Editing 1900s (section)

===Literature===
{{See also|List of years in literature#1900s|Publishers Weekly list of bestselling novels in the United States in the 1900s}}
[[File:Portrait of Winston Churchill.jpg|thumb|upright|150px|4 out of 10 best-selling American books in the 1900s were written by [[Winston Churchill (novelist)|Winston Churchill]] (1871 – 1947)]]
The best selling books of the decade were ''[[Anne of Green Gables]]'' (1908) and ''[[The Tale of Peter Rabbit]]'' (1902), which sold 50 million<ref>{{Cite news|last=Paskin|first=Willa|date=2017-04-27|title=The Other Side of Anne of Green Gables|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/27/magazine/the-other-side-of-anne-of-green-gables.html|access-date=2020-04-19|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> and 45 million<ref>Worker's Press</ref> copies respectively. [[Serbian language|Serbian writers]] used the [[Belgrade]] literary style, an [[Ekavian]] writing form which set basis for the later standardization of the Serbian language. [[Theodor Herzl]], the founder of political [[Zionism]], published ''[[The Old New Land]]'' in 1902, outlining Herzl's vision for a Jewish state in the [[Land of Israel]].

Below are the best-selling books in the United States of each year, as determined by ''[[Publishers Weekly]]''.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2006|title=Annual Bestsellers, 1900-1909|url=http://www3.isrl.illinois.edu/~unsworth/courses/bestsellers/best00.cgi|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111016093451/http://www3.isrl.illinois.edu/~unsworth/courses/bestsellers/best00.cgi|archive-date=2011-10-16|url-status=live}}</ref>

* 1900: ''[[To Have and to Hold (Johnston novel)|To Have and to Hold]]'' by [[Mary Johnston]]
* 1901: ''[[The Crisis (novel)|The Crisis]]'' by [[Winston Churchill (novelist)|Winston Churchill]]
* 1902: ''[[The Virginian (novel)|The Virginian]]'' by [[Owen Wister]]
* 1903: ''[[Lady Rose's Daughter (novel)|Lady Rose's Daughter]]'' by [[Mary Augusta Ward]]
* 1904: ''[[The Crossing (Churchill novel)|The Crossing]]'' by [[Winston Churchill (novelist)|Winston Churchill]]
* 1905: ''[[The Marriage of William Ashe]]'' by [[Mary Augusta Ward]]
* 1906: ''[[Coniston (novel)|Coniston]]'' by [[Winston Churchill (novelist)|Winston Churchill]]
* 1907: ''[[The Lady of the Decoration]]'' by [[Frances Little]]
* 1908: ''[[Mr. Crewe's Career]]'' by [[Winston Churchill (novelist)|Winston Churchill]]
* 1909: ''[[The Inner Shrine (novel)|The Inner Shrine]]'' by Anonymous ([[Basil King]])