Publishers Weekly list of bestselling novels in the United States in the 1910s

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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[]

  1. The Rosary by Florence L. Barclay
  2. A Modern Chronicle by Winston Churchill
  3. The Wild Olive by Anonymous (Basil King)
  4. by Katherine Cecil Thurston
  5. by Hallie Erminie Rives
  6. by William J. Locke
  7. by C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson
  8. by Mary Roberts Rinehart
  9. Molly Make-Believe by Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
  10. by Mary Roberts Rinehart

1911[]

  1. The Broad Highway by Jeffery Farnol
  2. The Prodigal Judge by Vaughan Kester
  3. The Winning of Barbara Worth by Harold Bell Wright
  4. Queed by Henry Sydnor Harrison
  5. The Harvester by Gene Stratton Porter
  6. The Iron Woman by Margaret Deland
  7. The Long Roll by Mary Johnston
  8. Molly Make-Believe by Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
  9. The Rosary by Florence L. Barclay
  10. by Robert W. Chambers[2]

1912[]

  1. The Harvester by Gene Stratton Porter
  2. by Basil King
  3. by Harold Bell Wright
  4. The Melting of Molly by Maria Thompson Daviess
  5. by Meredith Nicholson
  6. The Winning of Barbara Worth by Harold Bell Wright
  7. by Vaughan Kester
  8. by Rex Beach
  9. by Anne Douglas Sedgwick
  10. by J. Breckenridge Ellis[3]

1913[]

  1. The Inside of the Cup by Winston Churchill
  2. V.V.'s Eyes by Henry Sydnor Harrison
  3. by Gene Stratton Porter
  4. The Judgment House by Gilbert Parker
  5. by John Fox, Jr.
  6. The Amateur Gentleman by Jeffery Farnol
  7. The Woman Thou Gavest Me by Hall Caine
  8. Pollyanna by Eleanor H. Porter
  9. by Hallie Erminie Rives
  10. by Frances Hodgson Burnett[4]

1914[]

  1. by Harold Bell Wright
  2. Pollyanna by Eleanor H. Porter
  3. The Inside of the Cup by Winston Churchill
  4. by Owen Johnson
  5. by William J. Locke
  6. by Frances Hodgson Burnett
  7. Penrod by Booth Tarkington
  8. Diane of the Green Van by Leona Dalrymple
  9. The Devil's Garden by W. B. Maxwell
  10. The Prince of Graustark by George Barr McCutcheon

1915[]

  1. The Turmoil by Booth Tarkington
  2. A Far Country by Winston Churchill
  3. Michael O'Halloran by Gene Stratton Porter
  4. Pollyanna Grows Up by Eleanor H. Porter
  5. by Mary Roberts Rinehart
  6. by William J. Locke
  7. Felix O'Day by F. Hopkinson Smith
  8. by Ernest Poole
  9. The Lone Star Ranger by Zane Grey
  10. by Henry Sydnor Harrison

1916[]

  1. Seventeen by Booth Tarkington
  2. When a Man's a Man by Harold Bell Wright
  3. Just David by Eleanor H. Porter
  4. Mr. Britling Sees It Through by H. G. Wells
  5. by Ellen Glasgow
  6. by Henry Kitchell Webster
  7. Bars of Iron by Ethel M. Dell
  8. Nan of Music Mountain by Frank H. Spearman
  9. Dear Enemy by Jean Webster
  10. by Kathleen Norris

1917[]

  1. Mr. Britling Sees It Through by H. G. Wells
  2. The Light in the Clearing by Irving Bacheller
  3. by William J. Locke
  4. by Eleanor H. Porter
  5. by Zane Grey
  6. Christine by Alice Cholmondeley
  7. by Robert S. Hichens
  8. His Family by Ernest Poole
  9. by Jeffery Farnol
  10. The Hundredth Chance by Ethel M. Dell[5]

1918[]

  1. The U.P. Trail by Zane Grey
  2. by May Sinclair
  3. by Mary Roberts Rinehart
  4. by Edward Streeter
  5. by Eleanor H. Porter
  6. Greatheart by Ethel M. Dell
  7. by Ralph Connor
  8. by E. Phillips Oppenheim
  9. by Gene Stratton Porter
  10. by Stephen McKenna

1919[]

  1. The Four Horseman of the Apocalypse by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez
  2. The Arrow of Gold by Joseph Conrad
  3. by Zane Grey
  4. by Mary Roberts Rinehart
  5. by Ralph Connor
  6. by Harold Bell Wright
  7. by Eleanor H. Porter
  8. The Tin Soldier by Temple Bailey
  9. by Elizabeth von Arnim
  10. by Robert W. Chambers

References[]

  1. ^ Hackett, Alice Payne and Burke, James Henry (1977). 80 Years of Bestsellers: 1895 - 1975. New York: R.R. Bowker Company. p. 3, 74-88. ISBN 0-8352-0908-3.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  2. ^ The Publishers' Weekly's Consensus, American Library Annual 1911-1912, pp. 123-24 (1912)
  3. ^ 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)
  4. ^ 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)
  5. ^ 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)
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