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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.
This is a list of books that topped The New York Times best ... The following list ranks the number-one best-selling fiction books. Date Book Author January 7: The ...
Book Author January 6: The Caine Mutiny: Herman Wouk: January 13 January 20 January 27 February 3 February 10 February 17 February 24 March 2 March 9 March 16 March 23 March 30: My Cousin Rachel: Daphne du Maurier: April 6 April 13 April 20 April 27 May 4 May 11 May 18 May 25: The Caine Mutiny: Herman Wouk June 1 June 8 June 15 June 22 June 29 ...
The following list ranks the number-one best-selling fiction books. The American publisher Bennett Cerf noted that there had been "only three novels published [in 1948] that were worth reading ... Cry, The Beloved Country, The Ides of March, and The Naked and the Dead ." [1] Only Cry did not top the list that year.
The 20th Century's Greatest Hits: 100 English-Language Books of Fiction is a list of the 100 best English-language books of the 20th century compiled by American literary critic Larry McCaffery. The list was created largely in response to the Modern Library 100 Best Novels list (1999), which McCaffery considered out of touch with 20th-century ...
The list includes both classic novels and genre fiction (Tolkien, Agatha Christie, A. C. Doyle), as well as poetry, drama and nonfiction literature (Freud's essays and the diary of Anne Frank). There are also comic books on the list, one album from each of these five Francophone or Italian series: Asterix , Tintin , Blake and Mortimer , Gaston ...
The following list ranks the number-one best-selling fiction books. Date Book Author January 4: The Silver Chalice: Thomas B. Costain: January 11: East of Eden: