The Bestselling Books of the Last One Hundred Years: 1925

We promised you the best selling fiction of the last one hundred years and we’re up to 1925 now, but we’re likely to be on this book series for the next few months at least!

Already we can see some hot authors and trends appearing and while you may not be familiar with some of the names, we’re expecting some well known contemporary authors to lead the lists later on.

But today, we have the ten top selling books of 1925!

Soundings – A. Hamilton Gibbs

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The Constant Nymph – Margaret Kennedy

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The Keeper of Bees – Gene Stratton Porter

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Glorious Apollo – E. Barrington

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The Green Hat – Michael Arlen

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The Little French Girl – Anne Douglas Sedgwick

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Arrowsmith – Sinclair Lewis

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The Perennial Bachelor – Anne Parish

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The Carolinian – Rafael Sabini

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One Increasing Purpose – A.S.M Hutchinson

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Also released in 1925, The Great Gatsby, and Mrs Dalloway, proving that the bestselling books aren’t always the ones that have longevity.

We’ll continue this series right through to 2018, keep an eye out for 1926, coming soon!

If you’d like to see all the lists so far, try this search