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1958 Books & Bestsellers |
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1958 Fiction Top Ten Books |
| (according to Publisher’s Weekly) 1. Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak 2. Anatomy of a Murder by Robert Traver 3. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov 4. Around the World with Auntie Mame by Patrick Dennis 5. From the Terrace by John O’Hara 6. Eloise at Christmastime by Kay Thompson 7. Ice Palace by Edna Ferber 8. The Winthrop Woman by Anya Seton 9. The Enemy Camp by Jerome Weidman 10. Victorine by Frances Parkinson Keyes |
1958 Non-Fiction Books |
| 1. Kids Say the Darndest Things! by Art Linkletter 2. Twixt Twelve and Twenty by Pat Boone 3. Only in America by Harry Golden 4. Masters of Deceit by J. Edgar Hoover 5. Please Don’t Eat the Daisies by Jean Kerr 6. Better Homes and Gardens Salad Book by the BH&G Editors 7. The New Testament in Modern English translated by J.P. Phillips 8. Aku-Aku: The Story of Easter Island by Thor Heyerdahl 9. Dear Abby by Abigail Van Buren 10. Inside Russia Today by John Gunther |
1958 Notable Literature |
| The Affluent Society by John Kenneth Galbraith The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare The Passing of Traditional Society by Daniel Lerner Strive Toward Freedom by Martin Luther King, Jr The Ugly American by William J. Lederer and Eugene Burdick Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe The Human Condition by Hannah Arendt Night by Elie Wiesel The Moral Basis of a Backward Society by Edward C. Banfield Two Concepts of Liberty by Isaiah Berlin |
1958 Book of the Month Club Selections |
| Anatomy of a Murder by Robert Traver First Blood: The Story of Fort Sumter by W.S. Swanberg The Winthrop Woman by Anya Seton The Great Democracies by Winston Churchill Inside Russia Today by John Gunther The Mountain Road by Theodor H. White Seidman and Son by Elick Moll The Enemy Camp by Jerome Weidman The King Must Die by Mary Renault The Russian Revolution by Alan Moorehead Aku-Aku: The Story of Easter Island by Thor Heyerdahl The Law by Roger Vailland The Ugly American by William J. Lederer and Eugene Burdick Mistress to an Age: A Life a Madame de Stael by J. Christopher Herold The Visitors by Mary McMinnies |
| 1958 Nobel Prize in Literature Most Popular Books of 1958, according to GoodReads |