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

 * 1) To Have and to Hold by Mary Johnston
 * 2) Red Pottage by Mary Cholmondeley
 * 3) Unleavened Bread by Robert Grant
 * 4) The Reign of Law by James Lane Allen
 * 5) Eben Holden by Irving Bacheller
 * 6) Janice Meredith by Paul Leicester Ford
 * 7) The Redemption of David Corson by Charles Frederic Goss
 * 8) Richard Carvel by Winston Churchill
 * 9) When Knighthood Was in Flower by Charles Major
 * 10) Alice of Old Vincennes by Maurice Thompson

1901

 * 1) The Crisis by Winston Churchill
 * 2) Alice of Old Vincennes by Maurice Thompson
 * 3) The Helmet of Navarre by Bertha Runkle
 * 4) The Right of Way by Gilbert Parker
 * 5) Eben Holden by Irving Bacheller
 * 6) The Visits of Elizabeth by Elinor Glyn
 * 7) The Puppet Crown by Harold MacGrath
 * 8) The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay by Maurice Hewlett
 * 9) Graustark by George Barr McCutcheon
 * 10) D'ri and I by Irving Bacheller

1902

 * 1) The Virginian by Owen Wister
 * 2) Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch by Alice Caldwell Hegan (Alice Hegan Rice)
 * 3) Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall by Charles Major
 * 4) The Mississippi Bubble by Emerson Hough
 * 5) Audrey by Mary Johnston
 * 6) The Right of Way by Gilbert Parker
 * 7) The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
 * 8) The Two Vanrevels by Booth Tarkington
 * 9) The Blue Flower by Henry van Dyke
 * 10) Sir Richard Calmady by Lucas Malet

1903

 * 1) Lady Rose's Daughter by Mary Augusta Ward
 * 2) Gordon Keith by Thomas Nelson Page
 * 3) The Pit by Frank Norris
 * 4) Lovey Mary by Alice Hegan Rice
 * 5) The Virginian by Owen Wister
 * 6) Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch by Alice Hegan Rice
 * 7) The Mettle of the Pasture by James Lane Allen
 * 8) Letters of a Self-Made Merchant to His Son by George Horace Lorimer
 * 9) The One Woman by Thomas Dixon, Jr.
 * 10) The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come by John Fox, Jr.

1904

 * 1) The Crossing by Winston Churchill
 * 2) The Deliverance by Ellen Glasgow
 * 3) The Masquerader by Katherine Cecil Thurston
 * 4) In the Bishop's Carriage by Miriam Michelson
 * 5) Sir Mortimer by Mary Johnston
 * 6) Beverly of Graustark by George Barr McCutcheon
 * 7) The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come by John Fox, Jr.
 * 8) Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by Kate Douglas Wiggin
 * 9) My Friend Prospero by Henry Harland
 * 10) The Silent Places by Stewart Edward White

1905

 * 1) The Marriage of William Ashe by Mary Augusta Ward
 * 2) Sandy by Alice Hegan Rice
 * 3) The Garden of Allah by Robert Hichens
 * 4) The Clansman by Thomas Dixon, Jr.
 * 5) Nedra by George Barr McCutcheon
 * 6) The Gambler by Katherine Cecil Thurston
 * 7) The Masquerader by Katherine Cecil Thurston
 * 8) The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
 * 9) The Princess Passes by C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson
 * 10) Rose o' the River by Kate Douglas Wiggin

1906

 * 1) Coniston by Winston Churchill
 * 2) Lady Baltimore by Owen Wister
 * 3) The Fighting Chance by Robert W. Chambers
 * 4) The House of a Thousand Candles by Meredith Nicholson
 * 5) Jane Cable by George Barr McCutcheon
 * 6) The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
 * 7) The Awakening of Helena Richie by Margaret Deland
 * 8) The Spoilers by Rex Beach
 * 9) The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
 * 10) The Wheel of Life by Ellen Glasgow

1907

 * 1) The Lady of the Decoration by Frances Little
 * 2) The Weavers by Gilbert Parker
 * 3) The Port of Missing Men by Meredith Nicholson
 * 4) The Shuttle by Frances Hodgson Burnett
 * 5) The Brass Bowl by Louis Joseph Vance
 * 6) Satan Sanderson by Hallie Erminie Rives
 * 7) The Daughter of Anderson Crow by George Barr McCutcheon
 * 8) The Younger Set by Robert W. Chambers
 * 9) The Doctor by Ralph Connor
 * 10) Half a Rogue by Harold MacGrath

1908

 * 1) Mr. Crewe's Career by Winston Churchill
 * 2) The Barrier by Rex Beach
 * 3) The Trail of the Lonesome Pine by John Fox, Jr.
 * 4) The Lure of the Mask by Harold MacGrath
 * 5) The Shuttle by Frances Hodgson Burnett
 * 6) Peter by F. Hopkinson Smith
 * 7) Lewis Rand by Mary Johnston
 * 8) The Black Bag by Louis Joseph Vance
 * 9) The Man from Brodney's by George Barr McCutcheon
 * 10) The Weavers by Gilbert Parker

1909

 * 1) The Inner Shrine by Anonymous (Basil King)
 * 2) Katrine by Elinor Macartney Lane
 * 3) The Silver Horde by Rex Beach
 * 4) The Man in Lower Ten by Mary Roberts Rinehart
 * 5) The Trail of the Lonesome Pine by John Fox, Jr.
 * 6) Truxton King by George Barr McCutcheon
 * 7) 54-40 or Fight by Emerson Hough
 * 8) The Goose Girl by Harold MacGrath
 * 9) Peter by F. Hopkinson Smith
 * 10) Septimus by William J. Locke