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1951 Books & Bestsellers |
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1951 Fiction Top Ten Books |
| (according to Publisher’s Weekly) 1. From Here to Eternity by James Jones 2. The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk 3. Moses by Sholem Asch 4. The Cardinal by Henry Morton Robinson 5. A Woman Called Fancy by Frank Yerby 6. The Cruel Sea by Nicholas Monsarrat 7. Melville Goodwin, U.S.A. by John P. Marquand 8. Return to Paradise by James A. Michener 9. The Foundling by Cardinal Spellman 10. The Wanderer by Mika Waltari |
1951 Non-Fiction Books |
| 1. Look Younger, Live Longer by Gayelord Hauser 2. Betty Crocker’s Picture Cook Book by the Betty Crocker Editors 3. Washington Confidential by Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer 4. Better Homes and Gardens Garden Book by the BH&G editors 5. Better Homes and Gardens Handyman’s Book by the BH&G editors 6. The Sea Around Us by Rachel L. Carson 7. Thorndike-Barnhart Comprehensive Desk Dictionary edited by Clarence L. Barnhart 8. Pogo by Walt Kelly 9. Kon-Tiki by Thor Heyerdahl 10. The New Yorker Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Album edited by the New Yorker editors |
1951 Notable Literature |
| From Here to Eternity by James Jones The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger White Collar by C. Wright Mills The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt American Diplomacy 1900-1950 by George Kennan The Rise of Scientific Philosophy by Hans Reichenback The Origins of the New South by C. Vann Woodward Social Choice and Individual Values by Kenneth Arrow The Social System by Talcott Parsons Toward a General Theory of Action by Talcott Parsons Foundation by Isaac Asimov God and Man at Yale by William F. Buckley, Jr |
1951 Book of the Month Club Selections |
| River of the Sun by James Ramsey Ullman A Breath of Air by Rumer Godden My Six Convicts by Donald Powell Wilson His Eye is on the Sparrow by Ethel Waters Round the Bend by Nevil Shute Jenkins’ Ear by Odell and Willard Shepard Return to Paradise by James Michener This is the Hour by Lion Feuchtwanger The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger A Soldier’s Story by Gen. Omar N. Bradley The Cruel Sea by Nicholas Monsarrat The Holy Sinner by Thomas Mann The Blessing by Nancy Mitford The Tumpost Land by Henry Myers Strange Lands and Friendly People by William O. Douglas Closing the Ring by Winston Churchill |
| 1951 Nobel Prize in Literature Most Popular Books of 1951, according to GoodReads |