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1927 Books & Bestsellers |
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1927 Fiction Top Ten Books |
| (according to Publisher’s Weekly) 1. Elmer Gantry by Sinclair Lewis 2. The Plutocrat by Booth Tarkington 3. Doomsday by Warwick Deeping 4. Sorrell and Son by Warwick Deeping 5. Jalna by Mazo de la Roche 6. Lost Ecstasy by Mary Roberts Rinehart 7. Twilight Sleep by Edith Wharton 8. Tomorrow Morning by Anne Parrish 9. The Old Countess by Anne Douglas Sedgwick 10. A Good Woman by Louis Bromfield |
1927 Non-Fiction Books |
| 1. The Story of Philosophy by Will Durant 2. Napoleon by Emil Ludwig 3. Revolt in the Desert by T.E. Lawrence 4. Trader Horn, vol. 1 by Alfred Aloysius Horn and Ethelreda Lewis 5. We by Charles A. Lindbergh 6. Ask Me Another by Julian Spafford and Lucien Esty 7. The Royal Road to Romance by Richard Halliburton 8. The Glorious Adventure by Richard Halliburton 9. Why We Behave Like Human Beings by George A. Dorsey 10. Mother India by Katherine Mayo |
1927 Notable Literature |
| To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder Aspects of the Novel by E.M. Forster Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather The Public and Its Problems by John Dewey Being and Time by Martin Heidegger Main Currents in American Thought by V.L. Parrington The Rise of American Civilization by Charles and Mary Beard The Logic of Modern Physics by Percy C. Bridgeman Why I Am Not a Christian by Bertrand Russell The Concept of the Political by Carl Schmitt |
1927 Book of the Month Club Selections |
| The Heart of Emerson’s Journals, edited by Bliss Perry Napoleon by Emil Ludwig Elmer Gantry by Sinclair Lewis Revolt in the Desert by T.E. Lawrence Marching On by James Boyd Giants in the Earth by O.E. Rolvaag Your Money’s Worth by Stuart Chase and F.J. Schlink Meanwhile by H.G. Wells Dusty Answer by Rosamond Lehmann Right Off the Map by C.E. Montague Red Sky at Morning by Margaret Kennedy Abraham Lincoln by Carl Sandburg |
| 1927 Nobel Prize in Literature Most Popular Books of 1927, according to GoodReads |