My final (I trust) organizing post lists the posts I've made about what I consider for the purposes of this blog to be "Old Bestsellers". In its simplest sense I mean books that were on bestseller lists in roughly the first half of the 20th Century, but I extend things to include books by writers who had major bestsellers, and bestselling books from somewhat earlier (at least to the middle of the 19th Century) and a bit later, and occasionally books of a popular sort, in the right time frame, that were by a writer who never quite made it big.
As this sort of book was the first inspiration for this blog, such books make up the largest portion of posts here. (Granted, I stretch a point in including certain books here, but so be it.) So this will be a longish (and ever-growing) list. As of now, there are 94 entries on the list. The best book here is certainly Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth, and the worst is undoubtedly the pirated Count of Monte Cristo faux-sequel Edmund Dantes, by Edmund Flagg.
The Social Secretary, by David Graham Phillips (1905);
The Auction Block, by Rex Beach (1914);
That Girl From New York, by Allene Corliss (1932);
Under the Red Robe, by Stanley J. Weyman (1894);
The Octangle, by Emanie Sachs (1930);
The Lonely, by Paul Gallico (1947);
Under the Rose, by Frederic S. Isham (1903);
The Road to Frontenac, by Samuel Merwin (1901);
The Leopard Woman, by Stewart Edward White (1916);
Castle Garac, by Nicholas Monsarrat (1955);
Rodney Stone, by A. Conan Doyle (1896);
Casuals of the Sea, by William McFee (1916);
The Fortune Hunter, by Louis Joseph Vance (1910);
Penrod, by Booth Tarkington (1914);
Within the Law, by Bayard Veiller (and Marvin Dana) (1913);
She Painted her Face, by Dornford Yates (1936);
The Helmet of Navarre, by Bertha Runkle (1900);
By the Good Sainte-Anne, by Anna Chapin Ray (1904);
Tides, by Ada and Julian Street (1926);
The Siege of the Seven Suitors, by Meredith Nicholson (1910);
Guard Your Daughters, by Diana Tutton (1953);
The Visits of Elizabeth, by Elinor Glyn (1900);
Their Husbands' Wives, edited by William Dean Howells and Henry Mills Alden (1906);
The Blue Flower, by Henry Van Dyke (1902);
Favorite Stories by Famous Writers, edited by Harry Payne Brennan (1932);
Stamboul Nights, by H. G. Dwight (1916);
Black Rock, by Ralph Connor (1899);
The Romantic Comedians, by Ellen Glasgow (1926);
The City of Lilies, by Anthony Pryde and R. K. Weekes (1923);
Coronation Summer, by Angela Thirkell (1952);
Peter, by F. Hopkinson Smith (1908);
Two Black Sheep, by Warwick Deeping (1933);
The Perfume of the Lady in Black, by Gaston Leroux (1909);
The Van Roon, by J. C. Snaith (1922);
Enchanting and Enchanted, by Friedrich Wilhelm Hacklander (1870);
The House of Mirth, by Edith Wharton (1905);
The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne, by William J. Locke (1905);
Marietta, by F. Marion Crawford (1901);
The Count's Millions, by Emile Gaboriau (1870);
Dora Thorne, by Charlotte Mary Brame (1871);
The Vanishing Point, by Coningsby Dawson (1922);
The Maid of Maiden Lane, by Amelia E. Barr (1900);
Guys and Dolls, by Damon Runyon (1932);
The New Arabian Nights, by Robert Louis Stevenson (1882);
Ellen Adair, by Frederick Niven (1913);
The Lion's Share, by Octave Thanet (1907);
Love Insurance, by Earl Derr Biggers (1914);
Bound to Rise, by Horatio Alger, Jr. (1872);
I Love You, I Love You, I Love You, by Ludwig Bemelmans (1942);
The King's General, by Daphne du Maurier (1946);
The Great Impersonation, by E. Phillips Oppenheim (1920);
Piccadilly Jim, by P. G. Wodehouse (1916);
Stormswift, by Madeleine Brent (1984);
Edmund Dantes, by "Alexander Dumas" (1878);
A Princess of Mars, by Edgar Rice Burroughs (1912);
Finnley Wren, by Philip Wylie (1934);
When Knighthood Was in Flower, by "Edwin Caskoden" (Charles Major) (1898);
The Bondage of Ballinger, by Roswell Field (1903);
The Adventures of Richard Hannay, by John Buchan (1915-1919);
A Fool There Was, by Porter Emerson Browne (1909);
The Sheik, by E. M. Hull (1919);
Duchess Hotspur, by Rosamond Marshall (1946);
Random Harvest, by James Hilton (1941);
The Night Life of the Gods, by Thorne Smith (1931);
The Black Flemings, by Kathleen Norris (1926);
Princess Maritza, by Percy Brebner (1906);
The Man From Scotland Yard, by David Frome (1932);
You Know Me Al, by Ring Lardner (1916);
Cleek of Scotland Yard, by T. W. Hanshew (1914);
The Queen Pedauque, by Anatole France (1892);
Scaramouche, by Rafael Sabatini (1921);
Ladies and Gentlemen, by Irvin S. Cobb (1927);
The Haunted Bookshop, by Christopher Morley (1919);
The Night of Temptation, by Victoria Cross (1912);
The Woman in Question, by John Reed Scott (1909);
Rogue Male, by Geoffrey Household (1939);
The Man in Lower Ten, by Mary Roberts Rinehart (1906);
The King's Jackal, by Richard Harding Davis (1898);
Laughing Boy, by Oliver La Farge (1929);
Portrait of Jennie, by Robert Nathan (1940);
Beau Sabreur, by P. C. Wren (1926);
The Changed Brides, by Mrs. E.D.E.N. Southworth (1869);
Eben Holden, by Irving Bacheller (1900);
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, by Anita Loos (1925);
Sylvia Cary, by Frances Parkinson Keyes (1919);
The Stone of Chastity, by Margery Sharp (1940);
The Adventurer, by Mika Waltari (1948);
Captain Dieppe, by Anthony Hope (1899);
Guyfford of Weare, by Jeffery Farnol (1928);
Graustark, by George Barr McCutcheon (1901);
Half a Rogue, by Harold MacGrath (1906);
Brood of the Witch Queen, by Sax Rohmer (1918);
The Green Hat, by Michael Arlen (1924);
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