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1959 Books & Bestsellers |
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1959 Fiction Top Ten Books |
| (according to Publisher’s Weekly) 1. Exodus by Leon Uris 2. Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak 3. Hawaii by James Michener 4. Advise and Consent by Allen Drury 5. Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D.H. Lawrence 6. The Ugly American by William J. Lederer and Eugene L. Burdick 7. Dear and Glorious Physician by Taylor Caldwell 8. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov 9. Mrs. ‘Arris Goes to Paris by Paul Gallico 10. Poor No More by Robert Ruark |
1959 Non-Fiction Books |
| 1. Twixt Twelve and Twenty by Pat Boone 2. Folk Medicine by D.C. Jarvis 3. For 2¢ Plain by Harry Golden 4. The Status Seekers by Vance Packard 5. Act One by Moss Hart 6. Charley Weaver’s Letters from Mamma by Cliff Arquette 7. The Elements of Style by William Strunk Jr. and E.B. White 8. The General Foods Kitchens Cookbook by the GFK Editors 9. Only in America by Harry Golden 10. Mine Enemy Grows Older by Alexander King |
1959 Notable Literature |
| Henderson the Rain King by Saul Bellow The Two Cultures by C. P. Snow The Sociological Imagination by C. Wright Mills The Tradition of the New by Harold Rosenberg James Joyce by Richard Ellmann Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs Life Against Death by Norman O. Brown The Tragedy of American Diplomacy by William Appleman Williams |
1959 Book of the Month Club Selections |
| The Coming of the New Deal by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr The Scientists by Eleazar Lipsky Elizabeth the Great by Elizabeth Jenkins The Gold of Troy by Robert Payne Mountolive by Lawrence Durrell Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing The Third Choice by Elizabeth Janeway The Years with Ross by James Thurber The Lion by Joseph Kessel The Tents of Wickedness by Peter De Vries Image of America by R.L. Bruckberger Advise and Consent by Allen Drury John Paul Jones by Samuel Eliot Morison The War Lover by John Hersey In the Days of McKinley by Margaret Leech Hawaii by James A. Michener |
| 1959 Nobel Prize in Literature Most Popular Books of 1959, according to GoodReads |