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
Jo