The year 1935 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

Events

• Penguin Books publishes the first "paperback" book.
• W. H. Auden enters a marriage of convenience with Erika Mann.

New books

• Maxwell Anderson - Winterset
• Enid Bagnold - National Velvet
• Pearl S. Buck - A House Divided
• Edgar Rice Burroughs - Tarzan and the Leopard Men
• Erskine Caldwell - Journeyman
• Morley Callaghan - They Shall Inherit the Earth
• Elias Canetti - Die Blendung
• John Dickson Carr
  • The Hollow Man (aka The Three Coffins)
  • (writing as "Carter Dickson") The Red Widow Murders
  • (writing as "Carter Dickson") The Unicorn Murders
• Solomon Cleaver - Jean Val Jean
• Robert P. Tristram Coffin - Red Sky in the Morning
• A. J. Cronin - The Stars Look Down
• Franklin W. Dixon - The Hidden Harbor Mystery
• Lawrence Durrell - Pied Piper of Lovers
• E.R. Eddison - Mistress of Mistresses
• James T. Farrell - Studs Lonigan - A Trilogy
• Rachel Field - Time Out of Mind
• Charles G. Finney - The Circus of Dr. Lao
• George Wylie Henderson - Ollie Miss
• Georgette Heyer–Death in the Stocks
• Anna Kavan (writing as Helen Ferguson) - A Stranger Still
• André Malraux - Le Temps du mépris
• John Masefield - The Box of Delights
• Alberto Moravia - Le ambizioni sbagliate
• R. K. Narayan - Swami and Friends
• George Orwell
  • Burmese Days
  • A Clergyman's Daughter
• Ellery Queen
  • The Spanish Cape Mystery
  • The Lamp of God
• Charles Ferdinand Ramuz - When the Mountain Fell
• Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings - Golden Apples
• George Santayana - The Last Puritan
• Dorothy L. Sayers - Gaudy Night
• Monica Shannon - Dobry
• John Steinbeck - Tortilla Flat
• Rex Stout - The League of Frightened Men
• B. Traven - The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
• S. S. Van Dine - The Garden Murder Case
• Stanley G. Weinbaum - The Lotus Eaters
• Laura Ingalls Wilder - Little House on the Prairie

New drama

• T. S. Eliot - Murder in the Cathedral
• Jean Giraudoux - La guerre de Troie n'aura pas lieu (The Trojan war will not take place)
• Clifford Odets - Waiting for Lefty
• Lawrence Riley - Personal Appearance
• Emlyn Williams - Night Must Fall

Poetry

• See 1935 in poetry

Non-fiction

• George Dangerfield - The Strange Death of Liberal England
• John Maynard Keynes - The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money
• Gerald M. Loeb–The Battle for Investment Survival
• Nigel Tranter - The Fortalices and Early Mansions of Southern Scotland 1400-1650

Births

• January 30 - Richard Brautigan, writer and poet
• February 5 - Sandra Paretti, author (+ 1994)
• March 1 - Judith Rossner, writer
• March 23 - Barry Cryer, comedy writer
• April 14 - Erich von Däniken, Chariots of the Gods author
• April 15 - Alan Plater, screenwriter
• May 2 - Lynda Lee-Potter, columnist (+ 2004)
• August 15 - Régine Deforges, dramatist, publisher, and author of France's best-selling novel ever
• August 22 - E. Annie Proulx, novelist
• September 17 - Ken Kesey, novelist
• October 7 - Thomas Keneally, Australian novelist
• December 13 - Adélia Prado, Brazilian writer and poet

Deaths

• February 7 - Lewis Grassic Gibbon, novelist
• April 6 - Edwin Arlington Robinson, poet
• April 11 - Anna Katharine Green, crime writer
• April 18 - Panait Istrati, Romanian novelist and short story writer
• May 19 - T. E. Lawrence, "Lawrence of Arabia"
• August 11 - Sir William Watson, traditionalist poet
• August 17 - Charlotte Perkins Gilman, author
• August 30 - Henri Barbusse, French novelist and journalist
• September 29 - Winifred Holtby, English novelist
• October 11 - Steele Rudd, short story writer
• November 30 - Fernando Pessoa, poet
• December 21 - Kurt Tucholsky, German journalist and satirist

Awards

• James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: L. H. Myers, The Root and the Flower
• James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: R. W. (Raymond Wilson) Chambers, Thomas More
• Newbery Medal for children's literature: Monica Shannon, Dobry
• Nobel Prize for literature: not awarded
• Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Zoe Akins, The Old Maid
• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Audrey Wurdemann: Bright Ambush
• Pulitzer Prize for the Novel: Josephine Winslow Johnson - Now in November

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