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1950 Books & Bestsellers |
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1950 Fiction Top Ten Books |
| (according to Publisher’s Weekly) 1. The Cardinal by Henry Morton Robinson 2. Joy Street by Frances Parkinson Keyes 3. Across the River and into the Trees by Ernest Hemingway 4. The Wall by John Hersey 5. Star Money by Kathleen Winsor 6. The Parasites by Daphne du Maurier 7. Floodtide by Frank Yerby 8. Jubilee Trail by Gwen Bristow 9. The Adventurer by Mika Waltari 10. The Disenchanted by Budd Schulberg |
1950 Non-Fiction Books |
| 1. Betty Crocker’s Picture Cook Book by the Betty Crocker Editors 2. The Baby produced by The Pet Milk Company (now Pet Incorporated) 3. Look Younger, Live Longer by Gayelord Hauser 4. How I Raised Myself from Failure to Success in Selling by Frank Bettger 5. Kon-Tiki by Thor Heyerdahl 6. Mr. Jones, Meet the Master by Peter Marshall 7. Your Dream Home by Hubbard Cob 8. The Mature Mind by H.A. Overstreet 9. Campus Zoo by Clare Barnes Jr 10. Belles on Their Toes by Frank Gilbreth Jr and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey |
1950 Notable Literature |
| The Liberal Imagination by Lionel Trilling Florence Nightingale by Cecil Woodham-Smith The Authoritarian Personality by Theodor Adorno et al. The Lonely Crowd by David Riesman et al. Virgin Land by Henry Nash Smith Childhood and Society by Erik Erikson The American Mind by Henry Steele Commager The Human Use of Human Beings by Norbert Wiener I, Robot by Isaac Asimov Discourse on Colonialism by Aime Cesaire The Story of Art by E.H. Gombrich The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis The Meaning of Anxiety by Rollo May |
1950 Book of the Month Club Selections |
| The Peabody Sisters of Salem by Louise Hall Tharp Here is New York by E.B. White The Horse’s Mouth by Joyce Cary The Wall by John Hersey Shakespeare of London by Marchette Chute The Boys from Sharon by Louise Field Cooper The Grand Alliance by Winston Churchill Comes the Comrade! by Alexandra Orme Incredible Tale by Gerald W. Johnson John Adams and the American Revolution by Catherine Drinker Bowen The Little Princesses by Marion Crawford Rise Up and Walk by Turnley Walker The Little World of Don Camillo by Giovanni Guaraschi Kon-Tiki by Thor Heyerdahl Blandings’ Way by Eric Hodgins Belles on Their Toes by Frank Gilbreth, Jr, and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey The Disenchanted by Budd Schulberg The Hinge of Fate by Winston Churchill |
| 1950 Nobel Prize in Literature Most Popular Books of 1950, according to GoodReads |