1929 in literature

See also: 1928 in literature, other events of 1929, 1930 in literature, list of years in literature.

New books

• Bambi - Felix Salten
• Banjo - Claude McKay
• The Blacker the Berry - Wallace Thurman
• Brown on Resolution - C.S. Forester
• Borgia - Zona Gale
• A Charmed Circle - Anna Kavan
• The Dark Journey - Julian Green
• Dodsworth - Sinclair Lewis
• Everlasting Man - G. K. Chesterton
• A Farewell to Arms - Ernest Hemingway
• Flowering Judas - Katherine Anne Porter
• Goodbye to All That - Robert Graves
• A High Wind in Jamaica - Richard Hughes
• Im Westen nichts Neues (All Quiet on the Western Front) - Erich Maria Remarque
• In the Wilderness - Sigrid Undset
• The Innocent Voyage - Richard Hughes
• Kiki's Memoirs - Kiki
• Les Enfants Terribles - Jean Cocteau
• Look Homeward, Angel - Thomas Wolfe
• The Magnificent Obsession - Lloyd C. Douglas
• The Mind Reader - Walter A. Roberts
• The Near and the Far - Leopold Myers
• Passing - Nella Larsen
• Peder Victorious - O.E. Rolvaag
• ' - Jessie Redmon Fauset
• The Poisoned Chocolates Case - Anthony Berkeley
• A Preface to Morals - Walter Lippmann
• The Roman Hat Mystery - Ellery Queen
• The Romantic Adventures of Rosy, The Octoroon; With Some Account of the Persecution of the Southern Negro During the Reconstruction Period - Albert Evander Coleman
• A Room of One's Own - Virginia Woolf
• Rope (novel) - Patrick Hamilton
• The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner
• The Trumpeter of Krakow - Eric P. Kelly