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1930 Books & Bestsellers |
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1930 Fiction Top Ten Books |
| (according to Publisher’s Weekly) 1. Cimarron by by Edna Ferber 2. Exile by Warwick Deeping 3. The Woman of Andros by Thornton Wilder 4. Years of Grace by Margaret Ayer Barnes 5. Angel Pavement by J.B. Priestley 6. The Door by Mary Roberts Rinehart 7. Rogue Herries by Hugh Walpole 8. Chances by A. Hamilton Gibbs 9. Young Man of Manhattan by Katharine Brush 10. Twenty-Four Hours by Louis Bromfield |
1930 Non-Fiction Books |
| 1. The Story of San Michele by Axel Munthe 2. The Strange Death of President Harding by Gaston B. Means and May Dixon Thacker 3. Byron by André Maurois 4. The Adams Family by James Truslow Adams 5. Lone Cowboy by Will James 6. Lincoln by Emil Ludwig 7. The Story of Philosophy by Will Durant 8. The Outline of History by H.G. Wells 9. The Art of Thinking by Ernest Dimnet 10. The Rise of American Civilization by Charles and Mary Beard |
1930 Notable Literature |
| The 42nd Parallel by John Dos Passos As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett Civilization and Its Discontents by Sigmund Freud I’ll Take My Stand by Twelve Southerners Law and the Modern Mind by Jerome Frank The Greek Way by Edith Hamilton Humanism in America by Norman Forster Seven Types of Ambiguity by William Empson |
1930 Book of the Month Club Selections |
| Iron Man by W.R. Burnett The Rise of American Civilization by Charles and Mary Beard The Crusades: Iron Men and Saints by Harold Lamb Gallows’ Orchard by Claire Spencer The Week-End Library by Somerset Maugham et al. Liberty by Everett Dean Martin Dr. Serocold by Helen Ashton Lone Cowboy: My Life by Will James The Complete Sherlock Holmes by A. Conan Doyle Quiet Street by Michael Ossorgin The Lives of a Bengal Lancer by Major F. Yeats-Brown Moby Dick by Herman Melville (illustrated by Rockwell Kent) |
| 1930 Nobel Prize in Literature Most Popular Books of 1930, according to GoodReads |