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1953 Books & Bestsellers |
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1953 Fiction Top Ten Books |
| (according to Publisher’s Weekly) 1. The Robe by Lloyd C. Douglas 2. The Silver Chalice by Thomas B. Costain 3. Désirée by Annemarie Selinko 4. Battle Cry by Leon M. Uris 5. From Here to Eternity by James Jones 6. The High and the Mighty by Ernest K. Gann 7. Beyond This Place by A.J. Cronin 8. Time and Time Again by James Hilton 9. Lord Vanity by Samuel Shellabarger 10. The Unconquered by Ben Ames Williams |
1953 Non-Fiction Books |
| 1. The Holy Bible: Revised Standard Version 2. The Power of Positive Thinking by Norman Vincent Peale 3. Sexual Behavior in the Human Female by Alfred C. Kinsey et al. 4. Angel Unaware by Dale Evans Rogers 5. Life Is Worth Living by Fulton J. Sheen 6. A Man Called Peter by Catherine Marshall 7. This I Believe, Edward R. Murrow, edited by Edward P. Morgan 8. The Greatest Faith Ever Known by Fulton Oursler and G.A.O. Armstrong 9. How to Play Your Best Golf by Tommy Armour 10. A House Is Not a Home by Polly Adler |
1953 Notable Literature |
| Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin The Second World War by Winston Churchill The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow The Genius of American Politics by Daniel J. Boorstin Natural Right and History by Leo Strauss Sexual Behavior in the Human Female by Alfred Kinsey The Captive Mind by C. Milosz Writing Degree Zero by Roland Barthes The Hedgehog and the Fox by Isaiah Berlin Philosophical Investigations by Ludwig Wittgenstein The Quest for Community by Robert A. Nisbet Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury The Conservative Mind by Russell Kirk The Mirror and the Lamp by Meyer Howard Abrams |
1953 Book of the Month Club Selections |
| Charles Dickens: His Tragedy and Triumph by Edgar Johnson The Second Happiest Day by John Phillips Prince of Players by Eleanor Ruggles The Hour Awaits by March Cost Stay Away, Joe by Dan Cushman The High and the Mighty by Ernest Gann Kingfishers Catch Fire by Rumer Godden 7½ Cents by Richard Bissell You Shall Know Them by Vercors Westward the Sun by Geoffrey Cotterell Lady with a Spear by Eugenie Clark Too Late the Phalarope by Alan Paton The Spirit of St. Louis by Charles A. Lindbergh The Enchanted Cup by Dorothy James Roberts Fire in the Ashes by Theodore H. White Triumph and Tragedy by Winston Churchill |
| 1953 Nobel Prize in Literature Most Popular Books of 1953, according to GoodReads |