Publishers Weekly List Of Bestselling Novels In The United States In The 1900s

This is a list of bestselling novels in the United States in the 1900s, as determined by '' The Bookman'', a New York-based literary journal. The list features the most popular novels of each year from 1900 through 1909.

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.

1900

# '' To Have and to Hold'' by Mary Johnston
# '' Red Pottage'' by Mary Cholmondeley
# ''Unleavened Bread'' by Robert Grant
# '' The Reign of Law'' by James Lane Allen
# ''Eben Holden'' by Irving Bacheller
# ''Janice Meredith'' by Paul Leicester Ford
# ''The Redemption of David Corson'' by Charles Frederic Goss
# ''Richard Carvel'' by Winston Churchill
# '' When Knighthood Was in Flower'' by Charles Major
# ''Alice of Old Vincennes'' by Maurice Thompson

1901

# ''The Crisis'' by Winston Churchill
# ''Alice of Old Vincennes'' by Maurice Thompson
# '' The Helmet of Navarre'' by Bertha Runkle
# '' The Right of Way'' by Gilbert Parker
# ''Eben Holden'' by Irving Bacheller
# '' The Visits of Elizabeth'' by Elinor Glyn
# ''The Puppet Crown'' by Harold MacGrath
# '' The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay'' by Maurice Hewlett
# ''Graustark'' by George Barr McCutcheon
# '' D'ri and I'' by Irving Bacheller

1902

# '' The Virginian'' by Owen Wister
# '' Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch'' by Alice Caldwell Hegan (Alice Hegan Rice)
# ''Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall'' by Charles Major
# '' The Mississippi Bubble'' by Emerson Hough
# ''Audrey'' by Mary Johnston
# '' The Right of Way'' by Gilbert Parker
# ''The Hound of the Baskervilles'' by Arthur Conan Doyle
# '' The Two Vanrevels'' by Booth Tarkington
# '' The Blue Flower'' by Henry van Dyke
# '' Sir Richard Calmady'' by Lucas Malet

1903

# ''Lady Rose's Daughter'' by Mary Augusta Ward
# '' Gordon Keith'' by Thomas Nelson Page
# '' The Pit'' by Frank Norris
# ''Lovey Mary'' by Alice Hegan Rice
# '' The Virginian'' by Owen Wister
# '' Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch'' by Alice Hegan Rice
# '' The Mettle of the Pasture'' by James Lane Allen
# '' Letters of a Self-Made Merchant to His Son'' by George Horace Lorimer
# '' The One Woman'' by Thomas Dixon, Jr.
# '' The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come'' by John Fox, Jr.

1904

# '' The Crossing'' by Winston Churchill
# ''The Deliverance'' by Ellen Glasgow
# '' The Masquerader'' by Katherine Cecil Thurston
# ''In the Bishop's Carriage'' by Miriam Michelson
# '' Sir Mortimer'' by Mary Johnston
# ''Beverly of Graustark'' by George Barr McCutcheon
# '' The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come'' by John Fox, Jr.
# ''Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm'' by Kate Douglas Wiggin
# '' My Friend Prospero'' by Henry Harland
# '' The Silent Places'' by Stewart Edward White

1905

# ''The Marriage of William Ashe'' by Mary Augusta Ward
# '' Sandy'' by Alice Hegan Rice
# '' The Garden of Allah'' by Robert Hichens
# ''The Clansman'' by Thomas Dixon, Jr.
# ''Nedra'' by George Barr McCutcheon
# '' The Gambler'' by Katherine Cecil Thurston
# '' The Masquerader'' by Katherine Cecil Thurston
# ''The House of Mirth'' by Edith Wharton
# '' The Princess Passes'' by C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson
# '' Rose o' the River'' by Kate Douglas Wiggin

1906

# '' Coniston'' by Winston Churchill
# '' Lady Baltimore'' by Owen Wister
# ''The Fighting Chance'' by Robert W. Chambers
# ''The House of a Thousand Candles'' by Meredith Nicholson
# '' Jane Cable'' by George Barr McCutcheon
# ''The Jungle'' by Upton Sinclair
# ''The Awakening of Helena Richie'' by Margaret Deland
# '' The Spoilers'' by Rex Beach
# ''The House of Mirth'' by Edith Wharton
# ''The Wheel of Life'' by Ellen Glasgow

1907

# '' The Lady of the Decoration'' by Frances Little
# ''The Weavers'' by Gilbert Parker
# ''The Port of Missing Men'' by Meredith Nicholson
# '' The Shuttle'' by Frances Hodgson Burnett
# ''The Brass Bowl'' by Louis Joseph Vance
# '' Satan Sanderson'' by Hallie Erminie Rives
# '' The Daughter of Anderson Crow'' by George Barr McCutcheon
# '' The Younger Set'' by Robert W. Chambers
# '' The Doctor'' by Ralph Connor
# '' Half a Rogue'' by Harold MacGrath

1908

# '' Mr. Crewe's Career'' by Winston Churchill
# ''The Barrier'' by Rex Beach
# '' The Trail of the Lonesome Pine'' by John Fox, Jr.
# '' The Lure of the Mask'' by Harold MacGrath
# '' The Shuttle'' by Frances Hodgson Burnett
# ''Peter'' by F. Hopkinson Smith
# '' Lewis Rand'' by Mary Johnston
# ''The Black Bag'' by Louis Joseph Vance
# ''The Man from Brodney's'' by George Barr McCutcheon
# ''The Weavers'' by Gilbert Parker

1909

# ''The Inner Shrine'' by Anonymous (Basil King)
# '' Katrine'' by Elinor Macartney Lane
# '' The Silver Horde'' by Rex Beach
# '' The Man in Lower Ten'' by Mary Roberts Rinehart
# '' The Trail of the Lonesome Pine'' by John Fox, Jr.
# '' Truxton King'' by George Barr McCutcheon
# '' 54-40 or Fight'' by Emerson Hough
# ''The Goose Girl'' by Harold MacGrath
# ''Peter'' by F. Hopkinson Smith
# '' Septimus'' by William J. Locke

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