List of The New York Times number-one books of 1937

This is a list of books that topped The New York Times best-seller list in 1937. 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 Northwest Passage , by Kenneth Roberts, which held on top of the list for 14 weeks, and The Citadel by A. J. Cronin, which was on top of the list for 9 weeks. ^[2]

Date	Book	Author
January 4	Gone with the Wind	Margaret Mitchell
January 11
January 18
January 25
February 1
February 8
February 15
February 22	Drums Along the Mohawk	Walter D. Edmonds
March 1
March 8	Gone with the Wind	Margaret Mitchell
March 15	Drums Along the Mohawk	Walter D. Edmonds
March 22	Theatre	Somerset Maugham
March 29
April 5	Drums Along the Mohawk	Walter D. Edmonds
April 12	Theatre	Somerset Maugham
April 19
April 26
May 3	The Years	Virginia Woolf
May 10
May 17	The Outward Room	Millen Brand
May 24
May 31	The Years	Virginia Woolf
June 7	The Outward Room	Millen Brand
June 14
June 21
June 28
July 5
July 12	The Years	Virginia Woolf
July 19	Northwest Passage	Kenneth Roberts
July 26
August 2
August 9
August 16
August 23
August 30
September 6
September 13
September 20
September 27
October 4	The Citadel	A. J. Cronin
October 11	Northwest Passage	Kenneth Roberts
October 18
October 25
November 1	The Citadel	A. J. Cronin
November 8
November 15
November 22	Northwest Passage	Kenneth Roberts
November 29	The Citadel	A. J. Cronin
December 6
December 13
December 20
December 27

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 1937 Retrieved March 14, 2018