America's Bestsellers to 1749

This is a first pass at a list of the books that Americans bought most, throughout our history.  The basis for the list, which I'm continuing to build up with additional sources, comes from Frank Luther Mott’s Golden Multitudes: The Story of Best Sellers in the United States, 1947.  Mott’s standard of Best Seller status was that the book’s sales exceeded 1% of the population when printed.  The (mostly) non-fiction titles that I think I'd like to read, and can find a link to, are highlighted.  

Bestsellers before 1700 (at least 1,000 copies sold):

1662, Michael Wigglesworth, The Day of Doom

1664, Richard Baxter, A Call to the Unconverted

1665, Lewis Bayly, The Practice of Piety

1679, Samuel Hardy, A Guide to Heaven

1681, John Bunyan, The Pilgrim’s Progress (1677)

1682, Mary Rowlandson, Captivity and Restoration

1688, Francis Bacon, Essays (1601)

also (not a best seller, but popular):

1670, Michael Wigglesworth, Meat Out of the Eater

1699, Jonathan Dickinson, God’s Protecting Providence (sold over 2,000)

1700-1709 (at least 3,000 copies sold)

1701, Robert Russell, Seven Sermons

1707, John Williams, The Redeemed Captive

1709, John Flavel, Husbandry Spiritualized

also

1700, Samuel Willard, The Fountain Opened

1700, James Janeway, A Token for Children

1700, Thomas Doolittle, Treatise on the Lord’s Supper

1710-1719 (at least 4,000)

1719, Mother Goose’s Melodies for Children

1719, Isaac Watts, Divine and Moral Songs for the Use of Children

1720-1729 (5,000)

1721, Flavius Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews

also

1722, Nathaniel Vincent, The Day of Grace

1727, William Penn, Fruits of a Father’s Love

1729, John Bunyan, Grace Abounding (1666)

1729, Daniel Defoe, Religious Courtship

1730-1739 (7,000)

1733, History of Doctor Faustus

1740-1749

1741, William Penn, No Cross, No Crown

1741, Sarah Rede, A Token for Youth

1741, Isaac Watts, Horae Lyricae

1744, Samuel Richardson, Pamela

1745, The History of the Holy Jesus

1747, Alexander Pope, Essay on Man

also

1740, Ralph Erskine, Gospel Sonnets

1742, Elizabeth S. Rowe, Devout Exercises of Heart, and Letters

1744, The French Convert

1745, John Tillotson, Sermons

1748, Jared Eliot, Essays Upon Husbandry in New England

1749, Philip Doddridge, Lectures