# Bookman 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