1923 Popular Books and Bestsellers

1923 Books & Bestsellers

1923 Fiction Top Ten Books

(according to Publisher’s Weekly)
1. Black Oxen by Gertrude Atherton
2. His Children’s Children by Arthur Train
3. The Enchanted April by “Elizabeth” (Elizabeth von Arnim)
4. Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis
5. The Dim Lantern by Temple Bailey
6. This Freedom by A.S.M. Hutchinson
7. The Mine with the Iron Door by Harold Bell Wright
8. The Wanderer of the Wasteland by Zane Grey
9. The Sea-Hawk by Rafael Sabatin
10. The Breaking Point by Mary Roberts Rinehart

1923 Non-Fiction Books

1. Etiquette by Emily Post
2. The Life of Christ by Giovanni Papini
3. The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page edited by Burton J. Hendrick
4. The Mind in the Making by James Harvey Robinson
5. The Outline of History by H.G. Wells
6. Diet and Health by Lulu Hunt Peters
7. Self-Mastery Through Conscious Auto-Suggestion by Emile Coué
8. The Americanization of Edward Bok by Edward Bok
9. The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem Van Loon
10. A Man from Maine by Edward Bok

1923 Notable Literature

Towards a New Architecture by Le Corbusier
Studies in Classic American Literature by D.H. Lawrence
New Hampshire by Robert Frost
Absentee Ownership by Thorstein Veblen
Cane by Jean Toomer
The Prophet by Khalil Gibran
The Crisis of Parliamentary Democracy by Carl Schmitt
I and Thou by Martin Buber
History and Class Consciousness by Georg Lukács
Woman Suffrage and Politics by Carrie Chapman Catt and Nettie Rogers Shuler
1923 Nobel Prize in Literature
Most Popular Books of 1923, according to GoodReads
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