Fiction Bestsellers

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2. Mary Cholmondeley, Red Pottage

3. Robert Grant, Unleavened Bread

4. James Lane Allen, The Reign of Law

5. Irving Bacheller, Eben Holden

6. Paul Leicester Ford, Janice Meredith

7. Charles Frederic Goss, The Redemption of David Corson

8. Winston Churchill, Richard Carvel

9. Charles Majo, When Knighthood Was in Flower

Critically Acclaimed and Historically Significant
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Clarence Stedman, An American Anthology

Theodore Dreiser, Sister Carrie

Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams

L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim

Fiction Bestsellers
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2. Maurice Thompson, Alice of Old Vincennes

3. Bertha Runkle, The Helmet of Navarre

4. Gilbert Parker, The Right of Way

5. Irving Bacheller, Eben Holden

6. Elinor Glyn, The Visits of Elizabeth

7. Harold MacGrath, The Puppet Crown

8. Maurice Hewlett, Richard Yea-and-Nay

9. George Barr McCutcheon, Graustark

10. Irving Bacheller, D'ri and I

Frank Norris, The Octopus

E. A. Ross, Social Control

Booker T. Washington, Up from Slavery

George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman

George A. Gordon, New Epoch for Faith

Fiction Bestsellers

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2. Alice Caldwell Hegan, Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch

3. Charles Major, Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall

4. Emerson Hough, The Mississippi Bubble

5. Mary Johnston, Audrey

6. Gilbert Parker, The Right of Way

7. A. Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles

8. Booth Tarkington, The Two Vanrevels

9. Henry van Dyke, The Blue Flower

Jane Addams, Democracy and Social Ethics

William James, Varieties of Religious Experience

Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

C. H. Cooley, Human Nature and Social Order

Owen Wister, The Virginian

André Gide, The Immoralist

Vladimir Lenin, What is to be Done?

Henry James, The Wings of the Dove

Fiction Bestsellers

1. Mary Augusta Ward, Lady Rose's Daughter

2. Thomas Nelson Page, Gordon Keith

3. Frank Norris, The Pit

4. Alice Hegan Rice, Lovey Mary

5. Owen Wister, The Virginian

6. Alice Hegan Rice, Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch

7. James Lane Allen, The Mettle of the Pasture

8. George Horace Lorimer, Letters of a Self-Made Merchant to His Son

9. Thomas Dixon Jr., The One Woman

W. E. B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk

John Dewey, Studies in Logical Theory

Jack London, Call of the Wild

Helen Thompson Wooley, Mental Traits of Sex

Bertrand Russell, Principles of Mathematics

G. E. Moore, Principia Ethica

Samuel Butler, The Way of All Flesh

Henry James, The Ambassadors   
Helen Keller, The Story of My Life

Fiction Bestsellers

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2. Ellen Glasgow, The Deliverance

3. Anonymous (Katherine Cecil Thurston), The Masquerader

4. Miriam Michelson, In the Bishop's Carriage

5. Mary Johnston, Sir Mortimer

6. George Barr McCutcheon, Beverly of Graustark

7. John Fox Jr., The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come

8. Kate Douglas Wiggin, Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm

9. Henry Harland, My Friend Prospero

Henry James, The Golden Bowl

Henry Adams, Mt.-St. Michel and Chartres

Thorstein Veblen, Theory of Business Enterprise

Max Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism

Fiction Bestsellers

1. Mary Augusta Ward, The Marriage of William Ashe

2. Alice Hegan Rice, Sandy

3. Robert Hichens, The Garden of Allah

4. Thomas Dixon Jr., The Clansman

5. George Barr McCutcheon, Nedra

6. Katherine Cecil Thurston, The Gambler

7. Katherine Cecil Thurston, The Masquerader

8. Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth

9. C. N. and A. M. Williamson, The Princess Passes

Lincoln Steffens, Shame of the Cities

Thomas Dixon, Jr., The Clansman

Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth

Fiction Bestsellers

1. Winston Churchill, Coniston

2. Owen Wister, Lady Baltimore

3. Robert W. Chambers, The Fighting Chance

4. Meredith Nicholson, The House of a Thousand Candles

5. George Barr McCutcheon, Jane Cable

6. Upton Sinclair, The Jungle

7. Margaret Deland, The Awakening of Helena Ritchie

8. Rex Beach, The Spoilers

9. Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth,

10. Ellen Glasgow, The Wheel of Life

Upton Sinclair, The Jungle

William Graham Sumner, Folkways

George Santayana, The Life of Reason

Fiction Bestsellers

1. Frances Little, The Lady of the Decoration

2. Gilbert Parker, The Weavers

3. Meredith Nicholson, The Port of Missing Men

4. Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Shuttle

5. Louis J. Vance, The Brass Bowl

6. Hallie Erminie Rives, Satan Sanderson

7. George Barr McCutcheon, The Daughter of Anderson Crow

8. Robert W. Chambers, The Younger Set

9. Ralph Connor, The Doctor

Critically Acclaimed and Historically Significant

William James, Pragmatism

Walter Rauschenbusch, Christianity and the Social Crisis

Henry James, The American Scene

Simon Patten, New Basis for Civilization

The Education of Henry Adams (privately published)

Fiction Bestsellers

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2. Rex Beach, The Barrier

3. John Fox Jr., The Trail of the Lonesome Pine

4. Harold MacGrath, The Lure of the Mask

5. Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Shuttle

6. F. Hopkinson Smith, Peter

7. Mary Johnston, Lewis Rand

8. Louis J. Vance, The Black Bag

9. George Barr McCutcheon, The Man from Brodney's

Arthur Bentley, Process of Government

Vladimir Lenin, Materialism and Empirico-Criticism

Graham Wallas, Human Nature and Politics

E. M. Forster, A Room with a View

Arnold Bennett, The Old Wives’ Tale

Fiction Bestsellers

1. Basil King, The Inner Shrine

2. Elinor Macartney Lane, Katrine

3. Rex Beach, The Silver Horde

4. Mary Roberts Rinehart, The Man in Lower Ten

5. John Fox Jr., The Trail of the Lonesome Pine

6. George Barr McCutcheon, Truxton King

7. Emerson Hough, 54-40 or Fight

8. Harold MacGrath, The Goose Girl

9. F. Hopkinson Smith, Peter

Critically Acclaimed and Historically Significant

Herbert Croly, The Promise of American Life

William James, A Pluralistic Universe

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

Critically Acclaimed and Historically Significant

Jane Addams, Twenty Years at Hull House

Sigmund Freud, Origins and Development of Psychoanalysis

E. M. Forster, Howards End

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

F. W. Taylor, Principles of Scientific Management

Franz Boas, The Mind of Primitive Man

Max Beerbohm, Zuleika Dobson

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

James Harvey Robinson, The New History

Maria Montessori, The Montessori Method

Mary Antin, The Promised Land

Ezra Pound, Ripostes

Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes

James Weldon Johnson, Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man

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

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

Marcel Proust, Swann's Way (Engl. translation, 1922)
Alfred North Whitehead and Bertrand Russell, Principia Mathematica

Eleanor H. Porter, Pollyanna

Walter Lippmann, A Preface to Politics

Josiah Royce, The Problem of Christianity

Nonfiction Bestsellers

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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

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

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

George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion
Walter Lippmann, Drift and Mastery

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

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

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

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

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

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

Fiction Bestsellers
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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

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

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

Fiction Bestsellers 
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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

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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

Fiction Bestsellers

1. Zane Grey, The Man of the Forest

2. Peter B. Kyne, Kindred of the Dust

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

4. James Oliver Curwood, The River’s End

5. Irving Bacheller, A Man for the Ages

6. Eleanor H. Porter, Mary-Marie

7. Joseph C. Lincoln, The Portygee

8. E. Phillips Oppenheim, The Great Impersonation

9. Ethel M. Dell, The Lamp in the Desert

10. Kathleen Norris, Harriet and the Piper

Critically Acclaimed and Historically Significant

D. H. Lawrence, Women in Love

Edith Wharton, Age of Innocence

Sinclair Lewis, Main Street

Frederick Jackson Turner, The Frontier in American History

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., Collected Legal Papers

John Dewey, Reconstruction in Philosophy

F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

1. Philip Gibbs, Now It Can Be Told

2. John M. Keynes, The Economic Consequences of the Peace

3. Joseph B. Bishop, ed., Roosevelt’s Letters to His Children

4. William Roscoe Thayer, Theodore Roosevelt

5. Frederick O’Brien, White Shadows in the South Seas

6. Cornelia Stratton Parker, An American Idyll

Fiction Bestsellers

1. Sinclair Lewis, Main Street

2. Dorothy Canfield, The Brimming Cup

3. Zane Grey, The Mysterious Rider

4. Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

5. James Oliver Curwood, The Valley of Silent Men

6. Edith M. Hull, The Sheik

7. Mary Roberts Rinehart, A Poor Wise Man

8. Gene Stratton Porter, Her Father’s Daughter

9. Gertrude Atherton, The Sisters-in-Law

Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

James Harvey Robinson, The Mind in the Making

Luigi Pirandello, Six Characters in Search of an Author

Edward Sapir, Language

1. H. G. Wells, The Outline of History

2. Frederick O’Brien, White Shadows in the South Seas

3. A Gentleman with a Duster (Harold Begbie), The Mirrors of Downing Street

4. Margot Asquith, The Autobiography of Margot Asquith

6. Robert Lansing, Peace Negotiations  

Fiction Bestsellers

1. A.S.M. Hutchinson, If Winter Comes

2. Edith M. Hull, The Sheik

3. Booth Tarkington, Gentle Julia

4. Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Head of the House of Coombe

5. Robert Keable, Simon Called Peter

6. Mary Roberts Rinehart, The Breaking Point

7. A.S.M. Hutchinson, This Freedom

8. Louis Hémon, Maria Chapdelaine

9. Zane Grey, To the Last Man

10. Sinclair Lewis, Babbitt (tie)

10. Harold Bell Wright, Helen of the Old House (tie)

James Joyce, Ulysses

Harold Stearns, ed., Civilization in the United States

Bronislaw Malinowski, The Argonauts of the Western Pacific

Walter Lippmann, Public Opinion

T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land

Sinclair Lewis, Babbitt

W. F. Ogburn, Social Change

Oswald Spengler, The Decline of the West, vol. 2

Emily Post, Etiquette
E. E. Cummings, The Enormous Room

1. H. G. Wells, The Outline of History

2. Hendrik Willem Van Loon, The Story of Mankind

3. Edward Bok, The Americanization of Edward Bok

4. Lulu Hunt Peters, Diet and Health

5. James Harvey Robinson, The Mind in the Making

6. J. Arthur Thomson, The Outline of Science

7. Josephine A. Jackson and Helen M. Salisbury, Outwitting Our Nerves

8. Lytton Strachey, Queen Victoria

9. Anonymous (Clinton W. Gilbert), Mirrors of Washington

10. A Gentleman with a Duster (Harold Begbie), Painted Windows

Fiction Bestsellers

1. Gertrude Atherton, Black Oxen

2. Arthur Train, His Children’s Children

3. “Elizabeth”, The Enchanted April

4. Sinclair Lewis, Babbitt

5. Temple Bailey, The Dim Lantern

6. A.S.M. Hutchinson, This Freedom

7. Harold Bell Wright, The Mine with the Iron Door

8. Zane Grey, The Wanderer of the Wasteland

9. Rafael Sabatin, The Sea-Hawk

10. Mary Roberts Rinehart, The Breaking Point

Le Corbusier, Towards a New Architecture

D. H. Lawrence, Studies in Classic American Literature

Robert Frost, New Hampshire

Thorstein Veblen, Absentee Ownership

Jean Toomer, Cane

Khalil Gibran, The Prophet

Carl Schmitt, The Crisis of Parliamentary Democracy

Martin Buber, I and Thou

Georg Lukács, History and Class Consciousness

Carrie Chapman Catt and Nettie Rogers Shuler, Woman Suffrage and Politics

1. Emily Post, Etiquette

2. Giovanni Papini, The Life of Christ

3. Burton J. Hendrick, ed., The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page

4. James Harvey Robinson, The Mind in the Making

5. H. G. Wells, The Outline of History

6. Lulu Hunt Peters, Diet and Health

7. Emile Coué, Self-Mastery Through Conscious Auto-Suggestion

8. Edward Bok, The Americanization of Edward Bok

9. Hendrik Willem Van Loon, The Story of Mankind

Fiction Bestsellers 

1. Edna Ferber, So Big

2. Percy Marks, The Plastic Age

3. Anne Douglas Sedgwick, The Little French Girl

4. Philip Gibbs, The Heirs Apparent

5. James Oliver Curwood, A Gentleman of Courage

6. Zane Grey, The Call of the Canyon

7. Booth Tarkington, The Midlander

8. Coningsby Dawson, The Coast of Folly

9. Rafael Sabatini, Mistress Wilding

E. M. Forster, A Passage to India

Marcel Mauss, The Gift

Autobiography of Mark Twain

Herman Melville, Billy Budd (posthumous)

Emma Goldman, My Disillusionment with Russia

Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain

Shailer Mathews, Faith of Modernism

1. Lulu Hunt Peters, Diet and Health

2. Giovanni Papini, The Life of Christ

3. Fannie Farmer, ed. The Boston Cooking School Cook Book

4. Emily Post, Etiquette

5. André Maurois, Ariel

6. Prosper Buranelli et al., The Cross Word Puzzle Books

7. Mark Twain, Mark Twain's Autobiography

8. George Bernard Shaw, Saint Joan

9. Albert E. Wiggam, The New Decalogue of Science

Fiction Bestsellers

1. A. Hamilton Gibbs, Soundings

2. Margaret Kennedy, The Constant Nymph

3. Gene Stratton Porter, The Keeper of the Bees

4. E. Barrington, Glorious Apollo

5. Michael Arlen, The Green Hat

6. Anne Douglas Sedgwick, The Little French Girl

7. Sinclair Lewis, Arrowsmith

8. Anne Parrish, The Perennial Bachelor

9. Rafael Sabatin, The Carolinian

10. A.S.M. Hutchinson, One Increasing Purpose

F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

William Carlos Williams, In the American Grain

Theodore Dreiser, An American Tragedy

Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

Sinclair Lewis, Arrowsmith

Alfred North Whitehead, Science and the Modern World

Franz Kafka, The Trial

W. B. Yeats, A Vision

Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf

John Dewey, Experience and Nature

Gertrude Stein, The Making of Americans (written 1908)

Charles Merriam, New Aspects of Politics

Alain Locke, ed., The New Negro

1. Lulu Hunt Peters, Diet and Health

2. Fannie Farmer, ed., The Boston Cooking School Cook Book

3. A. A. Milne, When We Were Very Young

4. Bruce Barton, The Man Nobody Knows

5. Giovanni Papini, The Life of Christ

6. André Maurois, Ariel

7. Edward Bok, Twice Thirty

8. Lord Grey, Twenty-Five Years

9. J. J. Brousson, Anatole France Himself

10. Prosper Buranelli et al., The Cross Word Puzzle Books

Fiction Bestsellers

1. John Erskine, The Private Life of Helen of Troy

2. Anita Loos, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

3. Warwick Deeping, Sorrell and Son

4. Sylvia Thompson, The Hounds of Spring

5. P. C. Wren, Beau Sabreur

6. John Galsworthy, The Silver Spoon

7. P. C. Wren, Beau Geste

8. Edna Ferber, Show Boat

9. Susan Ertz, After Noon 

10. Temple Bailey, The Blue Window

Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises

Langston Hughes, The Weary Blues

R. H. Tawney, Religion and the Rise of Capitalism

Franz Kafka, The Castle

I. A. Richards, Science and Poetry

H. L. Mencken, Notes on Democracy

Lewis Mumford, The Golden Day

A. A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

1. Bruce Barton, The Man Nobody Knows

2. George A. Dorsey, Why We Behave Like Human Beings

3. Lulu Hunt Peters, Diet and Health

4. Mark Sullivan, Our Times, vol. 1

5. Fannie Farmer, ed., The Boston Cooking School Cook Book

6. Milton C. Work, Auction Bridge Complete

7. Bruce Barton, The Book Nobody Knows

8. Will Durant, The Story of Philosophy

9. Edgar A. Guest, The Light of Faith

Sylvia Townsend Warner, Lolly Willowes

T. S. Stribling, Teeftallow

Esther Forbes, O Genteel Lady!

Walder Noble Burns, The Saga of Billy the Kid

John Galsworthy, The Silver Spoon

Edna Ferber, Show Boat

Elizabeth Madox Roberts, The Time of Man

Ellen Glasgow, The Romantic Comedians

Fiction Bestsellers

1. Sinclair Lewis, Elmer Gantry

2. Booth Tarkington, The Plutocrat

3. Warwick Deeping, Doomsday

4. Warwick Deeping, Sorrell and Son

5. Mazo de la Roche, Jalna

6. Mary Roberts Rinehart, Lost Ecstasy

7. Edith Wharton, Twilight Sleep

8. Anne Parrish, Tomorrow Morning

9. Anne Douglas Sedgwick, The Old Countess

10. Louis Bromfield, A Good Woman

Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

Thornton Wilder, Bridge of San Luis Rey

E. M. Forster, Aspects of the Novel

Willa Cather, Death Comes for the Archbishop

John Dewey, The Public and Its Problems

Martin Heidegger, Being and Time

V. L. Parrington, Main Currents in American Thought

Charles and Mary Beard, The Rise of American Civilization

Sinclair Lewis, Elmer Gantry

Percy C. Bridgeman, The Logic of Modern Physics

Bertrand Russell, Why I Am Not a Christian

Katherine Mayo, Mother India

1. Will Durant, The Story of Philosophy

2. Emil Ludwig, Napoleon

3. T. E. Lawrence, Revolt in the Desert

4. Alfred Aloysius Horn and Ethelreda Lewis, Trader Horn, vol. 1

5. Charles A. Lindbergh, We

6. Julian Spafford and Lucien Esty, Ask Me Another

7. Richard Halliburton, The Royal Road to Romance

8. Richard Halliburton, The Glorious Adventure

9. George A. Dorsey, Why We Behave Like Human Beings

Bliss Perry, ed., The Heart of Emerson’s Journals

Emil Ludwig, Napoleon

Sinclair Lewis, Elmer Gantry

T. E. Lawrence, Revolt in the Desert

James Boyd, Marching On

O. E. Rölvaag, Giants in the Earth

Stuart Chase and F. J. Schlink, Your Money’s Worth

H. G. Wells, Meanwhile

Rosamond Lehmann, Dusty Answer

C. E. Montague, Right Off the Map

Margaret Kennedy, Red Sky at Morning

Fiction Bestsellers

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2. Hugh Walpole, Wintersmoon

3. John Galsworthy, Swan Song

4. S. S. Van Dine, The Greene Murder Case

5. Viña Delmar, Bad Girl

6. Booth Tarkington, Claire Ambler

7. Warwick Deeping, Old Pybus

8. Anne Parrish, All Kneeling

9. Mazo de la Roche, Jalna

10. Louis Bromfield, The Strange Case of Miss Annie Spragg

Aldous Huxley, Point Counter Point

Ford Madox Ford, Parade’s End

Margaret Mead, Coming of Age in Samoa

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