Most Popular Fiction Books of the 1930s

The Chrysanthemums

John Steinbeck

Short Stories

January 1, 1937

Valeshoff #1

Background to Danger

Eric Ambler

Crime Fiction · Spy Thriller · Suspense Thriller · Historical Fiction · Mystery

1937

The Border Line

Walter S. Masterman

Horror

1937

To Walk the Night

William Sloane

Horror · Science Fiction

1937

The Young Men Are Coming!

M. P. Shiel

1937

Lobsang Pun

The Thunder Dragon Gate

Talbot Mundy

Fantasy · Mainstream

1937

The Lake of Life

Edmond Hamilton

Science Fiction

1937

The Unholy City

Charles G. Finney

Fantasy

1937

The Resurrection of Jimber-Jaw

Edgar Rice Burroughs

Science Fiction

1937

Pellucidar #5

Back to the Stone Age

Edgar Rice Burroughs

Science Fiction

1937

Jan of the Jungle #1

Call of the Savage

Otis Adelbert Kline

Fantasy

1937

Oz #31

Handy Mandy in Oz

Ruth Plumly Thompson

Fantasy · Childrens

1937

A Gun for Sale

Graham Greene

Crime Fiction · Mystery · Thriller

January 1, 1936

In Dubious Battle

John Steinbeck

Historical Fiction

January 1, 1936

The Dark Frontier

Eric Ambler

Crime Fiction · Spy Thriller · Suspense Thriller · Mystery · Thriller

1936

British Library Science Fiction Classics

Wild Harbour

Ian Macpherson

Science Fiction · Dystopia · Post-Apocalyptic · Thriller

August 1936

The Fourth Pig

Naomi Mitchison

Fantasy · Short Stories

1936

The Pageant of Man

Stanton A. Coblentz

1936

The Whistling Ancestors

Richard E. Goddard

Horror

1936

The Flyaway Highway

Norman Lindsay

Fantasy

1936

Fu Manchu #8

President Fu Manchu

Sax Rohmer

Fantasy · Thriller

1936

The Bride of Frankenstein

Michael Egremont

Horror · Science Fiction

1936

Who Wants a Green Bottle? and Other Uneasy Tales

Tod Robbins

Horror · Short Stories

1936

The Wind Blows Over

Walter de la Mare

Horror · Short Stories

1936

Jimgrim / Ramsden

Jimgrim and Allah's Peace

Talbot Mundy

Fantasy · Mainstream

1936

The Thorne Smith 3-Decker

Thorne Smith

Fantasy

1936

The Cosy Room

Arthur Machen

Horror · Short Stories

1936

The Children of the Pool and Other Stories

Arthur Machen

Horror · Short Stories

1936

We the Living

Ayn Rand

Mainstream

1936

The Horror on the Asteroid and Other Tales of Planetary Horror

Edmond Hamilton

Horror · Science Fiction · Short Stories

1936

Devil's Spawn

Charles Birkin

Horror · Short Stories

1936

The Reformed Pirate

Frank R. Stockton

Fantasy · Short Stories

1936

The Hyperboloid of Engineer Garin

Alexei Tolstoy

Science Fiction

1936

Kioga #1

Hawk of the Wilderness

William L. Chester

Fantasy

1936

Mabinogion Tetralogy #4

The Virgin and the Swine

Evangeline Walton

Fantasy · Celtic Mythology · Mythology

1936

Doctor Dolittle #11

Doctor Dolittle's Birthday Book

Hugh Lofting

Fantasy · Childrens

1936