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F I C T I O N

1. The Man of the Forest, Zane Grey

2. Kindred of the Dust, Peter B. Kyne

3. The Re-Creation of Brian Kent, Harold Bell Wright

4. The River's End, James Oliver Curwood

5. A Man for the Ages, Irving Bacheller

6. Mary-Marie, Eleanor H. Porter

7. The Portygee, Joseph C. Lincoln

8. The Great Impersonation, E. Phillips Oppenheim

9. The Lamp in the Desert, Ethel M. Dell

10. Harriet and the Piper, Kathleen Norris

N O N F I C T I O N

1. Now It Can Be Told, Philip Gibbs

2. The Economic Consequences of the Peace, John M. Keynes

3. Roosevelt's Letters to His Children, Joseph B. Bishop, editor

4. Theodore Roosevelt, William Roscoe Thayer

5. White Shadows in the South Seas, Frederick O'Brien

6. An American Idyll, Cornelia Stratton Parker

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F I C T I O N

1. Main Street, Sinclair Lewis

2. The Brimming Cup, Dorothy Canfield

3. The Mysterious Rider, Zane Grey

4. The Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton

5. The Valley of Silent Men, James Oliver Curwood

6. The Sheik, Edith M. Hull

7. A Poor Wise Man, Mary Roberts Rinehart

8. Her Father's Daughter, Gene Stratton Porter

9. The Sisters-in-Law, Gertrude Atherton

10. The Kingdom Round the Corner, Coningsby Dawson

N O N F I C T I O N

1. The Outline of History, H. G. Wells

2. White Shadows in the South Seas, Frederick O'Brien

3. The Mirrors of Downing Street, A Gentleman with a Duster (pseudonym for Harold Begbie)

4. The Autobiography of Margot Asquith, Margot Asquith

6. Peace Negotiations, Robert Lansing

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F I C T I O N

1. If Winter Comes, A.S.M. Hutchinson

2. The Sheik, Edith M. Hull

3. Gentle Julia, Booth Tarkington

4. The Head of the House of Coombe, Frances Hodgson Burnett

5. Simon Called Peter, Robert Keable

6. The Breaking Point, Mary Roberts Rinehart

7. This Freedom, A.S.M. Hutchinson

8. Maria Chapdelaine, Louis Hémon

9. To the Last Man, Zane Grey

10. Babbitt, Sinclair Lewis (tie)

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

N O N F I C T I O N

1. The Outline of History, H. G. Wells

2. The Story of Mankind, Hendrik Willem Van Loon

3. The Americanization of Edward Bok, Edward Bok

4. Diet and Health, Lulu Hunt Peters

5. The Mind in the Making, James Harvey Robinson

6. The Outline of Science, J. Arthur Thomson

7. Outwitting Our Nerves, Josephine A. Jackson and Helen M. Salisbury

8. Queen Victoria, Lytton Strachey

9. Mirrors of Washington, anonymous (Clinton W. Gilbert)

10. Painted Windows, A Gentleman with a Duster (pseudonym for Harold Begbie)

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F I C T I O N

1. Black Oxen, Gertrude Atherton

2. His Children's Children, Arthur Train

3. The Enchanted April, "Elizabeth"

4. Babbitt, Sinclair Lewis

5. The Dim Lantern, Temple Bailey

6. This Freedom, A.S.M. Hutchinson

7. The Mine with the Iron Door, Harold Bell Wright

8. The Wanderer of the Wasteland, Zane Grey

9. The Sea-Hawk, Rafael Sabatini

10. The Breaking Point, Mary Roberts Rinehart

N O N F I C T I O N

1. Etiquette, Emily Post

2. The Life of Christ, Giovanni Papini

3. The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Burton J. Hendrick, editor

4. The Mind in the Making, James Harvey Robinson

5. The Outline of History, H. G. Wells

6. Diet and Health, Lulu Hunt Peters

7. Self-Mastery Through Conscious Auto-Suggestion, Emile Coué

8. The Americanization of Edward Bok, Edward Bok

9. The Story of Mankind, Hendrik Willem Van Loon

10. A Man from Maine, Edward Bok

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F I C T I O N

1. So Big, Edna Ferber

2. The Plastic Age, Percy Marks

3. The Little French Girl, Anne Douglas Sedgwick

4. The Heirs Apparent, Philip Gibbs

5. A Gentleman of Courage, James Oliver Curwood

6. The Call of the Canyon, Zane Grey

7. The Midlander, Booth Tarkington

8. The Coast of Folly, Coningsby Dawson

9. Mistress Wilding, Rafael Sabatini

10. The Homemaker, Dorothy Canfield Fisher

N O N F I C T I O N

1. Diet and Health, Lulu Hunt Peters

2. The Life of Christ, Giovanni Papini

3. The Boston Cooking School Cook Book, Fannie Farmer, editor

4. Etiquette, Emily Post

5. Ariel, André Maurois

6. The Cross Word Puzzle Books, Prosper Buranelli, et al.

7. Mark Twain's Autobiography, Mark Twain

8. Saint Joan, Bernard Shaw

9. The New Decalogue of Science, Albert E. Wiggam

10. The Americanization of Edward Bok, Edward Bok

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F I C T I O N

1. Soundings, A. Hamilton Gibbs

2. The Constant Nymph, Margaret Kennedy

3. The Keeper of the Bees, Gene Stratton Porter

4. Glorious Apollo, E. Barrington

5. The Green Hat, Michael Arlen

6. The Little French Girl, Anne Douglas Sedgwick

7. Arrowsmith, Sinclair Lewis

8. The Perennial Bachelor, Anne Parrish

9. The Carolinian, Rafael Sabatini

10. One Increasing Purpose, A.S.M. Hutchinson

N O N F I C T I O N

1. Diet and Health, Lulu Hunt Peters

2. The Boston Cooking School Cook Book, rev. ed., Fannie Farmer, editor

3. When We Were Very Young, A. A. Milne

4. The Man Nobody Knows, Bruce Barton

5. The Life of Christ, Giovanni Papini

6. Ariel, André Maurois

7. Twice Thirty, Edward Bok

8. Twenty-Five Years, Lord Grey

9. Anatole France Himself, J. J. Brousson

10. The Cross Word Puzzle Books, Prosper Buranelli, et al.

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F I C T I O N

1. The Private Life of Helen of Troy, John Erskine

2. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Anita Loos

3. Sorrell and Son, Warwick Deeping

4. The Hounds of Spring, Sylvia Thompson

5. Beau Sabreur, P. C. Wren

6. The Silver Spoon, John Galsworthy

7. Beau Geste, P. C. Wren

8. Show Boat, Edna Ferber

9. After Noon, Susan Ertz

10. The Blue Window, Temple Bailey

N O N F I C T I O N

1. The Man Nobody Knows, Bruce Barton

2. Why We Behave Like Human Beings, George A. Dorsey

3. Diet and Health, Lulu Hunt Peters

4. Our Times, Vol. I, Mark Sullivan

5. The Boston Cooking School Cook Book, rev. ed., Fannie Farmer, editor

6. Auction Bridge Complete, Milton C. Work

7. The Book Nobody Knows, Bruce Barton

8. The Story of Philosophy, Will Durant

9. The Light of Faith, Edgar A. Guest

10. Jefferson and Hamilton, Claude G. Bowers

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F I C T I O N

1. Elmer Gantry, Sinclair Lewis

2. The Plutocrat, Booth Tarkington

3. Doomsday, Warwick Deeping

4. Sorrell and Son, Warwick Deeping

5. Jalna, Mazo de la Roche

6. Lost Ecstasy, Mary Roberts Rinehart

7. Twilight Sleep, Edith Wharton

8. Tomorrow Morning, Anne Parrish

9. The Old Countess, Anne Douglas Sedgwick

10. A Good Woman, Louis Bromfield

N O N F I C T I O N

1. The Story of Philosophy, Will Durant

2. Napoleon, Emil Ludwig

3. Revolt in the Desert, T. E. Lawrence

4. Trader Horn, Vol. I, Alfred Aloysius Horn and Ethelreda Lewis

5. We, Charles A. Lindbergh

6. Ask Me Another, Julian Spafford and Lucien Esty

7. The Royal Road to Romance, Richard Halliburton

8. The Glorious Adventure, Richard Halliburton

9. Why We Behave Like Human Beings, George A. Dorsey

10. Mother India, Katherine Mayo

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F I C T I O N

1. The Bridge of San Luis Rey, Thornton Wilder

2. Wintersmoon, Hugh Walpole

3. Swan Song, John Galsworthy

4. The Greene Murder Case, S. S. Van Dine

5. Bad Girl, Viña Delmar

6. Claire Ambler, Booth Tarkington

7. Old Pybus, Warwick Deeping

8. All Kneeling, Anne Parrish

9. Jalna, Mazo de la Roche

10. The Strange Case of Miss Annie Spragg, Louis Bromfield

N O N F I C T I O N

1. Disraeli, André Maurois

2. Mother India, Katherine Mayo

3. Trader Horn, Vol. I, Alfred Aloysius Horn and Ethelreda Lewis

4. Napoleon, Emil Ludwig

5. Strange Interlude, Eugene O'Neill

6. We, Charles A. Lindbergh

7. Count Luckner, the Sea Devil, Lowell Thomas

8. Goethe, Emil Ludwig

9. Skyward, Richard E. Byrd

10. The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism and Capitalism, George Bernard Shaw

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F I C T I O N

1. All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque

2. Dodsworth, Sinclair Lewis

3. Dark Hester, Anne Douglas Sedgwick

4. The Bishop Murder Case, S. S. Van Dine

5. Roper's Row, Warwick Deeping

6. Peder Victorious, O. E. Rölvaag

7. Mamba's Daughters, DuBose Heyward

8. The Galaxy, Susan Ertz

9. Scarlet Sister Mary, Julia Peterkin

10. Joseph and His Brethren, H. W. Freeman

N O N F I C T I O N

1. The Art of Thinking, Ernest Dimnet

2. Henry the Eighth, Francis Hackett

3. The Cradle of the Deep, Joan Lowell

4. Elizabeth and Essex, Lytton Strachey

5. The Specialist, Chic Sale

6. A Preface to Morals, Walter Lippmann

7. Believe It or Not, Robert L. Ripley

8. John Brown's Body, Stephen Vincent Benét

9. The Tragic Era, Claude G. Bowers

10. The Mansions of Philosophy, Will Durant