Publishers Weekly list of bestselling novels in the United States in the 1920s

This is a list of bestselling novels in the United States in the 1920s, as determined by ''Publishers Weekly''. The list features the most popular novels of each year from 1920 through 1929.

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.

1920

# ''The Man of the Forest'' by Zane Grey
# ''Kindred of the Dust'' by Peter B. Kyne
# ''The Re-Creation of Brian Kent'' by Harold Bell Wright
# '' The River's End'' by James Oliver Curwood
# '' A Man for the Ages'' by Irving Bacheller
# '' Mary-Marie'' by Eleanor H. Porter
# '' The Portygee'' by Joseph C. Lincoln
# '' The Great Impersonation'' by E. Phillips Oppenheim
# ''The Lamp in the Desert'' by Ethel M. Dell
# ''Harriet and the Piper'' by Kathleen Norris

1921

# '' Main Street'' by Sinclair Lewis
# ''The Brimming Cup
# '' The Mysterious Rider'' by Zane Grey
# ''The Age of Innocence'' by Edith Wharton
# ''The Valley of Silent Men'' by James Oliver Curwood
# '' The Sheik'' by Edith M. Hull
# '' A Poor Wise Man'' by Mary Roberts Rinehart
# '' Her Father's Daughter'' by Gene Stratton-Porter
# '' The Sisters-in-Law'' by Gertrude Atherton
# ''The Kingdom Round the Corner'' by Coningsby Dawson

1922

# ''If Winter Comes'' by A. S. M. Hutchinson
# '' The Sheik'' by Edith M. Hull
# '' Gentle Julia'' by Booth Tarkington
# ''The Head of the House of Coombe'' by Frances Hodgson Burnett
# '' Simon Called Peter'' by Robert Keable
# '' The Breaking Point'' by Mary Roberts Rinehart
# ''This Freedom'' by A. S. M. Hutchinson
# ''Maria Chapdelaine'' by Louis Hémon
# '' To the Last Man'' by Zane Grey
# ''Tie: Babbitt'' by Sinclair Lewis and '' Helen of the Old House'' by Harold Bell Wright

1923

# '' Black Oxen'' by Gertrude Atherton
# ''His Children's Children'' by Arthur Train
# ''The Enchanted April'' by "Elizabeth"
# ''Babbitt'' by Sinclair Lewis
# '' The Dim Lantern'' by Temple Bailey
# ''This Freedom'' by A. S. M. Hutchinson
# ''The Mine with the Iron Door'' by Harold Bell Wright
# '' Wanderer of the Wasteland'' by Zane Grey
# ''The Sea Hawk'' by Rafael Sabatini
# '' The Breaking Point'' by Mary Roberts Rinehart

1924

# '' So Big'' by Edna Ferber
# ''The Plastic Age'' by Percy Marks
# ''The Little French Girl'' by Anne Douglas Sedgwick
# '' The Heirs Apparent'' by Philip Gibbs
# '' A Gentleman of Courage'' by James Oliver Curwood
# ''The Call of the Canyon'' by Zane Grey
# ''The Midlander'' by Booth Tarkington
# ''The Coast of Folly'' by Coningsby Dawson
# ''Mistress Wilding'' by Rafael Sabatini
# ''The Homemaker'' by Dorothy Canfield Fisher

1925

# '' Soundings'' by A. Hamilton Gibbs
# '' The Constant Nymph'' by Margaret Kennedy
# '' The Keeper of the Bees'' by Gene Stratton-Porter
# '' Glorious Apollo'' by E. Barrington
# '' The Green Hat'' by Michael Arlen
# ''The Little French Girl'' by Anne Douglas Sedgwick
# '' Arrowsmith'' by Sinclair Lewis
# '' The Perennial Bachelor'' by Anne Parrish
# '' The Carolinian'' by Rafael Sabatini
# ''One Increasing Purpose'' by A. S. M. Hutchinson

1926

# ''The Private Life of Helen of Troy'' by John Erskine
# '' Gentlemen Prefer Blondes'' by Anita Loos
# '' Sorrell and Son'' by Warwick Deeping
# ''The Hounds of Spring'' by Sylvia Thompson
# ''Beau Sabreur'' by P. C. Wren
# '' The Silver Spoons'' by John Galsworthy
# ''Beau Geste'' by P. C. Wren
# ''Show Boat'' by Edna Ferber
# '' After Noon'' by Susan Ertz
# '' The Blue Window'' by Temple Bailey

1927

# ''Elmer Gantry'' by Sinclair Lewis
# '' The Plutocrat'' by Booth Tarkington
# ''Doomsday'' by Warwick Deeping
# '' Sorrell and Son'' by Warwick Deeping
# '' Jalna'' by Mazo de la Roche
# '' Lost Ecstasy'' by Mary Roberts Rinehart
# ''Twilight Sleep'' by Edith Wharton
# '' Tomorrow Morning'' by Anne Parrish
# '' The Old Countess'' by Anne Douglas Sedgwick
# '' A Good Woman'' by Louis Bromfield

1928

# ''The Bridge of San Luis Rey'' by Thornton Wilder
# ''Wintersmoon'' by Hugh Walpole
# '' Swan Song'' by John Galsworthy
# ''The Greene Murder Case'' by S. S. Van Dine
# '' Bad Girl'' by Viña Delmar
# '' Claire Ambler'' by Booth Tarkington
# '' Old Pybus'' by Warwick Deeping
# '' All Kneeling'' by Anne Parrish
# '' Jalna'' by Mazo de la Roche
# ''The Strange Case of Miss Annie Spragg'' by Louis Bromfield

1929

# '' All Quiet on the Western Front'' by Erich Maria Remarque
# '' Dodsworth'' by Sinclair Lewis
# '' Dark Hester'' by Anne Douglas Sedgwick
# ''The Bishop Murder Case'' by S. S. Van Dine
# '' Roper's Row'' by Warwick Deeping
# '' Peder Victorious'' by O. E. Rolvaag
# ''Mamba's Daughters'' by DuBose Heyward
# '' The Galaxy'' by Susan Ertz
# ''Scarlet Sister Mary'' by Julia Peterkin
# '' Joseph and His Brethren'' by H. W. Freeman

References

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