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Top Ten Best Sellers for the Years 1930 - 1939
1930
1. Cimarron Edna Ferber
2. Exile Warwick Deeping
3. The Woman of Andros Thornton Wilder
4. Years of Grace Margaret Ayers 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 Woman of Manhattan Katherine Brush
10. Twenty-Four Hours Louis Bromfield
1931
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
1932
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, novel Phyllis Bentley
10. Three Loves A. J. Cronin
1933
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 Trespassers 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
1934
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
1935
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
1936
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
1937
1. Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell
2. Northwest Passage (novel) 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
1938
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
1939
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
8. The Tree of Liberty Elizabeth Page
9. The Nazarene Sholem Asch
10. Kitty Foyle Christopher Morley