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The Books of the Century: 1910-1919

1910


Fiction Bestsellers

1. Florence Barclay, The Rosary

2. Winston Churchill, A Modern Chronicle

3. Basil King, The Wild Olive

4. Katherine Cecil Thurston, Max

5. Hallie Erminie Rives, The Kingdom of Slender Swords

6. William J. Locke, Simon the Jester

7. C. N. and A. M. Williamson, Lord Loveland Discovers America

8. Mary Roberts Rinehart, The Window at the White Cat

9. Eleanor Abbott, Molly Make-Believe

10. Mary Roberts Rinehart, When a Man Marries

Critically Acclaimed and Historically Significant

Jane Addams, Twenty Years at Hull House

Sigmund Freud, Origins and Development of Psychoanalysis

E. M. Forster, Howards End

John Dewey, How We Think

1911

Fiction Bestsellers

1. Jeffrey Farnol, The Broad Highway,

2. Vaughan Kester, The Prodigal Judge

3. Harold Bell Wright, The Winning of Barbara Worth

4. Henry Sydnor Harrison, Queed

5. Gene Stratton Porter, The Harvester

6. Margaret Deland, The Iron Woman

7. Mary Johnston, The Long Roll

8. Eleanor Abbott, Molly Make-Believe

9. Florence Barclay, The Rosary

10. Robert W. Chambers, The Common Law

Critically Acclaimed and Historically Significant

F. W. Taylor, Principles of Scientific Management

Franz Boas, The Mind of Primitive Man

Max Beerbohm, Zuleika Dobson



1912

Fiction Bestsellers

1. Gene Stratton Porter, The Harvester

2. Basil King, The Street Called Straight

3. Harold Bell Wright, Their Yesterdays

4. Maria Thompson Daviess, The Melting of Molly

5. Meredith Nicholson, A Hoosier Chronicle

6. Harold Bell Wright, The Winning of Barbara Worth

7. Vaughan Kester, The Just and the Unjust

8. Rex Beach, The Net

9. Anne Douglas Sedgwick, Tante

10. J. Breckenridge Ellis, Fran

Critically Acclaimed and Historically Significant

James Harvey Robinson, The New History

Maria Montessori, The Montessori Method

Mary Antin, The Promised Land

Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes
Ezra Pound, Ripostes
James Weldon Johnson, Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man

Emile Durkheim, Elementary Forms of Religious Life


Nonfiction Bestsellers

1. Mary Antin, The Promised Land

2. Maria Montessori, The Montessori Method

3. James Bryce, South America

4. Jane Addams, A New Conscience and an Ancient Evil

5. Eugene Brieux, Three Plays

6. Arnold Bennett, Your United States

7. Henri Bergson, Creative Evolution

8. Arnold Bennett, How to Live on Twenty-Four Hours a Day

9. Olive Schreiner, Woman and Labor

10. Albert Bigelow Paine, Mark Twain



1913

Fiction Bestsellers
1. Winston Churchill, The Inside of the Cup

2. Henry Sydnor Harrison, V. V.'s Eyes

3. Gene Stratton Porter, Laddie

4. Sir Gilbert Parker, The Judgment House

5. John Fox Jr., Heart of the Hills

6. Jeffrey Farnol, The Amateur Gentleman

7. Hall Caine, The Woman Thou Gavest Me

8. Eleanor H. Porter, Pollyanna

9. Hallie Erminie Rives, The Valiants of Virginia

10. Frances Hodgson Burnett, T. Tembarom

Critically Acclaimed and Historically Significant  
D. H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers

Charles Beard, An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States

Alfred North Whitehead and Bertrand Russell, Principia Mathematica

Eleanor H. Porter, Pollyanna

Marcel Proust, Swann's Way (Engl. translation, 1922)
Walter Lippmann, A Preface to Politics

Josiah Royce, The Problem of Christianity

Willa Cather, O Pioneers


Nonfiction Bestsellers

1. Gerald Stanley Lee, Crowds

2. Price Collier, Germany and the Germans

3. Harry A. Franck, Zone Policeman 88

4. Woodrow Wilson, The New Freedom

5. James Bryce, South America

6. Arnold Bennett, Your United States

7. Mary Antin, The Promised Land

8. Milton C. Work, Auction Bridge To-Day

9. Eugene Brieux, Three Plays

10. Hugo Munsterberg, Psychology and Industrial Efficiency



1914

Fiction Bestsellers

1. Harold Bell Wright, The Eyes of the World

2. Eleanor H. Porter, Pollyanna

3. Winston Churchill, The Inside of the Cup

4. Owen Johnson The Salamander

5. William J. Locke, The Fortunate Youth

6. Frances Hodgson Burnett, T. Tembarom

7. Booth Tarkington, Penrod

8. Leona Dalrymple, Diane of the Green Van

9. W. B. Maxwell, The Devil's Garden

10. George Barr McCutcheon, The Prince of Graustark

Critically Acclaimed and Historically Significant

Gertrude Stein, Tender Buttons
Louis Brandeis, Other People's Money

George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion
Walter Lippmann, Drift and Mastery

John D. Watson, Behaviorism

1915

Fiction Bestsellers

1. Booth Tarkington, The Turmoil

2. Winston Churchill, A Far Country

3. Gene Stratton Porter, Michael O'Halloran

4. Eleanor H. Porter, Pollyanna Grows Up

5. Mary Roberts Rinehart, K

6. William J. Locke, Jaffery

7. F. Hopkinson Smith, Felix O'Day

8. Ernest Poole, The Harbor

9. Zane Grey, The Lone Star Ranger

10. Henry Sydnor Harrison, Angela's Business

Critically Acclaimed and Historically Significant

Ford Madox Ford, The Good Soldier

D. H. Lawrence, The Rainbow

W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage

James George Frazer, The Golden Bough

Van Wyck Brooks, America's Coming of Age

Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Herland

Lillian Wald, The House on Henry Street
Edgar Lee Masters, Spoon River Anthology

1916

Fiction Bestsellers

1. Booth Tarkington, Seventeen

2. Harold Bell Wright, When a Man's a Man

3. Eleanor H. Porter, Just David

4. H. G. Wells, Mr. Britling Sees It Through

5. Ellen Glasgow, Life and Gabriella

6. Henry Kitchell Webster, The Real Adventure

7. Ethel M. Dell, Bars of Iron

8. Frank H. Spearman, Nan of Music Mountain

9. Jean Webster, Dear Enemy

10. Kathleen Norris, The Heart of Rachael

Critically Acclaimed and Historically Significant

James Joyce, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Ferdinand de Saussure, A Course in General Linguistics

Vladimir Lenin, Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism

John Dewey, Democracy and Education

C. G. Jung, Psychology of the Unconscious
Madison Grant, The Passing of the Great Race


1917



Fiction Bestsellers

1. H. G. Wells, Mr. Britling Sees It Through,

2. Irving Bacheller, The Light in the Clearing,

3. William J. Locke, The Red Planet

4. Eleanor H. Porter, The Road to Understanding

5. Zane Grey, Wildfire

6. Alice Cholmondeley, Christine

7. Robert S. Hichens, In the Wilderness

8. Ernest Poole, His Family

9. Jeffrey Farnol, The Definite Object

10. Ethel M. Dell, The Hundredth Chance

Critically Acclaimed and Historically Significant
D'Arcy Wentworth Thomas, On Growth and Form

Walter Rauschenbusch, A Theology for the Social Gospel

H. L. Mencken, A Book of Prefaces

Elsie Clewes Parsons, Social Rule

T. S. Eliot, Prufrock

General Nonfiction Bestsellers

1. Robert W. Service, Rhymes of a Red Cross Man

2. O. O. Ellis and E. B. Garey, The Plattsburg Manual

3. Sir Oliver Lodge, Raymond

4. Alan Seeger, Poems of Alan Seeger

5. H. G. Wells, God the Invisible King

6. Douglas Fairbanks, Laugh and Live

7. Mary Green, Better Meals for Less Money


War Nonfiction Bestsellers

1. Ian Hay, The First Hundred Thousand

2. Frances W. Huard, My Home in the Field of Honor

3. Donald Hankey, A Student in Arms

4. Arthur Guy Empey, Over the Top

5. Coningsby Dawson, Carry On

6. Ian Hay, Getting Together

7. Frederick Palmer, My Second Year of the War

8. D. Thomas Curtin, The Land of Deepening Shadow

9. H. G. Wells, Italy, France and Britain at War

10. Margaret Sherwood, The Worn Doorstep


1918

Fiction Bestsellers
1. Zane Grey, The U. P. Trail

2. May Sinclair, The Tree of Heaven

3. Mary Roberts Rinehart, The Amazing Interlude

4. Edward Streeter, Dere Mable

5. Eleanor H. Porter, Oh, Money! Money!

6. Ethel M. Dell, Greatheart

7. Ralph Connor, The Major

8. E. Phillips Oppenheim, The Pawns Count

9. Gene Stratton Porter, A Daughter of the Land

10. Stephen McKenna, Sonia

Critically Acclaimed and Historically Significant
Booth Tarkington, The Magnificent Ambersons

Oswald Spengler, The Decline of the West, vol. 1

William Strunk and E. B. White, The Elements of Style

Lytton Strachey, Eminent Victorians

Willa Cather, My Antonia

W. I. Thomas and Florian Znaniecki, The Polish Peasant in Europe and America



General Nonfiction Bestsellers

1. Robert W. Service, Rhymes of a Red Cross Man

2. G. H. Clark, Treasury of War Poetry

3. Everard J. Appleton, With the Colors

4. Viscount Morley, Recollections

5. Douglas Fairbanks, Laugh and Live

6. Albert Bigelow Paine, ed., Mark Twain's Letters

7. Richard Harding Davis, Adventures and Letters of Richard Harding Davis

8. Edgar Guest, Over Here

9. Edith O'Shaughnessy, Diplomatic Days

10. Alan Seeger, Poems of Alan Seeger



War Nonfiction Bestsellers

1. James W. Gerard, My Four Years in Germany

2. Coningsby Dawson, The Glory of the Trenches

3. Arthur Guy Empey, Over the Top

4. Harry Lauder, A Minstrel in France

5. Harold R. Peat, Private Peat

6. Lieut. Pat O'Brien, Outwitting the Hun

7. James W. Gerard, Face to Face with Kaiserism

8. Coningsby Dawson, Carry On

9. Coningsby Dawson, Out to Win

10. Henri Barbusse, Under Fire

1919


Fiction Bestsellers 
1. V. Blasco Ibanez, The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

2. Joseph Conrad, The Arrow of Gold

3. Zane Grey, The Desert of Wheat

4. Mary Roberts Rinehart, Dangerous Days

5. Ralph Connor, The Sky Pilot in No Man's Land

6. Harold Bell Wright, The Re-Creation of Brian Kent

7. Gene Stratton Porter, Dawn

8. Temple Bailey, The Tin Soldier

9. "Elizabeth", Christopher and Columbus

10. Robert W. Chambers, In Secret

Critically Acclaimed and Historically Significant
Sherwood Anderson, Winesburg, Ohio

John Reed, Ten Days that Shook the World

John Maynard Keynes, The Economic Consequences of the Peace

Karl Barth, Commentary on Romans

Johan Huizinga, The Waning of the Middle Ages
H. G. Wells, Outline of History

Irving Babbitt, Rousseau and Romanticism


 Nonfiction Bestsellers 

1. Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams

2. Rudyard Kipling, The Years Between

3. Brand Whitlock, Belgium

4. Margaret Cameron, The Seven Purposes

5. John McCrae, In Flanders Fields

6. John Spargo, Bolshevism