Year book of motion pictures (1926)

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The Best Sellers Irving Harlow Hart, director of the Iowa State Teachers' College, completed a survey in March, of the best sellers published between 1900 and 1925 and from this, has evolved a chart of the 100 books of fiction ranking highest in point of sales and a second chart listing the first one hundred authors. Through the courtesy of "The Publishers Weekly" the charts are reproduced in THE HIM V EAR BOOK. The basis of the compilation is this: The classification has been made from the lists of best sellers published in "The Bookman" from 1900 to 1918 and in "Books of the Month" from 1919 to 1924. All percentages less than ten have been rejected. In other words, a book must have been mentoned by at least ten per cent of the booksellers reporting in any one month in order to have its score recorded. Hart explains that, taken as a whole, this list may be accepted as inclusive of the books of highest popularity during the years from 190(1 through 1924. He says there are doubtless, other books whose popularity, it absolutely accurate measurement were possble, may have been sufficient to justify inclusion, thereby displacing certain of those low in the list. It is not claimed that this summary does mori' than present in ordered and organized from the data obtained from the book.sellers' lists. A cursory examination of Hart's list shows that between 60 and 7(1 per cent of the stories have already been filmed. From the lists of best sellers, it would appear that no other author as yet has attained a prominence through his appeal to the public taste in fiction which entitles him to rank with Winston Churchill, even though the latter has published nothing since 1917. All of Harold Bell Wreight's nine books except the first two appearing in the lists, "The Shepherd of the Hits" and "The Calling of Dan Matthews" rank among the first hundred books. In the first chart the heading "Months" refers to the period during which that particular book was popular and in demand. The First 100 Best Sellers, 1900-1925 Rank 1 2 J 4 5 6 ~ 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 If. 17 IK 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 3d 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 4 1 45 46 Title Year Main Street 1920-22 .If Winter Comes 1921-23 • 'in ary 1910-1 1 .Sheik 1921-22 Inside of Cup 1913-14 . Mr. Britling Sees It Through 1916-17 • Mrs. Wiggs of Cabbage Patch 1902-03 ■ So Big .' 1924 . Pollyamha 1913-15 Author Lewis Hutchinson Barclay Hull Churchill Wells Rice Ferber Porter E. H Blasco-Ibauez "our Horsemen of Apocalypse 1919-20 Little Lady of the Decoration 1907-08 Wister Virginian 1902 03 Thompson Alice of Old Vincennes 1900-01 Churchill Crisis 1901-02 Canfield Brimming Cup 1921-22 Wright When a Man's a Man 1916-17 Johnston To Have and To Hold 1900 Bacheller Eben Holden 1900-01 Atherton Black Oxen 1923 Wright Recreation of Brian Kent 1919-20 Porter, G. S Her Father's Daughter 1921-22 Streeter Here Mahlc 5 918-19 Parker Right of Way 1901-02 Churchill Coniston 1906-07 Wright VVinning of Barbara Worth 1911-12 Harrison Q'ueed 1911-12 Keable Simon Called Peter 1922-23 Tarkington Seventeen 1916 17 Wright F.yes of World 1914-15 Fox , Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come 1903-04 Porter, G. S Harvester 1911-12 Tarkington Turmoil 1915 Burnett Shuttle 1907-08 Parker Weavers 1907.08 Grey Mysterious Rider 1921 Hutchinson This Freedom 1922-23 Fox Trail of Lonesome Pine . 1908-09 Porter, G. S Laddie 1913-14 Thurston Masquerade* 1904-05 Abbott Mollv-Make Believe 1910-11 Kester Prodigal Judge 1911-12 Wharton House of Mirth 1905-06 Rinehart Breaking Point 1922-23 Porter, E. H 'ust David 1916-17 Grey Mar. of Forest 1920-21 W'ight Helen of the Old House 192122 Months 16 20 17 17 16 14 17 10 25 15 17 10 II 11 11 X 9 11 10 1 1 9 10 8 9 10 1.! 16 11 12 1U 9 Score 1000.4 992.4 903.5 886.0 881.5 851.0 781 6 708.7 703.2 679.6 676.3 651.2 645.4 633.5 564.7 562.4 561.4 558.6 557.7 556.5 543.1 542.8 538.6 531 8 531.3 530.9 520.9 509.8 508.9 500.8 499.0 498.2 498.1 492.0 489.1 474.5 473.2 470.9 462 0 459.2 459.0 446.2 443.7 443.3 441 6 440.3 23