1880-1889

Once percent standard: 500,000 copies

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

1880

Uncle Remus, Joel Chandler Harris

(Mott & Hart.)

Five Little Peppers and How They Grew, Margaret Sidney

(Mott.)

Ben-Hur, Lew Wallace

(Mott & Hart.)

Nana, Emile Zola

(Mott.)

1881

Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert

(Mott. First written in French in 1856 and translated into English at an unknown date; first American edition: 1881)

1882

L'Abbe Constantin, Ludovic Halevy

(Mott & Hart.)

1883

The Old Swimmin' Hole and 'Leven More Poems, James Whitcomb Riley

(Mott & Hart.)

The Christian's Secret of a Happy Life, Hannah Whitall Smith

(Mott.)

Life on the Mississippi, Mark Twain

(Mott & Hart.)

1884

Heidi, Johanna Spyri

(Mott.)

Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson

(Mott.)

Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain

(Mott & Hart.)

1885

A Child's Garden of Verses, Robert Louis Stevenson

(Mott.)

King Solomon's Mines, H. Rider Haggard

(Mott & Hart. First American edition: 1886)

1886

Little Lord Fauntleroy, Frances Hodgson Burnett

(Mott & Hart.)

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson

(Mott & Hart. First American edition: 1893)

War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy

(Mott & Hart. First written in Russian and French in 1869)

1887

Thelma, Marie Corelli

(Mott & Hart.)

Mr. Barnes of New York, A. C. Gunter

(Mott & Hart. First American edition: 1888)

She, H. Rider Haggard

(Mott & Hart.)

A Study in Scarlet, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

(Mott & Hart. First American edition: 1890)

1888

Looking Backward, Edward Bellamy

(Mott & Hart.)

The Deemster, Sir Hall Caine

(Mott.)

A Romance of Two Worlds, Marie Corelli

(Mott & Hart.)

Plain Tales from the Hills, Rudyard Kipling

(Mott. First American edition: 1890)

Robert Elsmere, Mrs. Humphry Ward

(Mott & Hart.)

Stories, Guy de Maupassant*

(Mott. de Maupassant's first collection of short stories was published in French in 1881; the first English collection was published in 1888 under the title The Odd Number and appeared in an American edition in 1889.)