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This is a list of bestselling novels in the United States in the 1950s, as determined by Publishers Weekly. The list features the most popular novels of each year from 1950 through 1959 . The standards set for inclusion in the lists – which, for example, led to the exclusion of the novels in the Harry Potter series from the lists for the ...
Fiction. The following list ranks the number-one best-selling fiction books. Henry Morton Robinson's The Cardinal dominated the list for 24 weeks and Ernest Hemingway had his only Number 1 bestseller that year.
A list of the ten best graphic novels of the period was subsequently published as a supplement to the list. Watchmen (1986) by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons appears on both the 100 Best Novels and 10 Best Graphic Novels lists, giving the combined lists a total of 109 entries. See also. Le Monde's 100 Books of the Century
Hence, in cases where there is too much uncertainty, they are excluded from the list. Having sold more than 600 million copies worldwide, [13] Harry Potter by J. K. Rowling is the best-selling book series in history. The first novel in the series, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, has sold in excess of 120 million copies, [14] making it ...
This is a list of books that topped The New York Times best-seller list in 1951. Fiction [ edit ] The following list ranks the number-one best-selling fiction books.
This is a list of best-selling fiction authors to date, in any language. While finding precise sales numbers for any given author is nearly impossible, the list is based on approximate numbers provided or repeated by reliable sources. "Best selling" refers to the estimated number of copies sold of all fiction books written or co-written by an ...
Fiction set in 1950 (1 C, 21 P) Fiction set in 1951 (2 C, 20 P) Fiction set in 1952 (2 C, 18 P) Fiction set in 1953 (3 C, 30 P) Fiction set in 1954 (3 C, 20 P) Fiction set in 1955 (3 C, 13 P) Fiction set in 1956 (3 C, 21 P) Fiction set in 1957 (2 C, 17 P) Fiction set in 1958 (3 C, 33 P)
This year Trumbo serves 11 months in prison for Contempt of Congress, in the federal penitentiary in Ashland, Kentucky. February – Jack Kerouac has his first novel, The Town and the City, published in the United States. April 8 – J. D. Salinger 's wartime short story "For Esmé — with Love and Squalor" is published in The New Yorker.