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The Books of the Century: 1900-1909
1900
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Fiction
Bestsellers
1. Mary Johnston, To Have
and To Hold
2. Mary Cholmondeley, Red
Pottage
3. Robert Grant, Unleavened
Bread
4. James Lane Allen, The
Reign of Law
5. Irving Bacheller, Eben
Holden
6. Paul Leicester Ford, Janice
Meredith
7. Charles Frederic Goss, The
Redemption of David Corson
8. Winston Churchill, Richard
Carvel
9. Charles Majo, When
Knighthood Was in Flower
10. Maurice Thompson, Alice
of Old Vincennes |
Critically
Acclaimed and Historically Significant
Josiah Royce, The World and the
Individual
Clarence Stedman, An
American Anthology
Theodore Dreiser, Sister
Carrie
Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation
of Dreams
L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Joseph
Conrad, Lord Jim
John Dewey, The School and Society |
1901
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Fiction
Bestsellers
1. Winston Churchill, The
Crisis
2. Maurice Thompson, Alice
of Old Vincennes
3. Bertha Runkle, The
Helmet of Navarre
4. Gilbert Parker, The
Right of Way
5. Irving Bacheller, Eben
Holden
6. Elinor Glyn, The Visits
of Elizabeth
7. Harold MacGrath, The
Puppet Crown
8. Maurice Hewlett, Richard
Yea-and-Nay
9. George Barr McCutcheon, Graustark
10. Irving Bacheller, D'ri
and I
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Critically
Acclaimed and Historically Significant
Frank Norris, The Octopus
E. A. Ross, Social Control
Booker T. Washington, Up
from Slavery
George Bernard Shaw, Man
and Superman
George A. Gordon, New Epoch
for Faith
Rudyard Kipling, Kim |
1902
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Fiction
Bestsellers
1. Owen Wister, The
Virginian
2. Alice Caldwell Hegan,
Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch
3. Charles Major, Dorothy
Vernon of Haddon Hall
4. Emerson Hough, The
Mississippi Bubble
5. Mary Johnston, Audrey
6. Gilbert Parker, The
Right of Way
7. A. Conan Doyle, The
Hound of the Baskervilles
8. Booth Tarkington, The
Two Vanrevels
9. Henry van Dyke, The Blue
Flower
10. Lucas Malet, Sir
Richard Calmady |
Critically
Acclaimed and Historically Significant
Jane Addams, Democracy and
Social Ethics
William James, Varieties of
Religious Experience
Joseph Conrad, Heart of
Darkness
C.
H. Cooley, Human Nature and Social Order
Owen
Wister, The Virginian
André
Gide, The Immoralist
Vladimir
Lenin, What is to be Done?
Henry
James, The Wings of the Dove
Ebenezer Howard, Garden Cities of To-morrow |
1903
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Fiction
Bestsellers
1. Mary Augusta Ward, Lady
Rose's Daughter
2. Thomas Nelson Page, Gordon
Keith
3. Frank Norris, The Pit
4. Alice Hegan Rice, Lovey
Mary
5. Owen Wister, The
Virginian
6. Alice Hegan Rice, Mrs.
Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch
7. James Lane Allen, The
Mettle of the Pasture
8. George Horace Lorimer, Letters
of a Self-Made Merchant to His Son
9. Thomas Dixon Jr., The
One Woman
10. John Fox Jr., The
Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come |
Critically
Acclaimed and Historically Significant
W. E. B. Du Bois, The Souls
of Black Folk
John Dewey, Studies in
Logical Theory
Jack London, Call of the
Wild
Helen Thompson Wooley, Mental
Traits of Sex
Bertrand Russell, Principles
of Mathematics
G. E. Moore, Principia
Ethica
Samuel Butler, The Way of
All Flesh
Henry James, The
Ambassadors
Helen Keller, The Story of My Life
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1904 |
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Fiction
Bestsellers
1. Winston Churchill, The
Crossing
2. Ellen Glasgow, The
Deliverance
3. Anonymous (Katherine Cecil
Thurston), The Masquerader
4. Miriam Michelson, In the
Bishop's Carriage
5. Mary Johnston, Sir
Mortimer
6. George Barr McCutcheon, Beverly
of Graustark
7. John Fox Jr., The Little
Shepherd of Kingdom Come
8. Kate Douglas Wiggin,
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
9. Henry Harland, My Friend
Prospero
10. Stewart Edward White, The
Silent Places |
Critically
Acclaimed and Historically Significant
Henry James, The Golden
Bowl
Henry Adams, Mt.-St. Michel
and Chartres
Thorstein Veblen, Theory of
Business Enterprise
Max Weber, The Protestant
Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
Joseph Conrad, Nostromo |
1905 |
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Fiction
Bestsellers
1. Mary Augusta Ward, The
Marriage of William Ashe
2. Alice Hegan Rice, Sandy
3. Robert Hichens, The
Garden of Allah
4. Thomas Dixon Jr., The
Clansman
5. George Barr McCutcheon, Nedra
6. Katherine Cecil Thurston, The
Gambler
7. Katherine Cecil Thurston,
The Masquerader
8. Edith Wharton, The House
of Mirth
9. C. N. and A. M. Williamson,
The Princess Passes
10. Kate Douglas Wiggin,
Rose o' the River |
Critically
Acclaimed and Historically Significant
Lincoln Steffens, Shame of
the Cities
Thomas Dixon, Jr., The
Clansman
Edith Wharton, The House
of Mirth
Mary Chesnut, Diary from Dixie
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1906 |
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Fiction
Bestsellers
1. Winston
Churchill, Coniston
2. Owen
Wister, Lady Baltimore
3. Robert W. Chambers, The Fighting Chance
4. Meredith Nicholson, The House of a Thousand
Candles
5. George Barr McCutcheon, Jane Cable
6. Upton Sinclair, The Jungle
7. Margaret Deland, The Awakening of Helena
Ritchie
8. Rex Beach, The Spoilers
9. Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth,
10. Ellen Glasgow, The Wheel of Life
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Critically
Acclaimed and Historically Significant
Upton Sinclair, The Jungle
William Graham Sumner, Folkways
George Santayana, The Life
of Reason
Joseph Conrad, The Secret Agent |
1907
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Fiction
Bestsellers
1. Frances Little, The Lady
of the Decoration
2. Gilbert Parker, The
Weavers
3. Meredith Nicholson, The
Port of Missing Men
4. Frances Hodgson Burnett, The
Shuttle
5. Louis J. Vance, The
Brass Bowl
6. Hallie Erminie Rives, Satan
Sanderson
7. George Barr McCutcheon, The
Daughter of Anderson Crow
8. Robert W. Chambers, The
Younger Set
9. Ralph Connor, The Doctor
10. Harold MacGrath, Half a Rogue |
Critically
Acclaimed and Historically Significant
William James, Pragmatism
Walter
Rauschenbusch, Christianity and the Social Crisis
Henry
James, The American Scene
Simon
Patten, New Basis for Civilization
The Education of Henry
Adams (privately published)
Henri Bergson, Creative Evolution |
1908
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Fiction
Bestsellers
1. Winston Churchill, Mr.
Crewe's Career
2. Rex Beach, The Barrier
3. John Fox Jr., The Trail
of the Lonesome Pine
4. Harold MacGrath, The
Lure of the Mask
5. Frances Hodgson Burnett, The
Shuttle
6. F. Hopkinson Smith, Peter
7. Mary Johnston, Lewis
Rand
8. Louis J. Vance, The
Black Bag
9. George Barr McCutcheon, The
Man from Brodney's
10. Gilbert Parker, The Weavers |
Critically
Acclaimed and Historically Significant
Arthur Bentley, Process of
Government
Vladimir Lenin, Materialism
and Empirico-Criticism
Graham Wallas, Human Nature
and Politics
E. M. Forster, A Room with
a View
Arnold
Bennett, The Old Wives’ Tale
Mohandas Gandhi, Hind Swaraj
Israel Zangwill, The Melting Pot
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1909
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Fiction
Bestsellers
1. Basil King, The Inner
Shrine
2. Elinor Macartney Lane, Katrine
3. Rex Beach, The Silver
Horde
4. Mary Roberts Rinehart,
The Man in Lower Ten
5. John Fox Jr., The Trail
of the Lonesome Pine
6. George Barr McCutcheon, Truxton
King
7. Emerson Hough, 54-40
or Fight
8. Harold MacGrath, The
Goose Girl
9. F. Hopkinson Smith, Peter
10. William J. Locke, Septimus |
Critically
Acclaimed and Historically Significant
Herbert Croly, The Promise
of American Life
William James, A
Pluralistic Universe
W. C. Brownell, American
Prose Masters |
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