List of The New York Times number-one books of 1938

This is a list of books that topped The New York Times best-seller list in 1938. 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 The Citadel , by A. J. Cronin, which held on top of the list for 16 weeks, and The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, which was on top of the list for 12 weeks. ^[2]

Date	Book	Author
January 3	The Citadel	A. J. Cronin
January 10
January 17
January 24
January 31
February 7	The Prodigal Parents	Sinclair Lewis
February 14	The Citadel	A. J. Cronin
February 21
February 28
March 7
March 14
March 21	Action at Aquila	Hervey Allen
March 28	The Citadel	A. J. Cronin
April 4	Action at Aquila	Hervey Allen
April 11	The Citadel	A. J. Cronin
April 18
April 25
May 2
May 9
May 16	The Yearling	Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
May 23
May 30
June 6
June 13
June 20
June 27
July 4
July 11	My Son, My Son!	Howard Spring
July 18
July 25
August 1
August 8
August 15
August 22
August 29	The Yearling	Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
September 5
September 12
September 19
September 26	My Son, My Son!	Howard Spring
October 3
October 10
October 17
October 24	Rebecca	Daphne du Maurier
October 31
November 7
November 14
November 21
November 28	All This and Heaven Too	Rachel Field
December 5	Rebecca	Daphne du Maurier
December 12
December 19
December 26	All This and Heaven Too	Rachel Field

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 1938 Retrieved March 14, 2018