List of The New York Times number-one books of 1933

This is a list of books that topped The New York Times best-seller list in 1933. When the list began in 1931 through 1941 it only reflected sales in the New York City area. ^[1]

Fiction

The following list ranks the number-one best-selling fiction books.

The two most popular books that year were Anthony Adverse , by Hervey Allen, which held on top of the list for 26 weeks, and Ann Vickers by Sinclair Lewis, which was on top of the list for 11 weeks. ^[2]

Date	Book	Author
January 2	Flowering Wilderness	John Galsworthy
January 9
January 16	The Last Adam	James Gould Cozzens
January 23
January 30	Ann Vickers	Sinclair Lewis
February 6
February 13
February 20
February 27
March 6
March 13
March 20
March 27
April 3
April 10
April 17	The Werewolf of Paris	Guy Endore
April 24	Rain in the Doorway	Thorne Smith
May 1	The Werewolf of Paris	Guy Endore
May 8	As the Earth Turns	Gladys Hasty Carroll
May 15
May 22	The Store	T. S. Stribling
May 29	As the Earth Turns	Gladys Hasty Carroll
June 5
June 12	Little Man, What Now?	Hans Fallada
June 19
June 26
July 3	Anthony Adverse	Hervey Allen
July 10
July 16
July 24
July 31
August 7
August 14
August 21
August 28
September 4
September 11
September 18
September 25
October 2
October 9
October 16
October 23
October 30
November 6
November 13
November 20
November 27
December 4
December 11
December 18
December 25

Nonfiction

The following list ranks the number-one best-selling nonfiction books.

See also

• Publishers Weekly list of bestselling novels in the United States in the 1930s

References

1. Miller, Laura J. (2000). "The Best-Seller List as Marketing Tool and Historical Fiction". In Ezra Greenspan (ed.). Book History . Vol. Three. Penn State University Press. pp. 286–304. ISBN   0271020504.
2. Adult New York Times Best Seller Lists for 1933 Retrieved March 14, 2018