2015-04-26

The Books of the Century: 1900-1999

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1900

Fiction Bestsellers

1. Mary Johnston, To Have and To Hold

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

10. Maurice Thompson, Alice of Old Vincennes

Critically Acclaimed and Historically Significant

Josiah Royce, The World and the Individual

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

John Dewey, The School and Society

1901

Fiction Bestsellers

1. Winston Churchill, The Crisis

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

Critically Acclaimed and Historically Significant

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

Rudyard Kipling, Kim

1902

Fiction Bestsellers

1. Owen Wister, The Virginian

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

10. Lucas Malet, Sir Richard Calmady

Critically Acclaimed and Historically Significant

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

Ebenezer Howard, Garden Cities of To-morrow

1903

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

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

Critically Acclaimed and Historically Significant

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

1904

Fiction Bestsellers

1. Winston Churchill, The Crossing

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

10. Stewart Edward White, The Silent Places

Critically Acclaimed and Historically SignificantHenry 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

Joseph Conrad, Nostromo

1905

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

10. Kate Douglas Wiggin, Rose o’ the River

Critically Acclaimed and Historically Significant

Lincoln Steffens, Shame of the Cities

Thomas Dixon, Jr., The Clansman

Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth

Mary Chesnut, Diary from Dixie

1906

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

Critically Acclaimed and Historically Significant

Upton Sinclair, The Jungle

William Graham Sumner, Folkways

George Santayana, The Life of Reason

Joseph Conrad, The Secret Agent

1907

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

10. Harold MacGrath, Half a Rogue

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)

Henri Bergson, Creative Evolution

1908

Fiction Bestsellers

1. Winston Churchill, Mr. Crewe’s Career

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

10. Gilbert Parker, The Weavers

Critically Acclaimed and Historically Significant

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

Mohandas Gandhi, Hind Swaraj
Israel Zangwill, The Melting Pot

1909

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

10. William J. Locke, Septimus

Critically Acclaimed and Historically Significant

Herbert Croly, The Promise of American Life

William James, A Pluralistic Universe

W. C. Brownell, American Prose Masters

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

Ezra Pound, Ripostes

Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes

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

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

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

1920

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

Karl Capek, R.U.R.

Nonfiction Bestsellers

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

1921

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

10. Coningsby Dawson, The Kingdom Round the Corner

Critically Acclaimed and Historically Significant

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

Robert E. Park and Ernest Burgess, Introduction to the Science of Society

Nonfiction Bestsellers

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

1922

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)

Critically Acclaimed and Historically Significant

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

Albert Einstein, The Meaning of Relativity

Nonfiction Bestsellers

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

1923

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

Critically Acclaimed and Historically Significant

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

Nonfiction Bestsellers

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

10. Edward Bok, A Man from Maine

1924

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

10. Dorothy Canfield Fisher, The Homemaker

Critically Acclaimed and Historically Significant

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

Jean Piaget, Judgment and Reasoning in the Child

Nonfiction Bestsellers

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

10. Edward Bok, The Americanization of Edward Bok

1925

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

Critically Acclaimed and Historically Significant

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

Bruce Barton, The Man Nobody Knows

Nonfiction Bestsellers

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

1926

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

Critically Acclaimed and Historically Significant

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

Ivan Pavlov, Conditioned Reflexes

Nonfiction Bestsellers

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

10. Claude G. Bowers, Jefferson and Hamilton

Book-of-the-Month Club Selections

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

Elinor Wylie, The Orphan Angel

1927

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

Critically Acclaimed and Historically SignificantVirginia 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

Carl Schmitt, The Concept of the Political

Nonfiction Bestsellers

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

10. Katherine Mayo, Mother India

Book-of-the-Month Club Selections

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

Carl Sandburg, Abraham Lincoln

1928

Fiction Bestsellers

1. Thornton Wilder, The Bridge of San Luis Rey

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

Critically Acclaimed and Historically SignificantAldous Huxley, Point Counter Point

Ford Madox Ford, Parade’s End

Margaret Mead, Coming of Age in Samoa

Eugene O’Neill, Strange Interlude

D. H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterly’s Lover

Arthur Eddington, Nature of the Physical World

Nonfiction Bestsellers1. André Maurois, Disraeli

2. Katherine Mayo, Mother India

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

4. Emil Ludwig, Napoleon

5. Eugene O’Neill, Strange Interlude

6. Charles A. Lindbergh, We

7. Lowell Thomas, Count Luckner, the Sea Devil

8. Emil Ludwig, Goethe

9. Richard E. Byrd, Skyward

10. George Bernard Shaw, The Intelligent Woman’s Guide to Socialism and Capitalism

Book-of-the-Month Club Selections

Booth Tarkington, Claire Ambler

André Marois, Disraeli

S. Fowler Wright, The Deluge

Elizabeth Bowen, The Hotel

Julian Green, The Closed Garden

George Bernard Shaw, The Intelligent Woman’s Guide to Socialism and Capitalism

Felix Salten, Bambi

Stephen Vincent Benét, John Brown’s Body

Edith Wharton, The Children

Paul de Kruif, Hunger Fighters

Charles Beard, ed., Whither Mankind?

Arnold Zweig, The Case of Sargeant Grischa

1929

Fiction Bestsellers

1. Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front

2. Sinclair Lewis, Dodsworth

3. Anne Douglas Sedgwick, Dark Hester

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

5. Warwick Deeping, Roper’s Row

6. O. E. Rölvaag, Peder Victorious

7. DuBose Heyward, Mamba’s Daughters

8. Susan Ertz, The Galaxy

9. Julia Peterkin, Scarlet Sister Mary

10. H. W. Freeman, Joseph and His Brethren

Critically Acclaimed and Historically SignificantWilliam Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury

Richard Hughes, A High Wind in Jamaica

Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

Robert Graves, Good-bye to All That

Walter Lippmann, A Preface to Morals

Karl Mannheim, Ideology and Utopia

Joseph Wood Krutch, Modern Temper

Robert and Helen Lynd, Middletown

John Dewey, Quest for Certainty

Thomas Wolfe, Look Homeward, Angel

Mohandas Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments with Truth

Jose Ortega y Gasset, The Revolt of the Masses

Nonfiction Bestsellers1. Ernest Dimnet, The Art of Thinking

2. Francis Hackett, Henry the Eighth

3. Joan Lowell, The Cradle of the Deep

4. Lytton Strachey, Elizabeth and Essex

5. Chic Sale, The Specialist

6. Walter Lippmann, A Preface to Morals

7. Robert L. Ripley, Believe It or Not

8. Stephen Vincent Benét, John Brown’s Body

9. Claude G. Bowers, The Tragic Era

10. Will Durant, The Mansions of Philosophy

Book-of-the-Month Club SelectionsH. W. Freeman, Joseph and His Brethren

Sigrid Undset, Kristin Lavransdatter

Joan Lowell, Cradle of the Deep

Francis Hackett, Henry the Eighth

Walter Lippmann, A Preface to Morals

Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front

Thames Williamson, Hunky

Dorothy L. Sayers, ed., The Omnibus of Crime

Henry Handel Richardson, Ultima Thule

J. B. Priestley, The Good Companions

Valentin Kataev, The Embezzlers

Bernard Fay, Franklin, The Apostle of Modern Times

1930

Fiction Bestsellers

1. Edna Ferber, Cimarron

2. Warwick Deeping, Exile

3. Thornton Wilder, The Woman of Andros

4. Margaret Ayer Barnes, Years of Grace

5. J. B. Priestley, Angel Pavement

6. Mary Roberts Rinehart, The Door

7. Hugh Walpole, Rogue Herries

8. A. Hamilton Gibbs, Chances

9. Katharine Brush, Young Man of Manhattan

10. Louis Bromfield, Twenty-Four Hours

Critically Acclaimed and Historically Significant

John Dos Passos, The 42nd Parallel

William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying

Dashiell Hammett, The Maltese Falcon

Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents

Twelve Southerners, I’ll Take My Stand

Jerome Frank, Law and the Modern Mind

Edith Hamilton, The Greek Way

Norman Forster, Humanism in America

William Empson, Seven Types of Ambiguity

Nonfiction Bestsellers

1. Axel Munthe, The Story of San Michele

2. Gaston B. Means and May Dixon Thacker, The Strange Death of President Harding

3. André Maurois, Byron

4. James Truslow Adams, The Adams Family

5. Will James, Lone Cowboy

6. Emil Ludwig, Lincoln

7. Will Durant, The Story of Philosophy

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

9. Ernest Dimnet, The Art of Thinking

10. Charles and Mary Beard, The Rise of American Civilization

Book-of-the-Month Club Selections

W. R. Burnett, Iron Man

Charles and Mary Beard, The Rise of American Civilization

Harold Lamb, The Crusades: Iron Men and Saints

Claire Spencer, Gallows’ Orchard

Somerset Maugham et al, The Week-End Library

Everett Dean Martin, Liberty

Helen Ashton, Dr. Serocold

Will James, Lone Cowboy: My Life

A. Conan Doyle, The Complete Sherlock Holmes

Michael Ossorgin, Quiet Street

Major F. Yeats-Brown, The Lives of a Bengal Lancer

Herman Melville, Moby Dick (ill. Rockwell Kent)

1931

Fiction Bestsellers

1. Pearl S. Buck, The Good Earth

2. Willa Cather, Shadows on the Rock

3. Bess Streeter Aldrich, A White Bird Flying

4. Vicki Baum, Grand Hotel

5. Margaret Ayer Barnes, Years of Grace

6. Erich Maria Remarque, The Road Back

7. Warwick Deeping, The Bridge of Desire

8. Fannie Hurst, Back Street

9. Mazo de la Roche, Finch’s Fortune

10. John Galsworthy, Maid in Waiting

Critically Acclaimed and Historically Significant

John Dewey, Philosophy and Civilization

Edmund Wilson, Axel’s Castle

Pearl S. Buck, The Good Earth

Lincoln Steffens, Autobiography

Morris R. Cohen,, Reason and Nature

Margaret Sanger, My Fight for Birth Control

Willa Cather, Shadows on the Rock

Constance Rourke, American Humor

Irma Rombauer, The Joy of Cooking

Leon Trotsky, Permanent Revolution

Nonfiction Bestsellers

1. Grand Duchess Marie, Education of a Princess

2. Axel Munthe, The Story of San Michele

3. Anonymous (Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen), Washington Merry-Go-Round

4. Alexander Abingdon, ill. Dr. Seuss, Boners: Being a Collection of Schoolboy Wisdom or Knowledge

5. Ely Culbertson, Culbertson’s Summary

6. Ely Culbertson, Contract Bridge Blue Book

7. Edna St. Vincent Millay, Fatal Interview

8. James Truslow Adams, The Epic of America

9. Stuart Chase, Mexico

10. Mikhail Ilin, New Russia’s Primer

Book-of-the-Month Club Selections

Grand Duchess Marie, Education of a Princess

Vicki Baum, Grand Hotel

Pearl S. Buck, The Good Earth

Thomas Craven, Men of Art

Denis Mackail, The Square Circle

M. Ilin, New Russia’s Primer: The Story of the Five-Year Plan

Elizabeth, Father

Albert Einstein et al, Living Philosophies

Willa Cather, Shadows on the Rock

Sheila Kaye-Smith, Susan Spray

James Gould Cozzens, S. S. San Pedro

James truslow Adams, The Epic of America

Joseph Roth, Job

Frederick Lewis Allen, Only Yesterday

1932

Fiction Bestsellers

1. Pearl S. Buck, The Good Earth

2. Charles Morgan, The Fountain

3. Pearl S. Buck, Sons

4. Louis Golding, Magnolia Street

5. Ellen Glasgow, The Sheltered Life

6. Warwick Deeping, Old Wine and New

7. Booth Tarkington, Mary’s Neck

8. Lloyd C. Douglas, Magnificent Obsession

9. Phyllis Bentley, Inheritance

10. A. J. Cronin, Three Loves

Critically Acclaimed and Historically Significant

Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

John Dos Passos, 1919

William Faulkner, Light in August

Erskine Caldwell, Tobacco Road

Reinhold Niebuhr, Moral Man and Immoral Society

John Chamberlain, Farewell to Reform

F. R. Leavis, New Bearings in English Poetry

W. E. B. Du Bois, Black Reconstruction

Adolph Berle and Gardiner Means, Modern Corporation and Private Property

Nonfiction Bestsellers

1. James Truslow Adams, The Epic of America

2. Frederick Lewis Allen, Only Yesterday

3. Vash Young, A Fortune to Share

4. Ely Culbertson, Culbertson’s Summary

5. Hendrik Willem Van Loon, Van Loon’s Geography

6. Ernest Dimnet, What We Live By

7. James Truslow Adams, The March of Democracy

8. Anonymous (Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen), Washington Merry-Go-Round

9. Clarence Darrow, The Story of My Life

10. Anonymous (Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen), More Merry-Go-Round

Book-of-the-Month Club Selections

Francis Brett Young, Mr. and Mrs. Pennington

Booth Tarkington, Mary’s Neck

Vicki Baum, And Life Goes On

Hellen Hull, Heat Lightning

Homer W. Smith, Kamongo

Leweis E. Lawes, Twenty Thousand Years in Sing Sing

Charles Morgan, The Fountain

Jan Welzl, Thirty Years in the Golden North

Jean Schlumberger, Saint Saturnin

Antoine de St. Exupéry, Night Flight

Hendrik Willem van Loon, Van Loon’s Geography

Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall, Mutiny on the Bounty

Rosamond Lemann, Invitation to the Waltz

Joseph Mathews, Wah ‘Kon-Tah

Lloyd Lewis, Sherman: Fighting Prophet

1933

Fiction Bestsellers

1. Hervey Allen, Anthony Adverse

2. Gladys Hasty Carroll, As the Earth Turns

3. Sinclair Lewis, Ann Vickers

4. Lloyd C. Douglas, Magnificent Obsession

5. John Galsworthy, One More River

6. Lloyd C. Douglas, Forgive Us Our Trespasses

7. Mazo de la Roche, The Master of Jalna

8. Bess Streeter Aldrich, Miss Bishop

9. Louis Bromfield, The Farm

10. Hans Fallada, Little Man, What Now?

Critically Acclaimed and Historically Significant

Gertrude Stein, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas

Wesley Mitchell et al., Recent Social Trends

J.W.N. Sullivan, Limitations of Science

Sidney Hook, Toward an Understanding of Karl Marx

Morris R. Cohen, Law and the Social

John Strachey, Coming Struggle for Power

André Malraux, Man’s Fate

H. G. Wells, The Shape of Things to Come

Nonfiction Bestsellers

1. Walter B. Pitkin, Life Begins at Forty

2. Stefan Zweig, Marie Antoinette

3. R. H. Bruce Lockhart, British Agent

4. Arthur Kallet and F. J. Schlink, 100,000 Guinea Pigs

5. Nora Waln, The House of Exile

6. Hendrik Willem Van Loon, Van Loon’s Geography

7. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Looking Forward

8. Ely Culbertson, Contract Bridge Blue Book of 1933

9. Halliday Sutherland, The Arches of the Years

10. James Truslow Adams, The March of Democracy, vol. 2

Book-of-the-Month Club Selections

James Gould Cozzens, The Last Adam

R. H. Bruce Lockheart, British Agent

Bernard Shaw, Adventures of the Black Girl

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, South Moon Under

Stefan Zweig, Marie Antoinette

Gladys Hasty Carroll, As the Earth Turns

Hans Fallada, Little Man, What Now?

Hervey Allen, Anthony Adverse

Maurice O’Sullivan, Twenty-Years A-Growing

W. R. Burnett, Dark Hazard

Thames Williamson, Woods Colt

Virginia Woolf, Flush

Maurice Hindus, The Great Offensive

Ralph Roeder, The Man of the Renaissance

1934

Fiction Bestsellers

1. Hervey Allen, Anthony Adverse

2. Caroline Miller, Lamb in His Bosom

3. Stark Young, So Red the Rose

4. James Hilton, Good-Bye, Mr. Chips

5. Margaret Ayer Barnes, Within This Present

6. Sinclair Lewis, Work of Art

7. Phyllis Bottome, Private Worlds

8. Mary Ellen Chase, Mary Peters

9. Alice Tisdale Hobart, Oil for the Lamps of China

10. Isak Dinesen, Seven Gothic Tales

Critically Acclaimed and Historically Significant

Robert Graves, I, Claudius

John O’Hara, Appointment in Samarra

F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night

Evelyn Waugh, A Handful of Dust

Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer

John Dewey, Art as Experience

James M. Cain, The Postman Always Rings Twice

Lewis Mumford, Technics and Civilization

Karl Popper, The Logic of Scientific Discovery

Ruth Benedict, Patterns of Culture

Malcolm Cowley, Exile’s Return

Henry Roth, Call It Sleep

T. S. Eliot, After Strange Gods

Matthew Jacobson, The Robber Barons

George Herbert Mead, Mind, Self, and Society (posthumous)

Nonfiction Bestsellers

1. Alexander Woollcott, While Rome Burns

2. Walter B. Pitkin, Life Begins at Forty

3. Romola Nijinsky, Nijinsky

4. Arthur Kallet and F. J. Schlink, 100,000 Guinea Pigs

5. Louis Adamic, The Native’s Return

6. Carl Carmer, Stars Fell on Alabama

7. Peter Fleming, Brazilian Adventure

8. Ike Hoover, Forty-Two Years in the White House

9. Edmund Jacobson, You Must Relax

10. Charles Dickens, The Life of Our Lord

Book-of-the-Month Club Selections

Peter Fleming, Brazilian Adventure

Louis Adamic, The Native’s Return

Matthew Josephson, The Robber Barons

Isak Dineson, Seven Gothic Tales

H. C. Engelbrecht and F. C. Hanighen, Merchants of Death

H. G. Wells, Seven Famous Novels

Josephine Lawrence, Years are So Long

Marguerite Steen, Matador

A. P. Herbert, Holy Deadlock

Doris Manners-Sutton, Black God

Herbert Hoover, The Challenge to Liberty

Henry Wallace, New Frontiers

H. G. Wells, An Experiment in Autobiography

Franz Werful, The Forty Days of Musa Dagh

1935

Fiction Bestsellers

1. Lloyd C. Douglas, Green Light

2. Ellen Glasgow, Vein of Iron

3. Thomas Wolfe, Of Time and the River

4. Rachel Field, Time Out of Mind

5. James Hilton, Good-Bye, Mr. Chips

6. Franz Werfel, The Forty Days of Musa Dagh

7. Thornton Wilder, Heaven’s My Destination

8. James Hilton, Lost Horizon

9. Edna Ferber, Come and Get It

10. Robert Briffault, Europa

Critically Acclaimed and Historically Significant

James T. Farrell, Studs Lonigan Trilogy

George Dangerfield, The Strange Death of Liberal England

Kenneth Burke, Permanence and Change

Rudolf Carnap, Philosophy and Logical Syntax

Reinhold Niebuhr, An Interpretation of Christian Ethics

Thurman Arnold, Symbols of Government

Nonfiction Bestsellers

1. Anne Morrow Lindbergh, North to the Orient

2. Alexander Woollcott, While Rome Burns

3. Clarence Day, Life with Father

4. Vincent Sheean, Personal History

5. T. E. Lawrence, The Seven Pillars of Wisdom

6. Francis Hackett, Francis the First

7. Stefan Zweig, Mary Queen of Scotland and the Isles

8. Hans Zinsser, Rats, Lice and History

9. Douglas Southall Freeman, R. E. Lee

10. M. C. Phillips, Skin Deep

Book-of-the-Month Club Selections

Thornton Wilder, Heaven’s My Destination

Robert Nathan, Road of Ages

Leland Hall, Salah and His American

Bruno Frank, A Man Called Cervantes

Robert Graves, Claudius the God

Walter Millis, The Road to War

Enid Bagnold, National Velvet

Humphrey Cobb, Paths of Glory

Robert Rylee Deep Dark River

Clarence Day, Life with Father
Ellen Glasgow, Vein of Iron

T. E. Lawrence, The Seven Pillars of Wisdom

Mari Sandoz, Old Jules

Gen. Armand de Caulaincourt, With Napoleon in Russia

1936

Fiction Bestsellers

1. Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

2. George Santayana, The Last Puritan

3. Charles Morgan, Sparkenbroke

4. Walter D. Edmonds, Drums Along the Mohawk

5. Sinclair Lewis, It Can’t Happen Here

6. Lloyd C. Douglas, White Banners

7. Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall, The Hurricane

8. Rebecca West, The Thinking Reed

9. Mary Roberts Rinehart, The Doctor

10. Aldous Huxley, Eyeless in Gaza

Critically Acclaimed and Historically SignificantJohn Dos Passos, The Big Money

A. J. Ayer, Language, Truth, and Logic

William Faulkner, Absalom! Absalom!

H. D. Lasswell, Politics: Who Gets What, When, How?

Arthur O. Lovejoy, The Great Chain of Being

John Steinbeck, In Dubious Battle

John Maynard Keynes, The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money

Walter Benjamin, The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends and Influence People

Nonfiction Bestsellers

1. Alexis Carrel, Man the Unknown

2. Dorothea Brande, Wake Up and Live!

3. Negley Farson, The Way of a Transgressor

4. Patience, Richard, and Johnny Abbe, Around the World in Eleven Years

5. Anne Morrow Lindbergh, North to the Orient

6. Victor Heiser, An American Doctor’s Odyssey

7. John Gunther, Inside Europe

8. Marjorie Hillis, Live Alone and Like It

9. Clarence Day, Life with Father

10. Walter Duranty, I Write As I Please

Book-of-the-Month Club Selections

C. C. Furnas, The Next Hundred Years

Josephine Lawerence, If I Have Four Apples

George Santayana, The Last Puritan

Elizabeth Bowen, The House in Paris

Claence Day, This Simian World

Peter Freuchen, Arctic Adventure

Arnold Zweig, Education before Verdun

André Malraux, Days of Wrath

Robert Frost, A Further Range

Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

Walter Edmonds, Drums along the Mohawk

Victor Heiser, An American Doctor’s Odyssey

E. P. O’Donnell, Green Margins

A. E. Houseman, More Poems

Constance Rourke, Aubudon

Pearl S. Buck, Fighting Angel

Pearl S. Buck, Exile

1937

Fiction Bestsellers

1. Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

2. Kenneth Roberts, Northwest Passage

3. A. J. Cronin, The Citadel

4. Vaughan Wilkins, And So-Victoria

5. Walter D. Edmonds, Drums Along the Mohawk

6. Virginia Woolf, The Years

7. W. Somerset Maugham, Theatre

8. John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men

9. Louis Bromfield, The Rains Came

10. James Hilton, We Are Not Alone

Critically Acclaimed and Historically Significant

Isak Dinesen, Out of Africa

John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men

Thurman Arnold, The Folklore of Capitalism

John Dewey et al., Not Guilty

Robert and Helen Lynd, Middletown in Transition

J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbitt

Karen Horney, The Neurotic Personality in Our Time

Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

Talcott Parsons, The Structure of Social Action

Nonfiction Bestsellers

1. Dale Carnegie, How To Win Friends and Influence People

2. Victor Heiser, An American Doctor’s Odyssey

3. Henry C. Link, The Return to Religion

4. Hendrik Willem Van Loon, The Arts

5. Marjorie Hillis, Orchids on Your Budget

6. Noel Coward, Present Indicative

7. Lancelot Hogben, Mathematics for the Million

8. Clarence Day, Life with Mother

9. Emil Ludwig, The Nile

10. Van Wyck Brooks, The Flowering of New England

Book-of-the-Month Club Selections

R. C. Hutchnison, Shining Scabbard

Catherine Drinker Bowen and Barbara von Meck, Beloved Friend

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