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1932 Books & Bestsellers |
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1932 Fiction Top Ten Books |
| (according to Publisher’s Weekly) 1. The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck 2. The Fountain by Charles Morgan 3. Sons by Pearl S. Buck 4. Magnolia Street by Louis Golding 5. The Sheltered Life by Ellen Glasgow 6. Old Wine and New by Warwick Deeping 7. Mary’s Neck by Booth Tarkington 8. Magnificent Obsession by Lloyd C. Douglas 9. Inheritance by Phyllis Bentley 10. Three Loves by A. J. Cronin |
1932 Non-Fiction Books |
| 1. The Epic of America by James Truslow Adams 2. Only Yesterday by Frederick Lewis Allen 3. A Fortune to Share by Vash Young 4. Culbertson’s Summary by Ely Culbertson 5. Van Loon’s Geography by Hendrik Willem Van Loon 6. What We Live By by Ernest Dimnet 7. The March of Democracy by James Truslow Adams 8. Washington Merry-Go-Round by Anonymous (Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen) 9. The Story of My Life by Clarence Darrow 10. More Merry-Go-Round by Anonymous (Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen) |
1932 Notable Literature |
| Brave New World by Aldous Huxley 1919 by John Dos Passos Light in August by William Faulkner Tobacco Road by Erskine Caldwell Moral Man and Immoral Society by Reinhold Niebuhr Farewell to Reform by John Chamberlain New Bearings in English Poetry by F.R. Leavis Black Reconstruction by W.E.B. Du Bois Modern Corporation and Private Property by Adolph Berle and Gardiner Means |
1932 Book of the Month Club Selections |
| Mr. and Mrs. Pennington by Francis Brett Young Mary’s Neck by Booth Tarkington And Life Goes On by Vicki Baum Heat Lightning by Hellen Hull Kamongo by Homer W. Smith Twenty Thousand Years in Sing Sing by Leweis E. Lawes The Fountain by Charles Morgan Thirty Years in the Golden North by Jan Welzl Saint Saturnin by Jean Schlumberger Night Flight by Antoine de St. Exupery Van Loon’s Geography by Hendrik Willem van Loon Mutiny on the Bounty by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall Invitation to the Waltz by Rosamond Lemann Wah ‘Kon-Tah by Joseph Mathews Sherman: Fighting Prophet by Lloyd Lewis |
| 1932 Nobel Prize in Literature Most Popular Books of 1932, according to GoodReads |