Publishers Weekly list of bestselling novels in the United States in the 1910s

This is a list of bestselling novels in the United States in the 1910s, as determined by The Bookman, a New York–based literary journal (1910–1912) and Publishers Weekly (1913 and beyond). The list features the most popular novels of each year from 1910 through 1919.

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.

1910 The Rosary by Florence L. Barclay A Modern Chronicle by Winston Churchill The Wild Olive by Anonymous (Basil King) Max by Katherine Cecil Thurston The Kingdom of Slender Swords by Hallie Erminie Rives Simon the Jester by William J. Locke Lord Loveland Discovers America by C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson The Window at the White Cat by Mary Roberts Rinehart Molly Make-Believe by Eleanor Hallowell Abbott When a Man Marries by Mary Roberts Rinehart

1911 The Broad Highway by Jeffery Farnol The Prodigal Judge by Vaughan Kester The Winning of Barbara Worth by Harold Bell Wright Queed by Henry Sydnor Harrison The Harvester by Gene Stratton Porter The Iron Woman by Margaret Deland The Long Roll by Mary Johnston Molly Make-Believe by Eleanor Hallowell Abbott The Rosary by Florence L. Barclay The Common Law by Robert W. ChambersThe Publishers' Weekly's Consensus, American Library Annual 1911–1912, pp. 123–24 (1912)

1912 The Harvester by Gene Stratton Porter The Street Called Straight by Basil King Their Yesterdays by Harold Bell Wright The Melting of Molly by Maria Thompson Daviess A Hoosier Chronicle by Meredith Nicholson The Winning of Barbara Worth by Harold Bell Wright The Just and the Unjust by Vaughan Kester The Net by Rex Beach Tante by Anne Douglas Sedgwick Fran by J. Breckenridge EllisA Consensus of the Twenty "Best Sellers" In Each of the Three Classes, American Library Annual 1913 (1913) (list of top twenty fiction, non-fiction, and juvenile bestsellers for 1912. Top 10 fiction matches this list)

1913 The Inside of the Cup by Winston Churchill V.V.'s Eyes by Henry Sydnor Harrison Laddie by Gene Stratton Porter The Judgment House by Gilbert Parker Heart of the Hills by John Fox, Jr. The Amateur Gentleman by Jeffery Farnol The Woman Thou Gavest Me by Hall Caine Pollyanna by Eleanor H. Porter The Valiants of Virginia by Hallie Erminie Rives T. Tembarom by Frances Hodgson BurnettThe Publishers' Weekly Consensus, American Library Annual 1913–1914, pp. 193–94 (1914) (source includes top fifty adult fiction list, which matches top 10 listed herein for 1913, as well as the top 20 adult non-fiction list and top 20 juvenile titles)

1914 The Eyes of the World by Harold Bell Wright Pollyanna by Eleanor H. Porter The Inside of the Cup by Winston Churchill The Salamander by Owen Johnson The Fortunate Youth by William J. Locke T. Tembarom by Frances Hodgson Burnett Penrod by Booth Tarkington Diane of the Green Van by Leona Dalrymple The Devil's Garden by W. B. Maxwell The Prince of Graustark by George Barr McCutcheon

1915 The Turmoil by Booth Tarkington A Far Country by Winston Churchill Michael O'Halloran by Gene Stratton Porter Pollyanna Grows Up by Eleanor H. Porter K by Mary Roberts Rinehart Jaffery by William J. Locke Felix O'Day by F. Hopkinson Smith The Harbor by Ernest Poole The Lone Star Ranger by Zane Grey Angela's Business by Henry Sydnor Harrison

1916 Seventeen by Booth Tarkington When a Man's a Man by Harold Bell Wright Just David by Eleanor H. Porter Mr. Britling Sees It Through by H. G. Wells Life and Gabriella by Ellen Glasgow The Real Adventure by Henry Kitchell Webster Bars of Iron by Ethel M. Dell Nan of Music Mountain by Frank H. Spearman Dear Enemy by Jean Webster The Heart of Rachael by Kathleen Norris

1917 Mr. Britling Sees It Through by H. G. Wells The Light in the Clearing by Irving Bacheller The Red Planet by William J. Locke The Road to Understanding by Eleanor H. Porter Wildfire by Zane Grey Christine by Alice Cholmondeley In the Wilderness by Robert S. Hichens His Family by Ernest Poole The Definite Object by Jeffery Farnol The Hundredth Chance by Ethel M. DellThe Best-Sellers of 1917: The "Publishers Weekly's" Consensus, American Library Annual 1917–1918, pp. 100–01 (1918) (includes list of top 47 selling fiction books for 1917 as judged by Publishers' Weekly statistics, as well as the Bookman monthly reports for each month of 1917, and the Bookman top six for the year, which does not match PW's top six)

1918 The U.P. Trail by Zane Grey The Tree of Heaven by May Sinclair The Amazing Interlude by Mary Roberts Rinehart Dere Mable by Edward Streeter Oh, Money! Money! by Eleanor H. Porter Greatheart by Ethel M. Dell The Major by Ralph Connor The Pawns Count by E. Phillips Oppenheim A Daughter of the Land by Gene Stratton Porter Sonia by Stephen McKenna

1919 The Four Horseman of the Apocalypse by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez The Arrow of Gold by Joseph Conrad The Desert of Wheat by Zane Grey Dangerous Days by Mary Roberts Rinehart The Sky Pilot in No Man's Land by Ralph Connor The Re-Creation of Brian Kent by Harold Bell Wright Dawn by Eleanor H. Porter The Tin Soldier by Temple Bailey Christopher and Columbus by Elizabeth von Arnim In Secret by Robert W. Chambers

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