HYDE PARK BOOKS (return home)
Best Selling Books in America, 1910-1919
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F I C T I O N
1. The Rosary, Florence Barclay
2. A Modern Chronicle, Winston Churchill
3. The Wild Olive, anonymous (Basil King)
4. Max, Katherine Cecil Thurston
5. The Kingdom of Slender Swords, Hallie Erminie Rives
6. Simon the Jester, William J. Locke
7. Lord Loveland Discovers America, C. N. and A. M. Williamson
8. The Window at the White Cat, Mary Roberts Rinehart
9. Molly Make-Believe, Eleanor Abbott
10. When a Man Marries, Mary Roberts Rinehart
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F I C T I O N
1. The Broad Highway, Jeffrey Farnol
2. The Prodigal Judge, Vaughan Kester
3. The Winning of Barbara Worth, Harold Bell Wright
4. Queed, Henry Sydnor Harrison
5. The Harvester, Gene Stratton Porter
6. The Iron Woman, Margaret Deland
7. The Long Roll, Mary Johnston
8. Molly Make-Believe, Eleanor Abbott
9. The Rosary, Florence Barclay
10. The Common Law, Robert W. Chambers
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1. The Harvester, Gene Stratton Porter 2. The Street Called Straight, Basil King 3. Their Yesterdays, Harold Bell Wright 4. The Melting of Molly, Maria Thompson Daviess 5. A Hoosier Chronicle, Meredith Nicholson 6. The Winning of Barbara Worth, Harold Bell Wright 7. The Just and the Unjust, Vaughan Kester 8. The Net, Rex Beach 9. Tante, Anne Douglas Sedgwick 10. Fran, J. Breckenridge Ellis |
N O N F I C T I O N
1. The Promised Land, Mary Antin 2. The Montessori Method, Maria Montessori 3. South America, James Bryce 4. A New Conscience and an Ancient Evil, Jane Addams 5. Three Plays, Eugène Brieux 6. Your United States, Arnold Bennett 7. Creative Evolution, Henri Bergson 8. How to Live on Twenty-Four Hours a Day, Arnold Bennett 9. Woman and Labor, Olive Schreiner 10. Mark Twain, Albert Bigelow Paine |
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1. The Inside of the Cup, Winston Churchill 2. V. V.'s Eyes, Henry Sydnor Harrison 3. Laddie, Gene Stratton Porter 4. The Judgment House, Sir Gilbert Parker 5. Heart of the Hills, John Fox Jr. 6. The Amateur Gentleman, Jeffrey Farnol 7. The Woman Thou Gavest Me, Hall Caine 8. Pollyanna, Eleanor H. Porter 9. The Valiants of Virginia, Hallie Erminie Rives 10. T. Tembarom, Frances Hodgson Burnett |
N O N F I C T I O N
1. Crowds, Gerald Stanley Lee 2. Germany and the Germans, Price Collier 3. Zone Policeman 88, Harry A. Franck 4. The New Freedom, Woodrow Wilson 5. South America, James Bryce 6. Your United States, Arnold Bennett 7. The Promised Land, Mary Antin 8. Auction Bridge To-Day, Milton C. Work 9. Three Plays, Eugène Brieux 10. Psychology and Industrial Efficiency, Hugo Munsterberg |
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F I C T I O N
1. The Eyes of the World, Harold Bell Wright
2. Pollyanna, Eleanor H. Porter
3. The Inside of the Cup, Winston Churchill
4. The Salamander, Owen Johnson
5. The Fortunate Youth, William J. Locke
6. T. Tembarom, Frances Hodgson Burnett
7. Penrod, Booth Tarkington
8. Diane of the Green Van, Leona Dalrymple
9. The Devil's Garden, W. B. Maxwell
10. The Prince of Graustark, George Barr McCutcheon
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F I C T I O N
1. The Turmoil, Booth Tarkington
2. A Far Country, Winston Churchill
3. Michael O'Halloran, Gene Stratton Porter
4. Pollyanna Grows Up, Eleanor H. Porter
5. K, Mary Roberts Rinehart
6. Jaffery, William J. Locke
7. Felix O'Day, F. Hopkinson Smith
8. The Harbor, Ernest Poole
9. The Lone Star Ranger, Zane Grey
10. Angela's Business, Henry Sydnor Harrison
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F I C T I O N
1. Seventeen, Booth Tarkington
2. When a Man's a Man, Harold Bell Wright
3. Just David, Eleanor H. Porter
4. Mr. Britling Sees It Through, H. G. Wells
5. Life and Gabriella, Ellen Glasgow
6. The Real Adventure, Henry Kitchell Webster
7. Bars of Iron, Ethel M. Dell
8. Nan of Music Mountain, Frank H. Spearman
9. Dear Enemy, Jean Webster
10. The Heart of Rachael, Kathleen Norris
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1. Mr. Britling Sees It Through, H. G. Wells 2. The Light in the Clearing, Irving Bacheller 3. The Red Planet, William J. Locke 4. The Road to Understanding, Eleanor H. Porter 5. Wildfire, Zane Grey 6. Christine, Alice Cholmondeley 7. In the Wilderness, Robert S. Hichens 8. His Family, Ernest Poole 9. The Definite Object, Jeffrey Farnol 10. The Hundredth Chance, Ethel M. Dell |
G E N E R A L - N O N F I C T I O N
1. Rhymes of a Red Cross Man, Robert W. Service 2. The Plattsburg Manual, O. O. Ellis and E. B. Garey 3. Raymond, Sir Oliver Lodge 4. Poems of Alan Seeger, Alan Seeger 5. God the Invisible King, H. G. Wells 6. Laugh and Live, Douglas Fairbanks 7. Better Meals for Less Money, Mary Green |
W A R - B O O K S
1. The First Hundred Thousand, Ian Hay 2. My Home in the Field of Honor, Frances W. Huard 3. A Student in Arms, Donald Hankey 4. Over the Top, Arthur Guy Empey 5. Carry On, Coningsby Dawson 6. Getting Together, Ian Hay 7. My Second Year of the War, Frederick Palmer 8. The Land of Deepening Shadow, D. Thomas Curtin 9. Italy, France and Britain at War, H. G. Wells 10. The Worn Doorstep, Margaret Sherwood |
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1. The U. P. Trail, Zane Grey 2. The Tree of Heaven, May Sinclair 3. The Amazing Interlude, Mary Roberts Rinehart 4. Dere Mable, Edward Streeter 5. Oh, Money! Money!, Eleanor H. Porter 6. Greatheart, Ethel M. Dell 7. The Major, Ralph Connor 8. The Pawns Count, E. Phillips Oppenheim 9. A Daughter of the Land, Gene Stratton Porter 10. Sonia, Stephen McKenna |
G E N E R A L - N O N F I C T I O N
1. Rhymes of a Red Cross Man, Robert W. Service 2. Treasury of War Poetry, G. H. Clark 3. With the Colors, Everard J. Appleton 4. Recollections, Viscount Morley 5. Laugh and Live, Douglas Fairbanks 6. Mark Twain's Letters, Albert Bigelow Paine, editor 7. Adventures and Letters of Richard Harding Davis, Richard Harding Davis 8. Over Here, Edgar Guest 9. Diplomatic Days, Edith O'Shaughnessy 10. Poems of Alan Seeger, Alan Seeger |
W A R - B O O K S 1. My Four Years in Germany, James W. Gerard 2. The Glory of the Trenches, Coningsby Dawson 3. Over the Top, Arthur Guy Empey 4. A Minstrel in France, Harry Lauder 5. Private Peat, Harold R. Peat 6. Outwitting the Hun, Lieut. Pat O'Brien 7. Face to Face with Kaiserism, James W. Gerard 8. Carry On, Coningsby Dawson 9. Out to Win, Coningsby Dawson 10. Under Fire, Henri Barbusse |
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1. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, V. Blasco Ibañez 2. The Arrow of Gold, Joseph Conrad 3. The Desert of Wheat, Zane Grey 4. Dangerous Days, Mary Roberts Rinehart 5. The Sky Pilot in No Man's Land, Ralph Connor 6. The Re-Creation of Brian Kent, Harold Bell Wright 7. Dawn, Gene Stratton Porter 8. The Tin Soldier, Temple Bailey 9. Christopher and Columbus, "Elizabeth" 10. In Secret, Robert W. Chambers |
N O N F I C T I O N
1. The Education of Henry Adams, Henry Adams 2. The Years Between, Rudyard Kipling 3. Belgium, Brand Whitlock 4. The Seven Purposes, Margaret Cameron 5. In Flanders Fields, John McCrae 6. Bolshevism, John Spargo |