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| 1915 #1 Publishers Weekly Best Seller |
The Turmoil  |
| Booth Tarkington (1869 - 1946) |
Publishers Weekly #1 Best Seller for 1915.
Tarkington was a widely read and prolific multiple Pulitzer Prize winning novelist and dramatist.
The story uses a tale of two families following different trajectories but linked by romance to provide a glimpse of the changes induced by industrialization and urbanization.
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| 1914 #1 Publishers Weekly Best Seller |
| The Eyes of the World |
| Harold Bell Wright (1872 - 1944) |
Publishers Weekly #1 Best Seller for 1914.
Set in the world of authors, artists, and their patrons this novel explores the conflict between art for art sake and art for profit and fame.
It was quite controversial in it's day; some accusing Wright of preaching and others supporting his observations.
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| 1913 #1 Publishers Weekly Best Seller |
| The Inside of the Cup |
| Winston Churchill (1871 - 1947) |
Publishers Weekly #1 Best Seller for 1913.
It is important to note that the author is not the famed English politician and author, but an unrelated American writer.
"masterly grip of detail and rare psychological insight" - Henry Davies from letters to the New York Times 1913.
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| 1912 #1 Publishers Weekly Best Seller |
| The Harvester |
| Gene Stratton-Porter (1863 - 1924) |
Publishers Weekly #1 Best Seller for 1912.
A young man leads a solitary life growing and harvesting medicinal herbs. He dreams of meeting his true love, subsequently sees her in a vision, and finally sets out to find her...
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| 1911 #1 Publishers Weekly Best Seller |
| The Broad Highway |
| Jeffery Farnol (1878 - 1952) |
Publishers Weekly #1 Best Seller for 1911.
Farnol developed the Regency Romance genre. Books in this style invoked the literature and language of the English Regency period, more or less around the time of the Napoleonic wars and the French revolution.
Farnol's first novel, a swashbuckling story of the highroads of Kent in the Regency era, is still regarded as a classic and catapulted him to fame.
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| 1910 #1 Publishers Weekly Best Seller |
| The Rosary |
| Florence L. Barclay (1862 - 1921) |
Publishers Weekly #1 Best Seller for 1910.
"A delightful love story of English Life -- a love story conducted along lines that are refreshingly novel. The story is told with a charm of style that will captivate the reader." -- Publishers Weekly 1909
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| 1909 #1 Publishers Weekly Best Seller |
| The Inner Shrine |
| Basil King (1859 - 1928) |
Publishers Weekly #1 Best Seller for 1909.
This story of a French Irish girl whose husband is killed in a duel was originally published anonymously.
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