Bestsellers in Nineteenth-Century America

Paul Gutjahr is a professor of English at Indiana University.

1. Charlotte Temple: A Tale of Truth (1791), entire work; 2. The Life of Washington; with Curious Anecdotes, Equally Honorable to Himself and Exemplary to His Young Countrymen (1800), selections; 3. American Tract Society, entire works; 4. Awful Disclosures (1836), selections; 5. The Illustrated Self-Instructor in Phrenology and Physiology (1840), selections; 6. Treatise on Domestic Economy (1841), selections; 7. The Quaker City: Or, the Monks of Monk Hall (1845), selections; 8. Evangeline, A Tale of Acadie (1849), entire work; 9. Reveries of a Bachelor: Or, A Book of the Heart (1850), selections; 10. Uncle Tom’s Cabin; Or Life Among the Lowly (1852), selections; 11. Ten Nights in a Bar-Room, and What I Saw There (1854), entire work; 12. Malaeska; The Indian Wife of the White Hunter (1860), entire work; 13. Ragged Dick, or, Street Life in New York with the Boot-Blacks (1868), entire work; 14. Little Women, or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy (1868), selections; 15. The Gates Ajar (1868), entire work; 16. “The Luck of Roaring Camp” (1868), entire work “John Jenkins, Or, the Smoker Reformed” (1871), entire work; 17. Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1880), selections; 18. The Hidden Hand: or, Capitola the Madcap (1888), selections; 19. In His Steps: “What Would Jesus Do” (1896), selections.