Best Selling Novels of the 1930's Books

Best Selling Novels of the 1930's

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A list of the best selling novels in the US during the 1930's as reported by Publishers Weekly. This list ranges from 1930 through 1939. All types of novels have been included and each of them has made it into the top ten. With the introduction of the Nook, Kindle, and iPad with iBooks, reading is hot again. The best selling novels on this list were the most popular books in the United States during the 30's, so you can be sure they're well written and enjoyable (depending, of course, on your preferred literary genre). This list is intended to help long-time readers and newcomers alike with discovering (and rediscovering) some of the best selling novels of all time.
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  1. 1
    Bess Streeter Aldrich
    Year in the Top Ten: 1931
  2. 2
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    Action at Aquila

    Hervey Allen
    Year in the Top Ten: 1938
  3. 3
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    All This, and Heaven Too

    Years in the Top Ten: 1938, 1939
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    And So—Victoria

    Year in the Top Ten: 1937
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    And tell of time

    Laura Smith Krey
    Year in the Top Ten: 1938
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    Angel Pavement

    John Boynton Priestley
    Year in the Top Ten: 1930
  7. 7

    Ann Vickers

    Sinclair Lewis
    Year in the Top Ten: 1933
  8. 8

    Anthony Adverse

    Hervey Allen
    Years in the Top Ten: 1933, 1934
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    As the earth turns

    Gladys Hasty Carroll
    Year in the Top Ten: 1933
  10. 10
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    Fannie Hurst
    Year in the Top Ten: 1931
  11. 11

    Chances

    Jackie Collins
    Year in the Top Ten: 1930
  12. 12

    Cimarron

    Edna Ferber
    Year in the Top Ten: 1930
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    Come and get it

    Edna Ferber
    Year in the Top Ten: 1935
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    Disputed passage

    Lloyd C. Douglas
    Year in the Top Ten: 1939
  15. 15
    Walter D. Edmonds
    Years in the Top Ten: 1936, 1937
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    Escape

    Grace Zaring Stone
    Year in the Top Ten: 1939
  17. 17
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    Europa

    Robert Briffault
    Year in the Top Ten: 1935
  18. 18

    Exile

    Warwick Deeping
    Year in the Top Ten: 1930
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    Aldous Huxley
    Year in the Top Ten: 1936
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    Finch's fortune

    Mazo De la Roche
    Year in the Top Ten: 1931
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    Forgive Us Our Trespassers

    Year in the Top Ten: 1933
  22. 22
    Margaret Mitchell
    Years in the Top Ten: 1936, 1937
  23. 23

    Good-bye, Mr. Chips

    James Hilton
    Years in the Top Ten: 1934, 1935
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    Grand hotel

    Vicki Baum
    Year in the Top Ten: 1931
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    Green light

    Lloyd C. Douglas
    Year in the Top Ten: 1935

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