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1. Zane Grey, The Man of the Forest

2. Peter B. Kyne, Kindred of the Dust

3. Harold Bell Wright, The Re-Creation of Brian Kent

4. James Oliver Curwood, The River’s End

5. Irving Bacheller, A Man for the Ages

6. Eleanor H. Porter, Mary-Marie

7. Joseph C. Lincoln, The Portygee

8. E. Phillips Oppenheim, The Great Impersonation

9. Ethel M. Dell, The Lamp in the Desert

10. Kathleen Norris, Harriet and the Piper

Critically Acclaimed and Historically Significant

D. H. Lawrence, Women in Love

Edith Wharton, Age of Innocence

Sinclair Lewis, Main Street

Frederick Jackson Turner, The Frontier in American History

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., Collected Legal Papers

John Dewey, Reconstruction in Philosophy

F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

1. Philip Gibbs, Now It Can Be Told

2. John M. Keynes, The Economic Consequences of the Peace

3. Joseph B. Bishop, ed., Roosevelt’s Letters to His Children

4. William Roscoe Thayer, Theodore Roosevelt

5. Frederick O’Brien, White Shadows in the South Seas

6. Cornelia Stratton Parker, An American Idyll

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1. Sinclair Lewis, Main Street

2. Dorothy Canfield, The Brimming Cup

3. Zane Grey, The Mysterious Rider

4. Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

5. James Oliver Curwood, The Valley of Silent Men

6. Edith M. Hull, The Sheik

7. Mary Roberts Rinehart, A Poor Wise Man

8. Gene Stratton Porter, Her Father’s Daughter

9. Gertrude Atherton, The Sisters-in-Law

Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

James Harvey Robinson, The Mind in the Making

Luigi Pirandello, Six Characters in Search of an Author

Edward Sapir, Language

1. H. G. Wells, The Outline of History

2. Frederick O’Brien, White Shadows in the South Seas

3. A Gentleman with a Duster (Harold Begbie), The Mirrors of Downing Street

4. Margot Asquith, The Autobiography of Margot Asquith

6. Robert Lansing, Peace Negotiations  

Fiction Bestsellers

1. A.S.M. Hutchinson, If Winter Comes

2. Edith M. Hull, The Sheik

3. Booth Tarkington, Gentle Julia

4. Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Head of the House of Coombe

5. Robert Keable, Simon Called Peter

6. Mary Roberts Rinehart, The Breaking Point

7. A.S.M. Hutchinson, This Freedom

8. Louis Hémon, Maria Chapdelaine

9. Zane Grey, To the Last Man

10. Sinclair Lewis, Babbitt (tie)

10. Harold Bell Wright, Helen of the Old House (tie)

James Joyce, Ulysses

Harold Stearns, ed., Civilization in the United States

Bronislaw Malinowski, The Argonauts of the Western Pacific

Walter Lippmann, Public Opinion

T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land

Sinclair Lewis, Babbitt

W. F. Ogburn, Social Change

Oswald Spengler, The Decline of the West, vol. 2

Emily Post, Etiquette
E. E. Cummings, The Enormous Room

1. H. G. Wells, The Outline of History

2. Hendrik Willem Van Loon, The Story of Mankind

3. Edward Bok, The Americanization of Edward Bok

4. Lulu Hunt Peters, Diet and Health

5. James Harvey Robinson, The Mind in the Making

6. J. Arthur Thomson, The Outline of Science

7. Josephine A. Jackson and Helen M. Salisbury, Outwitting Our Nerves

8. Lytton Strachey, Queen Victoria

9. Anonymous (Clinton W. Gilbert), Mirrors of Washington

10. A Gentleman with a Duster (Harold Begbie), Painted Windows

Fiction Bestsellers

1. Gertrude Atherton, Black Oxen

2. Arthur Train, His Children’s Children

3. “Elizabeth”, The Enchanted April

4. Sinclair Lewis, Babbitt

5. Temple Bailey, The Dim Lantern

6. A.S.M. Hutchinson, This Freedom

7. Harold Bell Wright, The Mine with the Iron Door

8. Zane Grey, The Wanderer of the Wasteland

9. Rafael Sabatin, The Sea-Hawk

10. Mary Roberts Rinehart, The Breaking Point

Le Corbusier, Towards a New Architecture

D. H. Lawrence, Studies in Classic American Literature

Robert Frost, New Hampshire

Thorstein Veblen, Absentee Ownership

Jean Toomer, Cane

Khalil Gibran, The Prophet

Carl Schmitt, The Crisis of Parliamentary Democracy

Martin Buber, I and Thou

Georg Lukács, History and Class Consciousness

Carrie Chapman Catt and Nettie Rogers Shuler, Woman Suffrage and Politics

1. Emily Post, Etiquette

2. Giovanni Papini, The Life of Christ

3. Burton J. Hendrick, ed., The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page

4. James Harvey Robinson, The Mind in the Making

5. H. G. Wells, The Outline of History

6. Lulu Hunt Peters, Diet and Health

7. Emile Coué, Self-Mastery Through Conscious Auto-Suggestion

8. Edward Bok, The Americanization of Edward Bok

9. Hendrik Willem Van Loon, The Story of Mankind

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1. Edna Ferber, So Big

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3. Anne Douglas Sedgwick, The Little French Girl

4. Philip Gibbs, The Heirs Apparent

5. James Oliver Curwood, A Gentleman of Courage

6. Zane Grey, The Call of the Canyon

7. Booth Tarkington, The Midlander

8. Coningsby Dawson, The Coast of Folly

9. Rafael Sabatini, Mistress Wilding

E. M. Forster, A Passage to India

Marcel Mauss, The Gift

Autobiography of Mark Twain

Herman Melville, Billy Budd (posthumous)

Emma Goldman, My Disillusionment with Russia

Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain

Shailer Mathews, Faith of Modernism

1. Lulu Hunt Peters, Diet and Health

2. Giovanni Papini, The Life of Christ

3. Fannie Farmer, ed. The Boston Cooking School Cook Book

4. Emily Post, Etiquette

5. André Maurois, Ariel

6. Prosper Buranelli et al., The Cross Word Puzzle Books

7. Mark Twain, Mark Twain's Autobiography

8. George Bernard Shaw, Saint Joan

9. Albert E. Wiggam, The New Decalogue of Science

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2. Margaret Kennedy, The Constant Nymph

3. Gene Stratton Porter, The Keeper of the Bees

4. E. Barrington, Glorious Apollo

5. Michael Arlen, The Green Hat

6. Anne Douglas Sedgwick, The Little French Girl

7. Sinclair Lewis, Arrowsmith

8. Anne Parrish, The Perennial Bachelor

9. Rafael Sabatin, The Carolinian

10. A.S.M. Hutchinson, One Increasing Purpose

F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

William Carlos Williams, In the American Grain

Theodore Dreiser, An American Tragedy

Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

Sinclair Lewis, Arrowsmith

Alfred North Whitehead, Science and the Modern World

Franz Kafka, The Trial

W. B. Yeats, A Vision

Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf

John Dewey, Experience and Nature

Gertrude Stein, The Making of Americans (written 1908)

Charles Merriam, New Aspects of Politics

Alain Locke, ed., The New Negro

1. Lulu Hunt Peters, Diet and Health

2. Fannie Farmer, ed., The Boston Cooking School Cook Book

3. A. A. Milne, When We Were Very Young

4. Bruce Barton, The Man Nobody Knows

5. Giovanni Papini, The Life of Christ

6. André Maurois, Ariel

7. Edward Bok, Twice Thirty

8. Lord Grey, Twenty-Five Years

9. J. J. Brousson, Anatole France Himself

10. Prosper Buranelli et al., The Cross Word Puzzle Books

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1. John Erskine, The Private Life of Helen of Troy

2. Anita Loos, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

3. Warwick Deeping, Sorrell and Son

4. Sylvia Thompson, The Hounds of Spring

5. P. C. Wren, Beau Sabreur

6. John Galsworthy, The Silver Spoon

7. P. C. Wren, Beau Geste

8. Edna Ferber, Show Boat

9. Susan Ertz, After Noon 

10. Temple Bailey, The Blue Window

Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises

Langston Hughes, The Weary Blues

R. H. Tawney, Religion and the Rise of Capitalism

Franz Kafka, The Castle

I. A. Richards, Science and Poetry

H. L. Mencken, Notes on Democracy

Lewis Mumford, The Golden Day

A. A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

1. Bruce Barton, The Man Nobody Knows

2. George A. Dorsey, Why We Behave Like Human Beings

3. Lulu Hunt Peters, Diet and Health

4. Mark Sullivan, Our Times, vol. 1

5. Fannie Farmer, ed., The Boston Cooking School Cook Book

6. Milton C. Work, Auction Bridge Complete

7. Bruce Barton, The Book Nobody Knows

8. Will Durant, The Story of Philosophy

9. Edgar A. Guest, The Light of Faith

Sylvia Townsend Warner, Lolly Willowes

T. S. Stribling, Teeftallow

Esther Forbes, O Genteel Lady!

Walder Noble Burns, The Saga of Billy the Kid

John Galsworthy, The Silver Spoon

Edna Ferber, Show Boat

Elizabeth Madox Roberts, The Time of Man

Ellen Glasgow, The Romantic Comedians

Fiction Bestsellers

1. Sinclair Lewis, Elmer Gantry

2. Booth Tarkington, The Plutocrat

3. Warwick Deeping, Doomsday

4. Warwick Deeping, Sorrell and Son

5. Mazo de la Roche, Jalna

6. Mary Roberts Rinehart, Lost Ecstasy

7. Edith Wharton, Twilight Sleep

8. Anne Parrish, Tomorrow Morning

9. Anne Douglas Sedgwick, The Old Countess

10. Louis Bromfield, A Good Woman

Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

Thornton Wilder, Bridge of San Luis Rey

E. M. Forster, Aspects of the Novel

Willa Cather, Death Comes for the Archbishop

John Dewey, The Public and Its Problems

Martin Heidegger, Being and Time

V. L. Parrington, Main Currents in American Thought

Charles and Mary Beard, The Rise of American Civilization

Sinclair Lewis, Elmer Gantry

Percy C. Bridgeman, The Logic of Modern Physics

Bertrand Russell, Why I Am Not a Christian

Katherine Mayo, Mother India

1. Will Durant, The Story of Philosophy

2. Emil Ludwig, Napoleon

3. T. E. Lawrence, Revolt in the Desert

4. Alfred Aloysius Horn and Ethelreda Lewis, Trader Horn, vol. 1

5. Charles A. Lindbergh, We

6. Julian Spafford and Lucien Esty, Ask Me Another

7. Richard Halliburton, The Royal Road to Romance

8. Richard Halliburton, The Glorious Adventure

9. George A. Dorsey, Why We Behave Like Human Beings

Bliss Perry, ed., The Heart of Emerson’s Journals

Emil Ludwig, Napoleon

Sinclair Lewis, Elmer Gantry

T. E. Lawrence, Revolt in the Desert

James Boyd, Marching On

O. E. Rölvaag, Giants in the Earth

Stuart Chase and F. J. Schlink, Your Money’s Worth

H. G. Wells, Meanwhile

Rosamond Lehmann, Dusty Answer

C. E. Montague, Right Off the Map

Margaret Kennedy, Red Sky at Morning

Fiction Bestsellers

1. Thornton Wilder, The Bridge of San Luis Rey

2. Hugh Walpole, Wintersmoon

3. John Galsworthy, Swan Song

4. S. S. Van Dine, The Greene Murder Case

5. Viña Delmar, Bad Girl

6. Booth Tarkington, Claire Ambler

7. Warwick Deeping, Old Pybus

8. Anne Parrish, All Kneeling

9. Mazo de la Roche, Jalna

10. Louis Bromfield, The Strange Case of Miss Annie Spragg

Aldous Huxley, Point Counter Point

Ford Madox Ford, Parade’s End

Margaret Mead, Coming of Age in Samoa

Eugene O'Neill, Strange Interlude

D. H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterly’s Lover

1. André Maurois, Disraeli

2. Katherine Mayo, Mother India

3. Alfred Aloysius Horn and Ethelreda Lewis, Trader Horn, vol. 1

4. Emil Ludwig, Napoleon              

5. Eugene O’Neill, Strange Interlude

6. Charles A. Lindbergh, We

7. Lowell Thomas, Count Luckner, the Sea Devil

8. Emil Ludwig, Goethe

9. Richard E. Byrd, Skyward

Booth Tarkington, Claire Ambler

André Marois, Disraeli

S. Fowler Wright, The Deluge

Elizabeth Bowen, The Hotel

Julian Green, The Closed Garden

George Bernard Shaw, The Intelligent Woman’s Guide to Socialism and Capitalism

Felix Salten, Bambi

Stephen Vincent Benét, John Brown’s Body

Edith Wharton, The Children

Paul de Kruif, Hunger Fighters

Charles Beard, ed., Whither Mankind?

Fiction Bestsellers

1. Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front

2. Sinclair Lewis, Dodsworth

3. Anne Douglas Sedgwick, Dark Hester

4. S. S. Van Dine, The Bishop Murder Case

5. Warwick Deeping, Roper’s Row

6. O. E. Rölvaag, Peder Victorious

7. DuBose Heyward, Mamba’s Daughters

8. Susan Ertz, The Galaxy

9. Julia Peterkin, Scarlet Sister Mary

10. H. W. Freeman, Joseph and His Brethren

William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury

Richard Hughes, A High Wind in Jamaica

Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

Robert Graves, Good-bye to All That

Walter Lippmann, A Preface to Morals

Karl Mannheim, Ideology and Utopia

Joseph Wood Krutch, Modern Temper

Robert and Helen Lynd, Middletown

John Dewey, Quest for Certainty

Thomas Wolfe, Look Homeward, Angel

Mohandas Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments with Truth

1. Ernest Dimnet, The Art of Thinking

2. Francis Hackett, Henry the Eighth

3. Joan Lowell, The Cradle of the Deep

4. Lytton Strachey, Elizabeth and Essex

5. Chic Sale, The Specialist

6. Walter Lippmann, A Preface to Morals

7. Robert L. Ripley, Believe It or Not

8. Stephen Vincent Benét, John Brown’s Body

9. Claude G. Bowers, The Tragic Era

10. Will Durant, The Mansions of Philosophy

H. W. Freeman, Joseph and His Brethren

Sigrid Undset, Kristin Lavransdatter

Joan Lowell, Cradle of the Deep

Francis Hackett, Henry the Eighth

Walter Lippmann, A Preface to Morals

Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front

Thames Williamson, Hunky

Dorothy L. Sayers, ed., The Omnibus of Crime

Henry Handel Richardson, Ultima Thule

J. B. Priestley, The Good Companions

Valentin Kataev, The Embezzlers