The following is a list of the Number 1 bestselling books from 1920 to 1929 according to Publisher’s Weekly magazine. These books can readily be found in just about any used book store.
- The Man of the Forest by Zane Grey (1920)
- Main Street by Sinclair Lewis in (1921)
- If Winter Comes by A. S. M. Hutchison (1922)
- Black Oxen by Gertrude Atherton (1923)
- So Big by Edna Ferber (1924)
- Soundings by A. Hamilton Gibbs (1925)
- The Private Life of Helen of Troy by John Erskine (1926)
- Elmer Gantry by Sinclair Lewis (1927)
- The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder ( 1928 )
- All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque ( 1929 )
Only one author achieved the Number 1 status twice in this decade. Sinclair Lewis in 1921 and 1927.