Most Popular Fiction Books of the 1930s

And Then There Were None

Agatha Christie

Crime Fiction · Suspense Thriller · Movie · Mystery · Thriller

November 6, 1939

The Hobbit

J. R. R. Tolkien

Fantasy · Childrens · Dragons · Middle-earth · Movie

1937

Brave New World

Aldous Huxley

Science Fiction · Dystopia

1932

Mary Poppins

Mary Poppins

P. L. Travers

Fantasy · Childrens

1934

Mary Poppins

Mary Poppins Comes Back

P. L. Travers

Fantasy · Childrens

1935

War with the Newts

Karel Capek

Science Fiction · Translation

1937

The Pendragon Legend

Antal Szerb

Fantasy · Translation

1934

Mary Poppins

Mary Poppins in the Park

P. L. Travers

Fantasy · Childrens

1935

Tarzan #17

Tarzan and the City of Gold

Edgar Rice Burroughs

Fantasy

1933

Barsoom #8

Swords of Mars

Edgar Rice Burroughs

Science Fiction

1936

Space Trilogy #1

Out of the Silent Planet

C. S. Lewis

Science Fiction

1938

Barsoom #7

A Fighting Man of Mars

Edgar Rice Burroughs

Science Fiction

1931

Pellucidar #4

Tarzan at the Earth's Core

Edgar Rice Burroughs

Science Fiction

1930

Tarzan #19

Tarzan and the Leopard Men

Edgar Rice Burroughs

Mainstream

1935

Tarzan #21

Tarzan and the Forbidden City

Edgar Rice Burroughs

Fantasy

1938

Tarzan #14

Tarzan the Invincible

Edgar Rice Burroughs

Fantasy

1931

Tarzan #15

Tarzan the Magnificent

Edgar Rice Burroughs

Fantasy

1939

Tarzan #16

Tarzan Triumphant

Edgar Rice Burroughs

Fantasy

1932

Tarzan #20

Tarzan's Quest

Edgar Rice Burroughs

Fantasy

1936

Tarzan #18

Tarzan and the Lion Man

Edgar Rice Burroughs

Science Fiction

1934

Of Mice and Men

John Steinbeck

Historical Fiction

February 25, 1937

The Death Guard

Philip George Chadwick

Science Fiction

1939

Hercule Poirot #10

Murder on the Orient Express

Agatha Christie

Crime Fiction · Mystery · Thriller

January 1, 1934

My Talks with Dean Spanley

Lord Dunsany

Fantasy

1936

The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe

Fantasy · Horror · Science Fiction · Short Stories

1938

The Outsider and Others

H. P. Lovecraft

Fantasy · Horror · Science Fiction · Weird Fiction · Short Stories

1939

Hercule Poirot #17

Dumb Witness

Agatha Christie

Crime Fiction · Mystery · Thriller

July 5, 1937

Hercule Poirot #14

Murder in Mesopotamia

Agatha Christie

Crime Fiction · Mystery · Thriller

July 6, 1936

The Shadow Over Innsmouth and Other Stories of Horror

H. P. Lovecraft

Fantasy · Horror · Science Fiction · Weird Fiction · Short Stories

1936

Hercule Poirot #20

Hercule Poirot's Christmas

Agatha Christie

Crime Fiction · Short Stories · Mystery · Thriller

December 19, 1938

Hercule Poirot #18

Death on the Nile

Agatha Christie

Crime Fiction · Mystery · Thriller

November 1, 1937

Hercule Poirot #13

The A.B.C. Murders

Agatha Christie

Crime Fiction · Mystery · Thriller

January 6, 1936

Hercule Poirot #12

Death in the Clouds

Agatha Christie

Crime Fiction · Mystery · Thriller

March 10, 1935

Hercule Poirot #9

Lord Edgware Dies

Agatha Christie

Crime Fiction · Mystery · Thriller

September 6, 1933

Hercule Poirot #8

Peril at End House

Agatha Christie

Crime Fiction · Mystery · Thriller

October 8, 1932

The Grapes of Wrath

John Steinbeck

Historical Fiction

April 14, 1939