• Source: Bookman list of bestselling novels in the United States in the 1890s

This is a list of bestselling novels in the United States from 1895 through 1899, as determined by The Bookman, a New York–based literary journal. Without the international copyright law which came into force in 1891, these volumes could have been printed and published by anyone, the change in this state of affairs made it possible to compile accurate sales figures.
Notable attempts to compile a list of best-selling books in the United States prior to 1895 include The Popular Book: A History of America's Literary Taste (1950) by James D. Hart.




1895



Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush by Ian Maclaren
Trilby by George du Maurier
The Adventures of Captain Horn by Frank R. Stockton
The Manxman by Hall Caine
The Princess Aline by Richard Harding Davis
The Days of Auld Lang Syne by Ian Maclaren
The Master by Israel Zangwill
The Prisoner of Zenda by Anthony Hope
Degeneration by Max Nordau
My Lady Nobody by Maarten Maartens




1896


Tom Grogan by Francis Hopkinson Smith
A Lady of Quality by Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Seats of the Mighty by Gilbert Parker
A Singular Life by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward
The Damnation of Theron Ware by Harold Frederic
A House-Boat on the Styx by John Kendrick Bangs
Kate Carnegie by Ian Maclaren
The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
Sentimental Tommy by J. M. Barrie
Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush by Ian Maclaren




1897


Quo Vadis by Henryk Sienkiewicz
The Choir Invisible by James Lane Allen
Soldiers of Fortune by Richard Harding Davis
On the Face of the Waters by Flora Annie Steel
Phroso by Anthony Hope
The Christian by Hall Caine
Margaret Ogilvy by J. M. Barrie
Sentimental Tommy by J. M. Barrie
Pursuit of the House-Boat by John Kendrick Bangs
The Honorable Peter Stirling by Paul Leicester Ford




1898


Caleb West by Francis Hopkinson Smith
Hugh Wynne by Silas Weir Mitchell
Penelope's Progress by Kate Douglas Wiggin
Helbeck of Bannisdale by Mary Augusta Ward
Quo Vadis by Henryk Sienkiewicz
The Pride of Jennico by Agnes and Egerton Castle
The Day's Work by Rudyard Kipling
Shrewsbury by Stanley J. Weyman
Simon Dale by Anthony Hope
(tie) The Adventures of François by Silas Weir Mitchell and The Battle of the Strong by Gilbert Parker




1899


David Harum by Edward Noyes Westcott
When Knighthood Was in Flower by Charles Major
Richard Carvel by Winston Churchill
The Day's Work by Rudyard Kipling
Red Rock by Thomas Nelson Page
Aylwin by Theodore Watts-Dunton
Janice Meredith by Paul Leicester Ford
Mr. Dooley in Peace and War by Finley Peter Dunne
No. 5 John Street by Richard Whiteing
The Market Place by Harold Frederic




References

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Bookman list of bestselling novels in the United States in the 1890s
• Bookman list of bestselling novels in the United States in the 1900s
• Publishers Weekly list of bestselling novels in the United States in the 1910s
• The Bookman (New York City)
• Margaret Ogilvy
• Frances Hodgson Burnett
• Hugh Wynne