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The Books of the Century:
1910-1919
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1910 |
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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 |
Critically
Acclaimed and Historically Significant Jane
Addams, Twenty Years
at Hull House Sigmund
Freud, Origins and
Development of Psychoanalysis E.
M. Forster, Howards End
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1911 |
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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 |
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1912 |
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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
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Critically
Acclaimed and Historically Significant James
Harvey Robinson, The
New History Maria
Montessori, The
Montessori Method Mary
Antin, The Promised
Land Edgar
Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes |
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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 |
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1913 |
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Fiction
Bestsellers 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 Charles
Beard, An Economic
Interpretation of the Constitution of the
United States Alfred
North Whitehead and
Bertrand Russell, Principia Mathematica
Eleanor
H. Porter, Pollyanna Marcel
Proust, Swann's
Way (Engl. translation, 1922) Josiah
Royce, The Problem
of Christianity |
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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 |
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1914 |
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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 George
Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion |
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1915 |
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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 Edgar Lee Masters, Spoon River Anthology |
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1916 |
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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 Madison Grant, The Passing of the Great Race |
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1917 |
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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
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Critically
Acclaimed and Historically Significant Walter
Rauschenbusch,
A Theology for the Social Gospel H.
L.
Mencken, A Book of Prefaces Elsie
Clewes
Parsons, Social Rule |
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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 |
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Fiction
Bestsellers 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 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 |
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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 |
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1919 |
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Fiction
Bestsellers 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 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 |
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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 |
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