Bookman list of bestselling novels in the United States in the 1900s
This is a list of bestselling novels in the United States in the 1900s, as determined by The Bookman, a New York–based literary journal.[1] The list features the most popular novels of each year from 1900 through 1909.
The standards set for inclusion in the lists – which, for example, led to the exclusion of the novels in the Harry Potter series from the lists for the 1990s and 2000s – are currently unknown.
1900
edit- To Have and to Hold by Mary Johnston
- Red Pottage by Mary Cholmondeley
- Unleavened Bread by Robert Grant
- The Reign of Law by James Lane Allen
- Eben Holden by Irving Bacheller
- Janice Meredith by Paul Leicester Ford
- The Redemption of David Corson by Charles Frederic Goss
- Richard Carvel by Winston Churchill
- When Knighthood Was in Flower by Charles Major
- Alice of Old Vincennes by Maurice Thompson
1901
edit- The Crisis by Winston Churchill
- Alice of Old Vincennes by Maurice Thompson
- The Helmet of Navarre by Bertha Runkle
- The Right of Way by Gilbert Parker
- Eben Holden by Irving Bacheller
- The Visits of Elizabeth by Elinor Glyn
- The Puppet Crown by Harold MacGrath
- The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay by Maurice Hewlett
- Graustark by George Barr McCutcheon
- D'ri and I by Irving Bacheller
1902
edit- The Virginian by Owen Wister
- Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch by Alice Caldwell Hegan (Alice Hegan Rice)
- Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall by Charles Major
- The Mississippi Bubble by Emerson Hough
- Audrey by Mary Johnston
- The Right of Way by Gilbert Parker
- The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
- The Two Vanrevels by Booth Tarkington
- The Blue Flower by Henry van Dyke
- Sir Richard Calmady by Lucas Malet
1903
edit- Lady Rose's Daughter by Mary Augusta Ward
- Gordon Keith by Thomas Nelson Page
- The Pit by Frank Norris
- Lovey Mary by Alice Hegan Rice
- The Virginian by Owen Wister
- Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch by Alice Hegan Rice
- The Mettle of the Pasture by James Lane Allen
- Letters of a Self-Made Merchant to His Son by George Horace Lorimer
- The One Woman by Thomas Dixon, Jr.
- The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come by John Fox, Jr.
1904
edit- The Crossing by Winston Churchill
- The Deliverance by Ellen Glasgow
- The Masquerader by Katherine Cecil Thurston
- In the Bishop's Carriage by Miriam Michelson
- Sir Mortimer by Mary Johnston
- Beverly of Graustark by George Barr McCutcheon
- The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come by John Fox, Jr.
- Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by Kate Douglas Wiggin
- My Friend Prospero by Henry Harland
- The Silent Places by Stewart Edward White
1905
edit- The Marriage of William Ashe by Mary Augusta Ward
- Sandy by Alice Hegan Rice
- The Garden of Allah by Robert Hichens
- The Clansman by Thomas Dixon, Jr.
- Nedra by George Barr McCutcheon
- The Gambler by Katherine Cecil Thurston
- The Masquerader by Katherine Cecil Thurston
- The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
- The Princess Passes by C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson
- Rose o' the River by Kate Douglas Wiggin
1906
edit- Coniston by Winston Churchill
- Lady Baltimore by Owen Wister
- The Fighting Chance by Robert W. Chambers
- The House of a Thousand Candles by Meredith Nicholson
- Jane Cable by George Barr McCutcheon
- The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
- The Awakening of Helena Richie by Margaret Deland
- The Spoilers by Rex Beach
- The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
- The Wheel of Life by Ellen Glasgow
1907
edit- The Lady of the Decoration by Frances Little
- The Weavers by Gilbert Parker
- The Port of Missing Men by Meredith Nicholson
- The Shuttle by Frances Hodgson Burnett
- The Brass Bowl by Louis Joseph Vance
- Satan Sanderson by Hallie Erminie Rives
- The Daughter of Anderson Crow by George Barr McCutcheon
- The Younger Set by Robert W. Chambers
- The Doctor by Ralph Connor
- Half a Rogue by Harold MacGrath
1908
edit- Mr. Crewe's Career by Winston Churchill
- The Barrier by Rex Beach
- The Trail of the Lonesome Pine by John Fox, Jr.
- The Lure of the Mask by Harold MacGrath
- The Shuttle by Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Peter by F. Hopkinson Smith
- Lewis Rand by Mary Johnston
- The Black Bag by Louis Joseph Vance
- The Man from Brodney's by George Barr McCutcheon
- The Weavers by Gilbert Parker
1909
edit- The Inner Shrine by Anonymous (Basil King)
- Katrine by Elinor Macartney Lane
- The Silver Horde by Rex Beach
- The Man in Lower Ten by Mary Roberts Rinehart
- The Trail of the Lonesome Pine by John Fox, Jr.
- Truxton King by George Barr McCutcheon
- 54-40 or Fight by Emerson Hough
- The Goose Girl by Harold MacGrath
- Peter by F. Hopkinson Smith
- Septimus by William J. Locke
References
edit- ^ Hackett, Alice Payne and Burke, James Henry (1977). 80 Years of Bestsellers: 1895–1975. New York: R.R. Bowker Company. pp. 3, 64–74. ISBN 0-8352-0908-3.
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