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1929 Books & Bestsellers |
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1929 Fiction Top Ten Books |
| (according to Publisher’s Weekly) 1. All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque 2. Dodsworth by Sinclair Lewis 3. Dark Hester by Anne Douglas Sedgwick 4. The Bishop Murder Case by S.S. Van Dine 5. Roper’s Row by Warwick Deeping 6. Peder Victorious by O.E. Rolvaag 7. Mamba’s Daughters by DuBose Heyward 8. The Galaxy by Susan Ertz 9. Scarlet Sister Mary by Julia Peterkin 10. Joseph and His Brethren by H.W. Freeman |
1929 Non-Fiction Books |
| 1. The Art of Thinking by Ernest Dimnet 2. Henry the Eighth by Francis Hackett 3. The Cradle of the Deep by Joan Lowell 4. Elizabeth and Essex by Lytton Strachey 5. The Specialist by Chic Sale 6. A Preface to Morals by Walter Lippmann 7. Believe It or Not by Robert L. Ripley 8. John Brown’s Body by Stephen Vincent Benét 9. The Tragic Era by Claude G. Bowers 10. The Mansions of Philosophy by Will Durant |
1929 Notable Literature |
| The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner A High Wind in Jamaica by Richard Hughes A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf Good-bye to All That by Robert Graves A Preface to Morals by Walter Lippmann Ideology and Utopia by Karl Mannheim Modern Temper by Joseph Wood Krutch Middletown by Robert and Helen Lynd Quest for Certainty by John Dewey Look Homeward, Angel by Thomas Wolfe The Story of My Experiments with Truth by Mohandas Gandhi The Revolt of the Masses by Jose Ortega y Gasset |
1929 Book of the Month Club Selections |
| Joseph and His Brethren by H.W. Freeman Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset Cradle of the Deep by Joan Lowell Henry the Eighth by Francis Hackett A Preface to Morals by Walter Lippmann All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque Hunky by Thames Williamson The Omnibus of Crime, edited by Dorothy L. Sayers Ultima Thule by Henry Handel Richardson The Good Companions by J.B. Priestley The Embezzlers by Valentin Kataev Franklin, The Apostle of Modern Times by Bernard Fay |
| 1929 Nobel Prize in Literature Most Popular Books of 1929, according to GoodReads |