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Best Sellers · 1930s

1934

#1 bestsellers month by month.

January

Hardcover Fiction

ANTHONY ADVERSE

Dashiell Hammett

Hardcover Nonfiction

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

BRAZILIAN ADVENTURE

LIFE BEGINS AT FORTY

Walter B. Pitkin

February

Hardcover Fiction

Hardcover Nonfiction

LIFE BEGINS AT FORTY

Walter B. Pitkin

THE NATIVE'S RETURN

March

Hardcover Fiction

ANTHONY ADVERSE

Hardcover Nonfiction

THE NATIVE'S RETURN

THE ROBBER BARONS

Matthew Josephson

WHILE ROME BURNS

Alexander Woollcott

April

Hardcover Fiction

Lion Feuchtwanger

ANTHONY ADVERSE

SEVEN GOTHIC TALES

Hardcover Nonfiction

WHILE ROME BURNS

Alexander Woollcott

Franklin D. Roosevelt

May

Hardcover Fiction

TENDER IS THE NIGHT

F. Scott Fitzgerald

ANTHONY ADVERSE

LAMB IN HIS BOSOM

Caroline Miller

FIVE SILVER DAUGHTERS

Hardcover Nonfiction

WHILE ROME BURNS

Alexander Woollcott

Romola Nijinsky

June

Hardcover Fiction

LAMB IN HIS BOSOM

Caroline Miller

Hardcover Nonfiction

Romola Nijinsky

WHILE ROME BURNS

Alexander Woollcott

July

Hardcover Fiction

LAMB IN HIS BOSOM

Caroline Miller

ANTHONY ADVERSE

Hardcover Nonfiction

WHILE ROME BURNS

Alexander Woollcott

STARS FELL ON ALABAMA

Romola Nijinsky

August

Hardcover Fiction

SO RED THE ROSE

Hardcover Nonfiction

WHILE ROME BURNS

Alexander Woollcott

STARS FELL ON ALABAMA

THE COMING AMERICAN BOOM

September

Hardcover Fiction

SO RED THE ROSE

Hardcover Nonfiction

ENGLISH JOURNEY

J. B. Priestley

WHILE ROME BURNS

Alexander Woollcott

October

Hardcover Fiction

SO RED THE ROSE

Hardcover Nonfiction

WHILE ROME BURNS

Alexander Woollcott

THE CHALLENGE TO LIBERTY

FORTY-TWO YEARS IN THE WHITE HOUSE

Irwin H. Hoover

November

Hardcover Fiction

SO RED THE ROSE

Hardcover Nonfiction

FORTY-TWO YEARS IN THE WHITE HOUSE

Irwin H. Hoover

WHILE ROME BURNS

Alexander Woollcott

December

Hardcover Fiction

THE FORTY DAYS OF MUSA DAGH

Hardcover Nonfiction

WINE FROM THESE GRAPES

Edna St. Vincent Millay

WHILE ROME BURNS

Alexander Woollcott

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