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In the same way that the Economist magazine argues that the Big Mac Index is a ‘good’ measure of the relative strength of currencies one can argue that best seller lists capture the concerns and interests of a culture. Best sellers are not necessarily high art or immortal works, but they do offer insights on their time.
Here we aim to provide a core sample, a time transect of American Culture as expressed in book purchasing preferences. Hop into the bathyscaphe…
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| 1922 #1 Publishers Weekly Best Seller | |
If Winter Comes  |
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| A.S.M. Hutchinson (1880 – 1971) |
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Publishers Weekly #1 Best Seller for 1922. Hutchinson makes a compelling story out of a difficult subject; an unhappy marriage, a divorce, and an unwed mother who commits suicide. The book was almost immediately adapted as a film, and also republished in the 1940’s. |
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| 1921 #1 Publishers Weekly Best Seller | |
| Main Street |
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| Sinclair Lewis (1885 – 1951) |
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Publishers Weekly #1 Best Seller for 1921. Sinclair Lewis is the first American to receive a Nobel Price for literature. Main Street was initially awarded the 1921 Pulitzer Price, but the Board of Trustees overturned the jury decision and awarded the prize to Edith Wharton for Age of Innocence. The novel is an indictment of the ‘vacuous respectability’ of small town America and an exploration of the conflict between those who strive for intensity and those who are content with a routine existence. Lewis’s characters are skillfully drawn and he shows subtle and compelling insights into their psychology. In spite of it’s critical stance the initial publication of the book was a political and and social event. |
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| 1920 #1 Publishers Weekly Best Seller | |
| The Man of the Forest |
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| Zane Grey (1872 – 1939) |
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Publishers Weekly #1 Best Seller for 1920. Milt Dale, the man of the forest, overhears a plot to kidnap a young woman and cannot in good conscience do nothing. He sets out to save the girl … |
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| 1919 #1 Publishers Weekly Best Seller | |
| The Four Horseman of the Apocalypse |
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| Vincente Blasco Ibanez (1867 – 1928) |
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Publishers Weekly #1 Best Seller for 1919. A short time before the outbreak of WWI the Desnoyers family move from Argentina to France. The family includes both French and German elements and the war only amplifies existing tensions. Argentine son Julio must choose between his current dissolute lifestyle and stepping up to the responsibilities the war brings, and then live with the consequences… |
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| 1918 #1 Publishers Weekly Best Seller | |
| The U.P. Trail |
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| Zane Grey (1872 – 1939) |
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Publishers Weekly #1 Best Seller for 1918. An epic novel set against the construction of the Union-Pacific Railroad between 1864 and 1869 and the introduction of the telegraph. Full of wonderfully drawn characters and a central romantic thread. |
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| 1917 #1 Publishers Weekly Best Seller | |
| Mr. Britling Sees it Through |
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| H. G. Wells (1866 – 1946) |
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Publishers Weekly #1 Best Seller for 1917. “Beyond question the greatest novel of the year” — New York Times 1916 Tells the story of how Mr. Britling makes it though World War I. |
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| 1916 #1 Publishers Weekly Best Seller | |
| Seventeen |
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| Booth Tarkington (1869 – 1946) |
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Publishers Weekly #1 Best Seller for 1916. Tarkington was a widely read and prolific multiple Pulitzer Prize winning novelist and dramatist. Here Tarkington satirizes first love. “Every man and woman over fifty ought to read Seventeen. It is not only a skillful analysis of adolescent love, it is, with all its side-splitting mirth, a tragedy. No mature person who reads this novel will ever seriously regret his lost youth or wish he were young again….” — William Lyon Phelps, The Advance of the English Novel |