1930 in literature

See also: 1929 in literature, other events of 1930, 1931 in literature, list of years in literature.

New books

• Aphrodite in Aulis - George A. Moore
• As I Lay Dying - William Faulkner
• Bridal Pond - Zona Gale
• Cakes and Ale - W. Somerset Maugham
• Checkmate - Sydney Horler
• A Flood - George A. Moore
• The 42nd Parallel - John Dos Passos
• Grand Hotel - Vicki Baum
• The Great Meadow - Elizabeth Madox Roberts
• Hitty, Her First Hundred Years - Rachel Field
• It's Never Over - Morley Callaghan
• Last and First Men - Olaf Stapledon
• The Little Engine That Could - Watty Piper
• The Maltese Falcon - Dashiell Hammett
• The Mysterious Mr. Quin - Agatha Christie
• Narcissus and Goldmund - Hermann Hesse
• Not Without Laughter - Langston Hughes
• Powder and Patch ? Georgette Heyer
• The Promised Land - Gilbert Lubin
• Rogue Herries - Hugh Walpole
• The Secret of the Old Clock - Carolyn Keene
• 1066 and All That - W. C. Sellar and R. J. Yeatman
• Vile Bodies - Evelyn Waugh
• Woman of Andros - Thornton Wilder