND

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

WITH MALICE TOWARD SOME

Margaret Halsey

February

Hardcover Fiction

ALL THIS AND HEAVEN TOO

Hardcover Nonfiction

WE SAW IT HAPPEN

Thirteen Correspondents of the New York Times

A PECULIAR TREASURE

March

Hardcover Fiction

ALL THIS AND HEAVEN TOO

Hardcover Nonfiction

A PECULIAR TREASURE

REACHING FOR THE STARS

April

Hardcover Fiction

John P. Marquand

ALL THIS AND HEAVEN TOO

Hardcover Nonfiction

REACHING FOR THE STARS

May

Hardcover Fiction

THE GRAPES OF WRATH

Hardcover Nonfiction

DAYS OF OUR YEARS

Pierre van Paassen

REACHING FOR THE STARS

June

Hardcover Fiction

THE GRAPES OF WRATH

Hardcover Nonfiction

DAYS OF OUR YEARS

Pierre van Paassen

July

Hardcover Fiction

THE GRAPES OF WRATH

Hardcover Nonfiction

August

Hardcover Fiction

THE GRAPES OF WRATH

Hardcover Nonfiction

NOT PEACE BUT A SWORD

September

Hardcover Fiction

THE GRAPES OF WRATH

Hardcover Nonfiction

Bellamy Partridge

NOT PEACE BUT A SWORD

October

Hardcover Fiction

THE GRAPES OF WRATH

Hardcover Nonfiction

Bellamy Partridge

A TREASURY OF ART MASTERPIECES

November

Hardcover Fiction

Christopher Morley

Hardcover Nonfiction

Bellamy Partridge

December

Hardcover Fiction

Christopher Morley

MOMENT IN PEKING

Hardcover Nonfiction

Bellamy Partridge

A TREASURY OF ART MASTERPIECES

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