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Book of the Month Club Selection History
Browse Book of the Month Club selections dating back to its founding in 1926 in the table below. The search bar is currently configured by book, author, or year. See the Book of the Month website for more information about current selections. Selection history between 1978 and 2014 is missing due to the lack of accessible records.
For notes, references, and definitions for selection, dividend, and alternate book, see here. For more information about the history of Book of the Month Club and how it sells books, read Before Book Influencers, there was (and still is) Book of the Month.
Type | Month | Year | Author | Book | Ref. | eBook | Book |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Selection | Apr | 1926 | Sylvia Townsend Warner | Lolly Willowes | 1 | eBook | Book |
Selection | May | 1926 | T. S. Stribling | Teeftallow | 1 | Book | |
Selection | Jun | 1926 | Esther Forbes | O Genteel Lady! | 1 | eBook | Book |
Selection | Jul | 1926 | Walder Noble Burns | The Saga of Billy the Kid | 1 | eBook | Book |
Selection | Aug | 1926 | John Galsworthy | The Silver Spoon | 1 | eBook | Book |
Selection | Sep | 1926 | Edna Ferber | Show Boat | 1 | eBook | Book |
Selection | Oct | 1926 | Elizabeth Madox Roberts | The Time of Man | 1 | eBook | Book |
Selection | Nov | 1926 | Ellen Glasgow | The Romantic Comedians | 1 | eBook | Book |
Selection | Dec | 1926 | Elinor Wylie | The Orphan Angel | 1 | eBook | Book |
Selection | Jan | 1927 | Bliss Perry, ed | The Heart of Emerson’s Journals | 1 | eBook | Book |
Selection | Feb | 1927 | Emil Ludwig | Napoleon | 1 | eBook | Book |
Selection | Mar | 1927 | Sinclair Lewis | Elmer Gantry | 1 | eBook | Book |
Selection | Apr | 1927 | T. E. Lawrence | Revolt in the Desert | 1 | eBook | Book |
Selection | May | 1927 | James Boyd | Marching On | 1 | eBook | Book |
Selection | Jun | 1927 | O. E. Rölvaag | Giants in the Earth | 1 | eBook | Book |
Selection | Jul | 1927 | Stuart Chase and F. J. Schlink | Your Money’s Worth | 1 | eBook | Book |
Selection | Aug | 1927 | H. G. Wells | Meanwhile | 1 | eBook | Book |
Selection | Sep | 1927 | Rosamond Lehmann | Dusty Answer | 1 | eBook | Book |
Selection | Oct | 1927 | C. E. Montague | Right Off the Map | 1 | eBook | Book |
Selection | Nov | 1927 | Margaret Kennedy | Red Sky at Morning | 1 | eBook | Book |
Selection | Dec | 1927 | Carl Sandburg | Abraham Lincoln | 1 | eBook | Book |
Selection | Jan | 1928 | Booth Tarkington | Claire Ambler | 1 | eBook | Book |
Selection | Feb | 1928 | André Maurois | Disraeli | 1 | eBook | Book |
Selection | Mar | 1928 | S. Fowler Wright | The Deluge | 1 | eBook | Book |
Selection | Apr | 1928 | Elizabeth Bowen | The Hotel | 1 | eBook | Book |
Selection | May | 1928 | Julian Green | The Closed Garden | 1 | eBook | Book |
Selection | Jun | 1928 | George Bernard Shaw | The Intelligent Woman’s Guide to Socialism and Capitalism | 1 | eBook | Book |
Selection | Jul | 1928 | Felix Salten | Bambi | 1 | eBook | Book |
Selection | Aug | 1928 | Stephen Vincent Benét | John Brown’s Body | 1 | eBook | Book |
Selection | Sep | 1928 | Edith Wharton | The Children | 1 | eBook | Book |
Selection | Oct | 1928 | Paul de Kruif | Hunger Fighters | 1 | eBook | Book |
Selection | Nov | 1928 | Charles Beard, ed | Whither Mankind? | 1 | eBook | Book |
Selection | Dec | 1928 | Arnold Zweig | The Case of Sargeant Grischa | 1 | eBook | Book |
Selection | Jan | 1929 | H. W. Freeman | Joseph and His Brethren | 1 | eBook | Book |
Selection | Feb | 1929 | Sigrid Undset | Kristin Lavransdatter | 1 | eBook | Book |
Selection | Mar | 1929 | Joan Lowell | Cradle of the Deep | 1 | eBook | Book |
Selection | Apr | 1929 | Francis Hackett | Henry the Eighth | 1 | eBook | Book |
Selection | May | 1929 | Walter Lippmann | A Preface to Morals | 1 | eBook | Book |
Selection | Jun | 1929 | Erich Maria Remarque | All Quiet on the Western Front | 1 | eBook | Book |
Selection | July | 1929 | Thames Williamson | Hunky | 1 | eBook | Book |
Selection | Aug | 1929 | Dorothy L. Sayers, ed | The Omnibus of Crime | 1 | eBook | Book |
Selection | Sep | 1929 | Henry Handel Richardson | Ultima Thule | 1 | eBook | Book |
Selection | Oct | 1929 | J. B. Priestley | The Good Companions | 1 | eBook | Book |
Selection | Nov | 1929 | Valentin Kataev | The Embezzlers | 1 | eBook | |
Selection | Dec | 1929 | Bernard Faÿ | Franklin, The Apostle of Modern Times | 1 | eBook | Book |
Selection | Jan | 1930 | W. R. Burnett | Iron Man | 1 | eBook | Book |
Selection | Feb | 1930 | Charles A. and Mary R. Beard | The Rise of American Civilization | 1 | eBook | Book |
Selection | Mar | 1930 | Harold Lamb | The Crusades: Iron Men and Saints | 1 | eBook | Book |
Selection | Apr | 1930 | Claire Spencer | Gallows’ Orchard | 1 | eBook | |
Selection | May | 1930 | Various | The Week-End Library | 1 | eBook | |
Selection | Jun | 1930 | Everett Dean Martin | Liberty | 1 | eBook | Book |
Selection | Jul | 1930 | Helen Ashton | Dr. Serocold | 1 | eBook | Book |
Selection | Aug | 1930 | Will James | Lone Cowboy: My Life Story | 1 | eBook | Book |
Selection | Sep | 1930 | A. Conan Doyle | The Complete Sherlock Holmes | 1 | eBook | Book |
Selection | Oct | 1930 | Michael Ossorgin | Quiet Street | 1 | eBook | Book |
Selection | Nov | 1930 | Major F. Yeats-Brown | The Lives of a Bengal Lancer | 1 | eBook | Book |
Selection | Dec | 1930 | Herman Melville | Moby Dick (illustrated by Rockwell Kent) | 1 | eBook | Book |
Selection | Jan | 1931 | Grand Duchess of Russia Marie | Education of a Princess | 1 | eBook | Book |
Selection | Feb | 1931 | Vicki Baum | Grand Hotel | 1 | eBook | Book |
Selection | Mar | 1931 | Pearl S. Buck | The Good Earth | 1 | eBook | Book |
Selection | Apr | 1931 | Thomas Craven | Men of Art | 1 | eBook | Book |
Selection | May | 1931 | Denis Mackail | The Square Circle | 1 | eBook | Book |
Selection | May | 1931 | M. Ilin | New Russia’s Primer: The Story of the Five-Year Plan | 1 | eBook | Book |
Selection | Jun | 1931 | Elizabeth von Arnim | Father | 1 | eBook | Book |
Selection | Jul | 1931 | Albert Einstein and others | Living Philosophies | 1 | eBook | Book |
Selection | Aug | 1931 | Willa Cather | Shadows on the Rock | 1 | eBook | Book |
Selection | Sep | 1931 | Sheila Kaye-Smith | Susan Spray | 1 | eBook | Book |
Selection | Sep | 1931 | James Gould Cozzens | S. S. San Pedro | 1 | eBook | Book |
Selection | Oct | 1931 | James Truslow Adams | The Epic of America | 1 | eBook | Book |
Selection | Nov | 1931 | Joseph Roth | Job | 1 | eBook | Book |
Selection | Dec | 1931 | Frederick Lewis Allen | Only Yesterday | 1 | eBook | Book |
Dividend | 1931 | Dmitri Merejkowski | Romance of Leonardo da Vinci | 1 | |||
Dividend | 1931 | Arnold Bennet | Imperial Palace | 1 | |||
Dividend | 1931 | Leo Tolstoy | War and Peace | 1 | |||
Selection | Jan | 1932 | Francis Brett Young | Mr. and Mrs. Pennington | 1 | eBook | Book |
Selection | Feb | 1932 | Booth Tarkington | Mary’s Neck | 1 | eBook | Book |
Selection | Mar | 1932 | Vicki Baum | And Life Goes On | 1 | eBook | Book |
Selection | Apr | 1932 | Homer W. Smith | Kamongo | 1 | eBook | Book |
Selection | Apr | 1932 | Helen Hull | Heat Lightning | 1 | eBook | Book |
Selection | May | 1932 | Lewis E. Lawes | Twenty Thousand Years in Sing Sing | 1 | eBook | Book |
Selection | Jun | 1932 | Charles Morgan | The Fountain | 1 | eBook | Book |
Selection | Jul | 1932 | Jan Welzl | Thirty Years in the Golden North | 1 | eBook | Book |
Selection | Aug | 1932 | Jean Schlumberger | Saint Saturnin | 1 | eBook | Book |
Selection | Aug | 1932 | Antoine de St. Exupéry | Night Flight | 1 | eBook | Book |
Selection | Sep | 1932 | Hendrik Willem van Loon | Van Loon’s Geography | 1 | eBook | Book |
Selection | Oct | 1932 | Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall | Mutiny on the Bounty | 1 | eBook | Book |
Selection | Nov | 1932 | Rosamond Lemann | Invitation to the Waltz | 1 | eBook | Book |
Selection | Nov | 1932 | Joseph Mathews | Wah ‘Kon-Tah | 1 | eBook | Book |
Selection | Dec | 1932 | Lloyd Lewis | Sherman, Fighting Prophet | 1 | eBook | Book |
Dividend | 1932 | Marcia Davenport | Mozart | 1 | |||
Dividend | 1932 | Edward J. O'Brien, ed | Best Short Stories of 1931 | 1 | |||
Dividend | 1932 | Shaw and Ellen Terry | The Shaw-Terry Letters | 1 | |||
Dividend | 1932 | Eugene O'Neill | Nine Plays | 1 | |||
Selection | Jan | 1933 | James Gould Cozzens | The Last Adam | 1 | eBook | Book |
Selection | Feb | 1933 | R. H. Bruce Lockheart | British Agent | 1 | eBook | Book |
Selection | Mar | 1933 | Bernard Shaw | Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for God | 1 | eBook | Book |
Selection | Mar | 1933 | Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings | South Moon Under | 1 | eBook | Book |
Selection | Apr | 1933 | Stefan Zweig | Marie Antoinette | 1 | eBook | Book |
Selection | May | 1933 | Gladys Hasty Carroll | As the Earth Turns | 1 | eBook | Book |
Selection | Jun | 1933 | Hans Fallada | Little Man, What Now? | 1 | eBook | Book |
Selection | Jul | 1933 | Hervey Allen | Anthony Adverse | 1 | eBook | Book |
Selection | Aug | 1933 | Maurice O’Sullivan | Twenty-Years A-Growing | 1 | eBook | Book |
Selection | Sep | 1933 | W. R. Burnett | Dark Hazard | 1 | Book | |
Selection | Oct | 1933 | Thames Williamson | Woods Colt | 1 | Book | |
Selection | Oct | 1933 | Virginia Woolf | Flush | 1 | eBook | Book |
Selection | Nov | 1933 | Maurice Hindus | The Great Offensive | 1 | eBook | Book |
Selection | Dec | 1933 | Ralph Roeder | The Man of the Renaissance | 1 | eBook | Book |
Dividend | 1933 | Noel Coward | Play Parade | 1 | |||
Dividend | 1933 | W. Somerset Maugham, ed | Traveller's Library | 1 | |||
Dividend | 1933 | Laurence Stallings, ed | The First World War | 1 | |||
Dividend | 1933 | Jakob Wasserman | Bula Matari | 1 | |||
Selection | Jan | 1934 | Peter Fleming | Brazilian Adventure | 1 | eBook | Book |
Selection | Feb | 1934 | Louis Adamic | The Native’s Return | 1 | eBook | Book |
Selection | Mar | 1934 | Matthew Josephson | The Robber Barons | 1 | eBook | Book |
Selection | Apr | 1934 | Isak Dinesen | Seven Gothic Tales | 1 | eBook | Book |
Selection | May | 1934 | H. C. Engelbrecht and F. C. Hanighen | Merchants of Death | 1 | eBook | Book |
Selection | Jun | 1934 | H. G. Wells | Seven Famous Novels | 1 | eBook | Book |
Selection | Jul | 1934 | Marguerite Steen | Matador | 1 | eBook | Book |
Selection | Jul | 1934 | Josephine Lawrence | Years are So Long | 1 | eBook | Book |
Selection | Aug | 1934 | A. P. Herbert | Holy Deadlock | 1 | eBook | Book |
Selection | Sep | 1934 | Doris Manners-Sutton | Black God | 1 | Book | |
Selection | Oct | 1934 | Henry Wallace | New Frontiers | 1 | eBook | Book |
Selection | Oct | 1934 | Herbert Hoover | The Challenge to Liberty | 1 | eBook | Book |
Selection | Nov | 1934 | H. G. Wells | An Experiment in Autobiography | 1 | eBook | Book |
Selection | Dec | 1934 | Franz Werfel | The Forty Days of Musa Dagh | 1 | eBook | Book |
Dividend | 1934 | John Galsworthy | The End of the Chapter | 1 | |||
Dividend | 1934 | Thomas Craven | Modern Art | 1 | |||
Dividend | 1934 | George Cronyn | The Fool of Venus | 1 | |||
Dividend | 1934 | Hervey Allen | Israfel: The Life and Times of Edgar Allan Poe | 1 | |||
Selection | Jan | 1935 | Thornton Wilder | Heaven’s My Destination | 1 | eBook | Book |
Selection | Feb | 1935 | Robert Nathan | Road of Ages | 1 | eBook | Book |
Selection | Mar | 1935 | Leland Hall | Salah and His American | 1 | Book | |
Selection | Apr | 1935 | Bruno Frank | A Man Called Cervantes | 1 | eBook | Book |
Selection | May | 1935 | Robert Graves | Claudius the God | 1 | eBook | Book |
Selection | Jun | 1935 | Enid Bagnold | National Velvet | 1 | eBook | Book |
Selection | Jun | 1935 | Walter Millis | The Road to War | 1 | eBook | Book |
Selection | Jul | 1935 | Humphrey Cobb | Paths of Glory | 1 | eBook | Book |
Selection | Aug | 1935 | Robert Rylee | Deep Dark River | 1 | eBook | Book |
Selection | Sep | 1935 | Clarence Day | Life with Father | 1 | eBook | Book |
Selection | Sep | 1935 | Ellen Glasgow | Vein of Iron | 1 | eBook | Book |
Selection | Oct | 1935 | T. E. Lawrence | The Seven Pillars of Wisdom | 1 | ||
Selection | Nov | 1935 | Mari Sandoz | Old Jules | 1 | ||
Selection | Dec | 1935 | Gen. Armand de Caulaincourt | With Napoleon in Russia | 1 | ||
Dividend | 1935 | Mark Twain | The Family Mark Twain | 1 | |||
Dividend | 1935 | Pearl S. Buck | House of Earth | 1 | |||
Dividend | 1935 | Stefan Zweig | Mary: Queen of Scotland | 1 | |||
Dividend | 1935 | Bernard Shaw | Nine Plays | 1 | |||
Selection | Jan | 1936 | C. C. Furnas | The Next Hundred Years | 1 | ||
Selection | Jan | 1936 | Josephine Lawerence | If I Have Four Apples | 1 | ||
Selection | Feb | 1936 | George Santayana | The Last Puritan | 1 | ||
Selection | Mar | 1936 | Clarence Day | This Simian World | 1 | ||
Selection | Mar | 1936 | Elizabeth Bowen | The House in Paris | 1 | ||
Selection | Apr | 1936 | Peter Freuchen | Arctic Adventure | 1 | ||
Selection | May | 1936 | Arnold Zweig | Education before Verdun | 1 | ||
Selection | Jun | 1936 | André Malraux | Days of Wrath | 1 | ||
Selection | Jun | 1936 | Robert Frost | A Further Range | 1 | ||
Selection | Jul | 1936 | Margaret Mitchell | Gone with the Wind | 1 | ||
Selection | Aug | 1936 | Walter Edmonds | Drums along the Mohawk | 1 | ||
Selection | Sep | 1936 | Dr. Victor Heiser | An American Doctor’s Odyssey | 1 | ||
Selection | Oct | 1936 | E. P. O’Donnell | Green Margins | 1 | ||
Selection | Nov | 1936 | A. E. Houseman | More Poems | 1 | ||
Selection | Nov | 1936 | Constance Rourke | Aubudon | 1 | ||
Selection | Dec | 1936 | Pearl S. Buck | Exile | 1 | ||
Selection | Dec | 1936 | Pearl S. Buck | Fighting Angel | 1 | ||
Dividend | 1936 | Ernest Sutherland Bates, ed | The Bible Designed to Be Read as Living Literature | 1 | |||
Dividend | 1936 | Thomas Mann | Stories of Three Decades | 1 | |||
Dividend | 1936 | Angus Burrell, ed and Bennett A. Cerf, ed | Bedside Book of Famous American Stories | 1 | |||
Selection | Jan | 1937 | R. C. Hutchnison | Shining Scabbard | 1 | ||
Selection | Feb | 1937 | Catherine Drinker Bowen and Barbara von Meck | Beloved Friend | 1 | ||
Selection | Mar | 1937 | H. G. Wells | The Croquet Player | 1 | ||
Selection | Mar | 1937 | John Steinbeck | Of Mice and Men | 1 | ||
Selection | Apr | 1937 | Ignazio Silone | Bread and Wine | 1 | ||
Selection | May | 1937 | Millen Brand | The Outward Room | 1 | ||
Selection | May | 1937 | William Maxwell | They Came Like Swallows | 1 | ||
Selection | Jun | 1937 | Burton J. Hendrick | Bulwark of the Republic | 1 | ||
Selection | Jul | 1937 | Kenneth Roberts | Northwest Passage | 1 | ||
Selection | Aug | 1937 | Elliott Paul | The Life and Death of a Spanish Town | 1 | ||
Selection | Aug | 1937 | Clyde Brion Davis | The Anointed | 1 | ||
Selection | Sep | 1937 | Ivan Sanderson | Animal Treasure | 1 | ||
Selection | Oct | 1937 | J. B. Rhine | New Frontiers of the Mind | 1 | ||
Selection | Nov | 1937 | Stuart Cloete | The Turning Wheels | 1 | ||
Selection | Dec | 1937 | V. Sackville-West | Pepita | 1 | ||
Selection | Dec | 1937 | Lin Yutang | The Importance of Living | 1 | ||
Dividend | 1937 | Hendrik Willem van Loon | The Arts | 1 | |||
Dividend | 1937 | Theatre Guild | Theatre Guild Anthpology | 1 | |||
Dividend | 1937 | Emil Ludwig | The Nile: The Life Story of a River | 1 | |||
Dividend | 1937 | H. L. Mencken | The American Language | 1 | |||
Selection | Jan | 1938 | C. P. Rohacanachi | Forever Ulysses | 1 | ||
Selection | Feb | 1938 | Commander Edward Ellsberg | Hell on Ice | 1 | ||
Selection | Mar | 1938 | Charles Allen Smart | R. F. D. | 1 | ||
Selection | Mar | 1938 | Isak Dinesen | Out of Africa | 1 | ||
Selection | Apr | 1938 | Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings | The Yearling | 1 | ||
Selection | May | 1938 | Paul de Kruif | The Fight for Life | 1 | ||
Selection | May | 1938 | Eric Knight and others | The Flying Yorkshireman | 1 | ||
Selection | Jun | 1938 | Clyde Brion Davis | The Great American Novel | 1 | ||
Selection | Jul | 1938 | Margaret Armstrong | Fanny Kemble: A Passionate Victorian | 1 | ||
Selection | Aug | 1938 | Dr. Arthur E. Hertzler | The Horse and Buggy Doctor | 1 | ||
Selection | Sep | 1938 | Roger Vercel | The Tides of Mont St-Michel | 1 | ||
Selection | Sep | 1938 | Margaret Halsey | With Malice toward Some | 1 | ||
Selection | Oct | 1938 | Carl Van Doren | Benjamin Franklin | 1 | ||
No | Notes | Source |
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* | A "selection" is a book that is formally selected by the Book of the Month for a specific month and sent to club members. | |
* | Before 2015, an "alternate" book was offered when a member did not wish to receive the selection made by Book-of-the-Month Club. Alternate books are not considered "selections." | 1, pg 84 |
* | A "dividend" was a book delivered for free after a member purchased a minimum amount of Book-of-the-Month Club book selections through membership. | 1, pg 63 |
1 | The Saga of Billy the Kid by Walder Noble Burns was the first nonfiction BOMC pick. | 1, pg 161 |
2 | The Heart of Emerson’s Journals, edited by Bliss Perry, was the first poorly received selection. The large amount of returns prompted the 2-week notification of upcoming monthly selection and an alternate choice, or "the negative option." | 2, pg 96 |
3 | Elmer Gantry by Sinclair Lewis was protested by religious communities. | 1, pg 162 |
4 | Zinger! The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism and Capitalism was written by a man! Because of course it was. It was also the first book the BOMC urged members not to trade for another. | 1, p 162 |
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No. | References | Access | Buy |
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1 | Lee, Charles. The Hidden Public: The Story of the Book-of-the-Month Club. New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1958. | Access | Amazon |
2 | Radway, Janice A. A Feeling for Books: The Book-of-the-Month Club, Literary Taste, and Middle-Class Desire. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997. | Amazon | |
3 | Immerwahr, Daniel. “Book of the Month Club Selections.” The Book of the Century. Accessed August 29, 2023. http://booksofthecentury.com/ | Access | |
4 | Hackett, Alice Payne, and James Henry Burke. 80 Years of Best Sellers, 1895-1975. New York: R. R. Bowker Co, 1977. | Access | Amazon |
5 | Book of the Month Website | Access | |
6 | Silverman, Al, ed. The Book of the Month: Sixty Years of Books in American Life. 1st ed. Boston: Little, Brown, 1986. | Access | |
7 | Zinsser, William. A Family of Readers: An Informal Portrait of The Book-of-the-Month Club and Its Members on the Occasion of Its 60th Anniversary. New York: Book-of-the-Month Club, 1986. | Amazon | |
8 | Corwin, Phillip. “News and Views of Investments: Book-of-the-Month Club Rebound in the Works.” Barron’s National Business and Financial Weekly (1942-1987), April 17, 1967. | ||
9 | New York Times News Service. “Book-of-the-Month Club Offers Long-Shot Selection.” Chicago Tribune (Pre-1997 Fulltext), August 16, 1995. | ||
10 | Chicago Tribune (1963-1996). “Book-of-the-Month Club Buys 4 Stephen King Thrillers: Literary Notes.” April 6, 1989. |
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