1931 in literature

See also: 1930 in literature, other events of 1931, 1932 in literature, list of years in literature.

New books

• Afternoon Men - Anthony Powell
• Black No More - George S. Schuyler
• The Cat Who Went to Heaven - Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth
• The Chinaberry Tree - Jessie Redmon Fauset
• The Colored Gentlemen, A Product of Modern Civilization - Dennis F. Imbert
• The Conqueror – Georgette Heyer
• The Dutch Shoe Mystery - Ellery Queen
• The Glass Key - Dashiell Hammett
• The Good Earth - Pearl S. Buck
• Hatter's Castle - A.J. Cronin
• Highland Fling - Nancy Mitford
• Judith Paris - Hugh Walpole
• The Lonely Road - Nevil Shute
• Malice Aforethought - Francis Iles
• A New Theory of Magnetic Storms - Chapman and Ferraro
• No Man's Meat - Morley Callaghan
• Prince Jali - Leopold Myers
• The Secret of Shadow Ranch - Carolyn Keene
• Wild Orchid (novel) - Sigrid Undset