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1926 Books & Bestsellers |
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1926 Fiction Top Ten Books |
| (according to Publisher’s Weekly) 1. The Private Life of Helen of Troy by John Erskine 2. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes by Anita Loos 3. Sorrell and Son by Warwick Deeping 4. The Hounds of Spring by Sylvia Thompson 5. Beau Sabreur by P.C. Wren 6. The Silver Spoon by John Galsworthy 7. Beau Geste by P.C. Wren 8. Show Boat by Edna Ferber 9. After Noon by Susan Ertz 10. The Blue Window by Temple Bailey |
1926 Non-Fiction Books |
| 1. The Man Nobody Knows by Bruce Barton 2. Why We Behave Like Human Beings by George A. Dorsey 3. Diet and Health by Lulu Hunt Peters 4. Our Times, vol. 1 by Mark Sullivan 5. The Boston Cooking School Cook Book, edited by Fannie Farmer 6. Auction Bridge Complete by Milton C. Work 7. The Book Nobody Knows by Bruce Barton 8. The Story of Philosophy by Will Durant 9. The Light of Faith by Edgar A. Guest 10. Jefferson and Hamilton by Claude G. Bowers |
1926 Notable Literature |
| The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway The Weary Blues by Langston Hughes Religion and the Rise of Capitalism by R.H. Tawney The Castle by Franz Kafka Science and Poetry by I.A. Richards Notes on Democracy by H.L. Mencken The Golden Day by Lewis Mumford Winnie-the-Pooh by A.A. Milne Conditioned Reflexes by Ivan Pavlov |
1926 Book of the Month Club Selections |
| Lolly Willowes by Sylvia Townsend Warner Teeftallow by T.S. Stribling O Genteel Lady! by Esther Forbes The Saga of Billy the Kid by Walder Noble Burns The Silver Spoon by John Galsworthy Show Boat by Edna Ferber The Time of Man by Elizabeth Madox Roberts The Romantic Comedians by Ellen Glasgow The Orphan Angel by Elinor Wylie |
| 1926 Nobel Prize in Literature Most Popular Books of 1926, according to GoodReads |