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1954 Books & Bestsellers |
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1954 Fiction Top Ten Books |
| (according to Publisher’s Weekly) 1. Not as a Stranger by Morton Thompson 2. Mary Anne by Daphne du Maurier 3. Love Is Eternal by Irving Stone 4. The Royal Box by Frances Parkinson Keyes 5. The Egyptian by Mika Waltari 6. No Time for Sergeants by Mac Hyman 7. Sweet Thursday by John Steinbeck 8. The View from Pompey’s Head by Hamilton Basso 9. Never Victorious, Never Defeated by Taylor Caldwell 10. Benton’s Row by Frank Yerby |
1954 Non-Fiction Books |
| 1. The Holy Bible: Revised Standard Version 2. The Power of Positive Thinking by Norman Vincent Peale 3. Better Homes and Gardens New Cook Book by the BH&G editors 4. Betty Crocker’s Good and Easy Cook Book by the Betty Crocker editors 5. The Tumult and the Shouting by Grantland Rice 6. I’ll Cry Tomorrow by Lillian Roth, Gerold Frank, and Mike Connolly 7. The Prayers of Peter Marshall by Catherine Marshall 8. This I Believe, vol. 2, edited by Raymond Swing 9. But We Were Born Free by Elmer Davis 10. The Saturday Evening Post Treasury, edited by Roger Butterfield |
1954 Notable Literature |
| Lord of the Flies by William Golding Under the Net by Iris Murdoch Ideas and Opinions by Albert Einstein Melbourne by Lord David Cecil The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkein People of Plenty by David Potter Collected Poems by Wallace Stevens Technological Society by Jacques Ellul Science and Civilisation in China, vol. 1 by Joseph Needham |
1954 Book of the Month Club Selections |
| Cress Delahanty by Jassamyn West The Great Iron Ship by James Dugan The Man Who Never Was by Ewen Montagu Seven Years in Tibet by Heinrich Harrer Bhowani Junction by John Masters Of Whales and Men by R.B. Robertson A Time to Love and a Time to Die by Erich Maria Remarque Mary Anne by Daphne du Maurier The Fall of a Titan by Igor Gauzenko The Roosevelt Family of Sagamore Hill by Hermann Hagedorn The Ramayana by Aubrey Menen The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant by Douglass Wallop No Time for Sergeants by Mac Hyman Good Morning, Miss Dove by Frances Gray Patton My Brother’s Keeper by Marcia Davenport Song of the Sky by Guy Murchie |
| 1954 Nobel Prize in Literature Most Popular Books of 1954, according to GoodReads |