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1946 Books & Bestsellers |
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1946 Fiction Top Ten Books |
| (according to Publisher’s Weekly) 1. The King’s General by Daphne du Maurier 2. This Side of Innocence by Taylor Caldwell 3. The River Road by Frances Parkinson Keyes 4. The Miracle of the Bells by Russell Janney 5. The Hucksters by Frederic Wakeman 6. The Foxes of Harrow by Frank Yerby 7. Arch of Triumph by Erich Maria Remarque 8. The Black Rose by Thomas B. Costain 9. B.F.’s Daughter by John P. Marquand 10. The Snake Pit by Mary Jane Ward |
1946 Non-Fiction Books |
| 1. The Egg and I by Betty MacDonald 2. Peace of Mind by Joshua L. Liebman 3. As He Saw It by Elliott Roosevelt 4. The Roosevelt I Knew by Frances Perkins 5. Last Chapter by Ernie Pyle 6. Starling of the White House by Thomas Sugrue and Col. Edmund Starling 7. I Chose Freedom by Victor Kravchenko 8. The Anatomy of Peace by Emery Reves 9. Top Secret by Ralph Ingersoll 10. A Solo in Tom-Toms by Gene Fowler |
1946 Notable Literature |
| All the King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care by Benjamin Spock Scientific Man vs. Power Politics by Hans Morgenthau Existentialism and Humanism by Jean-Paul Sartre Hiroshima by John Hersey Understanding Science by James B. Conant The Discovery of India by Jawaharlal Nehru The Idea of History by R.G. Collingwood Concept of the Corporation by Peter F. Drucker Mimesis by Erich Auerbach The Chrysanthemum and the Sword by Ruth Benedict |
1946 Book of the Month Club Selections |
| Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh Arch of Triumph by Erich Maria Remarque The Autobiography of William Allen White by Wiliam Allen White The Snake Pit by Mary Jane Ward Man-Easters of Kumaon by Jim Corbett My Three Years with Eisenhower by Capt. Harry Butcher The Hucksters by Frederic Wakeman Britannia Mews by Margery Sharp Independent People by Halldór Laxness The Sudden Guest by Christopher LaFarge Animal Farm by George Orwell Mistress Masham’s Repose by Terence Hanbury White Thunder out of China by Theodore H. White and Annalee Jacoby Hiroshima by John Hersey Balzac by Stefan Zweig |
| 1946 Nobel Prize in Literature Most Popular Books of 1946, according to GoodReads |