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What Are Dime Novels?

 The dime novel is a form of late 19th-century and early 20th-century U.S. popular fiction issued in series of inexpensive paperbound editions.

The term dime novel has been used as a catchall term for several different but related forms, referring to story papers, five- and ten-cent weeklies, "thick book" reprints, and sometimes early pulp magazines. The term was used as a title as late as 1940, in the short-lived pulp magazine Western Dime Novels.

In the modern age, the term dime novel has been used to refer to quickly written, lurid potboilers, usually as a pejorative to describe a sensationalized but superficial literary work.

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 * Adventure Library
 * Adventure Weekly
 * Alford Series
 * Alger Series
 * 1st Series
 * 2nd Series
 * All Sports Library
 * Alliance Library
 * Army and Navy Weekly
 * Arrow Library
 * Atlantic Series


 * The Bertha Clay Library
 * Books for Men
 * Bound to Win Library
 * Bowery Boy Library
 * Boys of America
 * Boys of Liberty Library
 * The Boys of the World
 * Boys' Comic Library
 * Brave and Bold
 * Buffalo Bill Border Stories
 * Buffalo Bill Stories
 * Burt L. Standish Library


 * The Cheerful Hour Series
 * Clover Series
 * Cobb Library
 * Columbia Library
 * Comrades
 * Criterion Series


 * Daisy Library
 * Detective Library
 * Der Deutsche Americamische Bibliothek
 * Diamond Dick Library
 * Diamond Dick, Jr.
 * Diamond Hand Books
 * Diamond Handbook Series
 * Do and Dare Weekly
 * Dr. Jack Series
 * Drama Series (Street & Smith)


 * Eagle Library
 * Eden Series


 * Far and Near Series
 * Far West Library
 * Fifth Avenue Series
 * Flag Series


 * German American Library
 * Gold Series
 * Good News
 * Good News Library
 * Great Western Library


 * The Half-Holiday
 * The Hand-Book Library
 * The Happy Thought Series
 * Harkaway Library
 * Historical Series


 * Jack Harkaway Stories
 * Jesse James Stories


 * Klondike Kit Library


 * Lake Shore Series
 * Laura Series
 * Literary Album
 * Log Cabin Library
 * Log Cabin Library (Pocket Ed.)
 * Love Story Library


 * Magnet Library
 * Mammoth Monthly Reader
 * Medal Library
 * Merriwell Baseball Stories
 * Merriwell Football Stories
 * Merriwell Library
 * Merriwell Series
 * Might and Main Library
 * Model Series
 * Monogram Series
 * Motor Stories
 * My Queen


 * New Bertha Clay Library
 * New Buffalo Bill Weekly
 * New Fiction Library
 * New Romance Library
 * New Secret Service Series
 * New Southworth Library
 * New Surprise (Series)


 * Street & Smith


 * New Tip Top Weekly
 * New Twentieth Century Hand Books
 * New York Five Cent Library
 * New York Weekly
 * New York Weekly Magazine Supplement
 * Nick Carter Library
 * Nick Carter Stories
 * Nick Carter Weekly
 * Nugget Library


 * Old Broadbrim Weekly


 * Paris Series
 * Paul Jones Weekly
 * Perfection Series
 * Picture Play Library
 * Primrose Series (Street & Smith)
 * Princess Series


 * Red, White and Blue Library
 * Romance Series
 * Rough Rider Weekly
 * Round the World Library


 * Sea and Shore Series
 * Secret Service Series
 * Select Library
 * Select Series
 * Sheldon Novels
 * Shield Series
 * Shield Weekly
 * Southworth Library
 * Southworth Library (New Edition)
 * Sport Stories
 * Star Library
 * Starry Flag Series
 * Starry Flag Weekly
 * Street & Smith Humor Library
 * Street & Smith Manual Library
 * Street & Smith's Select Dialogues
 * Street & Smith's Select Speakers
 * Svenskt Bibliothek (Swedish Library)


 * Tip Top Quarterly
 * Tip Top Weekly
 * Top-Notch Magazine
 * Traymore Series
 * True Blue
 * Twentieth Century Hand Books


 * Undine Library


 * Welcome Friend Series
 * Westbury Library
 * Western Story Library
 * Western Story Magazine
 * Wild West Weekly
 * Woodville Stories


 * Young Broadbrim Weekly
 * Young Rover Library





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