The “Best Sellers”
Reading edition
The following books, arranged in order of popularity, have been the “best sellers” in Chicago during April:
FICTION
Diane of the Green Van Leona Dalrymple Reilly & Britton
Pollyanna Eleanor H. Porter L. C. Page
Inside the Cup Winston Churchill Macmillan
The Fortunate Youth William J. Locke Lane
Overland Red Anonymous Houghton Mifflin
T. Tembarom Frances H. Burnett Century
Penrod Booth Tarkington Doubleday, Page
Laddie Gene Stratton-Porter Doubleday, Page
Chance Joseph Conrad Doubleday, Page
Pidgin Island Harold McGrath Bobbs-Merrill
The Devil’s Garden W. B. Maxwell Bobbs-Merrill
Quick Action Robert Chambers Appleton
Sunshine Jane Anne Warner Little, Brown
Light of the Western Stars Zane Grey Harper
Cap’n Dan’s Daughter Joseph Lincoln Appleton
The Woman Thou Gavest Me Hall Caine Lippincott
Daddy-Long-Legs Jean Webster Century
World Set Free H. G. Wells Dutton
The After House Mary R. Rinehart Houghton Mifflin
Miss Billy Married Eleanor H. Porter L. C. Page
Flying U Ranch B. M. Bower Dillingham
Ariadne of Allan Water Sidney McCall Little, Brown
Anybody but Ann Carolyn Wells Lippincott
Rocks of Valpre E. M. Dell Putnam
White Linen Nurse Eleanor Abbott Century
When Ghost Meets Ghost William DeMorgan Holt
Dark Hollow Anna Katherine Greene Dodd, Mead
The Forester’s Daughter Hamlin Garland Harper
Peg o’ My Heart Hartley Manners Dodd, Mead
Passionate Friends H. G. Wells Harper
Martha by the Day Julie Lippman Holt
Westways S. Weir Mitchell Century
Gold Stewart E. White Doubleday, Page
Valley of the Moon Jack London Macmillan
Home Anonymous Century
It Happened in Egypt C. M. & A. M. Williamson Doubleday, Page
The Treasure Kathleen Norris Macmillan
Witness for the Defense A. E. W. Mason Scribner
Iron Trail Rex Beach Harper
Friendly Road David Grayson Doubleday, Page
NON-FICTION
Crowds Gerald S. Lee Doubleday, Page
What Men Live By Richard C. Cabot Houghton Mifflin
Modern Dances Caroline Walker Saul
Gitanjali Rabindranath Tagore Macmillan
Autobiography Theodore Roosevelt Macmillan
The press of my foot to the earth springs a hundred affections.—Walt Whitman.
I ... am he who places over you no master, owner, better, God, beyond what waits intrinsically in yourself.—Walt Whitman in Leaves of Grass.