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 […]
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1922 Annual History Facts Politics: Founded ~1299, The Ottoman Empire dissolved when Sultan Mehmed VI, abdicated. The Caliphate was abolished in 1924. Influential Songs include Three O’Clock in the Morning by Paul Whiteman. Trixie Smith’s My Man Rocks Me (With a Steady Roll) may be the first song reference with the phrase “rock and roll”.
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1921 Books & Bestsellers 1921 Fiction Top Ten Books (according to Publisher’s Weekly) 1. Main Street by Sinclair Lewis 2. The Brimming Cup by Dorothy Canfield 3. The Mysterious Rider by Zane Grey 4. The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton 5. The Valley of Silent Men by James Oliver Curwood 6. The Sheik by Edith M. Hull 7. A Poor Wise Man by Mary Roberts Rinehart 8. Her Father’s Daughter by
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1921 Annual History Facts Civil Rights: “Black Wall Street” was the wealthiest Black community in America (in Tulsa, Oklahoma,) before being attacked by an angry mob that killed hundreds of Black residents and destroyed 35 city blocks. A memorial park was dedicated to the victims in 2010. Influential Songs include My Man, by Fanny Brice,
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1920 Books & Bestsellers 1920 Fiction Top Ten Books (according to Publisher’s Weekly) 1. The Man of the Forest by Zane Grey 2. Kindred of the Dust by Peter B. Kyne 3. The Re-Creation of Brian Kent by Harold Bell Wright 4. The River’s End by James Oliver Curwood 5. A Man for the Ages by Irving Bacheller 6. Mary-Marie by Eleanor H. Porter 7. The Portygee by Joseph C.
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1920 Annual History Facts Politics: The Nineteenth Amendment to the US Constitution prohibits the government from denying women the right to vote on the same terms as men. Influential Songs include: Dardanella by Ben Selvin and Whispering by Paul Whiteman The Big Movies included Something to Think About, Way Down East and Over the Hill
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1919 Books & Bestsellers 1919 Fiction Top Ten Books (according to Publisher’s Weekly) 1. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse by V. Blasco Ibanez 2. The Arrow of Gold by Joseph Conrad 3. The Desert of Wheat by Zane Grey 4. Dangerous Days by Mary Roberts Rinehart 5. The Sky Pilot in No Man’s Land by Ralph Connor 6. The Re-Creation of Brian Kent by Harold Bell Wright
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1918 Books & Bestsellers 1918 Fiction Top Ten Books (according to Publisher’s Weekly) 1. The U.P. Trail by Zane Grey 2. The Tree of Heaven by May Sinclair 3. The Amazing Interlude by Mary Roberts Rinehart 4. Dere Mable by Edward Streeter 5. Oh, Money! Money! by Eleanor H. Porter 6. Greatheart by Ethel M. Dell 7. The Major by Ralph Connor 8. The Pawns Count by E. Phillips Oppenheim 9. A Daughter
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1917 Books & Bestsellers 1917 Fiction Top Ten Books (according to Publisher’s Weekly) 1. Mr. Britling Sees It Through by H.G. Wells 2. The Light in the Clearing by Irving Bacheller 3. The Red Planet by William J. Locke 4. The Road to Understanding by Eleanor H. Porter 5. Wildfire by Zane Grey 6. Christine by Alice Cholmondeley 7. In the Wilderness by Robert S. Hichens 8. His Family by Ernest Poole
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1916 Books & Bestsellers 1916 Fiction Top Ten Books (according to Publisher’s Weekly) 1. Seventeen by Booth Tarkington 2. When a Man’s a Man by Harold Bell Wright 3. Just David by Eleanor H. Porter 4. Mr. Britling Sees It Through by H.G. Wells 5. Life and Gabriella by Ellen Glasgow 6. The Real Adventure by Henry Kitchell Webster 7. Bars of Iron by Ethel M. Dell 8. Nan of Music
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