Bestsellers, American, 1900-1922 (Bookshelf)

Introduction

The following lists of best-selling books from 1900 – 1922 was taken from this site.

1900

Fiction

1. To Have and To Hold , Mary Johnston
2. Red Pottage  Mary Cholmondeley
3. Unleavened Bread  Robert Grant
4. The Reign of Law  James Lane Allen
5. Eben Holden  Irving Bacheller
6. Janice Meredith  Paul Leicester Ford
7. The Redemption of David Corson  Charles Frederic Goss
8. Richard Carvel  Winston Churchill
9. When Knighthood Was in Flower  Charles Major
10. Alice of Old Vincennes  Maurice Thompson

1901

Fiction

1. The Crisis  Winston Churchill.

   Also available with each volume as a separate etext: Volume 1, Volume 2, Volume 3, Volume 4, Volume 5, Volume 6, Volume 7, Volume 8

2. Alice of Old Vincennes  Maurice Thompson
3. The Helmet of Navarre  Bertha Runkle
4. The Right of Way  Gilbert Parker.

   Also available with each volume as a separate etext: Volume 1, Volume 2, Volume 3, Volume 4, Volume 5, Volume 6

5. Eben Holden  Irving Bacheller
6. The Visits of Elizabeth  Elinor Glyn
7. The Puppet Crown  Harold MacGrath
8. Richard Yea-and-Nay  Maurice Hewlett
9. Graustark  George Barr McCutcheon
10. D'ri and I  Irving Bacheller

1902

Fiction

1. The Virginian  Owen Wister
2. Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch  Alice Caldwell Hegan
3. Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall  Charles Major
4. The Mississippi Bubble  Emerson Hough
5. Audrey  Mary Johnston
6. The Right of Way  Gilbert Parker
7. Project Gutenberg has 2 etexts for this:
   • The Hound of the Baskervilles  A. Conan Doyle
   • The Hound of the Baskervilles  A. Conan Doyle
8. The Two Vanrevels  Booth Tarkington
9. The Blue Flower  Henry van Dyke
10. Sir Richard Calmady (In progress), Lucas Malet

1903

Fiction

1. Lady Rose's Daughter  Mrs. Humphrey Ward (Mary Augusta Ward?)
2. Gordon Keith  Thomas Nelson Page
3. The Pit  Frank Norris
4. Lovey Mary  Alice Hegan Rice
5. The Virginian  Owen Wister
6. Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch  Alice Hegan Rice
7. The Mettle of the Pasture  James Lane Allen
8. Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son  George Horace Lorimer
9. The One Woman  Thomas Dixon Jr.
10. The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come  John Fox Jr.

1904

Fiction

1. The Crossing  Winston Churchill
2. The Deliverance  Ellen Glasgow
3. The Masquerader  Katherine Cecil Thurston
4. In The Bishop's Carriage  Miriam Michelson
5. Sir Mortimer  Mary Johnston
6. Beverly of Graustark  George Barr McCutcheon
7. The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come  John Fox Jr.
8. Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm  Kate Douglas Wiggin
9. My Friend Prospero  Henry Harland
10. The Silent Places  Stewart Edward White

1905

Fiction

1. The Marriage of William Ashe  Mary Augusta Ward
2. Sandy  Alice Hegan Rice
3. The Garden of Allah  Robert Hichens
4. The Clansman(N/A) Thomas Dixon Jr.
5. Nedra  George Barr McCutcheon
6. The Gambler(N/A) Katherine Cecil Thurston
7. The Masquerader  anonymous (Katherine Cecil Thurston)
8. The House of Mirth  Edith Wharton
9. The Princess Passes  C. N. and A. M. Williamson
10. Rose o' the River  Kate Douglas Wiggin