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1948 Books & Bestsellers |
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1948 Fiction Top Ten Books |
| (according to Publisher’s Weekly) 1. The Big Fisherman by Lloyd C. Douglas 2. The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer 3. Dinner at Antoine’s by Frances Parkinson Keyes 4. The Bishop’s Mantle by Agnes Sligh Turnbull 5. Tomorrow Will Be Better by Betty Smith 6. The Golden Hawk by Frank Yerby 7. Raintree County by Ross Lockridge Jr 8. Shannon’s Way by A.J. Cronin 9. Pilgrim’s Inn by Elizabeth Goudge 10. The Young Lions by Irwin Shaw |
1948 Non-Fiction Books |
| 1. Crusade in Europe by Dwight D. Eisenhower 2. How to Stop Worrying and Start Living by Dale Carnegie 3. Peace of Mind by Joshua L. Liebman 4. Sexual Behavior in the Human Male by A.C. Kinsey et al. 5. Wine, Women and Words by Billy Rose 6. The Life and Times of the Shmoo by Al Capp 7. The Gathering Storm by Winston Churchill 8. Roosevelt and Hopkins by Robert E. Sherwood 9. A Guide to Confident Living by Norman Vincent Peale 10. The Plague and I by Betty MacDonald |
1948 Notable Literature |
| Walden Two by B.F. Skinner Control and Connection by Norbert Wiener Guard of Honor by James Gould Cozzens The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene The American Political Tradition by Richard Hofstadter Road to Survival by William Vogt Seven Storey Mountain by Thomas Merton Cry, The Beloved Country by Alan Paton Economics by Paul Samuelson |
1948 Book of the Month Club Selections |
| Raintree Country by Ross Lockridge, Jr The Great Rehearsal by Carl Van Doren The Ides of March by Thornton Wilder The Great Mischief by Josephine Pinkney Fire by George Stewart The Goebbels Diaries, edited by Louis P. Lochner The Foolish Gentlewoman by Margery Sharp The Gathering Storm by Winston Churchill The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene The Sky and the Forest by C.S. Forester Road to Survival by William Vogt Tomorrow Will Be Better by Betty Smith The Running of the Tide by Esther Forbes Cataline by Somerset Maugham Doctor Faustus by Thomas Mann Crusade in Europe by Dwight Eisenhower No Place to Hide by David Bradley |
| 1948 Nobel Prize in Literature Most Popular Books of 1948, according to GoodReads |