From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This is a list of
bestselling novels in the
United States in the 1910s , as determined by
The Bookman , a New York–based literary journal (1910–1912) and
Publishers Weekly (1913 and beyond).
[1] The list features the most popular novels of each year from
1910 through
1919 .
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.
1910
The Rosary by
Florence L. Barclay
A Modern Chronicle by
Winston Churchill
The Wild Olive by Anonymous (
Basil King )
Max by
Katherine Cecil Thurston
The Kingdom of Slender Swords by
Hallie Erminie Rives
Simon the Jester by
William J. Locke
Lord Loveland Discovers America by
C. N. Williamson and
A. M. Williamson
The Window at the White Cat by
Mary Roberts Rinehart
Molly Make-Believe by
Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
When a Man Marries by
Mary Roberts Rinehart
1911
The Broad Highway by
Jeffery Farnol
The Prodigal Judge by
Vaughan Kester
The Winning of Barbara Worth by
Harold Bell Wright
Queed by
Henry Sydnor Harrison
The Harvester by
Gene Stratton Porter
The Iron Woman by
Margaret Deland
The Long Roll by
Mary Johnston
Molly Make-Believe by
Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
The Rosary by
Florence L. Barclay
The Common Law by
Robert W. Chambers
[2]
1912
The Harvester by
Gene Stratton Porter
The Street Called Straight by
Basil King
Their Yesterdays by
Harold Bell Wright
The Melting of Molly by
Maria Thompson Daviess
A Hoosier Chronicle by
Meredith Nicholson
The Winning of Barbara Worth by
Harold Bell Wright
The Just and the Unjust by
Vaughan Kester
The Net by
Rex Beach
Tante by
Anne Douglas Sedgwick
Fran by
J. Breckenridge Ellis
[3]
1913
The Inside of the Cup by
Winston Churchill
V.V.'s Eyes by
Henry Sydnor Harrison
Laddie by
Gene Stratton Porter
The Judgment House by
Gilbert Parker
Heart of the Hills by
John Fox, Jr.
The Amateur Gentleman by
Jeffery Farnol
The Woman Thou Gavest Me by
Hall Caine
Pollyanna by
Eleanor H. Porter
The Valiants of Virginia by
Hallie Erminie Rives
T. Tembarom by
Frances Hodgson Burnett
[4]
1914
The Eyes of the World by
Harold Bell Wright
Pollyanna by
Eleanor H. Porter
The Inside of the Cup by
Winston Churchill
The Salamander by
Owen Johnson
The Fortunate Youth by
William J. Locke
T. Tembarom by
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Penrod by
Booth Tarkington
Diane of the Green Van by
Leona Dalrymple
The Devil's Garden by
W. B. Maxwell
The Prince of Graustark by
George Barr McCutcheon
1915
The Turmoil by
Booth Tarkington
A Far Country by
Winston Churchill
Michael O'Halloran by
Gene Stratton Porter
Pollyanna Grows Up by
Eleanor H. Porter
K by
Mary Roberts Rinehart
Jaffery by
William J. Locke
Felix O'Day by
F. Hopkinson Smith
The Harbor by
Ernest Poole
The Lone Star Ranger by
Zane Grey
Angela's Business by
Henry Sydnor Harrison
1916
Seventeen by
Booth Tarkington
When a Man's a Man by
Harold Bell Wright
Just David by
Eleanor H. Porter
Mr. Britling Sees It Through by
H. G. Wells
Life and Gabriella by
Ellen Glasgow
The Real Adventure by
Henry Kitchell Webster
Bars of Iron by
Ethel M. Dell
Nan of Music Mountain by
Frank H. Spearman
Dear Enemy by
Jean Webster
The Heart of Rachael by
Kathleen Norris
1917
Mr. Britling Sees It Through by
H. G. Wells
The Light in the Clearing by
Irving Bacheller
The Red Planet by
William J. Locke
The Road to Understanding by
Eleanor H. Porter
Wildfire by
Zane Grey
Christine by
Alice Cholmondeley
In the Wilderness by
Robert S. Hichens
His Family by
Ernest Poole
The Definite Object by
Jeffery Farnol
The Hundredth Chance by
Ethel M. Dell
[5]
1918
The U.P. Trail by
Zane Grey
The Tree of Heaven by
May Sinclair
The Amazing Interlude by
Mary Roberts Rinehart
Dere Mable by
Edward Streeter
Oh, Money! Money! by
Eleanor H. Porter
Greatheart by
Ethel M. Dell
The Major by
Ralph Connor
The Pawns Count by
E. Phillips Oppenheim
A Daughter of the Land by
Gene Stratton Porter
Sonia by
Stephen McKenna
1919
The Four Horseman of the Apocalypse by
Vicente Blasco Ibáñez
The Arrow of Gold by
Joseph Conrad
The Desert of Wheat by
Zane Grey
Dangerous Days by
Mary Roberts Rinehart
The Sky Pilot in No Man's Land by
Ralph Connor
The Re-Creation of Brian Kent by
Harold Bell Wright
Dawn by
Eleanor H. Porter
The Tin Soldier by
Temple Bailey
Christopher and Columbus by
Elizabeth von Arnim
In Secret by
Robert W. Chambers
References
^ Hackett, Alice Payne and Burke, James Henry (1977). 80 Years of Bestsellers: 1895–1975 . New York: R.R. Bowker Company. pp. 3, 74–88.
ISBN
0-8352-0908-3 . {{
cite book }}
: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (
link )
^
The Publishers' Weekly's Consensus , American Library Annual 1911–1912 , pp. 123–24 (1912)
^
A Consensus of the Twenty "Best Sellers" In Each of the Three Classes , American Library Annual 1913 (1913) (list of top twenty fiction, non-fiction, and juvenile bestsellers for 1912. Top 10 fiction matches this list)
^
The Publishers' Weekly Consensus , American Library Annual 1913–1914 , pp. 193–94 (1914) (source includes top fifty adult fiction list, which matches top 10 listed herein for 1913, as well as the top 20 adult non-fiction list and top 20 juvenile titles)
^
The Best-Sellers of 1917: The "Publishers Weekly's" Consensus , American Library Annual 1917–1918 , pp. 100–01 (1918) (includes list of top 47 selling fiction books for 1917 as judged by Publishers' Weekly statistics, as well as the Bookman monthly reports for each month of 1917, and the Bookman top six for the year, which does not match PW's top six)