Publishers Weekly list of bestselling novels in the United States in the 1920s

This is a list of bestselling novels in the United States in the 1920s, as determined by Publishers Weekly.^[1] The list features the most popular novels of each year from 1920 through 1929.

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.

1920[]

1. The Man of the Forest by Zane Grey
2. Kindred of the Dust by Peter B. Kyne
3. The Re-Creation of Brian Kent by Harold Bell Wright
4. The River's End by James Oliver Curwood
5. by Irving Bacheller
6. by Eleanor H. Porter
7. by Joseph C. Lincoln
8. The Great Impersonation by E. Phillips Oppenheim
9. by Ethel M. Dell
10. Harriet and the Piper by Kathleen Norris

1921[]

1. Main Street by Sinclair Lewis
2. by Dorothy Canfield
3. by Zane Grey
4. The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
5. The Valley of Silent Men by James Oliver Curwood
6. The Sheik by Edith M. Hull
7. by Mary Roberts Rinehart
8. by Gene Stratton-Porter
9. by Gertrude Atherton
10. by Coningsby Dawson

1922[]

1. If Winter Comes by A. S. M. Hutchinson
2. The Sheik by Edith M. Hull
3. Gentle Julia by Booth Tarkington
4. The Head of the House of Coombe by Frances Hodgson Burnett
5. Simon Called Peter by Robert Keable
6. The Breaking Point by Mary Roberts Rinehart
7. This Freedom by A. S. M. Hutchinson
8. Maria Chapdelaine by Louis Hémon
9. To the Last Man by Zane Grey
10. Tie: Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis and by Harold Bell Wright

1923[]

1. Black Oxen by Gertrude Atherton
2. His Children's Children by Arthur Train
3. The Enchanted April by "Elizabeth"
4. Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis
5. by Temple Bailey
6. This Freedom by A. S. M. Hutchinson
7. The Mine with the Iron Door by Harold Bell Wright
8. by Zane Grey
9. The Sea Hawk by Rafael Sabatini
10. The Breaking Point by Mary Roberts Rinehart

1924[]

1. So Big by Edna Ferber
2. The Plastic Age by Percy Marks
3. The Little French Girl by Anne Douglas Sedgwick
4. by Philip Gibbs
5. by James Oliver Curwood
6. The Call of the Canyon by Zane Grey
7. The Midlander by Booth Tarkington
8. The Coast of Folly by Coningsby Dawson
9. by Rafael Sabatini
10. The Homemaker by Dorothy Canfield Fisher

1925[]

1. by A. Hamilton Gibbs
2. The Constant Nymph by Margaret Kennedy
3. by Gene Stratton-Porter
4. by E. Barrington
5. The Green Hat by Michael Arlen
6. The Little French Girl by Anne Douglas Sedgwick
7. Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis
8. by Anne Parrish
9. by Rafael Sabatini
10. One Increasing Purpose by A. S. M. Hutchinson

1926[]

1. The Private Life of Helen of Troy by John Erskine
2. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes by Anita Loos
3. Sorrell and Son by Warwick Deeping
4. by Sylvia Thompson
5. Beau Sabreur by P. C. Wren
6. by John Galsworthy
7. Beau Geste by P. C. Wren
8. Show Boat by Edna Ferber
9. by Susan Ertz
10. by Temple Bailey

1927[]

1. Elmer Gantry by Sinclair Lewis
2. by Booth Tarkington
3. Doomsday by Warwick Deeping
4. Sorrell and Son by Warwick Deeping
5. Jalna by Mazo de la Roche
6. by Mary Roberts Rinehart
7. Twilight Sleep by Edith Wharton
8. by Anne Parrish
9. by Anne Douglas Sedgwick
10. A Good Woman by Louis Bromfield

1928[]

1. The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder
2. by Hugh Walpole
3. by John Galsworthy
4. The Greene Murder Case by S. S. Van Dine
5. by Viña Delmar
6. by Booth Tarkington
7. Old Pybus by Warwick Deeping
8. by Anne Parrish
9. Jalna by Mazo de la Roche
10. by Louis Bromfield

1929[]

1. All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
2. Dodsworth by Sinclair Lewis
3. by Anne Douglas Sedgwick
4. The Bishop Murder Case by S. S. Van Dine
5. by Warwick Deeping
6. by O. E. Rolvaag
7. Mamba's Daughters by DuBose Heyward
8. by Susan Ertz
9. Scarlet Sister Mary by Julia Peterkin
10. by

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