1840-1849

One percent standard: 175,000 copies

(Authors color-coded by nation of origin/publication: United States, England, France, Denmark)

1840

The Pathfinder, James Fenimore Cooper

(Mott.)

Two Years Before the Mast, Richard Henry Dana, Jr.

(Mott.)

Tales, Edgar Allan Poe

(Mott.)

1841

Deerslayer, James Fenimore Cooper

(Mott.)

Barnaby Rudge, Charles Dickens

(Mott.)

The Old Curiosity Shop, Charles Dickens

(Mott & Hart.)

Essays, Ralph Waldo Emerson

(Mott.)

1842

American Notes, Charles Dickens

(Mott & Hart.)

The Poets and Poetry of America, ed. Wilmot Rufus Griswold

(Mott & Hart.)

Mysteries of Paris, Eugene Sue

(Mott.)

Poems, Alfred, Lord Tennyson*

(Mott.)

1843

The Quaker City, George Lippard

(Mott & Hart.)

Conquest of Mexico, William Hickling Prescott

(Mott.)

The Wonders of the World, Robert Sears

(Mott.)

A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens

(Mott & Hart. First American edition: 1844)

1844

Martin Chuzzlewit, Charles Dickens

(Mott & Hart.)

The Three Musketeers, Alexandre Dumas

(Mott & Hart.)

1845

The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas

(Mott & Hart.)

The Wandering Jew, Eugene Sue

(Mott & Hart.)

The Raven and Other Poems, Edgar Allan Poe

(Mott.)

1846

Napoleon and His Marshals, Joel Headley

(Mott & Hart.)

1847

Home Influence, Grace Aguilar

(Mott & Hart.)

Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte

(Mott & Hart. First American edition: 1848)

Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte

(Mott. First American edition: 1848)

1848

Fairy Tales, Hans Christian Andersen

(Mott. First published in Danish in 1835)

Dombey and Son, Charles Dickens

(Mott & Hart.)

Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackeray

(Mott & Hart.)

History of England, Thomas Macaulay

(Mott & Hart. First American edition: 1849)

1849

Poems, John Whittier*

(Mott.)