 |
1938 Books & Bestsellers |
|---|
1938 Fiction Top Ten Books |
| (according to Publisher’s Weekly) 1. The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings 2. The Citadel by A.J. Cronin 3. My Son, My Son! by Howard Spring 4. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier 5. Northwest Passage by Kenneth Roberts 6. All This, and Heaven Too by Rachel Field 7. The Rains Came by Louis Bromfield 8. And Tell of Time by Laura Krey 9. The Mortal Storm by Phyllis Bottome 10. Action at Aquila by Hervey Allen |
1938 Non-Fiction Books |
| 1. The Importance of Living by Lin Yutang 2. With Malice Toward Some by Margaret Halsey 3. Madame Curie by Eve Curie 4. Listen! The Wind by Anne Morrow Lindbergh 5. The Horse and Buggy Doctor by Arthur E. Hertzler 6. How To Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie 7. Benjamin Franklin by Carl Van Doren 8. I’m a Stranger Here Myself by Ogden Nash 9. Alone by Richard E. Byrd 10. Fanny Kemble by Margaret Armstrong |
1938 Notable Literature |
| Scoop by Evelyn Waugh The Death of the Heart by Elizabeth Bowen Autobiographies of William Butler Yeats by William Butler Yeats Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell The Culture of Cities byLewis Mumford Logic by John Dewey Behavior of Organisms by B.F. Skinner Our Town by Thornton Wilder Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre The Black Jacobins by C.L.R. James Facing Mount Kenya by Jomo Kenyatta |
1938 Book of the Month Club Selections |
| Forever Ulysses by C.P. Rohacanachi Hell on Ice by Commander Edward Ellsberg Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen R.F.D. by Charles Allen Smart The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings The Fight for Life by Paul de Kruif The Flying Yorkshireman by Eric Knight et al. The Great American Novel by Clyde Brion Davis Fanny Kemble: A Passionate Victorian by Margaret Armstrong The Horse and Buggy Doctor by Arthur E. Hertzler The Tides of Mont St-Michel by Roger Vercel With Malice Toward Some by Margaret Halsey Benjamin Franklin by Carl Van Doren Philosopher’s Holiday by Irwin Edman Leonardo da Vinci by Antonina Vallentin |
| 1938 Nobel Prize in Literature Most Popular Books of 1938, according to GoodReads |