• Best selling fiction: Zane Grey, The Man of the Forest
• Best selling non-fiction: Philip Gibbs, Now It Can Be Told
• Billboard #1 Song for the year: Al Jolson, Swanee
• Most popular film: Way Down East directed by D.W. Griffith; starring Lillian Gish

Also released:

• Karl Capek, R.U.R.
• Edith Wharton, Age of Innocence
• John M. Keynes, The Economic Consequences of the Peace
• Frank Crumit, My Little Bimbo Down on the Bamboo Isle
• Ted Lewis & his Orchestra, I’ll See You in C-U-B-A
• Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde directed by John S. Robertson; starring John Barrymore
• The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari directed by Robert Wiene; starring Werner Krauss