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1956 Books & Bestsellers |
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1956 Fiction Top Ten Books |
| (according to Publisher’s Weekly) 1. Don’t Go Near the Water by William Brinkley 2. The Last Hurrah by Edwin O’Connor 3. Peyton Place by Grace Metalious 4. Auntie Mame by Patrick Dennis 5. Eloise by Kay Thompson 6. Andersonville by MacKinlay Kantor 7. A Certain Smile by Françoise Sagan 8. The Tribe That Lost Its Head by Nicholas Monsarrat 9. The Mandarins by Simone de Beauvoir 10. Boon Island by Kenneth Roberts |
1956 Non-Fiction Books |
| 1. Arthritis and Common Sense (revised) by Dan Dale Alexander 2. Webster’s New World Dictionary of the American Language (concise) by David B. Guralnik 3. Betty Crocker’s Picture Cook Book, 2d edition by the Betty Crocker Editors 4. Etiquette by Frances Benton 5. Better Homes and Gardens Barbecue Book by the BH&G Editors 6. The Search for Bridey Murphy by Morey Bernstein 7. Love or Perish by Smiley Blanton 8. Better Homes and Gardens Decorating Book by the BH&G Editors 9. How To Live 365 Days a Year by John A. Schindler 10. The Nun’s Story by Kathryn Hulme |
1956 Notable Literature |
| The Power Elite by C. Wright Mills Howl by Allen Ginsberg The Organization Man by William H. Whyte Existentialism from Dostoevsky to Sartre, edited by Walter Kaufmann The Sweet Science by A.J. Liebling |
1956 Book of the Month Club Selections |
| Bugles and a Tiger by John Masters The Last Hurrah by Edwin O’Connor Memories by Harry S Truman Toscanini by Samuel Chotzinoff Helen Keller by Van Wyck Brooks The Birth of Britain by Winston Churchill The Ninth Wave by Eugene Burdick Goodbye to Uncle Tom by J.C. Furnas Don’t Go Near the Water by William Brinkley In Search of Adam by Herbert Wendt The Nun’s Story by Kathryn Hulme King of Paris by Guy Endore This Hallowed Ground by Bruce Catton The New World by Winston Churchill |
| 1956 Nobel Prize in Literature Most Popular Books of 1956, according to GoodReads |