1922 Popular Books and Bestsellers

1922 Books & Bestsellers

1922 Fiction Top Ten Books

(according to Publisher’s Weekly)
1. If Winter Comes by A.S.M. Hutchinson
2. The Sheik by Edith M. Hull
3. Gentle Julia by Booth Tarkington
4. The Head of the House of Coombe by Frances Hodgson Burnett
5. Simon Called Peter by Robert Keable
6. The Breaking Point by Mary Roberts Rinehart
7. This Freedom by A.S.M. Hutchinson
8. Maria Chapdelaine by Louis Hémon
9. To the Last Man by Zane Grey
10. Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis (tie)
10. Helen of the Old House by Harold Bell Wright (tie)

1922 Non-Fiction Books

1. The Outline of History by H.G. Wells
2. The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem Van Loon
3. The Americanization of Edward Bok by Edward Bok
4. Diet and Health by Lulu Hunt Peters
5. The Mind in the Making by James Harvey Robinson
6. The Outline of Science by J. Arthur Thomson
7. Outwitting Our Nerves by Josephine A. Jackson and Helen M. Salisbury
8. Queen Victoria by Lytton Strachey
9. Mirrors of Washington by Anonymous (Clinton W. Gilbert)
10. Painted Windows by A Gentleman with a Duster (Harold Begbie)

1922 Notable Literature

Ulysses by James Joyce
Civilization in the United States cited by Harold Stearns
The Argonauts of the Western Pacific by Bronislaw Malinowski
Public Opinion by Walter Lippmann
The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot
Social Change by W.F. Ogburn
The Decline of the West, vol. 2 by Oswald Spengler
Etiquette by Emily Post
The Enormous Room by E.E. Cummings
The Meaning of Relativity by Albert Einstein
1922 Nobel Prize in Literature
Most Popular Books of 1922, according to GoodReads
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