1930 in Literature - New Prose Fiction

New Prose Fiction

• Vicki Baum - Grand Hotel
• Pearl S. Buck - East Wind: West Wind
• John Dickson Carr - It Walks By Night
• Leslie Charteris - Enter the Saint
• Agatha Christie
  • The Murder at the Vicarage
  • The Mysterious Mr. Quin
  • Giant's Bread (as by Mary Westmacott)
• Albert Cohen - Solal of the Solals
• John Dos Passos - The 42nd Parallel
• William Faulkner - As I Lay Dying
• Rachel Field - Hitty, Her First Hundred Years
• Zona Gale - Bridal Pond
• Dashiell Hammett - The Maltese Falcon
• Hermann Hesse - Narcissus and Goldmund
• Georgette Heyer - Powder and Patch
• Sydney Horler - Checkmate
• Langston Hughes - Not Without Laughter
• Carolyn Keene - The Secret of the Old Clock
• Oliver La Farge - Laughing Boy
• D. H. Lawrence - The Virgin and the Gypsy
  • Love Among the Haystacks and Other Stories
• W. Somerset Maugham - Cakes and Ale
• André Malraux - The Royal Way (La Voie Royale)
• André Maurois - Fattypuffs and Thinifers (Patapoufs et Filifers)
• George A. Moore
  • Aphrodite in Aulis
  • A Flood
• Vladimir Nabokov
  • The Defense
  • The Eye
• Irène Némirovsky - Le Bal
• Camil Petrescu - Ultima noapte de dragoste, întâia noapte de război (The Last Night of Love, the First Night of War)
• Watty Piper - The Little Engine That Could
• J. B. Priestley - Angel Pavement
• Ellery Queen - The French Powder Mystery
• Elizabeth Madox Roberts - The Great Meadow
• Joseph Roth - Job
• Arthur Ransome - Swallows and Amazons
• Dorothy L. Sayers
  • Strong Poison
  • The Documents in the Case (written with Robert Eustace)
• Upton Sinclair - Mental Radio
• Olaf Stapledon - Last and First Men
• Miguel de Unamuno - San Manuel Bueno, Mártir
• Hugh Walpole - Rogue Herries
• Evelyn Waugh - Vile Bodies
• Thornton Wilder - The Woman of Andros
• Philip Gordon Wylie - Gladiator