The fourth installment of best selling books of the Twentieth Century as detailed in Publisher’s Weekly:
* 1930
Cimarron, Edna Ferber
*1931
The Good Earth, Pearl S. Buck
* 1932
The Good Earth, Pearl S. Buck
* 1933
Anthony Adverse, Hervey Allen
*1934
Anthony Adverse, Hervey Allen
* 1935
Green Light, Lloyd C. Douglas
* 1936
Gone With the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
* 1937
Gone With the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
* 1938
The Yearling, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
* 1939
The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck
Anyone who has read any of these is welcome to make a comment. My first thought was that it’s odd that three of them were best sellers two years in a row. Is that a commentary on the books themselves or the decade in which they were published? Then I realized that several were made into movies and did some research on that. They were all made into movies.