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1928 Books & Bestsellers |
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1928 Fiction Top Ten Books |
| (according to Publisher’s Weekly) 1. The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder 2. Wintersmoon by Hugh Walpole 3. Swan Song by John Galsworthy 4. The Greene Murder Case by S.S. Van Dine 5. Bad Girl by Vina Delmar 6. Claire Ambler by Booth Tarkington 7. Old Pybus by Warwick Deeping 8. All Kneeling by Anne Parrish 9. Jalna by Mazo de la Roche 10. The Strange Case of Miss Annie Spragg by Louis Bromfield |
1928 Non-Fiction Books |
| 1. Disraeli by André Maurois 2. Mother India by Katherine Mayo 3. Trader Horn, vol. 1 by Alfred Aloysius Horn and Ethelreda Lewis 4. Napoleon by Emil Ludwig 5. Strange Interlude by Eugene O’Neill 6. We by Charles A. Lindbergh 7. Count Luckner, The Sea Devil by Lowell Thomas 8. Goethe by Emil Ludwig 9. Skyward by Richard E. Byrd 10. The Intelligent Woman’s Guide to Socialism and Capitalism by George Bernard Shaw |
1928 Notable Literature |
| Point Counter Point by Aldous Huxley Parade’s End by Ford Madox Ford Coming of Age in Samoa by Margaret Mead Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D.H. Lawrence Nature of the Physical World by Arthur Eddington |
1928 Book of the Month Club Selections |
| Claire Ambler by Booth Tarkington Disraeli by André Marois The Deluge by S. Fowler Wright The Hotel by Elizabeth Bowen The Closed Garden by Julian Green The Intelligent Woman’s Guide to Socialism and Capitalism by George Bernard Shaw Bambi by Felix Salten John Brown’s Body by Stephen Vincent Benét The Children by Edith Wharton Hunger Fighters by Paul de Kruif Whither Mankind? Edited by Charles Beard The Case of Sargeant Grischa by Arnold Zweig |
| 1928 Nobel Prize in Literature Most Popular Books of 1928, according to GoodReads |