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1. Edna Ferber, Cimarron

2. Warwick Deeping, Exile

3. Thornton Wilder, The Woman of Andros

4. Margaret Ayer Barnes, Years of Grace

5. J. B. Priestley, Angel Pavement

6. Mary Roberts Rinehart, The Door

7. Hugh Walpole, Rogue Herries

8. A. Hamilton Gibbs, Chances

9. Katharine Brush, Young Man of Manhattan

Critically Acclaimed and Historically Significant
John Dos Passos, The 42nd Parallel

William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying

Dashiell Hammett, The Maltese Falcon

Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents

Twelve Southerners, I’ll Take My Stand

Jerome Frank, Law and the Modern Mind

Edith Hamilton, The Greek Way

Norman Forster, Humanism in America

1. Axel Munthe, The Story of San Michele

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

3. André Maurois, Byron

4. James Truslow Adams, The Adams Family

5. Will James, Lone Cowboy

6. Emil Ludwig, Lincoln

7. Will Durant, The Story of Philosophy

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

9. Ernest Dimnet, The Art of Thinking

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

W. R. Burnett, Iron Man

Charles and Mary Beard, The Rise of American Civilization

Harold Lamb, The Crusades: Iron Men and Saints

Claire Spencer, Gallows’ Orchard

Somerset Maugham et al, The Week-End Library

Everett Dean Martin, Liberty

Helen Ashton, Dr. Serocold

Will James, Lone Cowboy: My Life

A. Conan Doyle, The Complete Sherlock Holmes

Michael Ossorgin, Quiet Street

Major F. Yeats-Brown, The Lives of a Bengal Lancer

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1. Pearl S. Buck, The Good Earth

2. Willa Cather, Shadows on the Rock

3. Bess Streeter Aldrich, A White Bird Flying

4. Vicki Baum, Grand Hotel

5. Margaret Ayer Barnes, Years of Grace

6. Erich Maria Remarque, The Road Back

7. Warwick Deeping, The Bridge of Desire

8. Fannie Hurst, Back Street

9. Mazo de la Roche, Finch’s Fortune

10. John Galsworthy, Maid in Waiting

John Dewey, Philosophy and Civilization

Edmund Wilson, Axel’s Castle

Pearl S. Buck, The Good Earth

Lincoln Steffens, Autobiography

Morris R. Cohen,, Reason and Nature

Margaret Sanger, My Fight for Birth Control

Willa Cather, Shadows on the Rock

Constance Rourke, American Humor

Irma Rombauer, The Joy of Cooking

1. Grand Duchess Marie, Education of a Princess

2. Axel Munthe, The Story of San Michele

3. Anonymous (Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen), Washington Merry-Go-Round

4. Alexander Abingdon, ill. Dr. Seuss, Boners: Being a Collection of Schoolboy Wisdom or Knowledge

5. Ely Culbertson, Culbertson’s Summary

6. Ely Culbertson, Contract Bridge Blue Book

7. Edna St. Vincent Millay, Fatal Interview

8. James Truslow Adams, The Epic of America

9. Stuart Chase, Mexico

10. Mikhail Ilin, New Russia’s Primer

Grand Duchess Marie, Education of a Princess

Vicki Baum, Grand Hotel

Pearl S. Buck, The Good Earth

Thomas Craven, Men of Art

Denis Mackail, The Square Circle

M. Ilin, New Russia’s Primer: The Story of the Five-Year Plan

Elizabeth, Father

Albert Einstein et al, Living Philosophies

Willa Cather, Shadows on the Rock

Sheila Kaye-Smith, Susan Spray

James Gould Cozzens, S. S. San Pedro

James truslow Adams, The Epic of America

Joseph Roth, Job

Fiction Bestsellers

1. Pearl S. Buck, The Good Earth

2. Charles Morgan, The Fountain

3. Pearl S. Buck, Sons

4. Louis Golding, Magnolia Street

5. Ellen Glasgow, The Sheltered Life

6. Warwick Deeping, Old Wine and New

7. Booth Tarkington, Mary’s Neck

8. Lloyd C. Douglas, Magnificent Obsession

9. Phyllis Bentley, Inheritance

10. A. J. Cronin, Three Loves

Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

John Dos Passos, 1919

William Faulkner, Light in August

Erskine Caldwell, Tobacco Road

Reinhold Niebuhr, Moral Man and Immoral Society

John Chamberlain, Farewell to Reform

F. R. Leavis, New Bearings in English Poetry

W. E. B. Du Bois, Black Reconstruction

Adolph Berle and Gardiner Means, Modern Corporation and Private Property

1. James Truslow Adams, The Epic of America

2. Frederick Lewis Allen, Only Yesterday

3. Vash Young, A Fortune to Share

4. Ely Culbertson, Culbertson’s Summary

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

6. Ernest Dimnet, What We Live By

7. James Truslow Adams, The March of Democracy

8. Anonymous (Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen), Washington Merry-Go-Round

9. Clarence Darrow, The Story of My Life

10. Anonymous (Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen), More Merry-Go-Round

Francis Brett Young, Mr. and Mrs. Pennington

Booth Tarkington, Mary’s Neck

Vicki Baum, And Life Goes On

Hellen Hull, Heat Lightning

Homer W. Smith, Kamongo

Leweis E. Lawes, Twenty Thousand Years in Sing Sing

Charles Morgan, The Fountain

Jan Welzl, Thirty Years in the Golden North

Jean Schlumberger, Saint Saturnin

Antoine de St. Exupéry, Night Flight

Hendrik Willem van Loon, Van Loon’s Geography

Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall, Mutiny on the Bounty

Rosamond Lemann, Invitation to the Waltz

Joseph Mathews, Wah ‘Kon-Tah

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1. Hervey Allen, Anthony Adverse

2. Gladys Hasty Carroll, As the Earth Turns

3. Sinclair Lewis, Ann Vickers

4. Lloyd C. Douglas, Magnificent Obsession

5. John Galsworthy, One More River

6. Lloyd C. Douglas, Forgive Us Our Trespasses

7. Mazo de la Roche, The Master of Jalna

8. Bess Streeter Aldrich, Miss Bishop

9. Louis Bromfield, The Farm

10. Hans Fallada, Little Man, What Now?

Gertrude Stein, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas

Wesley Mitchell et al., Recent Social Trends

J.W.N. Sullivan, Limitations of Science

Sidney Hook, Toward an Understanding of Karl Marx

Morris R. Cohen, Law and the Social

John Strachey, Coming Struggle for Power

André Malraux, Man’s Fate

H. G. Wells, The Shape of Things to Come

1. Walter B. Pitkin, Life Begins at Forty

2. Stefan Zweig, Marie Antoinette

3. R. H. Bruce Lockhart, British Agent

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

5. Nora Waln, The House of Exile

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

7. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Looking Forward

8. Ely Culbertson, Contract Bridge Blue Book of 1933

9. Halliday Sutherland, The Arches of the Years

10. James Truslow Adams, The March of Democracy, vol. 2

James Gould Cozzens, The Last Adam

R. H. Bruce Lockheart, British Agent

Bernard Shaw, Adventures of the Black Girl

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, South Moon Under

Stefan Zweig, Marie Antoinette

Gladys Hasty Carroll, As the Earth Turns

Hans Fallada, Little Man, What Now?

Hervey Allen, Anthony Adverse

Maurice O’Sullivan, Twenty-Years A-Growing

W. R. Burnett, Dark Hazard

Thames Williamson, Woods Colt

Virginia Woolf, Flush

Maurice Hindus, The Great Offensive

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1. Hervey Allen, Anthony Adverse

2. Caroline Miller, Lamb in His Bosom

3. Stark Young, So Red the Rose

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

5. Margaret Ayer Barnes, Within This Present

6. Sinclair Lewis, Work of Art

7. Phyllis Bottome, Private Worlds

8. Mary Ellen Chase, Mary Peters

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

10. Isak Dinesen, Seven Gothic Tales

Robert Graves, I, Claudius

John O’Hara, Appointment in Samarra

F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night

Evelyn Waugh, A Handful of Dust

Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer

John Dewey, Art as Experience

James M. Cain, The Postman Always Rings Twice

Lewis Mumford, Technics and Civilization

Karl Popper, The Logic of Scientific Discovery

Ruth Benedict, Patterns of Culture

Malcolm Cowley, Exile’s Return

Henry Roth, Call It Sleep

T. S. Eliot, After Strange Gods

Matthew Jacobson, The Robber Barons

George Herbert Mead, Mind, Self, and Society (posthumous)

1. Alexander Woollcott, While Rome Burns

2. Walter B. Pitkin, Life Begins at Forty

3. Romola Nijinsky, Nijinsky

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

5. Louis Adamic, The Native’s Return

6. Carl Carmer, Stars Fell on Alabama

7. Peter Fleming, Brazilian Adventure

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

9. Edmund Jacobson, You Must Relax

10. Charles Dickens, The Life of Our Lord

Peter Fleming, Brazilian Adventure

Louis Adamic, The Native’s Return

Matthew Josephson, The Robber Barons

Isak Dineson, Seven Gothic Tales

H. C. Engelbrecht and F. C. Hanighen, Merchants of Death

H. G. Wells, Seven Famous Novels

Josephine Lawrence, Years are So Long

Marguerite Steen, Matador

A. P. Herbert, Holy Deadlock

Doris Manners-Sutton, Black God

Herbert Hoover, The Challenge to Liberty

Henry Wallace, New Frontiers

H. G. Wells, An Experiment in Autobiography

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2. Ellen Glasgow, Vein of Iron

3. Thomas Wolfe, Of Time and the River

4. Rachel Field, Time Out of Mind

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

6. Franz Werfel, The Forty Days of Musa Dagh

7. Thornton Wilder, Heaven’s My Destination

8. James Hilton, Lost Horizon

9. Edna Ferber, Come and Get It

10. Robert Briffault, Europa

James T. Farrell, Studs Lonigan Trilogy

George Dangerfield, The Strange Death of Liberal England

Kenneth Burke, Permanence and Change

Rudolf Carnap, Philosophy and Logical Syntax

Reinhold Niebuhr, An Interpretation of Christian Ethics

1. Anne Morrow Lindbergh, North to the Orient

2. Alexander Woollcott, While Rome Burns

3. Clarence Day, Life with Father

4. Vincent Sheean, Personal History

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

6. Francis Hackett, Francis the First

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

8. Hans Zinsser, Rats, Lice and History

9. Douglas Southall Freeman, R. E. Lee

10. M. C. Phillips, Skin Deep

Thornton Wilder, Heaven’s My Destination

Robert Nathan, Road of Ages

Leland Hall, Salah and His American

Bruno Frank, A Man Called Cervantes

Robert Graves, Claudius the God

Walter Millis, The Road to War

Enid Bagnold, National Velvet

Humphrey Cobb, Paths of Glory

Robert Rylee Deep Dark River

Clarence Day, Life with Father
Ellen Glasgow, Vein of Iron

T. E. Lawrence, The Seven Pillars of Wisdom

Mari Sandoz, Old Jules

Fiction Bestsellers

1. Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

2. George Santayana, The Last Puritan

3. Charles Morgan, Sparkenbroke

4. Walter D. Edmonds, Drums Along the Mohawk

5. Sinclair Lewis, It Can’t Happen Here

6. Lloyd C. Douglas, White Banners

7. Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall, The Hurricane

8. Rebecca West, The Thinking Reed

9. Mary Roberts Rinehart, The Doctor

10. Aldous Huxley, Eyeless in Gaza

John Dos Passos, The Big Money

A. J. Ayer, Language, Truth, and Logic

William Faulkner, Absalom! Absalom!

H. D. Lasswell, Politics: Who Gets What, When, How?

Arthur O. Lovejoy, The Great Chain of Being

John Steinbeck, In Dubious Battle

John Maynard Keynes, The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money

Walter Benjamin, The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

1. Alexis Carrel, Man the Unknown

2. Dorothea Brande, Wake Up and Live!

3. Negley Farson, The Way of a Transgressor

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

5. Anne Morrow Lindbergh, North to the Orient

6. Victor Heiser, An American Doctor’s Odyssey

7. John Gunther, Inside Europe

8. Marjorie Hillis, Live Alone and Like It

9. Clarence Day, Life with Father

10. Walter Duranty, I Write As I Please

C. C. Furnas, The Next Hundred Years

Josephine Lawerence, If I Have Four Apples

George Santayana, The Last Puritan

Elizabeth Bowen, The House in Paris

Claence Day, This Simian World

Peter Freuchen, Arctic Adventure

Arnold Zweig, Education before Verdun

André Malraux, Days of Wrath

Robert Frost, A Further Range

Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

Walter Edmonds, Drums along the Mohawk

Victor Heiser, An American Doctor’s Odyssey

E. P. O’Donnell, Green Margins

A. E. Houseman, More Poems

Constance Rourke, Aubudon

Pearl S. Buck, Fighting Angel

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1. Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

2. Kenneth Roberts, Northwest Passage

3. A. J. Cronin, The Citadel

4. Vaughan Wilkins, And So-Victoria

5. Walter D. Edmonds, Drums Along the Mohawk

6. Virginia Woolf, The Years

7. W. Somerset Maugham, Theatre

8. John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men

9. Louis Bromfield, The Rains Came

10. James Hilton, We Are Not Alone

Isak Dinesen, Out of Africa

John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men

Thurman Arnold, The Folklore of Capitalism

John Dewey et al., Not Guilty

Robert and Helen Lynd, Middletown in Transition

J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbitt

Karen Horney, The Neurotic Personality in Our Time

Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

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

2. Victor Heiser, An American Doctor’s Odyssey

3. Henry C. Link, The Return to Religion

4. Hendrik Willem Van Loon, The Arts

5. Marjorie Hillis, Orchids on Your Budget

6. Noel Coward, Present Indicative

7. Lancelot Hogben, Mathematics for the Million

8. Clarence Day, Life with Mother

9. Emil Ludwig, The Nile

10. Van Wyck Brooks, The Flowering of New England

R. C. Hutchnison, Shining Scabbard

Catherine Drinker Bowen and Barbara von Meck, Beloved Friend

John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men

H. G. Wells, The Croquet Player

Ignazio Silone, Bread and Wine

Millen Brand, The Outward Room

William Mahxwell, They Came Like Swallows

Burton J. Hendrick, Bulwark of the Republic

Kenneth Roberts, Northwest Passage

Elliott Paul, The Life and Death of a Spanish Town

Clyde Brion Davis, The Anointed

Ivan Sanderson, Animal Treasure

J. B. Rhine, New Frontiers of the Mind

Stuart Cloete, The Turning Wheels

Lin Yutang, The Importance of Living

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2. A. J. Cronin, The Citadel

3. Howard Spring, My Son, My Son!

4. Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca

5. Kenneth Roberts, Northwest Passage

6. Rachel Field, All This, and Heaven Too

7. Louis Bromfield, The Rains Came

8. Laura Krey, And Tell of Time

9. Phyllis Bottome, The Mortal Storm

10. Hervey Allen, Action at Aquila

Evelyn Waugh, Scoop

Elizabeth Bowen, The Death of the Heart

Autobiographies of William Butler Yeats

George Orwell, Homage to Catalonia

Lewis Mumford, The Culture of Cities

John Dewey, Logic

B. F. Skinner, Behavior of Organisms

Thornton Wilder, Our Town

James Hilton, Lost Horizon

Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

C. L. R. James, The Black Jacobins

1. Lin Yutang, The Importance of Living

2. Margaret Halsey, With Malice Toward Some

3. Eve Curie, Madame Curie

4. Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Listen! The Wind

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

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

7. Carl Van Doren, Benjamin Franklin

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

9. Richard E. Byrd, Alone

10. Margaret Armstrong, Fanny Kemble

C. P. Rohacanachi, Forever Ulysses

Commander Edward Ellsberg, Hell on Ice

Isak Dinesen, Out of Africa

Charles Allen Smart, R. F. D.

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, The Yearling

Paul de Kruif, The Fight for Life

Eric Knight et al, The Flying Yorkshireman

Clyde Brion Davis, The Great American Novel

Margaret Armstrong, Fanny Kemble: A Passionate Victorian

Arthur E. Hertzler, The Horse and Buggy Doctor

Roger Vercel, The Tides of Mont St-Michel

Margaret Halsey, With Malice toward Some

Carl Van Doren, Benjamin Franklin

Irwin Edman, Philosopher’s Holiday

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1. John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

2. Rachel Field, All This, and Heaven Too
3. Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca

4. John Marquard, Wickford Point

5. Ethel Vance, Escape

6. Lloyd C. Douglas, Disputed Passage
7. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, The Yearling

8. Elizabeth Page, The Tree of Liberty
9. Sholem Asch, The Nazarene
10. Christopher Morley, Kitty Foyle

John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

Nathanael West, The Day of the Locust

James Joyce, Finnegans Wake

Erwin Panofsky, Studies in Iconology

John Dewey, Freedom and Culture

Carey McWilliams, Factories in the Field

Cleanth Brooks, Modern Poetry and the Tradition

Graham Greene, The Power and the Glory

Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep

1. Pierre Van Paasen, Days of Our Years
2. Nora Waln, Reaching for the Stars
3. John Gunther, Inside Asia
4. William Lyon Phelps, Autobiography with Letters
5. Bellamy Partridge, Country Lawyer
6. Antoine de St. Exupéry, Wind, Sand, and Stars

7. Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf

8. Edna Ferber, A Peculiar Treasure
9. Vincent Sheehan, Not Peace but a Sword
10. Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Listen! The Wind

T. H. White, The Sword in the Stone

Logan Persoall Smith, Unforgotten Years

Pierre van Paassen, Days of Our Years

Pearl S. Buck, The Patriot

Christopher LaFarge, Each to the Other

Nevil Shute, Ordeal

C. S. Forester, Captain Horatio Hornblower

Charles and Mary Beard, America in Midpassage

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

Angela Thirkell, The Brandons

Vincint Sheean, Not Peace but a Sword

Pietro di Donato, Christ in Concrete

Amram Scheinfeld, You and Heredity

Ethel Vance, Escape

Sholem Asch, The Nazarene