1915

A bit of trench digging going on this year.

1. The Turmoil, Booth Tarkington 6 copies on LT

2. A Far Country, Winston Churchill 10 copies

3. Michael O'Halloran, Gene Stratton Porter 54 copies

4. Pollyanna Grows Up, Eleanor H. Porter 103 copies

5. K, Mary Roberts Rinehart 5 copies

6. Jaffery, William J. Locke 1 copy

7. Felix O'Day, F. Hopkinson Smith 0 copies

8. The Harbor, Ernest Poole 5 copies

9. The Lone Star Ranger, Zane Grey 22 copies

10. Angela's Business, Henry Sydnor Harrison 1 copy
Can't seem to get the right touchstone for K.

Big strike out for me here, too.

Although I recognize Booth Tarkington, I don't recognize the book.

I didn't know Pollyanna grew up. Isn't she the eternal "glad" person, always looking on the bright side of things.
Many of Zane Grey's westerns have been made into movies & are still popular with fans of westerns.

Blank for me too.

I have Pollyanna Grows Up. She's still eternally glad, but in this book she turns her glad game on her own and others' romances. There's a missing person mystery as well. I've also read Michael O'halloran -- similar kind of book, but not so unrelentingly sweet.

Michael O'Halloran is enjoyable. I also liked Freckles and of course, A Girl of the Limberlost. I gather Gene Stratton-Porter was a prolific author, but those three are the only ones I've read.

Remarkable how popular Porter and Tarkington were in their time, yet we hear so little about them today.

When I lived in Indianapolis in the mid 1990's, people there do remember Booth Tarkington, a kind of favored son of the city. The Magnificent Ambersons has over 400 copies in LT and Penrod has some 170. Both of these were/are still in print.

I just read Monsieur Beaucaire about a year ago. I've also read Penrod in the last couple of years. I've never read The Magnificent Ambersons but I love the movie and watch it every chance I get. Stars my favorite actor, Joseph Cotton.

I have several Tarkington novels that belonged to my father and uncle when they were young. It's been years since I read them, however.

The Turmoil ranks 11th in LT popularity among the novels of Booth Tarkington. It may have been a 'must read' in 1915 because of the previous popularity of Tarkington, but that didn't hold.

I took a Google serach and came upon this series of comments on Booth Tarkington and "The Turmoil".

I was actually wondering what were the non-fiction bestsellers for this year and found out that for a number of sporadic years in the early 1900's, no non-fiction list was compiled.

I own and have read The Turmoil (long ago, but I remember finding it quite interesting) and own The Lone Star Ranger, which I haven't read. Yet.

Started reading The Lone Star Ranger last night. I have what seems to be close to a first edition hardcover, which adds to the fun of reading the book.