What Were Your Relatives Reading in the Early 1920s

The best-selling fiction of the 1921:

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

10. Coningsby Dawson, The Kingdom Round the Corner

The best-selling fiction of 1922:

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

Also published that year:

F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and the Damned

James Joyce, Ulysses

Katherine Mansfield, The Garden Party

Marcel Proust, Swann’s Way (English translation)

The best-selling fiction of 1923:

1. Gertrude Atherton, Black Oxen

2. Arthur Train, His Children’s Children

3. Elizabeth von Arnim, 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

From lithub.com--Here are the Biggest Fiction Bestsellers of the Last 100 Years ‹ Literary Hub (lithub.com) accessed Aug. 17, 1923