1890-1900

One percent standard: 625,000 copies

(Authors color-coded by nation of origin/publication: United States, England, Scotland, Canada, Poland)

1890

A Window in Thrums, Sir James Barrie

(Mott. First American edition: 1892)

The Sign of the Four, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

(Mott.)

Barrack-Room Ballads, Rudyard Kipling

(Mott & Hart.)

The Light that Failed, Rudyard Kipling

(Mott & Hart.)

1891

The Little Minister, Sir James Barrie

(Mott & Hart.)

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

(Mott & Hart. First American edition: 1892)

Life's Handicap or Mine Own People, Rudyard Kipling

(Mott.)

1893

The Heavenly Twins, Sarah Grand

(Mott & Hart.)

1894

Trilby, George du Maurier

(Mott & Hart.)

Coin's Financial School, William Harvey

(Mott & Hart.)

The Prisoner of Zenda, Anthony Hope

(Mott & Hart.)

Beside the Bonnie Briar Bush, Ian Maclaren

(Mott & Hart.)

Beautiful Joe, Marshall Saunders

(Mott.)

1895

The Red Badge of Courage, Stephen Crane

(Mott & Hart.)

The Jucklins, Opie Read

(Mott & Hart.)

1896

Quo Vadis?, Henryk Sienkiewicz

(Mott & Hart.)

1897

In His Steps, Charles Sheldon

(Mott.)

1898

Black Rock, Ralph Connor

(Mott & Hart.)

David Harum, Edward Noyes Westcott

(Mott & Hart.)

1899

Richard Carvell, Winston Churchill

(Mott & Hart.)

Janice Meredith, Paul Leicester Ford

(Mott & Hart.)

1900

Eben Holden, Irving Bacheller

(Mott & Hart.)

The Crisis, Winston Churchill

(Mott & Hart.)