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1952 Books & Bestsellers |
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1952 Fiction Top Ten Books |
| (according to Publisher’s Weekly) 1. The Silver Chalice by Thomas B. Costain 2. The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk 3. East of Eden by John Steinbeck 4. My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier 5. Steamboat Gothic by Frances Parkinson Keyes 6. Giant by Edna Ferber 7. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway 8. The Gown of Glory by Agnes Sligh Turnbull 9. The Saracen Blade by Frank Yerby 10. The Houses in Between by Howard Spring |
1952 Non-Fiction Books |
| 1. The Holy Bible: Revised Standard Version 2. A Man Called Peter by Catherine Marshall 3. U.S.A. Confidential by Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer 4. The Sea Around Us by Rachel L. Carson 5. Tallulah by Tallulah Bankhead 6. The Power of Positive Thinking by Norman Vincent Peale 7. This I Believe, Edward R. Murrow, edited by Edward P. Morgan 8. This Is Ike, edited by Wilson Hicks 9. Witness by Whittaker Chambers 10. Mr. President by William Hillman |
1952 Notable Literature |
| The Irony of American History by Reinhold Niebuhr Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison The Courage to Be by Paul Tillich Vermeer by Lawrence Gowing Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett Black Skin, White Masks by Frantz Fanon |
1952 Book of the Month Club Selections |
| Jefferson Selleck by Carl Jonas Mittee by Daphne Rooke Lincoln and His Generals by T. Harry Williams Lieutenant Hornblower by C.S. Forester Duveen by S.N. Behrman The Houses in Between by Howard Spring Witness by Whittaker Chambers Matador by Barnaby Conrad The Exploration of Space by Arthur C. Clarke Journey to the Far Pacific by Thomas E. Dewey The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway The Sinner of Saint Ambrose by Robert Raynolds You, the Jury by Mary Borden Giant by Edna Ferber The Big Change by Frederick Lewis Allen Hunter by J.A. Hunter The Magic Lantern by Robert Carson |
| 1952 Nobel Prize in Literature Most Popular Books of 1952, according to GoodReads |