1926

US F I C T I O N

1. The Private Life of Helen of Troy, John Erskine 16 copies on LT

2. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Anita Loos 138 copies

3. Sorrell and Son, Warwick Deeping 29 copies

4. The Hounds of Spring, Sylvia Thompson 1 copy

5. Beau Sabreur, P. C. Wren 37 copies

6. The Silver Spoon, John Galsworthy 51 copies

7. Beau Geste, P. C. Wren 175 copies

8. Show Boat, Edna Ferber 80 copies

9. After Noon, Susan Ertz 0 copies

10. The Blue Window, Temple Bailey 7 copies

N O N F I C T I O N

1. The Man Nobody Knows; a Discovery of the Real Jesus, Bruce Barton 38 copies

2. Why We Behave Like Human Beings, George A. Dorsey 3 copies

3. Diet and Health, Lulu Hunt Peters 1 copy

4. Our Times The United States 1900-1925, Vol. I, Mark Sullivan 10 copies

5. The Boston Cooking School Cook Book, rev. ed., Fannie Farmer, editor 203 copies

6. Auction Bridge Complete, Milton C. Work 1 copy

7. The Book Nobody Knows, Bruce Barton 6 copies

8. The Story of Philosophy, Will Durant 1,052 copies

9. The Light of Faith, Edgar A. Guest 14 copies

10. Jefferson and Hamilton: the struggle for democracy in America, Claude G. Bowers 15 copies

I own a copy of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. Its an enjoyable little read.

Percival Christopher Wren's Beau Geste was made into a movie in 1939.

The actors were:
Beau (Gary Cooper)
Digby (Robert Preston)
John (Ray Milland)
Isobel (Susan Hayward)
Augustus (G.P. Huntley, Jr.)

Sorrell and Son was made into a movie in both 1927 and 1933, and then as a TV miniseries in 1984.

Note, Beau Geste came out in England in 1924 and in the U.S. in 1925. So, it is probably a repeat best-seller.

Also, Showboat came out as a Broadway musical in 1927. Showboat has 3 major film versions: 1929, 1936, 1951 (mini version in 1946 as part of Till the clouds Roll by. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes came out as musical in 1949 and a film in 1953.

Beau Geste was remade as a movie so many times that I believe it was Mel Brooks who came out with The Last Remake of Beau Geste. I believe that put an end to it.

Galsworthy, another popular author who has faded from view.

Will Durant's history of philosophy still going strong.

I havent read or owned any of these

I don't own any of these now, but I read Beau Geste in high school and loved it. The Gary Cooper movie is good, too. It was remade in 1966 with Telly Savalas as the sadistic fort commander and Guy Stockwell in the title role.

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes is a wonderful book and Anita Loos a genius: the empty-headed and ignorant - yet somehow charming - gold-digger is a character type who has stood the test of time.

The Wikipedia article on Susan Ertz shows the name of her 1926 book as "After Morning", but this work name is not in LT either.