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1957 Books & Bestsellers |
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1957 Fiction Top Ten Books |
| (according to Publisher’s Weekly) 1. By Love Possessed by James Gould Cozzens 2. Peyton Place by Grace Metalious 3. Compulsion by Meyer Levin 4. Rally Round the Flag, Boys! by Max Shulman 5. Blue Camellia by Frances Parkinson Keyes 6. Eloise in Paris by Kay Thompson 7. The Scapegoat by Daphne du Maurier 8. On the Beach by Nevil Shute 9. Below the Salt by Thomas B. Costain 10. Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand |
1957 Non-Fiction Books |
| 1. Kids Say the Darndest Things! by Art Linkletter 2. The FBI Story by Don Whitehead 3. Stay Alive All Your Life by Norman Vincent Peale 4. To Live Again by Catherine Marshall 5. Better Homes and Gardens Flower Arranging by the BH&G Editors 6. Where Did You Go? Out. What Did You Do? Nothing. by Robert Paul Smith 7. Baruch: My Own Story by Bernard M. Baruch 8. Please Don’t Eat the Daisies by Jean Kerr 9. The American Heritage Book of Great Historic Places by the AH Editors 10. The Day Christ Died by Jim Bishop |
1957 Notable Literature |
| On the Road (written 1951) by Jack Kerouac The Wapshot Chronicle by John Cheever Syntactic Structures by Noam Chomsky New Class by Milovan Djilas Mythologies by Roland Barthes Anatomy of Criticism by Northrop Frye The Cat in the Hat by Doctor Seuss Memoirs of a Revolutionist by Dwight Macdonald Memories of a Catholic Girlhood by Mary McCarthy A Theory of Cognitive Dissonance by Leon Festinger The Hidden Persuaders by Vance Packard |
1957 Book of the Month Club Selections |
| The Last Parallel: A Marine’s War Journal by Martin Russ The Last Angry Man by Gerald Green The Crisis of the Old Order by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Day of Infamy by Walter Lord Say, Darling by Richard Bissell The Braintree Mission by Nicholas E. Wyckoff The Short Reign of Pippin IV by John Steinbeck The Turn of the Tide by Arthur Bryant The Durable Fire by Heword Swiggett Operation Sea Lion by Peter Fleming Voss by Patrick White By Love Possessed by James Gould Cozzens The Age of Revolution by Winston Churchill The Return of Lady Brace by Nancy Wilson Ross A Cup of Tea for Mr. Thorgill by Storm Jameson Mr. Baruch by Margaret L. Coit |
| 1957 Nobel Prize in Literature Most Popular Books of 1957, according to GoodReads |