Subject Collections: Bestsellers 1900-1930
This list includes electronic versions of bestsellers from 1900-1930. The texts are either part of the Electronic Text Center's Modern English collection, or items found at various other sites on the internet.
The Modern English collection also contains other works by these authors (not on the Best Seller List).
To find texts on the internet, try a search through a web index or go to a directory such as the Online Books Page.
- Adams, Henry:
- The Education of Henry Adams 1919 (hypertext at Virginia)
- Burnett, Frances Hodgson:
- The Shuttle 1907 [Illustrations]
- T. Tembarom 1913 [Illustrations]
- Churchill, Winston:
- The Crossing 1904 [Illustrations]
- Conrad, Joseph:
- The Arrow of Gold 1919
- Davis, Richard Harding:
- Adventures and Letters of Richard Harding Davis 1917
- Dixon, Thomas:
- The Clansman: An Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan 1905 (HTML at UNC)
- Doyle, Arthur Conan:
- The Hound of the Baskervilles 1902
- Grey, Zane:
- The Man of the Forest 1919 [Illustrations]
- Hemon, Louis:
- Maria Chapdelaine; a Tale of the Lake St. John country 1913
- Johnston, Mary:
- To Have and to Hold 1900 (illustrated HTML at UNC)
- Keynes, John Maynard:
- The Economic Consequences of the Peace 1920 (text at McMaster)
- Lewis, Sinclair:
- Babbitt 1922 [Illustrations]
- Main Street 1920
- Locke, William John: The Fortunate Youth 1914 [Illustrations]
- Malet, Lucas:
- The History of Sir Richard Calmady 1902 (HTML at Indiana)
- Michelson, Miriam:
- In the Bishop's Carriage 1903 [Illustrations]
- Norris, Frank:
- The Pit, A Story of Chicago 1903
- Porter, Eleanor H.:
- Just David 1916
- Mary Marie 1920 [Illustrations]
- Pollyanna Grows Up 1914 [Illustrations]
- Rice, Alice Caldwell Hegan:
- Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch 1903
- Roosevelt, Theodore:
- Theodore Roosevelt's Letters to His Children 1920 (HTML at bartleby.com)
- Stratton Porter, Gene:
- The Harvester 1911
- Laddie: A True Blue Story 1913
- Tarkington, Booth:
- Penrod 1914 [Illustrations]
- Seventeen 1915
- Van Dyke, Henry:
- The Blue Flower 1902 [Illustrations]
- Van Loon, Hendrik:
- The Story of Mankind 1921 [Illustrations]
- Wharton, Edith:
- The Age of Innocence 1920
- White, Stewart Edward:
- The Silent Places 1904 [Illustrations]
- Wiggin, Kate Douglas:
- Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm 1903 [Illustrations]