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1955 Books & Bestsellers |
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1955 Fiction Top Ten Books |
| (according to Publisher’s Weekly) 1. Marjorie Morningstar by Herman Wouk 2. Auntie Mame by Patrick Dennis 3. Andersonville by MacKinlay Kantor 4. Bonjour Tristesse by Françoise Sagan 5. The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit by Sloan Wilson 6. Something of Value by Robert Ruark 7. Not As a Stranger by Morton Thompson 8. No Time for Sergeants by Mac Hyman 9. The Tontine by Thomas B. Costain 10. Ten North Frederick by John O’Hara |
1955 Non-Fiction Books |
| 1. Gift from the Sea by Anne Morrow Lindbergh 2. The Power of Positive Thinking by Norman Vincent Peale 3. The Family of Man by Edward Steichen 4. A Man Called Peter by Catherine Marshall 5. How to Live 365 Days a Year by John A. Schindler 6. Better Homes and Gardens Diet Book by the BH&G editors 7. The Secret of Happiness by Billy Graham 8. Why Johnny Can’t Read by Rudolf Flesch 9. Inside Africa by John Gunther 10. Year of Decisions by Harry S Truman |
1955 Notable Literature |
| Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov The Strange Career of Jim Crow by C. Vann Woodward The Ginger Man by J.P. Donleavy Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin The Public Philosophy by Walter Lippmann The Liberal Tradition in America by Louis Hartz Eros and Civilization by Herbert Marcuse Protestant-Catholic-Jew by Will Herberg The Age of Reform by Richard Hofstadter Tristes Tropiques by Claude Lévi-Strauss The Engineering of Consent by Edward Bernays The Family of Man by Edward Steichen |
Book of the Month Club Selections |
| The Cornerstone by Zoé Oldenbourg The Day Lincoln Was Shot by Jim Bishop Conquest by Man by Paul Herrmann The Good Shepherd by C.S. Forester The Hidden River by Storm Jameson Something of Value by Robert Ruark Nectar in a Sieve by Kamala Markandaya Onions in the Stew by Betty MacDonald The Flower Girls by Clemence Dane Grandfather Stories by Samuel Hopkins Adams The Sixth of June by Lionel Shapiro Marjorie Morningstar by Herman Wouk Inside Africa by John Gunther Andersonville by MacKinlay Kantor We Die Alone by David Howarth An Episode of Sparrows by Rumer Godden |
| 1955 Nobel Prize in Literature Most Popular Books of 1955, according to GoodReads |