List of The New York Times number-one books of 1934

This is a list of books that topped The New York Times best-seller list in 1934. 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 So Red the Rose , by Stark Young, which held on top of the list for 17 weeks, and Lamb in His Bosom by Caroline Miller, which was on top of the list for 8 weeks. ^[2]

Date	Book	Author
January 1	Anthony Adverse	Hervey Allen
January 8
January 15	The Thin Man	Dashiell Hammett
January 22
January 29
February 5	Work of Art	Sinclair Lewis
February 12
February 19
February 26
March 5
March 12
March 19
March 26	Anthony Adverse	Hervey Allen
April 2	The Oppermanns	Lion Feuchtwanger
April 9
April 16	Anthony Adverse	Hervey Allen
April 23
April 30	Seven Gothic Tales	Isak Dinesen
May 7	Tender is the Night	F. Scott Fitzgerald
May 14	Anthony Adverse	Hervey Allen
May 21	Lamb in His Bosom	Caroline Miller
May 28	Five Silver Daughters	Louis Golding
June 4	Lamb in His Bosom	Caroline Miller
June 11
June 18
June 25
July 2
July 9
July 16
July 23	I, Claudius	Robert Graves
July 30	Anthony Adverse	Hervey Allen
August 6	So Red the Rose	Stark Young
August 13
August 20
August 27
September 3
September 10
September 17
September 24
October 1
October 8
October 15
October 22
October 29
November 5
November 12
November 19
November 26
December 3	Lost Horizon	James Hilton
December 10	The Forty Days of Musa Dagh	Franz Werfel
December 17
December 23
December 30

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 1934 Retrieved March 14, 2018