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This list is taken from Hackett and Burke's Eighty Years of Best Sellers (1977). The introduction reads: "These are the titles published before 1895, when the systematic recording of best sellers began (in the U.S.), which have without question sold a total of a million copies or more through the years... Prayer books, hymn books, textbooks, and similar specialized volumes are not included in this list, although many of the titles that are included have appeared in school editions as well as in trade editions. The list is in chronological order according to American publication."
| Various | The Holy Bible |
| John Bunyan | The Pilgrim's Progress |
| Traditional | Mother Goose |
| Aesop | Aesop's Fables |
| Oliver Goldsmith | The Vicar of Wakefield |
| Daniel Defoe | Robinson Crusoe |
| Robert Burns | Poems |
| Jonathan Swift | Gulliver's Travels |
| Traditional | Arabian Night's Entertainments |
| Benjamin Franklin | Autobiography |
| William Shakespeare | Plays |
| Washington Irving | The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. |
| Walter Scott | Ivanhoe |
| Walter Scott | Kenilworth |
| James Fenimore Cooper | The Spy |
| James Fenimore Cooper | The Last of the Mohicans |
| Johann R. Wyss | The Swift Family Robinson |
| Noah Webster | American Dictionary of the English Language |
| Edward Bulwer-Lytton | The Last days of Pompeii |
| Charles Dickens | Oliver Twist |
| Edgar Allan Poe | Tales |
| Richard Henry Dana, Jr. | Two Years Before the Mast |
| James Fenimore Cooper | The Deerslayer |
| Charles Dickens | The Old Curiosity Shop |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | Essays |
| Alfred Tennyson | Poems |
| Charles Dickens | A Christmas Carol |
| Alexandre Dumas | The Count of Monte Cristo |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Poems |
| Hans Christian Andersen | Fairy Tales |
| Charlotte Bronte | Jane Eyre |
| William Mahepeace Thackeray | Vanity Fair |
| Emily Bronte | Wuthering Heights |
| Francis Parkman | The Oregon Trail |
| John Greenleaf Whittier | Poems |
| Charles Dickens | David Copperfield |
| Ik Marvell | Reveries of a Bachelor |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne | The Scarlet Letter |
| Susan Warner | The Wide Wide World |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne | The House of the Seven Gables |
| Herman Melville | Moby Dick |
| Charles Dickens | Bleak House |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| Charles Dickens | Hard Times |
| Mary Jane Holmes | Tempest and Sunshine |
| Henry David Thoreau | Walden |
| Thomas Bulfinch | The Age of Fable |
| John Bartlett | Familiar Quotations |
| Walt Whitman | Leaves of Grass |
| J.H. Ingraham | The Prince of the House of David |
| Mary Jane Holmes | Lena Rivers |
| Dinah Maria Mulock | John Halifax, Gentleman |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes | The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table |
| Charles Dickens | A Tale of Two Cities |
| Mrs. Henry Wood | East Lynne |
| Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm | Fairy Tales |
| George Eliot | Silas Marner |
| Victor Hugo | Les Miserables |
| Mary Elizabeth Braddon | Lafy Audley's Secret |
| Mrs. E.D.E.N. Southworth | Ismael |
| Mrs. E.D.E.N. Southworth | Self-Raised or Out of the Depths |
| Mary Mapes Dodge | Hans Brinker and His Silver Skates |
| Augusta J. Evans | St. Elmo |
| Edward Everett Hale | The Man Without a Country |
| Lewis Carroll | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland |
| Louisa May Alcott | Little Women |
| Edward Fitzgerald, trans. | The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam |
| Thomas Bailey Aldrich | The Story of a Bad Boy |
| Louisa May Alcott | Little Men |
| E.P. Roe | Barriers Turned Away |
| Mary Baker Eddy | Science and Health with Keys to the Scriptures |
| Thomas Hardy | The Return of the Native |
| Mark Twain | The Adventures of Tom Sawyer |
| Cardinal Gibbons | The Faith of Our Fathers |
| Lew Wallace | Ben-Hur |
| Emile Zola | Nana |
| Gustave Flaubert | Madame Bovary |
| Margaret Sidney | Five Little Peppers and How They Grew |
| James Whitcombe Riley | Poems |
| Johanna Spyri | Heidi |
| Robert Louis Stevenson | A Child's Garden of Verses |
| Mark Twain | The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn |
| Leo Tolstoy | War and Peace |
| Kate Douglas Wiggen | The Birds' Christmas Carol |
| H. Ryder Haggard | She |
| Marie Corelli | Thelma |
| Mrs. Humphrey Ward | Robert Elsmere |
| Guy de Maupassant | Stories |
| Rudyard Kipling | Barrack-Room Ballads |
| Anna Sewell | Black Beauty |
| Rudyard Kipling | Plain Tales from the Hills |
| Jerome K. Jerome | Three Men in a Boat |
| A. Conan Doyle | The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes |
| Ellen G. White | Steps to Christ |
| Marshall Saunders | Beautiful Joe |
| William H. Harvey | Coin's Financial School |
| Hannah Whitall Smith | The Christian's Secret of a Happy Life |
| George du Maurier | Trilby |
| John Cleland | Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (Fanny Hill) |
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