HYDE PARK BOOKS (return home)
Best Selling Books in America, 1930's

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F I C T I O N 1. Cimarron, Edna Ferber

2. Exile, Warwick Deeping

3. The Woman of Andros, Thornton Wilder

4. Years of Grace, Margaret Ayer Barnes

5. Angel Pavement, J. B. Priestley

6. The Door, Mary Roberts Rinehart

7. Rogue Herries, Hugh Walpole

8. Chances, A. Hamilton Gibbs

9. Young Man of Manhattan, Katharine Brush

10. Twenty-Four Hours, Louis Bromfield

N O N F I C T I O N

1. The Story of San Michele, Axel Munthe

2. The Strange Death of President Harding, Gaston B. Means and May Dixon Thacker

3. Byron, André Maurois

4. The Adams Family, James Truslow Adams

5. Lone Cowboy, Will James

6. Lincoln, Emil Ludwig

7. The Story of Philosophy, Will Durant

8. The Outline of History, H. G. Wells

9. The Art of Thinking, Ernest Dimnet

10. The Rise of American Civilization, Charles and Mary Beard

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F I C T I O N 1. The Good Earth, Pearl S. Buck

2. Shadows on the Rock, Willa Cather

3. A White Bird Flying, Bess Streeter Aldrich

4. Grand Hotel, Vicki Baum

5. Years of Grace, Margaret Ayer Barnes

6. The Road Back, Erich Maria Remarque

7. The Bridge of Desire, Warwick Deeping

8. Back Street, Fannie Hurst

9. Finch's Fortune, Mazo de la Roche

10. Maid in Waiting, John Galsworthy

N O N F I C T I O N

1. Education of a Princess, Grand Duchess Marie

2. The Story of San Michele, Axel Munthe

3. Washington Merry-Go-Round, anonymous

(Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen)

4. Boners: Being a Collection of Schoolboy Wisdom,

or Knowledge as It Is Sometimes Written,

compiled by Alexander Abingdon; illustrated by Dr. Seuss

5. Culbertson's Summary, Ely Culbertson

6. Contract Bridge Blue Book, Ely Culbertson

7. Fatal Interview, Edna St. Vincent Millay

8. The Epic of America, James Truslow Adams

9. Mexico, Stuart Chase

10. New Russia's Primer, Mikhail Ilin

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F I C T I O N 1. The Good Earth, Pearl S. Buck

2. The Fountain, Charles Morgan

3. Sons, Pearl S. Buck

4. Magnolia Street, Louis Golding

5. The Sheltered Life, Ellen Glasgow

6. Old Wine and New, Warwick Deeping

7. Mary's Neck, Booth Tarkington

8. Magnificent Obsession, Lloyd C. Douglas

9. Inheritance, Phyllis Bentley

10. Three Loves, A. J. Cronin

N O N F I C T I O N

1. The Epic of America, James Truslow Adams

2. Only Yesterday, Frederick Lewis Allen

3. A Fortune to Share, Vash Young

4. Culbertson's Summary, Ely Culbertson

5. Van Loon's Geography, Hendrik Willem Van Loon

6. What We Live By, Ernest Dimnet

7. The March of Democracy, James Truslow Adams

8. Washington Merry-Go-Round, anonymous

(Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen)

9. The Story of My Life, Clarence Darrow

10. More Merry-Go-Round, anonymous

(Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen)

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F I C T I O N 1. Anthony Adverse, Hervey Allen

2. As the Earth Turns, Gladys Hasty Carroll

3. Ann Vickers, Sinclair Lewis

4. Magnificent Obsession, Lloyd C. Douglas

5. One More River, John Galsworthy

6. Forgive Us Our Trespasses, Lloyd C. Douglas

7. The Master of Jalna, Mazo de la Roche

8. Miss Bishop, Bess Streeter Aldrich

9. The Farm, Louis Bromfield

10. Little Man, What Now?, Hans Fallada

N O N F I C T I O N

1. Life Begins at Forty, Walter B. Pitkin

2. Marie Antoinette, Stefan Zweig

3. British Agent, R. H. Bruce Lockhart

4. 100,000,000 Guinea Pigs, Arthur Kallet and F. J. Schlink

5. The House of Exile, Nora Waln

6. Van Loon's Geography, Hendrik Willem Van Loon

7. Looking Forward, Franklin D. Roosevelt

8. Contract Bridge Blue Book of 1933, Ely Culbertson

9. The Arches of the Years, Halliday Sutherland

10. The March of Democracy, Vol. II, James Truslow Adams

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F I C T I O N 1. Anthony Adverse, Hervey Allen

2. Lamb in His Bosom, Caroline Miller

3. So Red the Rose, Stark Young

4. Good-Bye, Mr. Chips, James Hilton

5. Within This Present, Margaret Ayer Barnes

6. Work of Art, Sinclair Lewis

7. Private Worlds, Phyllis Bottome

8. Mary Peters, Mary Ellen Chase

9. Oil for the Lamps of China, Alice Tisdale Hobart

10. Seven Gothic Tales, Isak Dinesen

N O N F I C T I O N

1. While Rome Burns, Alexander Woollcott

2. Life Begins at Forty, Walter B. Pitkin

3. Nijinsky, Romola Nijinsky

4. 100,000,000 Guinea Pigs, Arthur Kallet and F. J. Schlink

5. The Native's Return, Louis Adamic

6. Stars Fell on Alabama, Carl Carmer

7. Brazilian Adventure, Peter Fleming

8. Forty-two Years in the White House, Ike Hoover

9. You Must Relax, Edmund Jacobson

10. The Life of Our Lord, Charles Dickens

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F I C T I O N 1. Green Light, Lloyd C. Douglas

2. Vein of Iron, Ellen Glasgow

3. Of Time and the River, Thomas Wolfe

4. Time Out of Mind, Rachel Field

5. Good-Bye, Mr. Chips, James Hilton

6. The Forty Days of Musa Dagh, Franz Werfel

7. Heaven's My Destination, Thornton Wilder

8. Lost Horizon, James Hilton

9. Come and Get It, Edna Ferber

10. Europa, Robert Briffault

N O N F I C T I O N

1. North to the Orient, Anne Morrow Lindbergh

2. While Rome Burns, Alexander Woollcott

3. Life with Father, Clarence Day

4. Personal History, Vincent Sheean

5. Seven Pillars of Wisdom, T. E. Lawrence

6. Francis the First, Francis Hackett

7. Mary Queen of Scotland and the Isles, Stefan Zweig

8. Rats, Lice and History, Hans Zinsser

9. R. E. Lee, Douglas Southall Freeman

10. Skin Deep, M. C. Phillips

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F I C T I O N

1. Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell

2. The Last Puritan, George Santayana

3. Sparkenbroke, Charles Morgan

4. Drums Along the Mohawk, Walter D. Edmonds

5. It Can't Happen Here, Sinclair Lewis

6. White Banners, Lloyd C. Douglas

7. The Hurricane, Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall

8. The Thinking Reed, Rebecca West

9. The Doctor, Mary Roberts Rinehart

10. Eyeless in Gaza, Aldous Huxley

N O N F I C T I O N

1. Man the Unknown, Alexis Carrel

2. Wake Up and Live!, Dorothea Brande

3. The Way of a Transgressor, Negley Farson

4. Around the World in Eleven Years, Patience, Richard, and Johnny Abbe

5. North to the Orient, Anne Morrow Lindbergh

6. An American Doctor's Odyssey, Victor Heiser

7. Inside Europe, John Gunther

8. Live Alone and Like It, Marjorie Hillis

9. Life with Father, Clarence Day

10. I Write As I Please, Walter Duranty

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F I C T I O N 1. Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell

2. Northwest Passage, Kenneth Roberts

3. The Citadel, A. J. Cronin

4. And So-Victoria, Vaughan Wilkins

5. Drums Along the Mohawk, Walter D. Edmonds

6. The Years, Virginia Woolf

7. Theatre, W. Somerset Maugham

8. Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck

9. The Rains Came, Louis Bromfield

10. We Are Not Alone, James Hilton

N O N F I C T I O N

1. How To Win Friends and Influence People, Dale Carnegie

2. An American Doctor's Odyssey, Victor Heiser

3. The Return to Religion, Henry C. Link

4. The Arts, Hendrik Willem Van Loon

5. Orchids on Your Budget, Marjorie Hillis

6. Present Indicative, Noel Coward

7. Mathematics for the Million, Lancelot Hogben

8. Life with Mother, Clarence Day

9. The Nile, Emil Ludwig

10. The Flowering of New England, Van Wyck Brooks

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F I C T I O N 1. The Yearling, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

2. The Citadel, A. J. Cronin

3. My Son, My Son!, Howard Spring

4. Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier

5. Northwest Passage, Kenneth Roberts

6. All This, and Heaven Too, Rachel Field

7. The Rains Came, Louis Bromfield

8. And Tell of Time, Laura Krey

9. The Mortal Storm, Phyllis Bottome

10. Action at Aquila, Hervey Allen

N O N F I C T I O N

1. The Importance of Living, Lin Yutang

2. With Malice Toward Some, Margaret Halsey

3. Madame Curie, Eve Curie

4. Listen! The Wind, Anne Morrow Lindbergh

5. The Horse and Buggy Doctor, Arthur E. Hertzler

6. How To Win Friends and Influence People, Dale Carnegie

7. Benjamin Franklin, Carl Van Doren

8. I'm a Stranger Here Myself, Ogden Nash

9. Alone, Richard E. Byrd

10. Fanny Kemble, Margaret Armstrong

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F I C T I O N 1. The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck

2. All This, and Heaven Too, Rachel Field

3. Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier

4. Wickford Point, John P. Marquand

5. Escape, Ethel Vance

6. Disputed Passage, Lloyd C. Douglas

7. The Yearling, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

8. The Tree of Liberty, Elizabeth Page

9. The Nazarene, Sholem Asch

10. Kitty Foyle, Christopher Morley

N O N F I C T I O N

1. Days of Our Years, Pierre van Paassen

2. Reaching for the Stars, Nora Waln

3. Inside Asia, John Gunther

4. Autobiography with Letters, William Lyon Phelps

5. Country Lawyer, Bellamy Partridge

6. Wind, Sand and Stars, Antoine de St. Exupéry

7. Mein Kampf, Adolf Hitler

8. A Peculiar Treasure, Edna Ferber

9. Not Peace but a Sword, Vincent Sheean

10. Listen! The Wind, Anne Morrow Lindbergh